Favorite Non-Dance Songs.

[Spitfire]

What are your favorite non - dance songs?

Some of mine...

In My Room - Beach Boys
Taken In Again - Mike & the Mechanics
Copperhead Row - Steve Earle
The Captain Of Her Heart - Double

[Bob]

eve of destruction - barry mcquire
to be a man - boston
killing me softly - about a zillion artists
the boxer - the funkle brothers (simon and gar)
the dance - garth brooks
proud mary - ike and tina turner
the aniversary song - cowboy junkies
God knows why - kid rock

[pygmalion]

The Boxer is my absolute favorite funkle brothers song :D

[Genesius Redux]

The Boxer is my absolute favorite funkle brothers song :D

What a beautiful song that is, though I'm more of a "Bridge Over Troubled Water" guy. You said we were kindred spirits in our British television mystery talk--this kind of seals it. Definitely kindred spirits. :D

[Spitfire]

The Girl With Far Away Eyes - Rolling Stones
I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
Wango Tango - Ted Nugent
Up All Night - The Boomtown Rats

[Bob]

ohh yeah, the boomtown rats!

for creepiest lyrics wrapped in a nice sounding song:

I don't like mondays - boomtown rats
major tom - david bowie

[Spitfire]

Angel Of The Morning - Merrilee Rush And The Turnabouts
Little Black Egg - The Nightcrawlers
Hippy Hippy Shakes - Swinging Blue Jeans

Some not well remembered vintage 60's tunes.

[Pacion]

I will survive - Gloria Gaynor :D :lol: (this is my "house cleaning, vacum cleaning anthem" song :lol: )

[pygmalion]

You can dance hustle to that one. I'd prefer to do the housework to it, though. Can't stand hustle. :x

[Bob]

I like the Cake version of that song.

8)

[pygmalion]

Can you believe Johnny Mathis made a cover version as well? :shock: Definitely not a fave. :lol:

[Christina75]

not really clear on what's considered "non-dance"...

There are plenty of songs that you can't really do a named/structured dance to, but when I play them I jump around like a fool and call it dancing. :lol: Under this category there are just too many to name. :D

The song that comes to mind when I think of not doing any kind of dance is the "Sunscreen Song" by Baz Lurman 8) love it! (although I suppose you could do some sort of interpretative dance...)

Christina

[pygmalion]

not really clear on what's considered "non-dance"...

There are plenty of songs that you can't really do a named/structured dance to, but when I play them I jump around like a fool and call it dancing. :lol: Under this category there are just too many to name. :D

:lol: :lol: :lol: True, Christina! Which begs the question,"are there truly any non-dancing songs?" LOL. I manage to bop around to virtually everything I hear, silly gal that I am. :oops: :lol:

[etchuck]

The Dollar Bill Song
Click to get the lyrics (http://207.44.240.63/~lyricsp/alpha/songs/t/thedollarbillsong.shtml).

and

Railroad Bill (which begins "Railroad Bill was a high-living man, used to take his women two at a time"... but it's hilarious)

performed by Livingston Taylor.

[Vince A]

not really clear on what's considered "non-dance"...

There are plenty of songs that you can't really do a named/structured dance to, but when I play them I jump around like a fool and call it dancing. :lol: Under this category there are just too many to name. :D

:lol: :lol: :lol: True, Christina! Which begs the question,"are there truly any non-dancing songs?" LOL. I manage to bop around to virtually everything I hear, silly gal that I am. :oops: :lol:
I AGREE . . . I'll be-bop to spoken word if it's done with timing . . . it's hard to sit still with any music . . . I can even get carried away with Classical music.

I just love music . . . and music, well, it makes me want to dance. I may not be a good dancer, but if the music moves me . . . my head is a rockin' and my knees are a knockin . . .

[MacMoto]

I will survive - Gloria Gaynor :D :lol: (this is my "house cleaning, vacum cleaning anthem" song :lol: )
Where's the groan smilie? :lol: :lol:
I think I prefer the Celia Cruz version (Yo viviré)... although it's not a non-dance song.

[MacMoto]

All time favourites:
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Weather with You - Crowded House
With or Without You - U2
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
This Is the Sea - The Waterboys
All Together Now - The Farm
Our House - Madness (hang on, I do dance to this one...)

More recent favourites:
Where Is the Love - Black Eye Peas
Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
Tabaco y Chanel - Bacilos (you could dance salsa to it...)

[pygmalion]

All time favourites:
Our House - Madness (hang on, I do dance to this one...)

As in, "in the middle of our street .... was our castle and our keep ..." ? Cool tune. 8) :D



More recent favourites:
Where Is the Love - Black Eye Peas

I have their CD in my car. :D

[etchuck]

All time favourites:
Our House - Madness (hang on, I do dance to this one...)

Hmm... I'd have to see the choreography to that. :)

Of course, I shouldn't be talking...
"Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners (not those other weird covers since).

[pygmalion]

On the video, the choreography looks like some sort of maypole dance. LOL.

I have the original Come on eileen on vinyl. I've never heard any subsequent cover. Just as well. I usually prefer the original. 8)

[etchuck]

I have the original Come on eileen on vinyl. I've never heard any subsequent cover. Just as well. I usually prefer the original. 8)

I think the most recent cover is by a band known as "Save Ferris." I can't say I was pleased at a cover of that. Then again, I get upset when people try to remake certain things. Scooby Doo, for example (the themesong, remade for the first movie).

[johnnywalker]

I have the original Come on eileen on vinyl. I've never heard any subsequent cover. Just as well. I usually prefer the original. 8)

I think the most recent cover is by a band known as "Save Ferris." I can't say I was pleased at a cover of that. Then again, I get upset when people try to remake certain things. Scooby Doo, for example (the themesong, remade for the first movie).

Wow. Didn't know that song was covered. Don't want to hear it though as I agree with pygmalion, I like the original. Some songs are best left uncovered, if it can be put that way.
My favourites keep changing so i'll just say what i'm listening to at the moment -

Placebo
A Perfect Circle
Afterlife
Coldplay
Delerium
Foo Fighters
Anything with a good latin beat

[dancingdragon]

Mine:

One - U2

Yellow - Coldplay

Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band

Pretty much everything by Tori Amos

And a whole bunch of stuff by Kiwi artists y'all have probably never heard of. (Except you, Sarah! :wink: )

[etchuck]

Yeah, I was cringing at the prospect (then) of Madonna doing Don Maclean's American Pie. I'm like... that's complete sacrilege. Like having some other band to "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen.

Mr. Tambourine Man covered by William Shatner.

The Legend of Bilbo Baggins covered by Leonard Nimoy.

Or American Pie covered by... the Brady Bunch kids (I think).

Don't make me think of more. My other friend specializes in discovering really awful covers.

[MacMoto]

I usually prefer the original.
Ocassionally I prefer covers to originals.

Examples include:
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For covered by The Chimes
Killing Me Softly by The Fugees
The Carpenters' version of Help! (Beatles fans, pleast don't shoot me!)

Madonna's American Pie was definitely not one of them.
I'm waiting for a good singer to do a decent cover of Wonderwalls (by Oasis) -- love the song, can't stand Liam Gallagher's voice.

[johnnywalker]

I agree MacMoto, some covers are great. Speaking of which, who did the dance version of Beautiful World by Coldpay. I remember hearing it in the clubs quite a while ago and am at a loss as to who that was now. Love the Coldplay version though.

[cocodrilo]

Gosh, everyone has great lists! For me, it's hard to say- I have some 500 CDs and I love them all!!

Maybe "Piu Bella Cosa" by Eros Ramazzotti
anything by Alejandro Sanz(SOOOOOOOOOO romantic)
anything by Toad the Wet Sprocket
anything by Counting Crows
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[ShyDancer]

I dont know any songs that I cant dance too ! I will find a beat in anything and just make up my own dance!

Songs are made for dancin' to! 8) 8)

[Sagitta]

I must agree with you there Shydancer, for the most part. But to make this interesting...

"Chhod do aanchal zamana kya kahega":
"Run, run, run"
"Chai hat" by sunidhi chauhan

[Bob]

Can you dance to William Shatner's version of lucy in the sky with diamonds?

[fashionlady]

goodness, I must be too young for this thread! I don't recognize most of the songs ya'll have thrown out. As for me, I don't listen to music I can't dance to. Namely, any classical music :P Except maybe "Canon in D". Does anyone dance to classical music???? :?
Also, doesn't anyone listen to Shakira, Shania Twain, Steps, J. Lo, etc?

[dancin_feet]

There is no such thing as a non-dance song. All music can be danced to in one way or another. :wink:

[pygmalion]

goodness, I must be too young for this thread! I don't recognize most of the songs ya'll have thrown out. As for me, I don't listen to music I can't dance to. Namely, any classical music :P Except maybe "Canon in D". Does anyone dance to classical music???? :?
Also, doesn't anyone listen to Shakira, Shania Twain, Steps, J. Lo, etc?

No. I don't think it's to do with age. Just accessibility. I was lucky. My grandmom was an old blues lady, my mom and dad listened to big band swing, early R&B, and crooners of the forties and fifties, my siblings listened to all sorts of music in the sixties through eighties, and my twin and I picked up in the eighties. So it's all good to me. 8) For relatively recent non-dance stuff, how about Blues Traveler or Metallica, or Joe Sample or Tuck and Patti?


I love Pachelbel's Canon in D, especially the choral arrangement in Ordinary People (that movie from the eighties :shock: :lol: ). A great piece. Love playing it, too. 8)

[cocodrilo]

Yes!!! Classical music is fabulous, especially going to see ballet, opera or a full orchestra!

[tsb]

You can dance hustle to that one. I'd prefer to do the housework to it, though. Can't stand hustle. :x

i'd rather do hustle than just sit there when there's someone i'd like to dance with. besides, hustle is becoming fun now that i've reached a fluency point where i can use salsa (put a couple doing salsa next to a couple doing hustle, turn off the music and note how similar all the moves are) & swing moves & most of the time i 'tap' on 1 instead of doing the syncopation.

i listen to a lot of acapella groups that i think that most people wouldn't think of dancing to: take 6, rockapella, m-pact, house jacks, etc.

[tsb]

Mr. Tambourine Man covered by William Shatner.


hey! (four measures of silence) mr. tamborine man....

and michael dorn ("worf" on star trek TNG) singing anything by michael jackson - two octaves down - or better yet, as the character of worf, reading monty python "... she turned me into a newt." "i got better."

[Christina75]

lol! Canon in D is the ring tone on my cell phone :lol:

[Spitfire]

Mr. Tambourine Man as done by the Byrds; another all time favorite of mine. 8)

[mhgroove]

This can be a very long list but here are some of my favorite non-dance songs:



1) Pat Metheny Group(My favorite all time group)-First Circle, So May it Secretly Begin, Something to Remind You, As It Is, 5-5-7, & Follow Me

2) Sting-If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, A Thousand Years, When We Dance, & Fields of Gold

3) Michael Franks-Popsicle Toes(A subtly suggestive song done with taste), This Must Be Paradise, Lady Wants to Know, & Eggplant. (Michael Franks is an incredible songwriter!!!)

4) Isley Brothers- Voyage to Atlantis, Make Me Say It Again Girl, & Don't Say Goodnight It's Time for Love

5) Bill Withers- Ain't No Sunshine

6) Earth, Wind & Fire-That's the Way of the World

7) Incognito-Did We Really Ever Try(I'm wearing this song these days), & Shade of Blue

8) Sade-Nothing Can Come Between Us, Your Love is King, & Bulletproof Soul

9) Alexander O'Neal-The Lovers & Sunshine

I better stop here....Wow!!! So many Songs!!!!