Rhythm is a Dancer- Snap

tech77 · 13-01-2008 12:17am #1

OK I know I bang on a bit about old tracks but it really is true the oldies are the best.

Just heard this blast from the past again today and it really is great.

Not sure exactly what genre it is tbh- dance, techno etc, but imho it's a shame that this kind of sound seems to be gone from dance music today.

Summer 1992 IIRC. ah the memories.

Anyone else feel the same?

Doctor DooM · 13-01-2008 12:23am

Nah, was a metal kid. Represented everything I thought was evil at the time. Now I just think its funny!

Mossy Monk · 13-01-2008 12:46am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS60JDoK98w

tech77 · 13-01-2008 12:53am

SDooM wrote: »

Nah, was a metal kid. Represented everything I thought was evil at the time. Now I just think its funny!

Aw no.

Metal's anger/self-loathing and dance's euphoria can co-exist peacefully in a teenager's psyche

No tbh I was also into metal and grunge mostly as well at the time but this track I suppose for me is associated with a particular period in my life that brings back poignant memories. Edit: Admittedly the lyrics aren't Shakespeare but imo it's still a great tune.

Photi · 13-01-2008 12:55am

"I'm serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer"

The greatest lyric of all time.

tech77 · 13-01-2008 12:58am

Photi wrote: »

"I'm serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer" The greatest lyric of all time.

Indubitably

Kevster · 13-01-2008 2:13am

That song is awesome - I know it well. I don't know why, but it always reminds me of London for some reason. Other songs of a similar genre that remind me of London include Haddaway's What is Love and The Jam's Going Underground.

MrJoeSoap · 13-01-2008 2:16am

Tune.

What Is Love will always remind me of Night At The Roxbury, always gets the head moving.

Xavi6 · 13-01-2008 2:48am

Rhythm Is A Dancer is THE best dance song of all time. It's just brilliant. Any time it comes on in a club I'm straight onto the floor.

Closely followed by Mr. Vain and Set You Free.

Ruu_Old · 13-01-2008 2:57am

Good tunes. That Snap one always reminds me of Ride on Time by Black Box for some reason (also used for an ad for 2FM 'Beat on the Street')

Snap's 'Welcome to Tomorrow wasn't half bad either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2sjAnu_5ek

tech77 · 13-01-2008 3:05am

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

What Is Love will always remind me of Night At The Roxbury, always gets the head moving.

Weird but funny film.

SxE Punk · 13-01-2008 12:23pm

That song is fail.

Mossy Monk · 13-01-2008 1:06pm

Ruu wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2sjAnu_5ek

Black Box FTW

Nailz · 13-01-2008 3:17pm

Photi wrote: »

"I'm serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer"

The greatest lyric of all time.

:mad: No way! This is;

"I should have told ya, that the woman that ya bought won't blow ya - she just blows meeeeee!" :cool:

Now thats a fuckin' classic

"!

Edit: Or ofcourse....
"24 Hour Party People, plastic face carnt smile the whites out!"

Along the same lines anyway...

shane86 · 13-01-2008 7:08pm

Xavi6 wrote: »

Rhythm Is A Dancer is THE best dance song of all time. It's just brilliant. Any time it comes on in a club I'm straight onto the floor.

Closely followed by Mr. Vain and Set You Free.

+ fcukin 1.

Well, not a Mr Vain fan myself at all, replace it with Ebeneezer Goode and Im sorted

And Ride on Time cant be touched, absoloute wreck the floor tune.

Whether it was cheese, mainstream classic or rave stuff the early to mid 90s cant be touched. A perfect night out for me would, from way back when, include Born Slippy, Ebeneezer Goode/Move Any Mountain, No Good 4 Me, Ride on Time, Set You Free (the finest quality cheese

Floor full of people roaring "yup yup yup" after that "in a state of eeeccstasssyyyy" line

)

Oh, and of course, not forgetting this criminally underplayed classic piece of tunage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WU94oWlkV8

Anyone got good tips on where in Dublin plays 90S classics on the regular? Heaven in Blanch sticks it on on occasion on a Saturday. Mate was in Q Bar Friday night said they were playing loads of early/mid 90s old reliables, No Good 4 Me, Born Slippy, all the classics.

slipss · 13-01-2008 7:49pm

Ahh I'm fukking lovin this thread, all the classic 90's dance coming out.

Love this one aswell, it's the absalute pinacle of cheese (or is it? I'm not sure), but it still puts a big stupid grin on my face anytime I hear it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oAlRtCyr0sQ

(by the way how do you impregnate youtube vids into your posts?)

Ruu_Old · 13-01-2008 10:14pm

Another one from the early 90's (1993).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRpXGjfGbgk

MrJoeSoap · 13-01-2008 10:46pm

Thats a proper blast from the past Ruu, its important to have at least one of those a month!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j-Tji1DueU

My personal favourite 90's dance tune, actually from 1993, not 1994.

Makaveli · 14-01-2008 2:18am

18 posts and no mention of this. Shocking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzyFmilkd80

radiospan · 14-01-2008 2:28am

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NPHsIqIWTIw

tech77 · 14-01-2008 5:21am

Makaveli wrote: »

18 posts and no mention of this. Shocking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzyFmilkd80

Ah Anita Doth, one of my first "celebrity" crushes

Shane86 does the 86 in your username refer to your year of birth.

That would make you 6-7 in the early 90s wouldn't it.
Were you a baby raver or something?

tech77 · 14-01-2008 5:34am

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Tune.

What Is Love will always remind me of Night At The Roxbury, always gets the head moving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK2HLC3_UxI

Class.

shane86 · 14-01-2008 9:10am

tech77 wrote: »

That would make you 6-7 in the early 90s wouldn't it.
Were you a baby raver or something?

No. I was 86 years old when i signed up for boards.

I was in my early 70s in 1993

nah mate, 1986, was born in the wrong time Im afraid. Best dance and hip hop was all when I was too young to know it.

Xavi6 · 14-01-2008 9:40am

tech77 wrote: »

Ah Anita Doth, one of my first "celebrity" crushes

Shane86 does the 86 in your username refer to your year of birth.

That would make you 6-7 in the early 90s wouldn't it.
Were you a baby raver or something?

Im a 1985 baby and remember all those songs when they came out. Endless hours listening to the 2FM charts. Those were the days. Don't touch the radio now.

'It's My Life' by Dr. Alban is another favourite of mine.

tech77 · 14-01-2008 9:47am

shane86 wrote: »

No. I was 86 years old when i signed up for boards.

I was in my early 70s in 1993

nah mate, 1986, was born in the wrong time Im afraid. Best dance and hip hop was all when I was too young to know it.

Ah right, fair enough

grumpytrousers · 14-01-2008 12:33pm

and then there's this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1wvtGOBV-g&feature=related

cruddy video and not sure how to embed youtube links, but this is the mutts nutts. possibly not cheesy enough!

Mossy Monk · 14-01-2008 1:30pm

plazzTT wrote: »

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NPHsIqIWTIw

Good singing there plazzTT. A record deal is in the post.

radiospan · 14-01-2008 3:18pm

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Good singing there plazzTT. A record deal is in the post.

Good god that is not me!

yoyo · 14-01-2008 3:22pm

Absolute tune, one of my favs of all time

Mr Vain, Ride on Time, Set You Free are class aswell,

Nick

BaZmO* · 14-01-2008 3:33pm

Ah mammaries!!

I remember when Rhythm is a Dancer came out first. It was played an awful lot on MTV, back when we got the European version and not the UK & Ireland version that we do now. It was also when they use to play actual music!!

I seem to remember it being played for up to a year on MTV before I even heard it in a club over here and then the club I heard it in was the The Olympic Ballroom (a Rave for all you kiddies too young to remember). Then it hit the charts.
Big big tune too! Great days.......now where's my pipe and slippers?

KrazeeEyezKilla · 14-01-2008 3:34pm

This stuffs far better than the cheesy dance of today (Tiesto,Cascada) What happened?

Rhythm is a Dancer- Snap

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