Archive for the ‘Dance Music’ Category

People often wonder if it is safe to dance, and cartoons can help put you at ease

when people of short stature down under make you uneasy

All you have to do is ask someone, Let’s Dance

There’s a long evolution of dance though so you’ll need to be prepared to pick a style or get lost in a medley

But then when you are mocked by transformers it must be the best flattery

So where does one begin?

But what if you don’t have the equipment, can you go virtual?

Engaging in too much dance will not harm your political aspirations?

That said you have to be careful not to mix politics with dance or things will just get out of control

Reset

Ah, Shit,

Hit the reset button on my computer with a thumb drive inserted and triggered that virus

If you watch that last one too much it will kill, you but don’t worry, even the dead can dance

That’s what happens when you rely on a search engine, here’s a better example of the dancing dead ~ after they dead marry

Or get a conjugal visit in prison

But then they’ll have to hustle off back to their cells

But line dancing is really a punishment, for those people that kill others with music

They haven’t found a chemical yet to correct that type of aggression, but the goal here is not to get people to dance like monkeys

We can surely evolve past that because if we don’t the results might be catastrophic

People will be forced to hide their dancing

maybe in some cases that’s not a bad thing, but we have come a long way

even if it starts a little dirty from time to time and uses a frivolous number of horses

We have to remember that there is more to dancing than just shaking your butt

even if they won’t always shoot your legs

You’ll just have to find a way to show off some other part of your body

so that you can keep on moving

This is a song that I was introduced to visa-vi my wife’s college roomate, who hailed from Rockford.  She I believe was introduced to this by a couple of her friends, including one, Bob, who became her husband. 

Unfortunately, I didn’t know this particular song back when it came out, but it was definitely a song that I glommed onto pretty hard early in the 90’s when I finally discovered it.

This song is one of those great songs to add into any Fantasia viewing btw, especially if you can get it into the fawn, angles, devils section….

I’m sorry but there are just some songs that were just plain stupid.  Some of them even were produced by some of my favorite groups, such as Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus.

Another one that strikes me as fitting this category was Bring Me Edelweiss (mixing Julie andrews via Abba with rap and house music)

Of course the music video was probably the reason why MTV first made the decision to get out of the music video business in the first place with midgets and purple cows and those Ricolah Players before Ricolah was invented.

In the late 80’s probably the best symbol for this was Vanilla Ice, infectious as hell but just stupid….

This was even recognized at the time and probably helped to create this genre.

Then there is the cattle call version of infectious and stupid.  Its one of those songs where you have to be herded (Zapp, move along little doggies) onto the dance floor.  No I’m not talking about the Chicken Dance, I’m talking about The Electric (aka The Electric Slide).

UPDATE

Added by recommendation 

Strokin’ Clarence Carter.  I always figured this was an oldie way back when, no idea if it was actually kind of current in the late 80’s early 90’s.

another recommendation –> Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode, would include it but Depeche Mode doesn’t really like their music shared on the internet unless they are promoting a new album.  Since this is definitely not a new album, its a no show on Youtube.  (Who knew that Depeche Mode and Metallica were so much alike?) 

Ever know about Johnny Cash’s version? 

Not quite as good as his cover of Trent Reznor’s Hurt