SIMON REYNOLDS DISCUSSES CURRENT DANCE MUSIC IN TODAY'S NY TIMES

2002 Nickelback, "How You Remind Me"
2001 Crazy Town, "Butterfly"
2000 Creed, "With Arms Wide Open"
2000 Matchbox Twenty, "Bent"
2000 Vertical Horizon, "Everything You Want"
2000 Santana, "Maria Maria"
2000 Savage Garden, "I Knew I Loved You"
1999 Santana f/Rob Thomas, "Smooth"
1998 Barenaked Ladies, "One Week"
1998 Aerosmith, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"

Bill -- there's a Wikipedia page that lists all the number ones.

btw I bet all the detroit techno dudes are fans of "toys in the attic" or something.

And I think the extent to which some dance music is dedicated to being made for dancing goes way beyond the extent of the same in hiphop. And if that´s going to be read as a value judgement then rest assured it´s no more than a personal one.

That's a pretty dire list of #1s. Of those, the only ones I really like are Crazytown, Vertical Horizon, and "Smooth".

hahaha!

oh whoa there I am fairly sure I am of the generation of dancekids that have a reverence for disco, whether that´s based on actual knowledge or not. ie even if my disco knowledge is not impressive beyond a goodish sense of italo.

I think the reasoning is that hip-hop displaced any chance of the euro-definition of dance music from making it in the states.

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the argument that dance was never going to be successful in America is only valid with the benefit of hindsight.

I bet plenty of the Detroit guys hate rock, but I´d imagine that was more the case in CHICAGO. techno purists are lapsed rock kids.

-- Schoolly D, "I Hate Rock And Roll" (1986)

-- Schoolly D (1986)

"FUCK YOU ASSHOLE! E = MC SQUARED!! THE OTHER NINETY NINE!! FUCK THESE BLACK GUYS!!"

hahaha i like the idea of big audio dynamite fans. that shit sure didn't age well.

To sum up my feelings about this article, though...I'd rather just listen to "Weak Become Heroes."

the phrase "dance music" would not exist to Americans if it wasn´t for house/techno etc. it´s not even an American term, so less of the co-opting it for ludicrous argument please.

huh?!

that´s why this silly tacking on of hiphop onto the name is so stupid, the entire thing came from electronic music, house or techno or whatever. people did not simply say ´dance music´ beforehand. dance music is a specific genre name. it does not have exclusive privilege in terms of being a style of record people dance to.

in other news, rock music is not all that rocks. many people who make country are from the city. NOT ALL VACUUM CLEANERS ARE HOOVERS.

no he's not, but he's claiming european origins for the phrase "dance music" in reference to house and techno, which is kinda silly. before house and techno got to europe, did the people in the states who played it and listened to it not think of it as dance music or even call it that? i doubt it.

there was no such genre as dance music until dance music.

This whole argument of specific terminology is extremely silly, actually.