Songs to celebrate recent singleness (no guitars pls thx)

Also, LNR, "Work It To The Bone" somehow feels appropriate.

Armand Van Helden: "U Don't Know Me"

'I wanna dance' / 'There's a party going on' / 'Lookout Weekend' / 'When I hear music'

All Debbie sings about is going to clubs and picking up guys, no love, just looking for that great one-night stand. Just transpose the genders and *boom* there's your psychiatry.

"No guitars, no straps, no leather, no fun"

Patty LaBelle, "New Attitude"

If you're really guitar-phobic get the Todd Terry version.

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - "Gangster of Love" - unsurprisingly contains guitars but you need it anyway.

Kool G Rap - "Talk like sex"

Might have been a bit rash as regards guitars. Disco guitars, dance guitars, soul guitars, they're all fine. I just associate indie with moping about and self-pity and don't want none of that.

I know what you're saying but 'I will survive' is just way too corn for my current state of mind! Looking forward to hearing the Freek, LNR is great, Debbie Deb is perfect, Together is awesome, and what's that 'I can't wa-ait, for the weekend to be-gin' song? That's been easing the hurt.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, except Alex in NYC who has added a whole new level of pain and consternation to my pain, the big rockin' brute.

I'd like to avoid any songs that even vaguely mention a breakup or an ex or being in love once upon a time or anything like that.

Inadmissable, as it features guitars.

Alex, here have a bone of peace - please recommend the best going-out-fucking-&-fighting-viking-style-guitar anthem you can think of and I'll give it a good listening.

Alrighty.

Well, on the super extreme front, you could conceivably cite "I Kill Everything I Fuck" by the late GG Allin, but that might be stretching the concept just a bit (no practicer of safe sex, our Geej). Failing that, why not try....hell, "Everybody Wants Some" or "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love" by Van Halen?

"The old bars ain't changed much
Just a new face or two when you're out of touch...
The only thing I'm running from
Is the alimony man."

Perhaps a bit mature in its aesthetic for the, er, indie mindset (another bad word!), but a complete masterpiece.

Temptation doesn't work at all, that lovely opening bit is too touching and I had to switch it off quicksmart. Didn't get to the lyrics though, are they admissable?

Following that, Outhere Bros and DJ Assault were a sheer delight. Phreek is great, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson is good, as is the Kool G Rap track.

Best suggestion of all goes to Dan Perry for Chic. 'Good times' gives me precisely what I want - celebration of nightlife and going-out. It surprises and annoys me how difficult it is to escape songs about being hurt/being in love.

Out of interest, what's the general opinion on this way of dealing with a break-up? Is it just a case of brushing it under the carpet and so it'll come back and bite my arse in the future? Should I listen to wads of Nico, ballady Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen and have a big mopey cry for a few days and then my head will be brand spanking clean of hurt? Or is brushing it under the carpet fine because it's hidden from view and eventually be forgotten about and that's for the best? How would you cope in a similar situation?

Oh, and the one song that would be totally perfect for me would be a cover of PWEI's 'Beaver Patrol by JC Chasez, with a Jacques Lu Cont mix on the b-side. Please God, make it so.

most dance tracks youve heard, you mean

This cracks me up. Why?

Err...this is about living life to its fullest after od'ing on smack.