Topic: Booty Shakin' Music (Read 28695 times)

Mnementh · « **on:** 27 May 2005, 08:24 »

So I have a not so secret guilty pleasure, namely that I enjoy dancing, be it in the privacy of my room or out at a club.

Now indie rock isn't really good for dancing because standing there taking drags on your cigarette really doesn't count. Neither does flinging your body around at other human beings. That really limits the genre's available to hip-hop/pop/and some varieties of electronica.

I can't really say I'm fond of a lot of hip-hop (as he is listening to Sean Paul), I'm personally a fan of s like Duran Duran, and groups influenced by their sound, such as Eiffiel 65. I also like some of the more faux electronica like Gigi D'Augostino and Jem. Then there's always groups like Ladytron and the Scissor Sisters that have a great beat and make for good fun.

Moving away from electronica influenced sounds, Latin music, particularly groups like the Gypsy Kings always make me want to get out and move my body. Also some Algerian music has that beat that I really enjoy, the blend of Arabic and French influences is wicked cool.

Who here likes to dance, and what music gets you out there on the floor, shakin' booty, making sweet love all the night?

Spencer · « **Reply #1 on:** 27 May 2005, 08:27 »

Real men listen to Disco House.

I effing love House music, and wish I still went to parties more often because, while I am not a very good dancer, I effing love to dance. House music is what does it for me, specifically Chicago House and Disco/Diva House.

"Not everybody understands house music
it's a spiritual thing
a body thing
a soul thing"

Robbo · « **Reply #2 on:** 27 May 2005, 08:28 »

If I could do it and didnt think it looked silly, Hardcore, with it's technical dancing would be it for me.

As it stands, only stuff that will get me to dance is your standard "dance music for goths" Electro-Industrial stuff or whatever. The well known paint by numbers stuff* like VnV Nation and all that.

*I say that because I dont know much about dark electronica/pure industrial stuff so I have to assume anything I know is simple and popular stuff.

normz · « **Reply #3 on:** 27 May 2005, 08:30 »

Scissor Sisters (me and my mate go OFF to filthy/gorgeous cause she's filthy and im gorgeous) and a bit of Gwen Stefani with some Hot Hot Hot Heat in there ....... add a dash of alcohol and you've got me up on the podium dancing like a slut on heat

well not all the time ;-P

Inlander · « **Reply #4 on:** 27 May 2005, 08:31 »

Mnementh, the mix-C.D. I sent you has the ultimate booty-shaking song on it, when it finally reaches you - not giving anything away, but it's track 6. When that rhythm section comes in just you try to stop your arse from bouncing!

Revenge_Therapist · « **Reply #5 on:** 27 May 2005, 08:35 »

Blur's Girls and Boys makes my ass subconsiously start shaking.

Spencer · « **Reply #6 on:** 27 May 2005, 08:35 »

The Scissor Sisters totally make me wish I was a gay man living in New York City. If their tunes were any hotter, then things might like, melt, and, um, catch fire and stuff.

JP · « **Reply #7 on:** 27 May 2005, 09:22 »

I like to dance, but what to play for "indie" type music makes it a mostly singles playlist, since there's a lot of bands that are undancable exccept for that one song where you have to dance.

Personally, I think you can't miss with !!!, Annie, The Faint, Go! Team, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, plus the aforementioned Ladytron and Depechde Mode. But bands like The Libertines (from Up the Bracket), The Legends, The Briefs, The Thermals, Pretty Girls Make Graves, etc, etc, all have songs you can dance to. And you can always go with these 2 Many DJs and Optimo type guys, or anything from the DFA label.

In conclusion, I like to dance and there's a huge world of music outside of rap/hip-hop/r&b and techno.

oddball318 · « **Reply #8 on:** 27 May 2005, 09:37 »

love to dance, although it took quite a while before I did (had to get more coordinated, less self-conscious, and find the sounds that really resonated in me).
Love old-school hiphop breaks and funk, that stuff got me to start bboying. Electronica can also get me going, chicago and disco houses, various other stuff. Hooray for Daft Punk and Basement Jaxx.

As far as guilty pleasure goes, I can enjoy going out to a club and dancing while they play typical popchart clubbing hiphop and such. Just wish I had some friends that wanted to go do that with me once in a while.

and one of these days I'll learn some more ballroom stuff.

blindsuperhero · « **Reply #9 on:** 27 May 2005, 10:11 »

I've said this before, but...
It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you want to dance with me.
This includes all kinds of rock music, 50's stuff, indie, punk, whatever, except for like Hard Rock/Metal, because that's really rock and roll with the roll taken out. And the roll is the essential ingredient when it comes to dancing.

MilkmanDan · « **Reply #10 on:** 27 May 2005, 10:31 »

Drum n Bass, breakbeat, Hip-Hop, and whatever the fuck Gilles Peterson plays (world music meets dance, to put it basically. Lots of funky, funky Latin persussion plus basslines and such. I'm sure it has a technical name, but I don't know it). Drill n Bass and Breakcore too, but I'm not sure if that counts as dancing. It's more of a flail. I can't dance for shit whenever there's a reason to eg. in a club, but I regularily get DOWN when just having conversations with people.

bucky_2300 · « **Reply #11 on:** 27 May 2005, 10:38 »

That song used in Butternutsquash...JXL. That was cool. Also, I like dancing to
The Rudimentals.

Mnementh · « **Reply #12 on:** 27 May 2005, 10:57 »

I have a dance playlist on my iPod and I noticed a few I missed that aren't as obvious, such as some Bjork, Ellen Allien, and O.M.D.

Also, blindsuperhero, Do Wop.

happybirthdaygelatin · « **Reply #13 on:** 27 May 2005, 12:21 »

Alot of the Buena Vista Social Club CD. Good Cuban music. Oh and the Epoxies. Look into stuff involving Dan the Automator (Deltron, Handsome Boys Modeling School [Okay I think that is the name], the first Gorillaz album). I like some good funk as well. James Brown, George Clinton and such not.

Also the Grey Album.

niatinari · « **Reply #14 on:** 27 May 2005, 12:41 »

A lot of Brazilian music made for Capoeira is good for dancing, or "playing." And I can never resist pulling out swing moves if a good song for it comes on.

Other than that, I'll dance to just about anything so long as it has a danceable beat. Dancing is my addiction.

blindsuperhero · « **Reply #15 on:** 27 May 2005, 12:41 »

I went to see Ibrahim Ferrer a couple of weeks ago

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #16 on:** 27 May 2005, 12:42 »

Le Tigre, Gravy Train!!! and Black Eyes all get me shaking my ass, as does some good hip-hop. Melt-Banana and Lightning Bolt cause me to unleash my mathy spazzing. Fig 4.0 and Spazz are for mentalism and finger-pointing, and Chain of Strength for getting crucial. RAMBO, Minor Threat, D.S.-13 and any fast hardcore for circle pits, touching base and general mosh manoeuvres. The Futureheads, Gang of Four and Devo are where it's at for indie dancing of the good and ridiculous variety.

I can't dance to save my life, but I do like to get up there and look like an idiot on a regular basis.

Aphi · « **Reply #17 on:** 27 May 2005, 14:04 »

Fifties swing music makes me wanna dance in front o' my mirror in my room.

O.o Odd, I'm aware, but who /wouldn't/ want to cut a rug with musics like that?

blindsuperhero · « **Reply #18 on:** 27 May 2005, 14:54 »

I've just realised Crimes (the album) by the Blood Brothers has quite a few danceable moments. Especially 'Teen Heat'.

And I'm loving the 50's big band swing. It makes me wish you could still take a girl dancing, in a Catcher-in-the-Rye style.

Aphi · « **Reply #19 on:** 27 May 2005, 15:46 »

Awl, /I'd/ dance Catcher-In-The-Rye style wiv ye.

^^

MilkmanDan · « **Reply #20 on:** 27 May 2005, 15:50 »

I'd dance to "Little Shirley Beans" with you, for sure. Of course, I'm not a girl, but meh. Estelle Fletcher, baby! Does the fact I know the name of the record and artist make me cool or really quite sad?

Johnny C · « **Reply #21 on:** 27 May 2005, 16:40 »

Just don't embody Holden and start killing people.

Anyhow, I like to shake what my [insert parent] gave me to anything that has a vaguely danceable beat. Looking at my playlist:

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The New Pornographers
The Stills
Metric
Joy Division
Interpol
Franz Ferdinand
Cake
The Arcade Fire
Controller.Controller
The Unicorns
Death From Above 1979
The Bravery

are all bands which have one or more songs that I loosen up to. Unfortunately where I live most people try to say that you can't dance to rock, at which point I usually tell they obviously aren't trying hard enough.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #22 on:** 27 May 2005, 17:14 »

FUCKING Cruachan, Korpiklaani, Finntroll, Waylander, some Skyclad (FUCKING WIDDERSHINS JIG MAN! FUCKING SPINNING JENNY! HER PASSION FOR PASSSSIIIIOOOONNNNN) some fooking ewigkeit, some of that crazy fucking finnish band with all the diacritics i can't remember, all that sort of shit. Stuff you dance round a campfire to andkill people. dead.

Also, fucking industrial and fucking EBM: VNV Nation, :Wumpscut:, E Nomine, old KMFDM, Deathstars, front 424, Ministry, and loads of goth crap. cos it ruls.

sp2 · « **Reply #23 on:** 27 May 2005, 17:27 »

The Black Keys when I'm happy. Skinny Puppy or Front Line Assembly when I'm not.

californaya · « **Reply #24 on:** 28 May 2005, 00:03 »

Music that makes my rump shake:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs (particularly the song No No No)
The Rapture
M.I.A.
Bloc Party (I like Bloc Party, thank you very much.)
Daft Punk
Eagles of Death Metal
Jem
Le Tigre
The Bravery
The Music (Not so rump-shaking as it is just groovin', or in their case, Breakin')

There's probably more.

est · « **Reply #25 on:** 28 May 2005, 02:17 »

for dance music, i am quite partial to Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Freestylers, Kid Kenobi, and the Go! Team.

also, there are a bunch of artists where i have only heard a few songs of theirs that i really like. artists like Moguai, Armand van Helden, Boogie Pimps, Junior Jack, Playgroup, Ferry Corsten, Basement Jaxx, Carl Cox, Felix da Housecat, Shapeshifters, Friendly, Stereo 8, Tube & Berger, Apollo 440, Stanton Warriors, Futureshock and a stack more.

a lot of the time though, i'll hear something and only think it's "OK" until i hear it in a club. then something in my brain goes "OK, THIS SONG GOOD NOW" and i'll like it from then on.

DeathrockZombie · « **Reply #26 on:** 28 May 2005, 02:33 »

PUMP UP HER PUM PUM!!!

Good Reggae

dancarter · « **Reply #27 on:** 28 May 2005, 04:28 »

okay, this may get all over the place, but it's a list so...

if you like duran duran, then you should try some ebm or futurepop like: imperative reaction(anything except eulogy for the sick child), assemblage 23(specifically the albums defiance & storm), mindFIELD, blank, the parallel project, back and to the left, or system syn.

if you like your dance a little harder, check out flesh field, iszoloscope, mimetic, pneumatic detatch, hiv+, pzychobitch or micronaut..oh, also the latest razed in black album 'damaged', is really, really dancy.

for other all around goodness try: displacer, dither, cylab, skylight glare, ayria, code 64, neikka rpm, glis, epsilon minus, lights of euphoria, echo image, amish rake fight, or red sparrow.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #28 on:** 28 May 2005, 04:47 »

Holy crap, all the band names in that drunk post were spelled right! I'm taking it then, that I'm the only person here who likes good, wholesome folk dancing?

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #29 on:** 28 May 2005, 06:05 »

Quote from: est

a lot of the time though, i'll hear something and only think it's "OK" until i hear it in a club. then something in my brain goes "OK, THIS SONG GOOD NOW" and i'll like it from then on.

I know what you mean with that. The Postal Service didn't grab me until I'd danced to them a few times in a club, but now they're rather growing on me. Although I have a sneaking suspicion that might be because of all the genuinely bad music that gets played either side of them.

Aphi · « **Reply #30 on:** 28 May 2005, 07:11 »

I almost /completely/ forgot.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Metric are /great/ for dancing to. =whispers guiltily= and a lot of Eastern-Canadian bluegrass folk whose names I can't remember.

Yes, you /can/ dance to bluegrass.

blindsuperhero · « **Reply #31 on:** 28 May 2005, 07:21 »

Hoe-down!

Aphi · « **Reply #32 on:** 28 May 2005, 07:23 »

=giggles= Not quite the same as bluegrass, but whoo-eee!

=falls over laughing= That is the most hick-like thing I've ever said. No, just so you know, I'm not drunk, it's first thing in the mornin'.

Aph does not condone underage drinking. She promises. So hard.

Hooooooe dowwwwnnnnnnn.

Revenge_Therapist · « **Reply #33 on:** 28 May 2005, 09:35 »

The Epoxies make me shake my ass until I pass out.

ForteBass · « **Reply #34 on:** 28 May 2005, 09:51 »

The new Gorillaz album is actually quite great for dancing and booty shaking.
Also: Ace of Base makes me move all weird.

laeta.asinus · « **Reply #35 on:** 28 May 2005, 10:47 »

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Blur's Girls and Boys makes my ass subconsiously start shaking.

Definetly! In the genre of hip/hop, I don't know much, but I LOVE k-os. I have both his albums, which are completely amazing. Here are some other bands that make me want to dance...
The Bravery (some song on the radio - anyone know more about this?)
METRIC (audio crack - what can I say? it's kind of a whiney, slouchey dance for me)
Death From Above 1979 (okay, basically, whenever I hear 'Sexy Results', I feel the need to grab someone's ass.)
Le Tigre
Nine Inch Nails (believe it or not)
The Dandy Warhols
Hot Hot Heat

I also have a number of songs in my library from - where? There's this one song, I think it's called "Roxanne", and it's probably pretty famous. It goes. "turn on the red lights, come on baby, turn on the red lights..". I also have the infamous "Locomotion" - (come on baby, do the locomotion). Anyone know who these are by?

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #36 on:** 28 May 2005, 11:05 »

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RAMBO, Minor Threat, D.S.-13 and any fast hardcore for circle pits, touching base and general mosh manoeuvres. The Futureheads, Gang of Four and Devo are where it's at for indie dancing of the good and ridiculous variety.

off-topic: that made me smile, because the first that greet you when you drive into a danish city called Vejle, is the backside of a sign saying: "Fuck Rambo" written in graffiti.

... I am probably the only who finds that funny...oh well:)

on topic I don't dance at all, mainly because I can't but also because I am way too constrained in my body motions, though my mouth has a mind of its own.. But I imagine Manu Chao is good for dancing if you like ska and !!! if you like lots of swearing and FUNK...

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #37 on:** 28 May 2005, 12:11 »

Quote from: happybirthdaygelatin

Alot of the Buena Vista Social Club CD. Good Cuban music. Oh and the Epoxies. Look into stuff involving Dan the Automator (Deltron, Handsome Boys Modeling School [Okay I think that is the name], the first Gorillaz album). I like some good funk as well. James Brown, George Clinton and such not.

Also the Grey Album.

<3<3<3<3<3 Someone knows who the Epoxies are! Also, great choice, Est, they made me happy :)

Me, I can, and do, dance to everything. My personal choices are electronica (stuff like fatboy slim&chemical brothers), Moby, as well as The Hives, Le Tigre, Sahara Hotnights, Depeche Mode, Tatu, Annie Lennox, Motion City Soundtrack, some trip-hop, R2DJ, Kid Koala, Eagles of Death Metal, Hot Hot Heat, ska music as well as random fucked up punk music that is just infectious.

mechorg · « **Reply #38 on:** 28 May 2005, 14:00 »

I'm groovin' to the Chemical Brothers right now.

muffy · « **Reply #39 on:** 28 May 2005, 14:57 »

I can dance to most things, but the best of them for me are...

THE FAINT
Interpol
Peaches
Felix da Housecat
Adult (though their new album kind of sucks)
Soulwax (whose last album is teh awesome)
Le Tigre
Gravy Train!!!
The Pipettes
Tilly and the Wall
LCD Soundsystem (when they're not being horribly self conscious)
The Arcade Fire
Brakes
And pretty much everything that gets played at indie nights, including The L****tines.
Seriously, I was dancing for 4 hours straight last night.
And actually can't walk today. At all.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #40 on:** 28 May 2005, 15:16 »

Quote from: muffy

Gravy Train!!!

Anyone who doesn't feel the urge to shake it when they hear 'Titties Bounce' really should just give it all up. They've failed at life.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #41 on:** 28 May 2005, 15:59 »

Statements like that simply can't be made by anyone who doesn't like Skyclad. I'm sorry, but it's time for me to make sweeping statements. Anyone who doesn't feel the urge to skip around clapping their hands to Spinning Jenny, Vintage Whine or Any Old Irony? is not human. Also, headbanging and air-guitaring are necessary when listening to 'Crux of the Message', 'Fainting By Numbers', 'The Wickedest Man in the World' or any other of their hard rockin' songs. Man, I'd say I liked Skyclad too much, but it's SKYCLAD, so there are really no limits. Woo yeah.

PS. Listened to the only Gravy Train!!! song I could find online 'Hella Nervous': was not impressed. Skyclad are better!

On a more cogent post of other awesome dancing stuff, pretty much any humpaa metal or humpaa rock (Finntroll, Korpiklaani, Eläkeläiset etc.) is totally awesome, as is straight humpaa. And any celtic stuff with a decent beat.

Plus of course, I am rather partial to some EBM, Industrial and goth dance: Gothminister, KMFDM, E Nomine, Angelspit, Deathstars, Front 424, VNV Nation, etc. etc.

mechorg · « **Reply #42 on:** 28 May 2005, 16:11 »

Okay, your commercial got to me, Khar. I'm going to check out some Skyclad and see what all your hype is about.

I can dance to just about anything as well, but I usually turn to my electronic/techno roots when I feel like shakin' it. Stuff like Fatboy Slim, Crystal Method, Chemical Bros., Basement Jazz... mostly House stuff and a little Big Beat. I thrash to good DnB.

The Faint and LCD Soundsystem are probably my favorite when I'm feeling a little more rocker.

Jeridus · « **Reply #43 on:** 28 May 2005, 17:00 »

Quote from: Johnny C

Just don't embody Holden and start killing people.

Anyhow, I like to shake what my [insert parent] gave me to anything that has a vaguely danceable beat. Looking at my playlist:

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The New Pornographers
The Stills
Metric
Joy Division
Interpol
Franz Ferdinand
Cake
The Arcade Fire
Controller.Controller
The Unicorns
Death From Above 1979
The Bravery

are all bands which have one or more songs that I loosen up to. Unfortunately where I live most people try to say that you can't dance to rock, at which point I usually tell they obviously aren't trying hard enough.

Good good GOOD list... buncha Canadian music (woot), and it is great to dance too... good for parties and stuff...

To the list, I would surely add:

Futurehaeds, Fiery Furnaces, Hot Hot Heat, (sadly...) a bit of Muse, and though it might be hard to dance to sometimes, The Transplants.

Aphi · « **Reply #44 on:** 28 May 2005, 17:02 »

Ah, the Transplants. Even if /you/ can dance to them, you may end up putting everyone else around you in a full body cast.

/Beautiful/ music.

mechorg · « **Reply #45 on:** 28 May 2005, 17:26 »

Oh, and I forgot to add my first album purchase specifically for dancing party music back in college!

James fuckin' Brown.

If you don't respect anything the Godfather of Soul did ... well ... then you don't.

thehoopiestfrood · « **Reply #46 on:** 28 May 2005, 17:52 »

Swing music is pure awesome as are the right indie/dance tracks.

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #47 on:** 28 May 2005, 19:00 »

Currently shakin' ma ass to Eagles Of Death Metal. I can't stress how awesome the song I Only Want You is. *snarls, puts up horns and dances in her living room like a lunatic*

niatinari · « **Reply #48 on:** 28 May 2005, 19:20 »

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I'm taking it then, that I'm the only person here who likes good, wholesome folk dancing?

I do Ceili, does that count?

Johnny C · « **Reply #49 on:** 28 May 2005, 20:58 »

I forgot M.I.A., Le Tigre, The Postal Service, and sometimes Beck.

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Mnementh

Spencer

Robbo

normz

Revenge_Therapist

Spencer

JP

oddball318

blindsuperhero

MilkmanDan

Mnementh

niatinari

blindsuperhero

Aphi

blindsuperhero

Aphi

MilkmanDan

sp2

californaya

DeathrockZombie

Aphi

blindsuperhero

Aphi

Revenge_Therapist

laeta.asinus

Praeserpium Machinarum

mechorg

mechorg

Jeridus

Aphi

mechorg

thehoopiestfrood

niatinari