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I know of only one song that makes me want to dance, and that's 'Safety Dance' by Men Without Hats. Every time I hear it, I want to start dancing (And believe me, that's not a pretty sight), and I've noticed in my oh-so-wide experiences across the world that many people have a song or two like that, one that just makes them want to dance!

So how about it? What songs make you want to dance?

Whenever I hear "What is Love?" by Haddaway....Immediately start bobbing my head to the side, lol...

Most songs actually..If I´m alone that is.
I would never risk the sanity of those who would otherwise be exposed to my "dancing".

I find it impossible not to dance at the following...

'200db's down' by Ted Maul (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x6PYBM8HLpg)
'Between the Lines' by Fractured (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yQKdpmHIdAY)

A lot of my music I'm not sure if you physically can dance to, so thats about it, I feel.

What songs make you want to dance?

Any song that "works" at all as dance music. Unless I'm really tired or otherwise really out of it... or it's really slow.

I Hope You Die by the Bloodhound Gang.

Most songs actually..If I´m alone that is.

I'm exactly the opposite. I feel incredibly stupid dancing alone. But if there's even one or two other people dancing, too....

None. I am an absolute non-dancer. Never feel any inclination to even gently swing or whatever. My nickname isn't "Rake" for nothing. :tongue:

I'm exactly the opposite. I feel incredibly stupid dancing alone. But if there's even one or two other people dancing, too....

Then my guess would be that you are a very social person,
with many friends and out every weekend to have a good time.

Which I´m not by the way. ,)

Alcohol.

...oh you meant songs?!

Anything as long as there is alcohol.

Then my guess would be that you are a very social person,
with many friends and out every weekend to have a good time.

ROFLMAO.

I wish. ;)

Most 70s disco hits and Michael Jackson's songs like Bad and Smooth Criminal. Blame It On The Boogie! These especially, but basically all kinds of danceable songs too.

Most of the songs by The Killers.

Hmm. Dancing. Any song that gets me moving my feet, though I don't dance alone.

Canned Heat - Jamiroquai (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hGjC0wbUXzk)

Come Dance Wiv Me - Dizzee Rascal (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nMARUgk8it0)

Buck Rogers - Feeder (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok10VQeu0s0)

There's quite a few more but there's a start.

Canned Heat - Jamiroquai (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hGjC0wbUXzk)

Yes.

Got To Give It Up Pt 1 - Marvin Gaye (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeLjT4nrUTQ)

Concrete Schoolyard - Jurassic 5 (http://www.interscope.com/artist/player/default.aspx?mid=51&aid=431)

Atomic Dog - George Clinton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A)

I Don't Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXZ1tygRaVw)

Black Water - Doobie Brothers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqZ95a249p0)

Tonight I Fell In Love - Tokens (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebPGsTnDxo)

Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIP9Dwzdt3g&feature=related)

Twistin' The Night Away - Sam Cooke (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0aLkdi3GQo)

The comedy option, you'll have to watch it to see (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWSRGfttGCU)

Something like this (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_rtdle_xbVk) mixing into something like this (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1kTKXyIAzNA) gets me up and going.

Alternatively, something like what young Mr. Wallonochia suggests below:
Twistin' The Night Away - Sam Cooke (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0aLkdi3GQo)

The only songs that comes to mind are "Jump Around" by House of Pain and "Insane in the Brain" by Cypress Hill

I will pretty much dance to anything but when those songs come on which seldom happens I almost have to get up.

Every time I hear [the Safety Dance], I want to start dancing (And believe me, that's not a pretty sight)

...especially if you're doing the actual safety dance.

Mine would be Beethoven's Turkish March. And no, that's not a typo. :D

Blue Danube

Beat no one knows what dance I do.

Play that Funky music White boy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10uRa4oENus)

or

Rick James - Give It To Me Baby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZh8fPKsOQc) "When he told me Rick James was his fav... I should've ran."

it's the FuNk!



ha I'm late ... I know where Obama got his shoulder brush move from .. Jay Z Dirt off your Shoulder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWLHQ3S-Oq8) hehe.

A much shorter list would be the ones that don't...

Pretty much nothing makes me dance, but I play air guitar to pretty much everything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_music

name it and I'll dance to it pretty damn well

Anything as long as there is alcohol.

this.

I play air guitar to pretty much everything.

even songs that don't necessarily have guitars in them?

even songs that don't necessarily have guitars in them?

Of course not. But, about 80% of everything I listen have guitars in them.

This is a little boppy tune my kids found; there are two versions, called "Caramelldansen. This YouTube vid comes in 2 versions:
English, fast version. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkpX95-Y5cQ)

and the Caramelldansen Swedish, original slower version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anEVeN4K-SY)

I like them both - but that "speedycake remix (as it is called, according to the Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caramelldansen)) seems to demand the listener start bopping around.

Actually now I have to say virtually any song by Jamiroquai is one I will dance to. That's proper music.

Of course not. But, about 80% of everything I listen have guitars in them.

I agree people should start stocking up on Hanna Montana cus its gonna be the shit in 5 years time! (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3vJOJa3jFJ4&feature=related)


SNIP

Sunday afternoon happy hardcore FTW!

I agree people should start stocking up on Hanna Montana cus its gonna be the shit in 5 years time! (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3vJOJa3jFJ4&feature=related)


Wut? :confused:

Wut? :confused:

well I thought you would listen to rock music what with the guitar thing :confused:

well I thought you would listen to rock music what with the guitar thing :confused:

Yeah, but I listen mostly older stuff.

For some reason the only thing that comes to mind is Staying Alive and Disco Inferno. I suppose if you asked me at another time it could include something more recent.

Alternatively, something like what young Mr. Wallonochia suggests below:

oh my a Jerry Lewis .. Sam is cool ... I know many ppl, at least here, sweat Jerry, but back in the day Jerry was hot imo. Had good arms and hands too /swoon. His goofyness on and seriousness off, sigh. Dino was supposibly the lady bringer in their movies I guess. Get outta here.. off camera Jerry owned Dino to me. Dino was cool tho, I'm not talking bad about the man.

The Hamster Dance.

Whenever I hear "What is Love?" by Haddaway....Immediately start bobbing my head to the side, lol...

I'll ditto that! :)

Oh, and "Billie Jean" by Micheal Jackson gives me the instant urge to moonwalk too.

The Hamster Dance.

Oh god yes....


Dubba-dee-do-dee-de-dee-do dee-di-do-do-do Dooby-dooby-dooby-dee-bi-dee-do Dubba-dee-di-diddle-di-do!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncXkdeRRjiQ
:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncXkdeRRjiQ
:)

That makes me want to cry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncXkdeRRjiQ
:)

*dances*

*dances*

*cries the bitter tears of one who's faith in humanity has been raped*

I Am Woman - Jessica Williams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgfkvgQy3mk)

*cries the bitter tears of one who's faith in humanity has been raped*

*dances harder*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luobOzreRq4

But almost anything from 1967 through 1999

Closer, NIN.
Number 9, Machines of Loving Grace.
Superstitious, Stevie Wonder.
Dead Man's Party, Oingo Boingo.

There's not many, really. More than i've mentioned, to be sure.

Closer, NIN.
Number 9, Machines of Loving Grace.
Superstitious, Stevie Wonder.
Dead Man's Party, Oingo Boingo.

There's not many, really. More than i've mentioned, to be sure.

Closer, from NIN, makes me want to do OTHER things, but not dancing.:tongue:

What songs make you want to dance?
Prodigy - Firestarter (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=X8y8fkC4ug8) (at about 120dbs, with a really amazing amount of bass, after 10 shots at the bar, this is best song ever)

I'm the Bomb by Electric Six. There simply aren't enough pelvic thrusts in the world to fill the need generated by this song.

I agree people should start stocking up on Hanna Montana cus its gonna be the shit in 5 years time! (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3vJOJa3jFJ4&feature=related)


I nearly played that at full volume in a silent computer lab filled with my peers. You're an evil man.

Oh, and to the OP I'm going for "Atlantis to Interzone" by the Klaxons.

Oh, and to the OP I'm going for "Atlantis to Interzone" by the Klaxons.
Bugger the Klaxons. Here's a better tune they ripped off and ruined - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Y62L_qlefHU

Bugger the Klaxons. Here's a better tune they ripped off and ruined - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Y62L_qlefHU

Yeah...ruined...:p

Ah, each to their own.

Closer, from NIN, makes me want to do OTHER things, but not dancing.:tongue:How is that *not* a dance?
Provide pictures/video/audio please, to illustrate the point.
I have a funny anecdote about that tune - there's this new entity in our region that can qualify it.
Wait, two different anecdotes that might be worth a chortle or two.

From the Animal House soundtrack: Otis Day and the Knights, "Shout".

Not only makes me want to dance, it makes me want to wrap myself up in a sheet and thrash around on the floor.

Come to think of it, when it first came out that's exactly what I did ;)

it makes me want to wrap myself up in a sheet and thrash around on the floor.Good, good. :)
You know, once you go Dark, you never go back.
Let there be Dark!

The Hamster Dance.

What's the hamster dance?

The first bars of Rock the Casbah by The Clash always get me moving (until I'm told to stop because people are pointing at me and laughing)

Another one that makes me want to dance madly around the room is 'Demons' by Rabbit Junk (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2iUuCJf6qJU)

How is that *not* a dance?
Provide pictures/video/audio please, to illustrate the point.
I have a funny anecdote about that tune - there's this new entity in our region that can qualify it.
Wait, two different anecdotes that might be worth a chortle or two.

Sweetie, if I provide such evidence, I'll be permabanned from NS.:tongue:

Breakbeaty Dancey stuff... Like the Prodigy, but also this (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xV_mTIuO5io&fmt=18) 'cos of the rhythms (although hybrid remixes tend to be a bit more hardcore).

Funky house like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F52dx9Z0L5k) (and if you like slowmo jumping dogs that video will appeal), and most of the stuff by jamiroquai (great baselines).

And to my eternal shame, this (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mXUMSMPB4Fs) always gets me going after a few drinks*


*who am i kidding, just watching the video got me going...

What's the hamster dance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76HcLEunsws

:wink: