Your favourite dance floor fillers please

[Liltzero]

I'm planning a party for a significant birthday later in the year and want to create a playlist of top tunes to dance along to.

I'd be very grateful for your suggestions.

TIA.

Think it might depend a bit on the birthday?

Dance floor will fill very differently if it's your 21st versus your 50th?

It's my 50th so tunes from the 1970's onwards please

I’ll think about this but thank you for asking the question. My younger son is getting married next year and his playlist presently could use a few ‘dance floor fillers’.

Depends what you and your crowd are into…pop, rock, indie, old goths or ravers…

Never Forget - Take That
Blame it on the Boogie - Jackson 5
For Once in my Life - Stevie Wonder
Love Shack - B52’s
Mr Brightside - The Killers

I did relieve my goth days car dancing on the way to work this morning to ‘she sells sanctuary’ by the cult.

Come on Eileen!

Proud Mary but only after the buffet for full effect

And there is always a place for a wee bit of Dolly Parton.

ABBA

Bit of Saturday night fever, Luther Vandross (lead vocal for Change) Searching etc, Bit of 90s rave like black box ride on time, Lola's Theme for noughties..Spotify is your friend on this, it make playlists according to stuff you like

I Feel Love by Donna Summer. Even my dad dances to it!

Don't leave me this way - The Communards
Come on Eileen -Dexy's Midnight Runners

Look up all the now albums from the relevant years and add the tracks that jump out at you. You can always cull later. Check the top 20s lists online too because some artists eg Madonna never feature on 'Now'

Heart of Glass - Blondie
Don't get me wrong - Pretenders
Go west- Pet Shop Boys
Keep feeling fascination - Human League

I Bet That You Look Good On The Dance Floor (Arctic Monkey not being a weirdo!)

Don't Leave Me This Way
Upside Down - Diana Ross
September - earth wind and fire
Ride on Time - Black Box
Sing It Back- Moloko
Common People
Two Can Play That Game
Come on Eileen

A Little Respect - Erasure
Ain't Nobody - Rufus and Chaka Khan
Red Light - Billy Ocean
Nutbush City Limits - Ike and Tina
500 Miles - The Proclaimers
Blinding Lights - The Weeknd

Oops Upside Your Head was a (drunken) hit at my 50th party.

Man, I Feel Like a Woman — Shania Twain

Reach — S Club 7

5,6,7,8 — Steps

The Birdie Song

Blue Monday by New Order.

@thefirstmrsrochester

I did relieve my goth days car dancing on the way to work this morning to ‘she sells sanctuary’ by the cult.

This was my first thought, I think of it as my generation's Mr Brightside.

Just don’t do what a friend of ours did and have the Jim’ll Fix It theme tune - tbf it was some time ago so might have been before we all found out what he had been up to. But in any case they had been desperate to appear on the show and had a lucky escape by all accounts.

How about some Madness?

Billie Jean Michael Jackson
Heaven must've sent you The Elgin's
Jammin Bob Marley
This ol heart of mine Isley brothers
What a fool believes the doobie brothers