Obscure Indie Rock Dance Move Compendium Vol. I

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1) The David Bryne Running Man

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

2) The thing my friends do when we listen to "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger".

Basically, you do finger points by bending your wrist in each cardinal direction on each cymbal tap during the parts without vocals.

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Dunno what makes "obscure" but:

3) Jarvisy quick fanning of fingers in front of staring eye

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

4) Smacking (if necessary, imaginary) mic on jutting butthip à la B. Anderson

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

5) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v368/missdynamite/mozcantdomybody.gif

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

6) http://drogg.vocodex.org/moorisey/035.gif

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

7) Dancing like what one imagines Bez danced like only from reading about it, without ever having seen the Mondays

(if I'm way off mark intended with thread, plz notify, and I'll stop)

xpost omg MOO MOO MOO MOO

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

hahaah, He *is* saying "MOO," isn't he? :D

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

and in the first one ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE

8) the semilegendary "dying insect" Sultans of Ping FC "dance"

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

I guess the "cross-armed stand-and-stare" isn't that obscure, huh?

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

9) the fake molly ringwald

― geoff (gcannon), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

10) the molly ringwald

― geoff (gcannon), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

PLZ EXPLAIN
8 9 10

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

EXPL of 8): at SoPFC gigs, crowd ("crowd") would lie on back and wave arms & legs in air.

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

11) Swedish synth band S.P.O.C.K. obviously using the Spock hand gesture:

http://online.elcamino.edu/Engish1C/spock.jpg

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306813394/qid=1125201840/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5540888-5532667?v=glance&s=books

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 28 August 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Isn't 8 from Animal House?

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Sunday, 28 August 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

Dunno, I don't really "do" movies.

I guess Jimmy Mod gave me an opportunity to bring up this ilx chestnut as possible indie dance: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0595094724/ref=dp_image_0/102-3210367-1769706?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=507846&s=books

Not numbering it though.

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

12.) The incredibly intricate choreographed dance that ILM haunt Rockaction and I perform during M83's "Cyborg." We actually performed it in public once when the Broken Social Scene invited us on stage to dance. they cracked up-- in awe.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 28 August 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

uh oh
i often attempt the molly ringwald

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 28 August 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

13) shambling aimlessly with pronounced walking movements, clutching an imaginary microphone to your chest, leaning slightly backwards, eyes turned upwards to allow nonchalant gazing towards sky (a la Modern-Life-Is-Rubbish era Damon Albarn)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 August 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

isnt 8) the dying fly from tiswas?

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Jarvis's wiggling seconded:

http://www.rockmusica.net/palsa/photos/9602pulp.jpg

14) Spinning on one foot as if your shoe is nailed to the floor while the remaining limbs flail about like you're attached to the mains (cf. Rick Witter, 1995)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

15) the Ian Brown (Basically Bez on mogodon).

― David Merryweather Goes To Far (scarlet), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

16) The Goth Molly Ringwald (slower and more tortured)
17) The Molly Ringwald -- on amphetamines.
18) The Goth Molly Ringwald -- on amphetamines.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

19) That standing straight while jerking in all directions move the guy from the Hives does.

― Roz (Roz), Sunday, 28 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

20) the chicken dance

― zappi who unfortunately remembers the 80s (joni), Sunday, 28 August 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

21) airbassing all bent over, Deb Googe-like

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

22.) The George McFly waiting at the Punch Bowl Table at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance.

All of my dance techniques are derived from that gloriously 30-seconds-of-Crispin

― Gukbe (lokar), Monday, 29 August 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

23)http://contrechamp.kaywa.com/files/images/2005/3/mob678_1110054001.jpg

(best picture i could find)

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Monday, 29 August 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Is that a Bjork video?

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

it's THE Bjork video!

if only it was played it the clubs i go to. we do the catdancing anyway though

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

24: The Lady Miss Kier

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

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