Anna & Dave’s First Dance
(via KateMacey on Youtube)
Two of my best friends got married on Friday, and it was an amazing day. I’ll write a bit more about it later, but somebody has already put the video up of their quite fantastic first dance.
I never knew he had the moves in him!
Oh, and that idiot on the right who is also filming, then fiddles with the camera and gets his beer in the way? That would be me.
Dance Party Starting SUCCEED
Who needs the relentless negativity of FailBlog when there’s SucceedBlog?!
Reblogged from: succeedblog
Originally posted on: SUCCEED Blog
Sash! Ft. Tina Cousins - Mysterious Times
I was in the gym the other day when a Sash! megamix came one, and it amused me that I still knew all the words and could tell the exact moments when one song mixed into another. I was so into Sash! back in the day, and was one of the few people to own their second album.
This is probably my favourite tune that they did, although Encore Une Fois holds a place in my heart. I just remember the video for this one being really moody, set in a wind tunnel or something, and the song itself being relentlessly danceable.
Good times.
16 plays
Yesterday’s PopBitch email had a section which harked back to 1992, as part of their series of remembering the 90s. Amongst some random gossip, including which celebs turned 16 that year, they had a little list of some classic tunes that came out that year.
I remember 1992 as the year I really started listening to music. We moved back from Germany in the middle of 1991, and then moved house again, but in 1992 I started watching Top Of The Pops more often, and listening to the radio in my mum’s car. It was pop music at first, but even then I leaned to the more dancy side of things. Nearly 20 years later, I still love loads of the songs from that year, and PopBitch brought back some great memories.
The best of their selection was the above, Ace of Base - All That She Wants, but there were some other great tunes too:
Camel Riders Ft. Nkemdi - Twisted (Dirty Mix)
Random house/trance tune that came on my iPod earlier this evening. Cracking track, with a great pounding beat and decent melody.
14 plays
Dr Alban - It’s My Life
When it comes to cheesily formulaic pop-house/techno music with a combination of a woman warbling the same 3 lines over and over again and a bloke rapping a load of nonsense in between, you simply can’t beat the early/mid-1990s.
It was this kind of music that actually got me into music as a whole. I still love it nowadays, even if it has dated pretty spectacularly. It was from these roots that I eventually got into “proper” house and trance music, and it probably laid the foundations for my appreciation of hip hop too, in a weird way.
16 plays
Starfighter - Apache
I love this song. It’s an absolutely relentless, pounding dance tune that doesn’t let you go. I need to find a longer version of it from somewhere.
13 plays
Outwork Ft. Mr Gee - Electro (Outwork Mix)
I love me some really dirty electro house from time to time. It’s got to have a grinding riff throughout, and just make you want to throw your hands up in the air.
13 plays
Fatboy Slim - You’re Not From Brighton
This track turned up on my iPod the other day, and it reminded me just how much I loved the album it’s from when I first got it years and years ago. Fatboy Slim (real name Norman Cook) has released music under about eleventy billion different names throughout the 80s, 90s and 00s, but for me the “You’ve Come A Long Way Baby” album was the highpoint.
It was in the mid-late 90s, with the Bigbeat genre finding a bit of airplay on the radio and music tv channels, and Fatboy Slim was at the front of the movement, along with the record label he was on, Skint. The music is dance/club, but it tends to have a pretty pounding bassline (the aforementioned bigbeat), and a load of samples over the top.
Songs such as this one show how simple repetition can really aid a track’s noteworthiness. It doesn’t need to go all over the place to stick in your mind. Daft Punk took this to another level a few years later, and continue to do so nowadays.
29 plays
Yves La Rock - Rise Up
I love this song and video. It’s just such a happy, summer kind of dance track that really puts a smile on your face.
And the little story in the video is pretty uplifting too. Not to mention the amazing skipping. I can barely jump over a rope that’s lying flat on the ground, so the moves are very impressive to me!
