Okee.. at Blir's prodding (been planning to post this for a while)
I'm gonna run down a list of my personal faves from the decade that had me pretty much not going to clubs (y'know, the working massive overtime to pay the first house mortgage and student loans while trying to sustain the whole love & marriage thang).
Nevertheless, that didn't stop me from taking in (and having downtime club volume mixing sessions at home) all this cheezy but soo.. soo.. intoxicating dance music that came out to serve as a perfect foil to all that screaming angry grunge & alternative that was saturating the airwaves back then.(Hopefully not duping too many trax from the other thread lists)
NOTE: As a treat for U folks I can post some of the lesser or forgotten tracks from that era at your request (I have them all). [;)]
Please, PLEASE try to suspend your 'Macarena' inspired prejudices and consider the following trax that IMHO helped define the genre.
I'm gonna cherry pick to try to keep the lists reasonably short.
Let's start off with a fab CD [b]'Move This'[/b] that came out in 1990 that features a petite redhead Brit femme (former) pop phenom by the name of Cathy Dennis who definitely cashed in on the Madonna 'Vogue' production values that were all the rage then. Some admittingly Debby Gibsonesque vocals but with infectious dance grooves nonetheless.
Track #1 Just Another Dream
Track #2 All Night Long (Touch Me)
Track #3 C'mon Get My Love
Next is [b]'Red Hot + Dance'[/b] a 1992 AIDS charity comp that featured a host of great dance trax remixes. (A great one to have in your collection)
Track #1 George Michael - 'Too Funky'
Track #5 Seal - 'Crazy'
Track #6 PM Dawn - 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss' (Richie Rich Mix)
Track #7 Lisa Stansfield - Change (Metamorphosis Mix)
Track #9 Sabrina Johnson - Peace (Nu-Mix)
Track #10 Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You (Falettin-Me-Be-Mice-Elf-Again) (Todds CD Mix)
Track #11 Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (Joey Negro's Mindmix)
The following trax come off a slew of CD comps that graced the shelves of 'big box' and mega record stores with accompanying Ad Nauseum TV adverts during the mid 90's
[b]Club Hitz of the 90's Vol's 1, 2, 3..
Club Music's Greatest Hits (K-Tel, yup.. they were still around!)
Dance Mix USA Vol's 1,2, 3..
MTV Party To Go Vol's 1, 2..
Ultimate Dance Party 199* etc..
The Box Presents- The Big Ones of Dance Vol's 1,..[/b]
2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This / No Limit (the soundtrack to many a piece of period stock sports event footage)
Amber - This Is Your Night
Aretha Franklin - A Deeper Love
Black Box - Everybody Everybody (Great party kickoff track)
C&C Music Factory - Here We Go Let's Rock & Roll
Captain Hollywood - More & More
CeCe Peniston - Finally
Color Me Badd - All 4 Love (a kaleidoscopic melody with a great beat)
Corona - Rhythm Of The Night (This one is one of my ABSOLUTE FAVES)[:p]
Crystal Waters - 100% Pure Love
Deborah Cox - Who Do U Love
Double You / KWS - Please Don't Go
(Oddly 2 different artists doing the Same K.C. Cover!)
Enigma - Sadness (Extended Trance Mix)
Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix) (Maango!!!)[;)]
Haddaway - What Is Love
(I'll always remember the SNL Roxbury Guys sketch featuring the Butabi Bros- Ferrel & Kattan, 'Who? Me? Him? No? Me? Him?')
Heavy D & The Boyz - Now That We Found Love (Club Ver)
Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight (her one and only noteworthy track)
Jennifer Paige - Crush
Joanne Farrell - All I Wanna Do (great Cheryl Crowe dance cover)
Livin' Joy - Dreamer
Naughty By Nature - OPP
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
No Mercy - Where Do You Go (Ocean Drive Edit)
Robin S. - Show Me Love
Ru Paul - Supermodel
Sagat - F*ck Dat! (The R rated version is VERY entertaining)
Salt N Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex
Simply Red - Something Got Me Started
Soul To Soul - Back To Life
Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer
US'3 - Cantaloop (Love This Funky Number!)[:p]
Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart (1996 Remix)
Technotronic - Move This (featured in many a beauty product advert)
The KLF - 3AM Eternal / What Time Is Love? / Last train To Transcentral
('The White Room' is a great album BTW but sadly does not have the Late great Tammy Wynette vocal dance version of 'Justified & Ancient')
The Real Mcoy - Another Night
Urban Cookie Collective - The Key, The Secret
Venga Boys - We Like To Party (yep.. it's that 6-Flags-dancing-old-guy- with-the-bus theme)
Whigfield - Saturday Night
Whitney Houston - I'm Every Woman (Fabulous Chaka Khan cover from that once gorgeous 80's pop icon cum 00's crack whore)
Please feel free to add to this (I'm sure there's plenty more)[8D]
[/i]<br><blink><font size=3>[b] P.S. </blink></font>[/b] For those who may have just stumbled upon this discussion <a href="http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6595" target="blank">Check out this thread</a> for a similar great listing of 70's & 80's Non NW Club Trax
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