Best Ever Albums

Re: The Dance Party Thread

TheMusicDefener — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 03:16:18 GMT

Author: TheMusicDefener

Posted: 07/17/2016 07:16

Mess by Liars is one of, if not the, best/danciest albums I've ever heard, yet I'd feel pretty uncomfortable requesting Pro Anti Anti at any party I'm at. I suppose what I'm tryin to say is that dancing alone is optimal. Preferably to Liars.

Re: The Dance Party Thread

RoundTheBend — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 02:15:56 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 07/17/2016 06:15

Applerill wrote:

Hey, I was just dancing with Stone at Pitchfork for most of today, and while he'll hopefully upload some videos, I thought I should talk about how I did a footwork-like dance to Jenny Hval's final song. For most of the concert the audience wasn't dancing, but then it got to this drone section where the models onstage were dancing naked, and I felt like I could feel the rhythm and join. So I started dancing on my own, and then soon people cheered and starting joining with me. It was a really magical experience.

Have have you all danced lately?

Sounds like a fun time... I haven't gotten out of bed long enough to dance... hehe... what I mean by that is I think the only times I've danced in life is when I was truly happy.

Re: The Dance Party Thread

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 01:46:20 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/17/2016 05:46

Frenetic monkey claps are a lovely soundtrack to a night of dancing. Our spines seem bolt upright by comparison, but the contrast is less flattering than one would suppose. They do know how to live. Let them clap and clap.

Re: The Dance Party Thread

Applerill — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 00:32:35 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 07/17/2016 04:32

Hey, I was just dancing with Stone at Pitchfork for most of today, and while he'll hopefully upload some videos, I thought I should talk about how I did a footwork-like dance to Jenny Hval's final song. For most of the concert the audience wasn't dancing, but then it got to this drone section where the models onstage were dancing naked, and I felt like I could feel the rhythm and join. So I started dancing on my own, and then soon people cheered and starting joining with me. It was a really magical experience.

Have have you all danced lately?

Re: The Dance Party Thread

Debbie76 — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:45:48 GMT

Author: Debbie76

Posted: 09/15/2015 09:45

Hey my sister is going to get married and I have been looking for a talented and the best wedding planner nyc for her wedding arrangements. Well, her bachelorette party will be arranged by me so I need music ideas too for a rocking bachelorette party.

Re: The Dance Party Thread

Applerill — Thu, 3 Sep 2015 16:20:32 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 09/03/2015 20:20

Hmm, listening to

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souljaboytellem.com by Soulja Boy again, I was wondering what the consensus is on his controversial dances.

You could argue that "Crank Dat's" dance is just another novelty dance with sexual lyrics, but what about the "Shoot Out"? How should we critics of dance analyze a dance you're almost never allowed to perform in public? At other points of the album, Soulja gives us commands almost like they're dance moves ("If someone's talkin and talkin and you don't wanna hear...").

Is there such thing as dance criticism? If so, should a club show a Soulja Boy dance retrospective to have us experience these dance designs and go through them move-by-move? What do you guys think?

Re: The Dance Party Thread

SquishypuffDave — Tue, 1 Sep 2015 07:35:46 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 09/01/2015 11:35

I prefer to dance alone.

Re: The Dance Party Thread

Anti — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:22:40 GMT

Author: Anti

Posted: 08/31/2015 23:22

Whatever the party is playing, I dance to it.

Re: The Dance Party Thread

alelsupreme — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:58:58 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 08/31/2015 20:58

just this, apple

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Re: The Dance Party Thread

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:22:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/31/2015 19:22

Applerill wrote:

One thing that I wondered last night is whether the dance floor gives you "club goggles" for how you perceive music taste. When you're on the floor strutting your stuff, it almost is like songs that would normally be completely "bad" to you lose their sour taste. Heck, as I said in the OP, i didn't even realize "Blurred Lines" was on until the chorus, and that terrified me. I also didn't complain about that "Cupid Shuffle" or "The Cha Cha Slide", even though I probably would in any other situation.

Do you thing this is a real phenomenon? If so, is it a good thing or a bad one?

i rambled a lot in my original response, so here's the skinny, focused version:

in short, i don't think "guilt" over problematic faves or whatever in the club is the most important thing. i think what is fascinating is this movement by QPOC to reclaim spaces that have been pretty consistently safe before the intrusion of other cultures into those spaces and the removal of capital from those spaces by larger entities. artists like Lotic, for example, very heavily stress the darkness of a changing club culture that circulates around such aesthetic concerns as DJ worship and such material concerns as frequent assaults of various kinds, as well as the gentrification of former spaces for the marginalized. i just think these structural concerns, responded to by individuals most affected in material or aesthetic ways, are much more fruitful for discussion than what i almost see as a direct effect of being in this weird fuzzy space where the alienation of the outside world dissolves in this special way.

as for a personal anecdote, i must say that "Taxi" is a nigh-unlistenable song, but one DJ in Cholula this summer managed to make me literally cry in the club dancing to it with a huge crowd of strangers, so there's definitely different "uses" for music that we tend to forget as direct or indirect western descendants of Teutonic ideals of separation of body and mind, art and experience, etc. it is with this gap in understanding that i make the argument that "Intelligent" Dance Music might thus be the most "Unintelligent" of all if looked at in the right light.

Re: The Dance Party Thread

Applerill — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:56:23 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 08/31/2015 11:56

One thing that I wondered last night is whether the dance floor gives you "club goggles" for how you perceive music taste. When you're on the floor strutting your stuff, it almost is like songs that would normally be completely "bad" to you lose their sour taste. Heck, as I said in the OP, i didn't even realize "Blurred Lines" was on until the chorus, and that terrified me. I also didn't complain about that "Cupid Shuffle" or "The Cha Cha Slide", even though I probably would in any other situation.

Do you thing this is a real phenomenon? If so, is it a good thing or a bad one?

Re: The Dance Party Thread

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 04:10:53 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/31/2015 08:10

grime time all the time

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Re: The Dance Party Thread

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 22:33:37 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/31/2015 02:33

Charlie, the people's person 😁

🥰

i like to dance to hip-hop and r&b, like Fetty Wap, Drake, Weezy, etc.

and Dizzee Rascal, but I also like to fall asleep to him

The Dance Party Thread

Applerill — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 21:50:14 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 08/31/2015 01:50

This thread is sponsored by Jackwc, BEA's official party-hipster douchebag. It is also sponsored by JMan's birthday post from a few years ago, which shed immeasurable light on the autist experience.

I know this site is about albums, but long before that in history, people consumed music at dance parties of some sort. This thread is about how you listen to music at weddings, in the club, or even at concerts.

I used to go dancing a fair bit in high school; my home school speech and debate league would hold dance parties every few months, and I'd especially love going with my highschool sweetheart every New Years Eve. I also danced even threw a few dance parties at my house by the end of high school, though I mostly played stupid Pitchfork crap like The Verve, Olivia Tremor and At the Drive In.

I also would do this thing in early high school where, whenever I heard a song I hated (as I'm sure you hipsters often do), I would do a weird interpretive dance to show my critical opinions on the single. It probably didn't help me get laid, but it was really fun nonetheless.

Anyway, since I started college I haven't danced nearly as much (save the occasional house party or small dance thing in the corner of the art center), and it wasn't until tonight at my former babysitter (and good friend's) 50th birthday party that I thought about dance again in regards to pop music. As you may expect, there were many awkward musical moments; you don't know what "uncool" music is until you're forced to dance to a nineties house remix of "My Achy Breaky Heart". Still, the only thing more embarassing than dancing to Billy Ray Cyrus is pouting and pretending you're too cool to dance to Billy Ray Cyrus, so I quickly got my groove on. Soon I found a cute middle-aged Filipino lady to dance with, and after getting funky to some Lil Jon, she gave me a kiss on the cheek and gave me her number.

The rest of the part went out pretty well. Though at the end another woman wanted to dance with me, and I went along with it to a song, but when I heard the PA say "I know you want it", I realized it was time for me to go.

Still, a lot of things confused me. Should I have avoided imitating the moves of the girls I was dancing with, and instead had more confidence in my own moves? Do you have to use the particular dance "appropriate" for that particular song, especially "gimmick singles" like The Cha Cha Slide? Why did so many of the ladies clap at really weird time signatures?

Do you like to dance? Where do you like to dance?