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

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.