Top 10: Dance Party Songs
December 14th, 2007 by Wade Tatangelo in News
Creative Loafing knows how to throw an office party. We have a “Friday Dance Party” here starting at 4 p.m. every week complete with PoHo’s dance mix and a flashing disco ball. The biggest office bash of the year, “The Loaf’s Holiday Party,” is tonight at the Westin Harbour Island Hotel in Tampa. And people are gonna be getting down. Seriously. I’m talking bumping, grinding the whole bit. We’re a rowdy, randy bunch. And I’m totally stoked. Me, Snider and PoHo are in charge of music.
Top 10: Dance Party Songs
1. “(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, Pt. 1,” James Brown
2. “I Want to Take You Higher,” Sly and the Family Stone
3. “Hot Stuff,” Donna Summer
4. “Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk),” Parliament
5. “Push It,” Salt-n-Pepa
6. “Gin and Juice,” Snoop Dogg
7. “Kiss,” Prince
8. “Burning Down the House,” Talking Heads
9. “It Takes Two,” Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
10. “Hey Pocky A-Way,” The Meters
WHAT DID I MISS?
December 14th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
don’t forget these classics (in no particular order), some of the best dance party songs of all time…
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 – Johann Sebastian Bach
Water Music – George Frideric Handel
The Four Seasons – Antonio Vivaldi
Viola Concerto in G – George Philipp Telemann
Concerto Grossi – Arcangelo Corelli
The Fairy Queen – Henry Purcell
Essercizi per Gravicembalo – Domenico Scarlatti
Hippolyte et Aricie and Castor et Pollux – Jean-Philippe Rameau
Pachelbel Canon – Johann Pachelbel
Sonata No. 3 – Giovanni Battista Sammartini
and yes, i am familiar with these and have performed 8 of them.
baroque, baby, baroque!!!!!!!! more classic than zeppelin!
December 14th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Excellent selections. But don’t expect any to be played at tonight’s party. It’s gonna be all about the ass shaking.
December 14th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
historically, more ass shaking and other unmentionable things have probably been done to my list… those baroqueites were a rowdy bunch!
December 17th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Since I’ve witnessed it personally I know for a fact that you bust a move to ( and sing along merrily ) Duane Allmans I’m a HAPpily married man. I’m sure your co-workers/friends would appreciate your mad skillz.
December 17th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Kellie: Guilty as charged. As you know, those Duane Allman anthologies are a couple of my all-time faves.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
[...] Sly and the Family Stone. The runaway winner. Sly’s 50-minute, nine-song show is a balls-out party from the opening “M’Lady” to the closer “Stand!” The group’s rhythm tracks have a collective propulsion that has as much to do with Larry Graham’s rumbling bass and the interlocking guitars as it does with drums. Deep, deep funk — with rock crunch. Sly and company find just the right blend of scripted performance and in-the-moment spontaneity. [...]