Monthly Music Post: August
Jul. 31st, 2008 01:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crankyoldmanSo this month's theme, since it's August, which means Otakon and school starting for me is get up: dance like you mean it. It's shorter because the songs are longer and two wouldn't upload for some weird unexplainable reason. This is where my status as a child of the 80s is glaringly obvious.
1. Alanis Morissette - Uninvited (Freemasons Mix)
Heard this in a club once, knew I had to have it. Takes a creepy haunting song and puts it to a very nice beat--I am kind of in love with things that should not go together being put together.
2. Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again (Future Of Vision Mix)
I've always been a fan of Eurhymthmics, and I remember playing "Sweet Dreams Are Made of These" on our Commadore 64 piano keyboard thing, so it's been kind of a life long obsession. Just like Molly Ringwald always made me want to be a redhead, Annie Lennox made me want to have super-short hair. Another one of their hit singles, but revved up a little for maximum car stereo play-age.
3. Madonna - Give It 2 Me (Paul Oakenfold Club Mix)
I saw the video for this on youtube and knew I had to have it. Madonna is like dance destiny--at some point, if you are a dork that likes to move, you will encounter her and love her. Paul Oakenfold is a newer guy whose remixes tend to win me over, so there's nothing to lose here.
4. Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child
Guilty pleasure song. It's just so damn catchy. I secretly want to live in New Orleans. Or not so secretly now.
5. Kylie Minogue - BoomBox [Version 2]
Kylie Minogue is someone I wouldn't have known about without the internet, as I'm American, not Australian or British. But she's fabulous. I want her and Madonna to collab. Badly. I've been trying to nab a copy of her EBM album, "Impossible Princess" for a while (because songs from it keep playing on my Pandora, and I LOVE THEM). I suppose I may have to hit up Tracks for it.
6. Information Society - Baby Just Wants (Kain & Arvy Remix)
Not many people may know this, but the main guy in this group composed the music for the Legacy of Kain games, which is how I became interested. They also had a hit which used clips of Spock, and anyone that uses Star Trek samples in their 80's synth music deserves cake. This song is an updated version of their 80s synth music, and it's very Depeche Mode meets Stephen Hawking meets Queer As Folk. Awesome, basically.
7. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (White Label Remix)
It's no secret I love Peter Gabriel. But finding a dance remix of Sledgehammer? UNPOSSIBLE. The song lends itself to a dance mix, and I have to say, I'm quite fond of it. I may have to use it to start some engineering dance parties, flicking light switches on and off and everything.
8. Andy Hunter - Mad World Remix
This is attributed to Andy Hunter and I haven't found enough meta info to deny this. It sounds like his style, so it's possible. It's also possible some other random British techno DJ did this. Either way, dance mixes of slow creepy songs to where they are something completely new brings me so much joy.
1. Alanis Morissette - Uninvited (Freemasons Mix)
Heard this in a club once, knew I had to have it. Takes a creepy haunting song and puts it to a very nice beat--I am kind of in love with things that should not go together being put together.
2. Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again (Future Of Vision Mix)
I've always been a fan of Eurhymthmics, and I remember playing "Sweet Dreams Are Made of These" on our Commadore 64 piano keyboard thing, so it's been kind of a life long obsession. Just like Molly Ringwald always made me want to be a redhead, Annie Lennox made me want to have super-short hair. Another one of their hit singles, but revved up a little for maximum car stereo play-age.
3. Madonna - Give It 2 Me (Paul Oakenfold Club Mix)
I saw the video for this on youtube and knew I had to have it. Madonna is like dance destiny--at some point, if you are a dork that likes to move, you will encounter her and love her. Paul Oakenfold is a newer guy whose remixes tend to win me over, so there's nothing to lose here.
4. Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child
Guilty pleasure song. It's just so damn catchy. I secretly want to live in New Orleans. Or not so secretly now.
5. Kylie Minogue - BoomBox [Version 2]
Kylie Minogue is someone I wouldn't have known about without the internet, as I'm American, not Australian or British. But she's fabulous. I want her and Madonna to collab. Badly. I've been trying to nab a copy of her EBM album, "Impossible Princess" for a while (because songs from it keep playing on my Pandora, and I LOVE THEM). I suppose I may have to hit up Tracks for it.
6. Information Society - Baby Just Wants (Kain & Arvy Remix)
Not many people may know this, but the main guy in this group composed the music for the Legacy of Kain games, which is how I became interested. They also had a hit which used clips of Spock, and anyone that uses Star Trek samples in their 80's synth music deserves cake. This song is an updated version of their 80s synth music, and it's very Depeche Mode meets Stephen Hawking meets Queer As Folk. Awesome, basically.
7. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (White Label Remix)
It's no secret I love Peter Gabriel. But finding a dance remix of Sledgehammer? UNPOSSIBLE. The song lends itself to a dance mix, and I have to say, I'm quite fond of it. I may have to use it to start some engineering dance parties, flicking light switches on and off and everything.
8. Andy Hunter - Mad World Remix
This is attributed to Andy Hunter and I haven't found enough meta info to deny this. It sounds like his style, so it's possible. It's also possible some other random British techno DJ did this. Either way, dance mixes of slow creepy songs to where they are something completely new brings me so much joy.