Thanks to Sanddancer for making me think about cheesey tunes. For instance: what's the fine line between outright awfulness and cheese? What would make you stone the DJ, or dance happily to it at a wedding.
6 Tracks I'd stone the DJ:
Especially for you - Kylie & Jason
Barbie Girl - Aqua
Agadoo - Black Lace
Cotton Eye Joe - Rednex
I drove all Night - any version
My Heart Will go on - Celine Dion
6 Tracks I'd drunkenly dance to:
Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues
The Rose - Bette Midler
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
D.I.S.C.O - Ottowan
Never Gonna Give you up - Rick Astley
The Macarena - Los Del Rio
I could go on, but I'd rather you did. Come on, be brave...let your inner cheese go and share your top favourites and pet hates with us all. I promise we won't mock...much! :-)
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Hmmmpf I quite like Cyndi Lauper's version of I Drove All Night...
ReplyDeleteWhen I dj'd what really annoyed me was idiots requested Kasabian. WE WEREN'T THAT SORT OF CLUB. As they ought to have noticed, given the huge volumes of Belle & Sebastian and Felix Da Housecat we kept playing.
Nights in White Satin...wow...from my era, when sadly it was overdone...but I heard it again a while back and marvelled at how good a track it was for the time...
ReplyDeleteBonnie Tyler of course...almost as romantic in her way as early Meatloaf!
The one that gets me away from the bar and drunkenly lurching around is Crocodile Rock...something about it is totally irresistible to the alcohol-fuelled mind!
gertie ~ we'll have to agree to disagree on I Drove all Night. It just makes me grind my teeth together.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have put Kasabian down as cheese, but you're more hip than I.
cogidubnus ~ what I haven't put up here is my favourite cheesey listening from the 70s Don McClean, John Denver, Barry Manilow.
And now watch the little street cred I had plummet faster than a Monty Python sheep out of a tree.
ooo great post - I'm supposed to be prearing a presentation for my interview tomorrow but couldn't resist doing this instead (you are such a bad influence...)
ReplyDeleteCheese I can't stand:
Oops up side your head (that stupid sitting on the floor one)
Sweet home alabama
Any black lace song
Anything euro pop (aqua, eiffel 65 etc)
Who let the dogs out - Baha men
Cheese I have been known to dance to at weddings and birthday parties (just add alcohol and buffet food / potato pie and peas if it's a family event):
The time warp
It's raining men - the weather girls
S Club 7 - reach 4 the stars
Take that - anything really!
Yes sir I can boogie – Baccara*
Got to be honest tho there's nothing better than having a boogey at a family event to the old 60 and 70s songs...even if my dad still can't dance and my mum and aunties all like to dance in a circle and do the same moves...
* this one I'll also dance to in my bedroom cos it's just downright fabby for getting ready going out music
I'm not really a big fan of cheese but give me enough drink at a wedding and all quality control is lost. I danced to Living on a Prayer at the last wedding I went to - I'm sure NM's OH would hate to hear that described as cheese but it is to me.
ReplyDeleteI still don't think Nights in White Satin is cheese, but have decided it is 'Schmaltz' - a whole other genre.
Mambo No. 5 by Louis Bega makes me want to club the DJ to death with my dancing shoes.
ReplyDeleteBut I have been known to throw a few shapes to an Abba medley after too many glasses of vino collapso.
Oh the shame...
NM ~ hope your presentation goes well. We're rooting for you honey. Go get 'em!
ReplyDeleteI'm with you with most of your selection with the exception of the Baha men. I spent a drunken Christmas dancing around a tiny front room with my friends in posh dresses to that. It still makes me smile.
mousie ~ murder on the dancefloor eh?
I think Abba is the ultimate cheese fest...bring on the baguettes!
sanddancer ~ I agree with you, Living on a Prayer is cheesey and my least favourite Bon Jovi track.
ReplyDeleteSchmaltz sounds so classy, I like it.
A few gins and Jennifer Rush singing 'Power of Love' always makes me embarassing.
ReplyDeleteAlso - Gladys Night - 'Don't change your mind' .. (baby your ex is back in town etc.)
Otherwise it's disco all the way:
Rubber band man - Detroit Spinners
You make me feel mighty real. - Sylvester.
Ain't no Stoppin us now - McFadden & Whitehead
Why can I remember all these when i can't remember where i put the car keys?
Bad Cheese
ReplyDeleteLady in Red (apart from the Mitchell & Webb version)
Robin bloody Hood by Bryan bloody Adams
Dancing Queen Abba
Please Release Me Engleduck Thumperdick
Kiss Tom Jones
Good Cheese
Gimme Gimme Gimme Abba
Love Train O'Jays
Maggie May Rod Stewart
This Ol Heart Of Mine Islay Bros
Brown Sugar Rolling Stones
...hang on Roses... what's that sound? It's the last drop of blog street cred disappearing down the plughole!
murph ~ sadly, I like the Art of Noise vs Tom Jones Kiss and I'm really not a fan of Rod Stewart.
ReplyDeleteGlug.
Should that not be Knights in white satin? ;)
ReplyDeleteOh hottie...if you're anything like roses implies, then it's definitely "Nights"...after all, knights would be excessively armoured for White Satin!
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