Current top 25 dance songs

**Cowutopia** · 14 Apr 2009, 06:40 PM

I love throwing parties and I love providing the music for parties and as such I've got assloads of party playlists, but I really don't have one playlist that is good to dance to all night long. Most of the party music I've got is just, you know, party music.

I've got a lot of classic dance tracks, some current hip hop/popular tracks and stuff, but I feel like I've got too much personal/quirky shit on here to appeal to a broad enough audience, and I also feel like I'm not growing my dance music much because I have my own favorites I keep falling back on.

So give me some fucking ideas! Tracks can be from any time period. What are your current top 25 songs to dance to? And I don't mean in your underwear by yourself.

IN NO ORDER

1. Off 2 Work - Dizzee Rascal
2. Lights and Music - Cut Copy
3. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
4. Put It Back Together - Fatboy Slim ft. Damon Albarn
5. Starry Eyed Surprise - Paul Oakenfold
6. Annie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass
7. Hooch - Everything
8. Heads High - Mr. Vegas
9. Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes) - Beck...Beck's got a lot of great tracks, but all anyone every plays is Where It's At. Shame.
10. When You Get Out of Jail - Fried ft. The Rza
11. Paris (Aeroplane Remix) - Friendly Fires ft. Au Revoir Simone
12. Heart It Races DJ Rupture Remix - DJ Rupture/Architecture in Helsinki
13. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley (This shit is still great)
14. Gold Digger - Kanye (This shit is also still great, but I also really like Ride Slow, Flashing Lights, etc)
15. Glamorous (In My Arms) - Fergie/Hellogoodbye mashup
16. Jump Around - House of Pain
17. Rhythm Sticks - Blackalicious (Blackalicious is fucking gold)
18. Freetime - Kenna
19. Doo Wop (That Thing) - Lauryn Hill
20. Stand Up - Ludacris
21. Don't Cha - Pussycat Dolls
22. Plot For a Little - Camu Tao
23. Touch It (Remix pt.2) - Busta Rhymes The bass is so fucking low and deep on this.
24. Shadowboxin' (feat. Method Man) - Genius/GZA
25. Work It - Missy Elliot

Honorable Mention - Glass Danse - The Faint, If You Only Knew - Jurassic 5 (J5 is fucking great, hon. mention Red Hot/High Fidelity)

**Cowutopia** · 14 Apr 2009, 06:41 PM

I know lists like this usually need the original poster to go first, so I guess I'll throw something together later.

**Klonoa** · 14 Apr 2009, 06:42 PM

la bouche - be my lover, tonight is the night

dj sammy - boys of summer

**Cowutopia** · 14 Apr 2009, 06:44 PM

haha la bouche is totally on my list but these days I get a lot of sideways looks when that shit comes on, so I haven't been playing them as much. I love that old 90's shit. Venga boys and shit, K7, La Bouche, Le Click, Mr. Vegas, The Wiseguys, Outhere brothers, Apache Indian, all that shit.

I really like Lights and Music off of In Ghost Colours, for a current track.

And shit-hop like Ludacris and stuff, the good Kanye tracks, they're all great.

Since I've been listening to so much non-mainstream hip hop lately I wind up playing a lot of that too, but it's really not always appreciated as much as the shit-hop.

Some stuff I really like, like Chemical Brothers' block rockin' beats, doesn't always turn out so well at a party. There's a lot of trial and error.
Really the best way to handle a party where you know most of the people is to have a big list full of good dance stuff on party shuffle on a computer and let people skip around, but most of the time I travel with just my ipod.

**YellerDog** · 14 Apr 2009, 06:53 PM

I was a big fan of Teddybears: Soft Machine from a couple years back, nice warm weather jams. Iggy Pop's on it.

Black Kids: Partie Traumatic is fun, also.

**Cowutopia** · 14 Apr 2009, 08:31 PM

top 25 complete for now.

You can see I trend to be more complicated than ass-grinding tracks. I need more ass-grinding tracks. I check out popular hip hop on pandora a lot to get new shit for that.

This thread really isn't about me tho, it's about what you guys like too. I'll check out that teddybears shit.

**Razor Ramon** · 14 Apr 2009, 09:59 PM

Not enough Lady GaGa on that list.

**AstroBlue** · 15 Apr 2009, 12:00 AM

Go to hypemachine and download all the remixes you can find (Holy shit there's an amazing Dance Dance Dance by Lykke Li remix), get some MSTRKRFT, Party Up in Here by DMX, Regulate by Warren G, Got Your Money by Ol Dirty Bastard, Ghetto Superstar by Pras, Da La Soul shit like Ring Ring Ring and A Rollerskating Jam called Saturdays, old BEP shit like Weekends, and goofy shit like Grease and Mickey that dumb girls love dancing too.

From other thread, although they're quirky shit:

Originally Posted by AstroBlue

Ok, house-ish remixes of Indie favourites:

Cut Copy - Far Away (The Golden Filter Remix) -
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Cut_Copy/...n_Filter_Remix

Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire (Midnight Juggernauts Remix) -
http://electrorash.com/cut-copy-hear...ernauts-remix/

The Kills - Cheap And Cheerful (Fake Blood Remix) -

New York Pony Club - Ice Cream (Comets Remix) -

Muscles - The Lake (Azzido Da Bass Remix) -
http://hypem.com/track/616238/Muscle...+Da+Bass+Remix)

Muscles debut album is amazing by the way, but not for everyone.

Also http://thatbeep.com/