Dance Songs About Not Dancing

does Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime" count?

Brainstorm/Sylvester/Anne Nesby "Lovin' Is Really My Game"

Snax "There's No Dancing"

That Eddy Grant one that starts "I don't wanna dance..."

Eddie Grant's "I Don't Wanna Dance"?
Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson "Moving Too Fast" ;)

Ah, dada pipped me to it.

I keep doing that today

chloe - i hate dancing

careless whisper

Don't dance:

Don't dance, stay in your seat way down
Don't dance, wave the barmaid another round
The music don't move me, I don't want to boogie
Let's drink and talk, sit down
Shut up and drink, sit down
Gimme dat drink it down

Fred & Ginger - "I Won't Dance"

GINGER:
Think of what you're losing
By constantly refusing
To dance with me.
You'd be the idol of France with me.

And yet you stand there and shake your foolish head rheumatically
While I wait here so ecstatically.
You just look and say emphatically:

FRED:
Not this season. There's a reason.

I won't dance. Don't ask me.
I won't dance. Don't ask me.
I won't dance, Madame, with you.
My heart won't let my feet do things they should do.

You know what? You're lovely.

GINGER:
So what? I'm lovely...

FRED:
But oh, what you do to me.
I'm like an ocean wave that's bumped on the shore.
I feel so absolutely stumped on the floor.

GINGER:
Ah, but when you dance you're charming and you're gentle.
Especially when you do The Continental.

FRED:
But this feeling isn't purely mental.
For heaven rest us
I'm not asbestos.
And that's why...

I won't dance. Why should I?
I won't dance. How could I?
I won't dance, merci beaucoup.

I know that music leads the way to romance.
And if I hold you in my arms... I won't dance

... beat that!

YSI?

dance on ( is it about war)prince (lovesexy)

"Dancing is Dangerous" by someone that got produced by Sparks, back in the day?

Kano-Nobody Don't Dance No More

The Rondelles, "Don't The Twist"

Elvis Costello "No Dancing"

(has the Be My Baby intro = must be danced to at all costs)

How Soon Is Now? (possibly, going to clubs on your own, standing on your own, leaving on your own could imply not dancing. or maybe there was dancing on your own as well, but he just never thought to mention it)

(oh, i never noticed the thread title specified "dance songs")

(implied) The Dead Milkmen - Instant Club Hit

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance: "Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well they're no friends of mine."

I've got shears pointed straight at my chest
And time moves slow when you count it
I'm better than them, and I think I'm the best
But I'll appear at midnight when the films close
Cause I'm in a trance
and I sweat
I don't want to dance
I want to go home.

D-d-d-dancing is forbidden
D-d-d-dancing is forbidden ...

genesis - i can't dance

sort of stretching the definition of a "dance song," i know

"No Parking On The Dance Floor"

I'm never gonna dance again
guilty feet have got no rhythm
though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool

Should've known better than to cheat a friend
and waste the chance that I've been given
so I'm never gonna dance again
the way I danced with you

When a man is running from his boss
Who hold a gun that fires "cost"
And people die from being cold
Or left alone because they're old
And bombs are dropped on fighting cats
And children's dreams are run with rats
If you complain you disappear
Just like the lesbians and queers
No one can love without the grace
Of some unseen and distant face
And you get beaten up by blacks
Who though they worked still got the sack
And when your soul tells you to hide
Your very right to die denied
And in the battle on the streets
You fight computers and receipts
And when a man is trying to change
But only causes further pain
You realize that all along
Something in us going wrong...

You stop dancing.

Don’t stop to dance
Till the beat will turn you on (back to babylon)
Don’t stop to dance
Till your heart is beating strong (back to babylon)

and of course, the ultimate. a song about a WHOLE TOWN not dancing ...

Been working so hard
I'm punching my card
Eight hours, for what
Oh, tell me what I got
I've done this feeling
That time's just holding me down
I'll hit the ceiling
Or else I'll tear up this town
Now I gotta cut

Loose, footloose
Kick off your Sunday shoes
Please, Louise
Pull me offa my knees
Jack, get back
C'mon before we crack
Lose your blues
Everybody cut footloose!

LCD Soundsystem - Beat Connection

Deserves a mention despite not being specifically about dancing. I've seen this song taunt people into having fun.

does "do the standing still" count?

Don’t know much about dancin’
That’s why I got this song
One of my legs is shorter than the other
’n’ both my feet’s too long
’course now right along with ’em
I got no natural rhythm
But I go dancin’ every night
Hopin’ one day I might get it right
I’m a dancin’ fool, I’m a
Dancin’ fool
I hear that beat; I jump outa my seat,
But I can’t compete, ’cause I’m a
Dancin’ fool, I’m a
Dancin’ fool

The disco folks all dressed up
Like they’s fit to kill
I walk on in ’n’ see ’em there
Gonna give them all a thrill
When they see me comin’
They all steps aside
They has a fit while I commit
My social suicide, I’m a
Dancin’ fool, I’m a
Dancin’ fool
The beat goes on
And I’m so wrong
The beat goes on
And I’m so wrong
The beat goes on ’n’ I’m so wrong
The beat goes on ’n’ I’m so wrong
The beat goes on ’n’ I’m so wrong
I may be totally wrong, but I’m a
Dancin’ fool, I’m a
Dancin’ fool
Youwsa, youwsa, youwsa
I got it all together now
With my very own disco clothes, hey!
My shirt’s half open, t’show you my chains
’n’ the spoon for up my nose
I am really somethin’
That’s what you’d prob’ly say
So smoke your little smoke
Drink your little drink
While I dance the night away, I’m a
Dancin’ fool, I’m a
Dancin’ fool, (etc., etc.)

I may be totally wrong, but I’m a
I may be totally wrong, but I’m a
I may be totally wrong, but I’m a
Fool-uh!

Hey darlin’...can I buy ya a drink?
Lookin’ for mister goodbar? here he is...
Wait a minute...I’ve got it...you’re an italian!
Hah?
Yer jewish?
Love your nails...you must be a libra...
Your place or mine?