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24 September 2005

Dance like there's ass in your pants. What's your favorite danceable song? The linked one is my favorite, Fela Kuti's "Jeun Ko Ku (Chop 'n' Quench)."

post by: goatdog at: 00:54 | 17 comments

[Link title stolen from an Achewood comic.]

posted by goatdog 24 September | 00:54

Jatayu from the Transglobal Underground

posted by dhruva 24 September | 01:03

I'd dance with happiness if I could get more ass in my pants. Since I was a disco baby, I tend to make a pantsass of myself whenever Bee Gee music comes on. Embarassing the young folk is a bonus!

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 24 September | 01:06

there are so many, but always any Earth Wind and Fire for me. (lately tho it's Ladyflash--Go! Team )

posted by amberglow 24 September | 01:23

I got ~~ants~~ ass in my pants and I need to DANCE!

(Sorry - no mp3's at work, and I never did get yousendit to work for me.)

posted by bmarkey 24 September | 01:59

gonzales - take me to broadway (real player video)

posted by psychobum 24 September | 02:01

I can never pick favorites, but here's a song:

'Meklhassates' - Bill Laswell (Boniche Dub)

posted by box 24 September | 02:04

This isn't my favorite, but I like running to it lately:

Infected Mushroom - Cities of the Future

posted by mosch 24 September | 02:41

da funk - daft punk, maybe.

similar ask meta.

posted by Hellbient 24 September | 02:56

I had a traumatic dancing experience in the first grade. As a result, I don't dance.

posted by mudpuppie 24 September | 02:58

Whoa-oh, black betty (bam-ba-lam) Whoa-oh, black betty (bam-ba-lam)... Black betty had a child (bam-ba-lam)...

posted by taz 24 September | 04:18

Mine is, without a doubt, VNV Nation's Chrome. Every week at the club my best friend and I have this odd sentimental attachment to the song, and dance to it every single week at the club we go to.

Actually, when we DJ'd together this week we made sure it was the last song played so we could both dance.

And I just got home from the club so if this makes no sense that's why.

posted by kellydamnit 24 September | 04:31

I don't dance either, but some songs make me want to, just for a second, until I realize that I don't dance. Talking Heads, "I Zimbra," fer example.

posted by goatdog 24 September | 12:28

Goin' old-school on your asses:

Betty Wright - Shoorah Shoorah

Celia Cruz, Tito Puente & Johnny Pacheco - Quimbara

If these don't get you don't get you to boogie, take your pulse.

posted by jonmc 24 September | 13:14

Side note: Salsa records like one of theones I linked above make me think of my two-year exile in Miami. The store I worked at hat a Christmas party, and theough most of the night my overwhelmingly Latino co-workers played hip-hop and heavy metal on the stereo. Around midnight as people got drunker, they switched to salsa and merengue. My buddy Marco, who's Dominican, got up with his sister and did an amazing turn on the floor. "Your buddy can dance," Pips said. When I complimented his rug-cutting, he gave a modest shrug and said "I am from Santo Domingo."

Rock on with your bad self, man.

posted by jonmc 24 September | 13:22

And a third bonus track:

Allen Toussaint - Soul Sister

Unlike a lot of funky numbers about women, this record dosen't come off as a boast, it's more like listening to the singer's thoughts as he spies that foxy chick across the barroom. That and it has such a warm, relaxed, inviting groove...

posted by jonmc 24 September | 14:08

aw. sweet.

I've met Allen Toussaint, and chit-chatted with him. He's a really good guy who makes you feel perfectly comfortable to talk to him.

It's only later when you review his astonishing impact on the music world when you freak out and think, I should have said something better than "nice night for a party, isn't it?".

posted by taz 24 September | 15:55

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