With New Years around the corner, parties and dancing and all that fun stuff is on the agenda. Today, I'm going to unofficially DJ your party/gathering/dancing alone in your room.
This is The Party Zone - A soundtrack sold in the early/mid 90s featuring pop, dance-pop and eurodance songs. If you are old enough to remember the "NOW" or "Kidz Bop" music compilations from the 2000s, this is pretty much the same, except better music. At least to me.
This commercial always aired during USA Network's "Up All Night" show and the mixture of sleazy, neon B-movies and sugary sweet dance music was everything 9-year old me wanted in his life. It was a world I was way too young for, but a world I wanted to be a part of no less. Times change and I never got to experience that level of sleazy living in my adult years, but I have the music so I can pretend I did. Here's the best hits from The Party Zone.
Teena Marie - "Lovergirl"
New Kids On The Block - "You Got It (The Right Stuff)"
Technotronic ft. Ya Kid K - "Move This"
Ready for the World - "Oh Sheila"
SNAP! - "Rhythm is a Dancer"
Wham! - "I'm Your Man"
The Jets - "Crush on You"
Greg Kihn Band - "Jeopardy"
Culture Club - "I'll Tumble 4 Ya"
Hope you young'ns dig these grown folk jams and I hope you grown folks listen and get a smile on your face.
This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for your weekly time trip to the 80s: Miracle Legion, Joboxers, Echo & The Bunnymen, Greg Kihn Band, The Motels, Corey Hart, Cyndi Lauper, Fun Boy Three, A Flock Of Seagulls, Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Rave-Ups, Paul Hardcastle, and ending off with Billy Idol.
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Sometimes quirkiness or downright goofiness is a necessity. To be breathe in the air of lunacy can be liberating. We mustn’t forget this as we struggle to stay above the churn.
I don't care it if was kept off the number one spot by Beat It, or like Beat It Weird Al Yankovic spoofed it, Larry Levan played it at the Paradise Garage so I'm listening. There only single to chart in the UK, cheap and easy to pick up, and if you're a dj it can knock dancers out of their robotic trance and liven up a boring set of records that all sound too similar
Greg Kihn Band
Kihnspiracy
1983 Beserkley
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Tracks:
01. Jeopardy
02. Fascination
03. Tear That City Down
04. Talkin’ to Myself
05. Can’t Love Them All
06. I Fall to Pieces
07. Someday
08. Curious
09. How Long
10. Love Never Fails
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Fun fact: Not only does Weird Al's video feature the real Art Fleming and Don Pardo (the host and announcer of the original Jeopardy TV show), but it also features Greg Kihn (from the original song that Al's song is a parody of!) driving away in a car, referencing the end of his own music video.