The Wednesday Canon: DANCE DOUBLE HEADER!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A special double edition of the Wednesday Canon spotlighting those two titans of what top dance journo Ronan calls "album dance" - Basement Jaxx, and the Chemical Bros. Both blokey duos, both shifting plenty of units to the non clubbing inclined, both with a penchant for using guest vocalists from the worlds of pop, rap and Nindie. Let us see which of their hits rate, and which are RANK. You get FIVE per artist.




[Poll #717339]


And what of New Order, eh? Here's the official real actual canon:


1. Blue Monday (33 votes)
2. True Faith (31)
3=. Love Will Tear Us Apart (26)
3=. Regret (26)
5. Temptation (23)
6. Atmosphere (22)
7. World In Motion (16)
8=. Ceremony (15)
8=. Thieves Like Us (15)

And the best member is, obviously, Gilliang.

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, once again Big Beat divides us.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

"A load of rancid knob, whose beats were far too small. Any genre that self describes as having 'lagered up beats' is frankly just asking for it."

How can a genre 'self-describe'? 'Lagered up' is wankhack speak! How can you say the beats were too small?

I know we've had this argument before and probably will again...tho we really shouldn't.

Lagered up

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

OK, whose proponents described it as such. But yes, fair enough, we probably shouldn't go into this again.

Re: Lagered up

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

GO ON

Re: Lagered up

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Dude, it's really not worth it. We both hear totally different things in it and no amount of banging on about it will change this. I have a vague theory that the diff is rooted in our respective dancing styles, and my never really having got the hang of hip-hop as dance music (as opposed to pop music).

Re: Lagered up

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

What were you doing at the time? For work, like? I suspect some of my enjoyment was due to it being the period of my life where I was in my first job, in an (unsustainable) bubble economy, slightly aware that this was actually the top of the mountain, it was all downhill from there, that let me ignore/buy into the hedonistic/triumphal aspects of Big Beat. You're right about the lagered up in so far as someone somewhere said it, so it must be true (or addressable, anyway).

Re: Lagered up

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

prolly. see also 'ye cannae change the laws of physics/dance to 'Doop' argument a while back.

Re: Lagered up

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One of the benefits of not actually being able to dance well is that the idea of "not being able to dance to something" is totally weird to me.

Kat Makes Unreasonable Claim Which She Will Probably Regret Later

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I declare that I can dance to ANYTHING with a bpm faster than Dreams by Gabrielle.

Re: Kat Makes Unreasonable Claim Which She Will Probably Regret Later

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

that's a pretty good benchmark/yardstick actually. perhaps it's that anything slower than that just isn't WORTH dancing to?

except a nice waltz maybe? not that i ever have (sniff)

Re: Kat Makes Unreasonable Claim Which She Will Probably Regret Later

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I probably *could* dance to something slower, but there's no guarantee. Whereas if I was in some sort of Dance-Off (for example, if I had been Served) and my reputation depended on my ability to dance to a randomly selected track, I would only place money on myself for Dreams or above.

Re: Lagered up

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i don't think i am that good a dancer really (too inhibited/repressed socially) but i always found odd people claiming they can't dance to Jungle etc.

Re: Lagered up

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Dancing to early jungle was always a bit of a funny one in that you could either dance to the drums and drop dead of exhaustion after half an hour or wind along to the bass, which was nice, but not really intense enough. Or you could do what I did and constantly swap between the two and look like a right loon as a result. When standardized dancefloor D'n'B finally crystallized out it was much easier as dancing to the drums was nigh on impossible.