Today’s topic is: songs that have some kind of supernatural control on your body! These are songs that make you dance to them. Songs that have such great rhythm and tune that you have to get up and move. Now I’m not talking about just slight toe-tapping, but serious movement. These are the kind of songs that when they come on the radio you crank them up and dance around the room. I usually start jumping on furniture, swinging things around and shrieking the words, all the while bouncing and quivering and looking to all the world like someone with music induced epilepsy.
Here are a few of those songs that affect me:
“R-O-C-K in the USA”
“Twist and Shout”
“That’s what I like about you”
“Cleveland Rocks” (I think because I live there it has this effect on me)
“Boom boom dollar”
The safety dance
“Come on Eileen”
“YMCA” (don’t ask)
“Freezeframe!”
And, of course, “Footloose”.
THis is sad, but the ones that have really gotten me lately are Christina Aguilera’s “Dirrty” and Mandy Moore’s “Candy”. I know, I know… ::sigh:: But I’m a bubblegum-pop hip-swiveling dancing machine.
Outstanding selections and I dare anyone to resist the tempting beat of YMCA, especially on roller skates.
My favorite dance-able Cd is from, of all places, Old Navy. It’s a collection of classic rock and roll and for the life of me I cannot recall any one of them except Wooly Bully.
Old Navy actually has some pretty awesome compliation cd’s at a reasonable price.
Well, I don’t know what this YMCA fetish is all about, but it has absolutely no effect on me. If there’s any reggae, rap with a good beat, or some techno around (particularly with a strobe light) it’s a done deal.
When I was young, we used to automatically jitterbug to the chaps from the beat combo known as the Rolling Stones playing their jolly fine popular musical number ‘Satisfaction’.
P.S. I agree with a previous poster. Whenever I watch that fine film ‘Footloose’, I find my toe tapping to the regular beat…
Damn, you’re weird. (Which means you’ll fit in well here. Great username, btw.) I absolutely love the song, but how in the world do you dance to “Sex and Candy”?
There are exactly two songs that pull me out of my chair and get me dancing around the room, to the inevitable amusement of my wife and the cats. They are the aforementioned “Wooly Bully,” and “My Sharona.” Just can’t resist that quirky beat.
Oh, yes. At Broadway on Broadway 2000 they past out Cat-in-the-Suessical Hats. When Terrace Mann started singing “Time Warp” a bunch of us started doing the Time Warp while wearing the hats.
One of those moments you know will only happen once in human history.
Melt with You by Modern English Just like Heaven by the Cure Get this Party Started, Pink
Hmmm…Pretty much, get me in a room with 80’s alternative new wave, and I’m on my feet. I’m NOT talking about Come on Eileen and Safety Dance (though I’ve been known to dance to them). I’m talking New Order, the Cure, Psych Furs, Joy Division, the Smiths, Ministry (yes, they were around AND New Wave at that point), Elvis Costello, XTC.
