Yes I cut my hair, all for the love of the game… or something.
The dance was actually a huge sucess, when people started to show up around 10:30. Apparently Standard Mormon Time for dances is an hour and a half later.
I only danced with one girl, who actually approached me randomly, had to have been the hair. She was pretty cool, a music major who goes to BYU.
ew.
We ended up playing our own list anyway. There is no way in hell I was going to listen to Boot Scooting Boogie and I don’t think I would have been able to keep from gouging my own eyes out if I had to watch Mormons do the electric slide one more time. The girl mentioned in the previous post showed up late, cool. And then proceeded to say, “I actually hadn’t heard most of the stuff you guys put on the list. You’re actually doing a really good job.”
YEA. THAT’S BECAUSE WE DANCE TO MUSIC THAT IS GOOD.
IN. YOUR. FACE.
Below is the playlist we used. Check it out. Next time you’re in town we can dance to the exact same playlist. Fun? I know.
Any Way You Want It - Journey
Send me an Angel - Real Life
Let’s Dance - David Bowie
Every Breath You Take - The Police
I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston
A Mess to Be Made - The Format
Of All the Gin Joints in All the World - Fall Out Boy
Cars - Gary Numan
Ever So Sweet - Early November
Call Me - Blondie
Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
Ttime After Time - Cindy Lauper
Do It - Nelly Furtado
Lets go Crazy - Prince
Ech - Incubus
Get Outta My Dreams - Billy Ocean
Need You Tonight - INXS
Foo Fighters - Times Like These (Acoustic) - Foo Fighters
Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Venus - Bananarama
Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears For Fears
Let’s Get It Started [*] - Black Eyed Peas
I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
We Built This City - Starship
I Saw the Sign - Ace of Base
Vogue - Madonna
With Or Without You - U2
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Whip It - Devo
Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Take On Me - A-Ha
Too Young - Phoenix
Bad - Michael Jackson
Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears
Faithfully - Journey
Brothers On A Hotet Bed - Death Cab For Cutie
*This version said shit, and no one even noticed.
14 responses so far ↓
Liz // Jul 29, 2006 at 3:07 am
The offer still stands. You know what I’m talking about.
Prama // Jul 29, 2006 at 9:15 am
You played all the nerdy songs from the ’80s and few of the good ones.
Pam // Jul 29, 2006 at 10:25 pm
holy crap awesome playlist. I’m duplicating it on my itunes.
J-Mart // Jul 30, 2006 at 10:14 am
I want that playlist.
by the way, brothers on a hotel bed= best song ever.
blurb // Jul 31, 2006 at 12:12 am
Any fucking way you want it! HAHAHAHA. Awesome.
brandy // Jul 31, 2006 at 9:12 am
Glad you stuck to your guns…just the words “Boot scootin” made me throw up a bit.
I have to ask we’re the people who approved the list a lot older?
and if so did they ever stop to think that the reason people left the dances earlier before was because the music sucked? and this time it would’t suck so people would dance?
I could dance for hours on a loop of Take on Me.
heather // Jul 31, 2006 at 9:27 am
thats hott
the soviet // Jul 31, 2006 at 2:21 pm
when i was at ricks, they banned “Loveshack” because of the line, “wearing next to nothin’ ’cause it’s hot as an oven.”
ah, fun.
spoonleg // Jul 31, 2006 at 5:47 pm
Phew. You played Take On Me. Leave it to my GBoo to save the day. Also? Postal Service is soooo not dancing music. Just FYI.
Piglet // Aug 1, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Awesome list! I have a video of my son dancing to David Bowie’s Let’s Dance, in fact I’m about this close to getting it on my blog.
minxlj // Aug 2, 2006 at 9:25 am
George, I would totally dance with you to Thriller or Take on Me!!!!
Diana // Aug 17, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Incredible playlist! I’ll have to look up some of those tunes and see if I have them in my library yet. (Although I do agree that they’re not all dancing tunes.)
Oh, and for some reason, I always thought that only Ohio Mormons went by Mormon Standard Time. Back when I was still a churchin’ lass, one of our bishoprics worked hard to break us of it, to no avail. Then I had the same experience when I went off to college — again, in Ohio. Good to know that Mormon Standard Time transcends state lines.
Lisa S. // Aug 20, 2006 at 9:17 am
Great playlist George!
Claire // Aug 25, 2006 at 5:15 pm
thank god you had whitney on there. that is one of my favorite dancing songs that people either scoff or just ignore.
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