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best dance choons of the 80's

  • 25-04-2007 05:21PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭


    please list yours here.
    my favourite has to be aha - take on me
    i dont care if u don't consider it dance, it is to me!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Archeron


    "dub be good to me" by beats international. I still love that song.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Anything by the Pet Shop Boys. Rick Astley and Duran Duran would be in there too *does a cheesy dance* (ah now that explains my lack of ladies. :)) Have a laugh at the below.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Funky town, Wake me up before you go go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭Revelation Joe


    'Megablast' by Bomb The Bass :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Back to Life -Soul II Soul

    That's the way love is - 10 City

    Acid trax - Phuture

    Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid

    Big Fun - Inner City

    Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack

    Beat Dis - Bomb the Bass


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭sioda


    Sledgehammer by peter gabriel


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Miss Fluff


    Ride on Time, Black Box. Especially the bit where she goes:

    wwwooooooooooooo-ho, wwwwooooooooooo-ho, wwwwoooooooooo-ho, wuwuwuwuwuwuwuwooooooooo-hooooooo.

    Fabulous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 miss_sunshine


    I can't remember whether it was 80's or 90's but

    Rhythm is a dancer by Snap was a great choon!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,120 ✭✭✭Lirange


    IIRC, Rhythm is a Dancer was some time in the early 90s.

    Here's mine off top o the head. I'm sure there's many more I'm not remembering!

    Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

    Celebration - Kool & the Gang

    Let it Whip - Dazz Band

    Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant

    Maniac - Michael Sembello

    1999 - Prince

    She Works Hard for the Money - Donna Summer

    Conga - Miami Sound Machine

    What a Feeling - Irene Cara

    I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters

    Jump - Pointer Sisters

    Caribbean Queen - Billy Ocean

    Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung

    Wild Wild West - Escape Club


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

    Cameo - Word Up

    Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

    Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax, The Power of Love, Two Tribes

    Journey - Anyway You Want It, Don't Stop Believin'

    Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

    Modern Talking - Brother Louie

    OMD - Enola Gay

    Kenny Loggins - Footloose


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Nightwish wrote:



    OMD - Enola Gay

    Tune ++


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Archeron wrote:
    "dub be good to me" by beats international. I still love that song.
    That's from the 90's, 1990 to be precise.:p


    The Stack Aiken waterman tunes i.e., Kylie, Donna Summer, Sonia, the Reynolds Girls (who could forget!) were great to dance to, even though it wasn't cool to say you were a fan of their music. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    New Order - Blue Monday. Still sounds great now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    Erasure- all their abba covers!
    Stone Roses - waterfall
    Cameo - Word up (listening to it now on VH1 classic as I type!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    Hmm... Dance tracks

    - I'd Rather Jack :):):)
    - Wake me up before you go-go
    - Rebel Yell
    - White Wedding
    - I think we're alone now
    - Take on Me
    - All Night Long
    - Like a Virgin and most Madonna
    - Most Michael Jackson early stuff
    - That Paula Abdul one....


    ... They're not dancey but I absolutely LOVE Foreigner!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    I think the Paula Abdul one was called 'straight up'

    Talk Talk 'its my life' was also quite good...someone did a cover version of it around September 2003 and I can't think of who they were. Was it Texas?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    I think the Paula Abdul one was called 'straight up'

    Thats the one! I actually have it on my computer but was too lazy to go thru my 80's cheesy garbage folder!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Big Tone


    Shannon - "Let the music play" - 1984
    Heaven17 - "Temptation" - 1983
    Rick James - "Dance Wit Me" - 1982
    Prince - "Kiss" - 1986
    Daisy Chain "No Time To Sop Believin In Love" - 1984
    Cameo - "Candy" - 1986
    5 Star - "System Addict" - 1985
    Soul Sister "Way To Your Heart" - 1989
    Bruce Springsteen - "Dancing In The Dark" 12" - 1985
    Dire Straits - "The Walk Of Life" - 1985
    Rockwell - "Somebody's Watchin Me" - 1984
    Vicky D - "This Beat Is Mine" - 1982
    Krush - "House Arrest" - 1987
    Nick Kamen - "Each Time You Break My Heart" 12" - 1986
    Communards - "Dont Leave Me This Way" - 1986
    A-ha - "Take On Me" 1985
    Pet Shop Boys - "Paninaro" "West End Girls" "In The Night" - 1986/1985/1986
    Laura Brannigan - "Gloria" - 1982
    New Order - "Confusion" - 1983

    I could go on and on but I'll let it to the next person to add more not mentioned already.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭FatherTed


    Ruu wrote:
    Anything by the Pet Shop Boys. Rick Astley and Duran Duran would be in there too *does a cheesy dance* (ah now that explains my lack of ladies. :)) Have a laugh at the below.



    Thats funny, I never saw that video version of the song. Here is the original:



    Funny how that song was banned way back then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭The Artist




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    I was reading through the posts, about to reply when I realised I already had one - posted a year ago!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    stovelid wrote: »

    Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
    80's and danceable? Definately no to one (at least!)


    Pump up the jam- Technotronic.
    Pump up the volume- MARRS
    Doctor'n the tardis- The timelords.
    808state -Pacific State.
    Pigbag - Poppa's got a brand new pigbag.
    The Beat -Too much to talk to.
    The Specials - Monkey man.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    humberklog wrote: »
    80's and danceable? Definately no to one (at least!)
    .

    Only a year or two out m'lud. :D


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    stovelid wrote: »
    Only a year or two out m'lud. :D
    Maybe but I'd like to see you dance to it!
    I was tempted to push the year out too to sqeeze in: Groove is in the heart- Deelite. 1990. But worth a mention as it came from the new york dance scene of the late 80's and is hugely representitive of that time. Stuningly good tune,still.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭The Artist




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