Best dance track ever.....

[Rog]

Shades of rhythm - sound of eden



so whats your tune?

[BrotherLovesDub]

this is a good question.

[//\/\/]

daft punk - alive

[holden]

Whooo boy, that's a loaded question! I'm sure you'll get quite a few distinct answers here. But there are probably some Popular Favorites that will appear on many lists. E.g.:

Moby - "Go"
The Chemical Brothers - "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Setting Sun"
Fatboy Slim - "Rockafeller Skank" or "Praise You"
Daft Punk - "Da Funk"
Prodigy - "Firestarter" or maybe "Out of Space"
Robert Miles - "Children"
Kraftwerk - "Computer Love"
Gary Numan - "Cars"
New Order - "Blue Monday"
The Orb - "Little Fluffy Clouds"
Donna Summer - "i Feel Love"
Afrikaa Bambaata - "Planet Rock"
Orbital - "Chime"
Crystal Method - "Busy Child"
Darude - "Sandstorm"

Are these the best dance tracks? maybe not. But they surely work(ed) the club crowds! And they find their way onto a large number of so-called "Best Dance Traxxx!" compilations!

holden

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Hands down.

Xanadu - Olivia-Newton John featuring ELO.

Think porn, Xanex, and everything in between.

It's a joke, not a good joke, but a joke still.

[BeautifulBurnout]

If I must choose only one, it would be Offshore - Chicane

(the chilled version of which I am having at my funeral, btw, along with Pearls Girl and the Agnus Dei from Faure's requiem )

Holden you are cheating again!

[joethelion]

hmm...

I think I'd follow Holden's suit, but with a few changes

Moby - "Go"
The Chemical Brothers - "Block Rockin' Beats"
Fatboy Slim - "Praise You"
Daft Punk - "Around the World"
Basement Jaxx - "Red Alert"
Primal Scream - "Loaded"
A Guy Called Gerald - "Voodoo Ray"
Happy Mondays - either "24 hr Party People" or "Hallelujah"
Prodigy - "Smack My Bitch Up"
Leftfield - "Open Up"
Kraftwerk - "Numbers" (or maybe "Trans-Europe Express")
New Order - "Blue Monday"
The Orb - "Little Fluffy Clouds"
Donna Summer - "i Feel Love"
Afrikaa Bambaata - "Planet Rock"
Orbital - "Halcyon"
Underworld - "Nuxx"
Depeche Mode - "Enjoy the Silence" (or maybe "Personal Jesus")
Duran Duran - "Girls on Film (Nite Version)"

now... some are not necessarily my 'favorite' tracks by any means

but some have definitely been huge 'hits' or at least have influenced droves of other artists...

like I don't think you could even count the number of songs that have been 'influenced' (ripped off) by Kraftwerk's "Numbers" and well - you wouldn't have "Planet Rock" if it wasn't for "Trans-Europe Express"

the same could be said of "I Feel Love". If I remember the story correctly, when Brian Eno heard it, he got the 12" and rushed over to the studio where he was helping Bowie record the album "Low" and said something to the effect of "This is the music of the future"

and for as much as you want to say about Duran Duran... you have to give them credit for their early stuff... which Soulwax et al have pretty much tried to make their own

[holden]

Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout

If I must choose only one, it would be ...

...Holden you are cheating again!

Yeah, sorry. I'm indecisive. But these sorts of polls of "best ever" or "greatest ___" always start moving backward through the inspirations (who was first to make electronic music, or dance, or rhythms, etc..."

To be fair, all music is derivative of Caveman Ug-Gok's BC 17,000 masterpiece "Clubbing a mammoth and Grunting". That's where modern music came from.

[qirex]

Originally Posted by joethelion

Orbital - "Halcyon"
Underworld - "Nuxx"

This.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Fair enough, Holden and Joethelion. Some awesome trax in there. I forgot to mention One Perfect Sunrise - Orbital in my music to be cremated by.