Tag: No Dancing

Bruce Hornsby and The Range- That’s just the way it is

Danielle Dax- Tomorrow Never Knows

Even being a big dance club star remaking a Beatles hit won’t park feet on the parquet unless it’s Twist and Shout (this particular arrangement from Blast The Human Flower (1990)).

Leave It

I’ll never understand why 4 part a cappella harmony didn’t storm the floor.

I’m going to Luke’s for some hangover pancakes and I don’t care how much he knows about Chris and the tequila.

Babylon Sisters

When you do the type of DJing I used to do, dinner and a dance, there’s always a question of what to play during dinner.  You want it quiet and mellow so people can talk and long format so you can eat.  We would solve this problem by popping on some Steely Dan and hitting the shuffle button.

Here’s another great song in the Techno genre that’s too fast to dance to.  Kind of odd that Depeche Mode is still around and Ultravox isn’t.  It’s like Maddona and Cindy Lauper, I always liked Cindy better.

Sleepwalk

Sleepwalk kind of peters out into Side B Waiting at 3:10, but this is the studio version with the soprano organ part clearly audible.

I think it’s the tempo and not the lyrics.  This one is just as morbid and dark, but was and is a great hit with the techno crowd (not that there are many of them).

Fly on the Windscreen

And then you have songs that are just too damn fast.

Paint It Black

The stutter steps in the middle disqualify this one and I think the rush is just a little too intense for some people.

Kashmir

I think I’ve mentioned that I had a life as a semi-professional DJ, not that I didn’t charge but I didn’t quit my day job either.  I was usually partnered with my buddy who had a very extensive CD collection and some high end hardware to play it on.  We mostly did Club Mixers and Receptions and it can be a lot of fun if people are into the music.

Among the things I learned is that there are many excellent songs that are either impossible to dance to or that no one will dance to because they’re not familiar.  This is why we still have the Chicken Dance even though everyone hates it.

Middle schoolers are a particularly tough audience because if it hasn’t been on Radio Disney 100 times today you might as well be playing a waltz.

Anyway I thought I’d share some of the stuff that I liked that but could never use.  The problem with Soft Parade is that nobody able to move anymore has ever heard of Jim Morrison and it’s got tempo changes (Paradise by the Dashboard Light on the other hand is a sure hit and I hope I never hear it again).

Soft Parade