What song makes you want to get up off your ass and dance ?

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Starting this on the back of the thread about songs that take your breath away. How about songs that just make you want to dance? "New Shoes" by Paolo Nutini is one of my favourites ......

This week it's My Gypsy Auto Pilot by Gogol Bordello. Last week it was Malandrino, by Gogol Bordello. The before, another Gogol Bordello song. 😁

I got really into GB over the Christmas break and I've been relying on them to keep my spirits up.

Anyone else find if they think too long and hard about some memories theses songs trigger, the nostalgia is almost slightly painful? Hope that's a normal reaction grin

I was just listening to my 90’s Spotify soundtrack and “little fluffy clouds” by the Orb came on and I choked up! I think it’s a mix of brilliant memories and also the realisation that dc’s may not have things like clubbing/raves in their golden years. They just don’t dance nowadays do they? I danced my arse off every single weekend from the age of 15 to having kids basically!

JLo - On the floor
AVH - You don't even know me
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Tina Turner - Proud Mary
Kungs - This Girl (banger!)
Yvonne Elliman - If I can't have you
Cheryl Lynn - Got to be real

Oh and ANYTHING by Steps. I was a teenager in the late 90's and know all the dance routines, and I don't even care if that's sad.

Fuck, now I want to go to a pub and get sloshed 😭😭😭

Yeah, pretty much every one that's been mentioned, personal faves I can't resist a-movin' to:

Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba
Pyjamarama - Roxy Music
Needle in a haystack - Velvelettes
Pump it up - Elvis Costell
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
Heart - Erasure
Intergalactic - Beastie Boys
Hey Boy Hey Girl - Chemical Bros

@FirstladyKirkman
Fuck, now I want to go to a pub and get sloshed 😭😭😭

Me too🥂🥂

Ha! Me too. We were so lucky to have had those times without the worry our moves would end up on social media!

And after all that dancing, the chippy on the way home always tasted amazing. Then wake up Sunday to cups of tea in bed watching Dermot on E4

But absolutely, Steps were flippin brilliant. I used to work away a lot and would drive home from Liverpool on a Friday afternoon and sing along to Steps Gold.

Superstition- Steve Wonder
Let’s Dance - Bowie
Saturday Love - Alexander O’Neil and Cherelle?
Night fever - Bee Gees
I so want to go to a party have a few drinks and dance the night away

Transvision Vamp: Baby I Don't Care
Meatloaf: Out of the Frying Pan (and into the fire)
Tina Turner: Proud Mary

James Brown- Sex Machine

Aluna George I'm in control
Ray Charles hit the road jack
Major lazor lean

Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys

Woman - Diana Gordon

Stand - REM

Set you Free - NTrance

Read my Mind - The Killers

No Tomorrow - Orson

Nobody's mentioned YMCA yet 🤣🤣🤣

@BeautifulStar

Anyone else find if they think too long and hard about some memories theses songs trigger, the nostalgia is almost slightly painful? Hope that's a normal reaction grin

I was just listening to my 90’s Spotify soundtrack and “little fluffy clouds” by the Orb came on and I choked up! I think it’s a mix of brilliant memories and also the realisation that dc’s may not have things like clubbing/raves in their golden years. They just don’t dance nowadays do they? I danced my arse off every single weekend from the age of 15 to having kids basically!

Totally agree, I think those of us who grew up in the kind of clubbing era with lots of socialising- I remember one Christmas holidays home from college going out like 10 nights in a row - assumed that our children would grow up to have the same kind of fun and experiences. We probably worried that they would get through it without damage, taking too many drugs etc. Now I worry that their future actually looks quite dull and serious. I think girls in particular seem to worry far more about how they look going out than having fun going out. If they go out at all (this is in normal times obviously). I guess everyone looks back on their formative years as the best era but I definitely think that late 80s and particularly early-mid 90s period was a real time of fun and hedonism and good vibes and of possibility.

Superstition- Stevie Wonder
This is how we do it- Montell Jordan
September- Earth, Wind and Fire
Girlfriend- Nsync
Insomnia- Faithless
Out of Space- Prodigy
Little Man Remix- Sia
Bob Sinclair- all songs
Let's Dance- David Bowie
Satisfaction- Rolling Stones
Proud Mary- Tina Turner
Everything- Neyo ft Pitbull

The shy fx remix of gold dust!

Fun is a very underestimated aspect of life!

Yes to Shy Fx- all songs and Red Alert- Basement Jaxx

Gloria by Laura Brannigan.

I just have to post this for the greatness that is John Travolta - a lot of my moves def come from him :

Enter in de dance, plug it in an we begin
Crowd up in de center, they watch fi de rydim
Watch the way we drop it in a mix timin'
Rise and amplifyin' when we come in wit de swing
Just followin the back an naturally harmonizin'
Climb into position wit synchronized things
Live from out a ghetto, we maximizin'
Sound of the Groove Armada
We superstylin', we superstylin', we superstylin'

I will survive, played through marriage breakdown and divorce from hell
I danced and survived

Everyone takes to the dance floor for
Van Morrison’s brown eyed girl
There’s just something about it

Enter in de dance, plug it in an we begin
Crowd up in de center, they watch fi de rydim
Watch the way we drop it in a mix timin'
Rise and amplifyin' when we come in wit de swing
Just followin the back an naturally harmonizin'
Climb into position wit synchronized things
Live from out a ghetto, we maximizin'
Sound of the Groove Armada
We superstylin', we superstylin', we superstylin

Another TUNE!

And Sweet Harmony - Liquid
Playing with knives - Bizarre Inc.

Van Morrison’s brown eyed girl

Agreed! It’s universal. Those opening chords...

@Katjolo

Yes to Shy Fx- all songs and Red Alert- Basement Jaxx

LOVE Red Alert !!! GREAT tune !