Come on all you wild childs of the 80s! Favorite songs to dance your ass off too

I finally got a little ipod shuffle for my workouts. I want to put in all the great dance songs of the 80s and early 90s (some 70s too - need ABBA) cause that was the music I remmeber having the most fun dancing my ass off to.

Songs I have so far include:

Dancing Queen - ABBA
Fovever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
The Sign - Ace of Base
Venus - Banarama
Free Your Mind - En Vogue
Our Lips are Sealed - Go-Gos
Damn, I Wish I was your Love - Sophie B. Hawkins
When I think of You - Janet Jackson
Love Will Never Do - Janet Jackson
Kids of America - Kim Wilde
I Wonder if I Take You Home - Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam
A slew of classic Madonna
In My House - Mary Jane Girls
No Parking on the Dance Floor - Midnight Star
Freak-a-zoid - Midnight Star
Love, Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
Mamma Mia - ABBA
Lovefool - The Cardigans
Tubthumper - Cumbawamba
Got to Beal Real - Cheryl Lynn
Car Wash - Rose Royce
Push It - Salt & Pepa
Let's Talk about Sex - Salt & Pepa
Whatta Man - Salt & Pepa with En Vogue
MacArther Park - Donna Summers
Move This - TEchnotronics


Now this is all the great girl singers but what else is out there I should add

One of my favorite 80's pop dance songs..Loved the Bangles....:shrug:

I have standards you know!

I need ABBA like I need a stomach ulcer.

and played "Dancing Queen" thinking tonight "You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen."

It's a girl thing although I suspect many a gay man has always been inspired by those words!

And remember - "Anybody could be that guy, the night is young and the music is high"

"Dancing Queen" is not a song it's a lifestyle choice!

:) :woohoo: BTW, I love ABBA too!

I've got me a Chrysler that seats about 20

:hi: Greetings from Athens, GA! The home of REM, Pylon, the B52s, Love Tractor and countless other bands that have a great beat and you can dance to!

I'm going to hear a whole lotta great music at the 30th annual Athens Humans Rights Festival this weekend! Wish you could be here!
http://www.athenshumanrightsfest.org/index.html

You ought to add some Squeeze to the mix too! I LOVE Squeeze!

:hi: Enjoy your tunes!

Inspires major Molly Ringwald-in-The-Breakfast-Club dance moves every time! :D

And as I ALWAYS add to an '80s song thread, "Walking on Sunshine"!

Shame on me!

"Superfreak". That was tres risky to play at our Catholic girls' school dances!
:rofl:

Thanks! :hi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW7l4kbfvw8&feature=related

one of the best dance songs evah.

That's one of those songs I've always loved but never knew the title or artist.

favorite which i still love and play all the time is--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h6pcqC6wrI

Saturday nights at Skate Depot. Nothing better than that.

Do you remember the ultra-popular club in Media PA called "Pulsations"?

They would rock the place with "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Talk about kick-ass bass! :)

I was underage but was able to sneak in - that was during college. Our local place in Harrisburg was the Metron.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

:D

My first attempt at a Rickroll. FAIL.

:hi:

:rofl:

Even I have standards!

I can't get youtube at work

IMO the best dance song of all time.
:bounce:

The only kind of dancing I did the 80s was slam-dancing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDWLp1yIWw

By Marvin Gaye...

It's become kind of an anthem of sorts for me...

I used to go out to parties
And stand around
'Cause I was too nervous
To really get down
And my body yearned to be free
So I got up on the floor and found
Someone to choose me
No more standin' along the side walls
Now I've got myself together, baby
And I'm havin' a ball
Long as you prove it
There's always a chance
Somebody watches
I'm gonna make romance
With your body, ooo baby, you dance all night
Get down and prove it, feel all right
. . . .

Keep on dancin'
Got to give it up

Let the Music Play--Shannon
When I Hear Music--Debbie Deb
If You Leave Me Now--Jaya
Fascinated--Company B
Party Your Body--Stevie B
Come Go With Me--Expose
Show Me--The Cover Girls
One More Shot--C-Bank
Catch Me, I'm Falling--Pretty Poison
Diamond Girl--Nice 'N' Wild

CCCP American-Soviets--Cameron Paul mix
Give Me Edelweiss--Edelweiss

Hollywood swinging by Kool and the gang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duzPwsFVhrM

Billy Idol-Rebel Yell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToeY7MkCm0c

Late 80's but Guns n Roses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYRC4H64EFk

...London Calling by the Clash :bounce:...Gut Feeling/Slap your Mammy By Devo....Cretin Hop by the Ramones... :woohoo: Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones too...


Oops! Forgot to add these from the 80s: Radio Free Europe by REM...Electricity by OMD...Pretty in Pink by the Psychedelic Furs...:bounce: :woohoo:

I'd add X Offender by Blondie, I Can't Do Anything by X Ray Spex ( disclaimer, I'm in love with Polly Styrene), The Wait and Tattooed Love Boys by the Pretenders, Head over Heels by the Go-gos. plus some Joe Jackson and The Damned as well.

Gotta have something to pogo to.

"Proud Mary" starts slow but gets to rockin'!

:shrug:

there were some wild times in the 80's... wild clubs, wild parties, wild times- don't forget the aids epidemic...

Born in the U.S.A. and Dancing in the Dark - Springsteen

Obsession - Animotion

Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles

Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper

I Melt With You - Modern English

Lots of Daft Punk. And Chemical Brothers.

As for the '80s, I'm not sure what I would pick for good '80s booty shakers.

Eddy Grant -- Electric Avenue
Shannon -- Let the Music Play
Stacey Q -- Two of Hearts
Samantha Fox -- Touch Me
Parliament Funkadelic -- Tear the Roof Off the Sucka
Sister Sledge -- He's the Greatest Dancer
Brick -- Dazz (Disco Jazz)
Culture Club -- Karma Chameleon

and don't forget Bust a Move
and
Whip It!
and
You Dropped a Bomb on Me....

and if you are going for girl singers, don't leave out "in my house" and "our lips are sealed" and "call me!"

blondi definitely should be on the list!


if including the 90's, there are lots more- like 'good vibrations'

The Smiths - "Ask"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1garPGLZwQ

Shyness is nice and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You'd like to

Shyness is nice and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You'd like to

So, if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
Ask me I wont say no, how could I?

Coyness is nice, and
Coyness can stop you
From saying all the things in
Life you'd like to

So, if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
Ask me I wont say no, how could I?

Spending warm Summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a bucktoothed girl in Luxembourg

Ask me, ask me, ask me
Ask me, ask me, ask me

Because if it's not Love
Then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb,
the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb
That will bring us together

Nature is a language - can't you read ?
Nature is a language - can't you read ?

So, ask me, ask me, ask me,
Ask me, ask me, ask me

Because if it's not Love
Then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb,
the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb
That will bring us together

If it's not Love
Then it's the bomb
Then it's the bomb
That will bring us together

So, ask me, ask me, ask me,
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Oh, la...

It always wakes me up for some reason and gets my blood flowing.

Erasure's "Chains of Love" is good too.

I feel sorry for you if you never got to see this band live at their peak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-cF40OWeak

:evilgrin:

and anything by the English Beat...and The Specials...

Subquestion...Does being a grammar cop get me punted from the Lounge?

I am so over the 80's faux nostalgia. Let the decade die.

by the way.

nt

and it wasn't just 'girls' standing and dancing during 'Mama Mia!'

http://www.noolmusic.com/blogs/YouTube_Music_Videos_60s_70s_-_ABBA_-_Dancing_Queen.shtml