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Tag: Dance Music
Soft Cell – Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: #525 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sometimes I feel I’ve got to run away. I’ve got to get away from the pain you drive into the heart of me.
Dance Hall Crashers – Lockjaw: #526 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Why are you listening to all the things they tell you every day? Why are you listening, what happened to your own mind anyway?
Diana Ross – Diana: #529 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Upside you’re turning me, you’re giving love instinctively. Around and round you’re turning me, I say to thee respectfully.
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular: #530 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is our decision to live fast and die young. We’ve got the vision, now let’s have some fun. Yeah, it’s overwhelming, but what else can we do? Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell: #534 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I got a date with the night, burnin’ down my finger.
Blondie – Parallel Lines: #559 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Once I had a love and it was a gas, soon turned out had a heart of glass. Seemed like the right thing, only to find mucho mistrust, love’s gone behind.
Madonna – Confessions on a Dance Floor: #588 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Time goes by so slowly for those who wait – no time to hesitate.
Various Artists – Boogie Nights: Music From the Original Motion Picture: #601 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You got the touch, you got the power. When all hell’s breaking loose, you’ll be riding the eye of the storm.
Blur – Leisure: #609 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Every time I come here I’m not sure what to say. I know it should be easy but it never seems that way.
Billy Idol – Rebel Yell: #614 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When you hear the music, you make a dip into someone else’s pocket and then make a slip.
Adam Ant – Friend or Foe: #616 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do? Subtle innuendos follow – there must be something inside.
En Vogue – Funky Divas: #621 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Free your mind and the rest will follow. Be color blind: don’t be so shallow.
George Michael – Faith: #625 of best 1,000 albums ever!
But I gotta think twice before I give my heart away. And I know all the games you play because I played them, too.
Blondie – Blondie: #626 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh, you know her, would you look at that hair.
Madonna – Ray of Light: #634 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Faster than the speed of light, she’s flying, trying to remember where it all began.
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours: #641 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Could this be true? It all comes down to you.
Duran Duran – Seven and the Ragged Tiger: #650 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Every little thing the reflex does leaves you answered with a question mark.
Paula Abdul – Forever Your Girl: #661 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Straight up, this album is catchy on a cellular level.
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album): #662 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Destroyed by MTV, I hate to bite the hand that feeds me.
Prince – Dirty Mind: #667 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Raw, grimy, funked up danceable R&B pop. Also: fun.
Prince – Purple Rain: #685 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Dearly beloved: let’s go crazy. Let’s get nuts.
Class Actress – Journal of Ardency: #699 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The most incredible ‘80s album… of 2010.
Prince – 1999: #701 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray.
Conehead Buddha – Rockets: #740 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get that body up.
Madonna – Bedtime Stories: #745 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The secret’s out on this one.
Sneaker Pimps – Becoming X: #752 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Spin, spin, sugar.
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Through the Looking Glass: #762 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Not your typical album of cover songs. Just ask Alice, I think she’ll know…
Pet Shop Boys – Please: #774 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Chic, posh, and pulsing synth pop are tops for the lads of the furry, fluffy, feathered and/or aquatic creature shop.
Jamiroquai – Emergency on Planet Earth: #775 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When you gonna learn?
Ace of Base – The Sign: #794 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Can an album be “too pop”? Please refer to the sign that says, “We’re gonna go with nope.”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!: #799 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Heads will rock n’ roll to this one.
The Pointer Sisters – Break Out: #804 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You might just say that I’m so excited and yet I’m encountering a great deal of difficulty with regard to the prevention of obfuscating that emotional state.
Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine: #805 of best 1,000 albums ever!
These dudes out of Germany ain’t messing around with normal sounds. Oh no.
Brother Meat – Extraordinarily Moist and Delicious: #819 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You want it, you need it, you got it… you got it!
Britney Spears – Blackout: #835 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Britney at her darkest, sleekest, pulsing synth-est best. Best-est?
The Chemical Brothers – Surrender: #865 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Accessible electronic music with great hooks and the dance vibe to match.
Icona Pop – This Is… Icona Pop: #876 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Loud, brash, insanely catchy, and fun as hell. What’s not to like?
Zero 7 – Simple Things: #883 of best 1,000 albums ever
Nine to five, living lies, everyday, stealing time.
Kanye West – 808s and Heartbreak: #884 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s complicated… but with this Kanye album, something broke through for me.
The Power Station – The Power Station: #887 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Robert Palmer and members of Duran Duran and Chic combo for some super group action, 1980s style.
Thunderball – Scorpio Rising: #889 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An incredible soundtrack for a movie that doesn’t exist.
The Human League – Dare!: #910 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t you want me to tell you? Read on.
Ursula 1000 – The Now Sound of Ursula 1000: #912 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hip length and hip swinging breakbeats and super stylish swinging samples.
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver: #915 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s rangy and genre bend-y. It’s electronic and lounge-y and rock and dance-y and then it’s an ethereal kind of something else.
Bitter:Sweet – Drama: #917 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let’s get nuts. Let’s spend some money.
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine: #921 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’d have to have a head like a hole not to.
Röyksopp – Melody A.M.: #950 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Blue on blue, heartache on heartache.
Moon Duo – Mazes: #954 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An unusual musical locale that’s hard to nail down, but well worth the journey.
Benny Benassi – Hypnotica: #963 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you’ve got an electro house urge, this album brings the satisfaction.