Very relevant in these prescient times with powerful lyrics that never fail to move me every time I listen to this song.
And still my hype up song before gym sessions and soccer games…30 years on.
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Sigur Ros “Ara Batur.” If you’ve never heard Sigur Ros before, you’re welcome.
Portishead “Roads.” I guess I’m a sucker for some strings with my post rock/shoe gaze.
Bjork “Hyperballad.” Oh my god, it is a theme. The music and lyrics are, like, on another level.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “As I Sat Sadly By Her Side.” Everyone likes his other songs, but this is the one that gets me, as I sat sadly by her side.
James “Tomorrow.” Love the lyrics and so dancey!
Depeche Mode “Never Let Me Down Again.” Never gets old.
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Louis Armstrong- What a wonderful world
Beatles-Most everything but especially-Till there was you.
Earth, Wind and Fire-any or all of their songs
Chicago-Happy man and Colour my World
Queen-anything
Beach Boys-anything
The Romantics-What I like about you
Pretenders-Back on the Chain Gang
Adele-Someone like you
Lady Gaga-Look what I’ve found
Aretha -RESPECT & Day Dreaming
Spiral Staircase-I love you more today than yesterday.
Santana-Samba pa ti
Malo-Suavecito
Los Lonely Boys-Heaven
Los Lobos-Will the wolf survive?
Selena-Como la flor
Marvin Gaye-Come get to this, Got to give it up, Mercy, Mercy me, Let’s get it on
Psychedelic Furs-Love my way, Pretty in Pink
James Taylor-Fire and Rain and You’ve Got a Friend
Crosby, Stills, Nash-Judy Blue Eyes suite
Vivaldi-Four Seasons-Spring/Allegro
Erik Satie-Gymnopedie #1
Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
There are more but these are the one I can remember off the top of my head.
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Love me some Bjork. Listening to her right now. I also love Portishead and Depeche Mode. I suspect we frequented the same night clubs back in the day, haha. Thanks!
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Todd Rundgren. Abbey Lincoln. Sly and the Family Stone. Stevie Wonder. Aretha. Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, lots of bossa nova and lots of late Beatles. I love my Spotify playlist.
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Little Feat’s “Dixie Chicken”, not just because it was a great song that told a story, but because it reminds me of my high school and college lifeguarding days when guards would be late for their rotations because they would not leave the staff room until the song ended.
How can you not move your feet when you hear this song?
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Listened for the first time. Not my typical musical taste and I am not a dancer by any means.
Had me moving my feet and grinning ear to ear. That may be my new wake up song!!
Thank you!!!
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My daughter is in the red plaid shirt in this music video, so of course I get a smile when I hear this song on the radio. Niko Moon is known for writing only HAPPY songs. In a restaurant near the Vanderbilt University campus, Niko’s wife Anna asked my daughter and her Vandy friends to be in Niko Moon’s first video. 54 million views! Whoa. My D said they were all so nice and fed them and kept asking if they were enjoying themselves and to just relax, dance, and be themselves.
I guess another fun thing about living in Nashville.
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Here’s another ode to dancing!
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Boyz II Men:
On Bended Knee
End of The Road
I’ll Make Love to You
A Song for Mama
One Sweet Day
All of these get me. Just love the vocalizations and harmonies.
Too many songs to mention them all.
Funky town — Lipps
First ever dance with a boy on the dance floor. Brings back memories of a fun time, accompanying an older friend who was meeting a boyfriend under the radar. While she danced a few dances with him, the rest of us wallflowers stayed out of the action until a random group of similarly lost boys asked us to dance. One dance. This song.
Wake Me Up — Wham!
Fernando — ABBA
Top of the World — Carpenters
Oh, to be a teenager again!
Every time We Touch — Cascada. This was part of my workout routine for many years and it can still get me moving.
Wonderful Tonight — Eric Clapton
This is our song. Don’t know if it actually was our first dance but it’s the song we both remember from our first date. DH can still be moved to hum some lines when I’m dressing up for an occasion even though the hair isn’t long anymore and was never blond.
Songs that just stop me in my tracks when they come on.
I can see Clearly now — Johnny Nash
Don’t Dream it’s Over — Crowded House
Baba O’riley — the Who
Hallelujah
Cat’s in the Cradle
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Great video, @bloomfield88. Your daughter has a great smile and I enjoyed the song:)
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In general:
Set the fire to the third bar - Snow Patrol
Can’t Take My Eyes off you - Lady Antebellum
Songs that remind me of my grandmother:
The Charleston - She taught me to dance to this and we’d laugh and laugh.
Amazing Grace (bagpipes) - She loved listening to Scottish music. We played this at her funeral and I still cry every time I hear it.
Songs that make me think of being with my dad when I was young, while my mom worked evenings as a nurse.
Top of the World - Carpenters
Delta Dawn - Tanya Tucker
Dedicated to the one I love - The Mamas & The Papas
Coal miners Daughter - Loretta Lynn
Anything Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton
Songs that make me think of my mom (she loved to dance):
Rock around the clock
Splash Splash
Lollipop
Twist and Shout
Locomotion
A Time For Us - Henry Mancini/Romeo & Juliet movie 1968
Tonight - Westside Story 1961 movie
Songs that make me think of my daughter:
Baby Mine - Dumbo version, Bette, Allison Kraus
Dancing Queen - Abba/Mamma Mia
Cell Block Tango - Chicago the musical
(Lots of musical theater songs)
My school days:
Never Say Goodbye - Bon Jovi (prom)
I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner (middle school dance with my first boyfriend)
The Launch and More Than a Feeling- Boston (riding on a country road with t-tops off with my high school boyfriend)
College:
Sooo many songs… so a few artists…
Violent Femmes, REM, Drivin n Cryin, The Cranberries, The Connells, Smithereens, Widespread Panic, Gin Blossoms, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Barenaked Ladies, Ramones, and so on
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This:
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Nessun Dorma! sung by the King of the Hi C’s himself. The Italian National Team chose wisely.
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I have very diverse taste. Right now, I love MacArthur Park and Miserere Mei Deus by Allegri. I get goosebumps whenever I hear either.
Of course, that’s soda in her cup😉
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My favorite Portishead tune:
Reminds me of my very first “industry” job at a tiny startup in a building shared by a few such tiny companies. The guys across the hallway used to play this over and over. Never got old!
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If you want another dance-your-butt-off tune… this will shake anyone out of their bed! 
Amazing Ukrainian talent! BTW, the song title “Lasha Tumbai” means zip in any language. It does sound a bit like “Russia, Goodbye.” And that was the hidden message back then, apparently. 
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