What the world needs now: A REVIVAL OF THE DEAD MILKMEN'S "Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance To Anything)" to counter shithead 80's nostalgia

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You'll dance to anything [x4]
Oh, baby, look at you
Don't you look like Siouxsie Sioux
How long'd it take to get that way
What a terrible waste of energy
You wear black clothes say you're poetic
The sad truth is you're just pathetic
Get into the groove just get out of my way
I came here to drink not to get laid
So why don't you just go on home
'Cause if you want to moan you'll have to moan alone
You'll dance to anything [x2]
Don't try to tell me that you're an intellectual
Cause you're just another boring bisexual
"I met Andy Warhol at a really chic party"
Blow it out your hairdo 'cause you work at Hardees
80 pounds of make up on your art school skin
80 points of I.Q. located within
Know what you are? You're a bunch of ...
Artfags! Artfags! Artfags! Artfags!
Choke on this you dance-a-teria types!
You'll dance to anything by The Communards
You'll dance to anything by Book of Love
You'll dance to anything by The Smiths
You'll dance to anything by Depeche Commode
You'll dance to anything by Public Image Limited
You'll dance to anything by Naked Truth
You'll dance to anything by any bunch of stupid Europeans who come over here
with their big hairdos intent on taking our money instead of giving your
cash, where it belongs, to a decent American artist like myself!

You'll dance to anything!

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

PS - HUAGHAGHAAHGH

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't listening to the Dead Milkmen shithead 80's nostalgia?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

DEPECHE COMMODE?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

They aren't new wave

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

What, they weren't brilliant enough to come up with COMMUTARDS?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

This was a good song.

TAKING SIDES THIS VS. PROPAGHANDI - SKA SUX

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

You'll dance to anything by The Ratpure.
You'll dance to anything by LCD Playstation.
You'll dance to anything by Post-coital Service.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

You're losing your edge.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

omg roffle

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I am Circe Nightshade...

Ooooooohhhh and I am Azrael Abyss!!!!

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

You'll dance to anything by Fischerschooner!

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

people dance to postal service?

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Were The Dead Milkman like an American version of the Reynolds Girls?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a dance mix of "Such Great Heights"

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

james figurine>>>>>>jimmy tamborello
damn that death cab devil's child

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't listening to the Dead Milkmen shithead 80's nostalgia?

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 May 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

people dance to postal service?

they are the token dance band < /hstencil'stiredmeme >

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a lot of BA HA HA.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 21 May 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

See, this song is how I feel about Tipsy.

― djdee2005, Friday, 21 May 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw lots of people dance to the original 'Such Great Heights' a few nights ago.

― billstevejim, Friday, 21 May 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the new wave/no wave/post-punk revival. Some of the bands seem cheesey, but there have quite a few good ones. What has been a more compelling aesthetic movement in indie-rock over the last seven years or so (since, say, Satisfact)?

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 21 May 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"there have BEEN quite a few good ones"

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 21 May 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Lyrics update:
YOU'LL DOWNLOAD ANYTHING....

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 21 May 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

This is an absolutely PERFECT song.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 22 May 2004 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

NUTRITION IS GOOD FOR ME
NUTRITION I GOT THE VITAMIN C

Dead Milkmen are great! Ranting about lame ~~electro~~ new wave and bad ~~myspace rock~~ hardcore never tires me!!!

Dean's Dream

― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been ending every mix CD with this song lately.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

CHOKE ON THIS YOU DANCETERIA TYPES!!!

― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't forget your Motley Crue t-shirt...

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! I'm gonna kill myself becuase I can't play guitar anymore.

― Dave Blood's rotting corpse, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

i think its rather stupid and continues a nasty stream of homophobia that marks dance music

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

homophobia? in dance music? uh. you're smokin crack. dance music has been the "official music of homosexual behaviour" since 1975. Let me guess, you think Morel's "True (The Faggot is You)" is really offensive because of a word in the title? "Artfag" has nothing to do with prancing around to Erasure or sucking cock. i hope the climate is good in that bubble you're living in because here in the real world, the reference to "artfag" isn't offensive and homo's proudly dance to (gasp) dance music! God bless America.

― bizq, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

oh, i think the song is great. used to love it B.I.T.D. definitely needs to be updated to humiliate and ridicule fake-ass hipster types.

― biz, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

I've revived this recently from the depths of my CD collection.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

the number of times i've namechecked this song in conversations and such since first hearing and loving it is astonishing.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

this song is awesome, and translates to this day and age rather nicely.

You'll dance to anything by M.I. FUCKING A.

― -Vest, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

i thought we had a revival of this song, and it was called "losing my edge".

anyway, book of love were the first new wave band in philly and alumni of my alma mater. before they were BOL, they had a 45 out under the name head cheese.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

did they get in cross-town rival, cutters vs. students, philly bar brawls with BOL after this song's release? that would've been awesome.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

doubtful. dead milkmen were west philly kids, they probably just stayed out here. if the internet was around they probably would have made fun of them on a messageboard.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

if the internet was around they probably would have made fun of them on a messageboard.

what a strange concept

― michael burble, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

i think its rather stupid and continues a nasty stream of homophobia that marks dance music

Joe Jack Talcum of the Dead Milkmen is gay.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

True story: I got into the Smiths because they were name checked in this song and I thought they would be another synth-pop type band like Depeche Mode or the Communards.

― Viz (Viz), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

i meant peoples attitude towards dance music, im sorry

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 5 August 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

GODDAMNIT THIS SONG FUCKING RULES

― res, Monday, 1 September 2008 02:57 (seventeen years ago)

I've got to use the "boring bisexual" line more often...

― kate78, Monday, 1 September 2008 04:54 (seventeen years ago)

i heart jon williams threads from 4 years ago.

― Eisbaer, Monday, 1 September 2008 06:03 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

who is Naked Truth?

― andrew m., Monday, 8 February 2016 21:24 (ten years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0vWJs4HzxI

― peace, man, Thursday, 20 August 2020 15:01 (five years ago)

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