What was the first song you remember dancing to?

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qwerty south

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First time dancing at a club (with my sister at Rags in Camberley at an indie night) to

Had danced to lots of songs before as a rubbish breakdancer but when I think of my first dance it's at that club for whatever reason
 
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Leo

Leo

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advancing the timeline from first dance to first dance club experience: teenage years were spent going to rock shows, so no dancing, but then college years in NYC were my first exposure to clubs with DJs. All the early post-punk/new wave stuff was coming out: Spandau's "chant no. 1", soft cell "memorabilia", "love will tear us apart", Go4 "at home he feels like a tourist", slits "typical girls", au pairs, delta 5, blondie, talking heads, etc.
 
shakahislop

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Corpsey said:
What were you all like as children?

I once pissed myself in the school assembly – must have been 5 or 6.

That about sums me up.
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i think i was probably quite an odd one. obsessed with maths apparently. and i distinctly remember getting in trouble for sticking my hands down my pants to keep them warm. which i think is fine really. but socially unacceptable. i mean it is probably good i didn't make a habit of it, or more accurately that i got out the habit of it, because i don't think i'd get away with doing that out and about as an adult
 
luka

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Since tracksuits came back into fashion all the men keep their hands stuffed down their trousers at all times. It's quite disconcerting.
 
padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

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Pretty sure I didn't actually dance to it but I first heard this when I was 8 or 9 - Messiah, who knows why, was the one UK breakbeat hardcore/rave/etc act (besides The Prodigy, I guess) to get a major label deal and American release, and my friend's older brother had their CD. He was mostly into, I think, KMFDM and Wax Trax type stuff - this being Chicago - and I guess Messiah could kinda fit into that framework. Anyway I only heard it once, had no idea what it was, but it really stuck with me and ~20 years later when I was tracing nuum roots (before I'd even heard of "the hardcore continuum") back thru jungle to ardkore I at some point stumbled upon this and had a surprisingly powerful nostalgia/deja vu reaction. I can still clearly envision that moment first hearing it yunno, 30 odd years ago.

As far as what I first actually danced to, probably some mid-90s alt rock bullshit on the radio. The first dance music I knew was "dance music" was Daft Punk, whose first record got a lot of play on Q101, which otherwise was yr basic expansive grunge/post-grunge Pearl Jam, Green Day, Soundgarden, etc situation. Then I got into hardcore (the punk kind) and that doesn't really have dancing per se. The first thing I remember actually proactively dancing to was I believe Elkin + Nelson - Jibaro, when I was about 30.
 
padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
Corpsey said:
What were you all like as children
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Basically like Leo, a nerd (albeit not quiet) who also happened to be decent at sports

Then when I was 13 I discovered drugs and things went kinda sideways

If I could go back and tell my tween self anything it would 100% be "don't worry about being cool, none of this will matter in a few years; otoh, fucking up school etc will impact the rest of yr life"

Gotta make mistakes to learn from em tho
 
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DLaurent

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'Kung Fu Fighting' on a compilation CD at home, but at school discos in early 90s things like '2 Unlimited' were pretty big.
 
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