A Brief Tribute to Early 90s White-Boy Dance Pop

I was driving home from work today, and the enigmatic radio decided to play that one song from back in the day by The Soup Dragons. Once I got over being horrified that I recognized a song by The Soup Dragons, I thought about how very little we, as a society today, give any recognition to the dance pop of the early 1990s. Is it too soon for them to be retro? Must we wait until 2010 to look back on them with foggy memories (if at all) and only mildly-embarrassed fondness, the way we do for Wham! or Dead Or Alive? Nay, I say: let us celebrate them now! Lest they be forgotten in their entirety.



Soup Dragons, you're free!



EMF, you're unbelievable!



Jesus Jones, your time is RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!

Now, WHO'S WITH ME?

Who're the Soup Dragons again?

They do... you know... that one song.... there's some people singing... they go something like "I'm free to do what I want, any old ti-i-i-i-ime!" I think it's against the law for Early 90s White-Boy Dance Pop to have more than one song on the radio ever.

You're right in 2010 they'll have a club nite dedicted to the "poppy" music of the 90's and you will feel the shame!
Just as I do when I hear the safety dance.

I actually knew the bass player from Jesus Jones back in Chicago. He works a bar now.

love me(aney)...
hold me(aney)...

*channels Homer*

"You can dance, you can dance, everybody look at your pants."

-TM

I thought this was a thread about Color Me Badd.

I'm so disappointed.

Were they white? Were they dance-pop? Were they in the early 1990s? Then this is about them.

Mildred, you just SEXED THIS THREAD UP!

Hold me(aney)...
Thrill me(aney)...
Kiss me(aney)...
Kill me(aney)...

FRIGGIN' BONO! Now I have the song stuck in my head.

-TM

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII wanna touch you in all the right places, baaaaaaaby!
I wanna make love to you!
All night, all night, yeah
Dooooooooooooooooooo meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

And how about Happy Mondays?



I know they started in the 1980s so maybe they don't count, but I know that they didn't get super(relatively)popular until the album Thrills'n'Pills'n'Bellyaches which came out in 1990, because that's when my mother decided to wreak hell on my life by playing it almost every damn day for months. We've had several heated discussions lately, because she refuses to believe that Shaun Ryder has turned into the fat fucker in Gorillaz' "DARE" video.

What does it say about me if I love this thread?

It says you rule.

Woo, hoo!

*throws on Hotwired and totally rocks out like a white boy*

thanks for finally explaining who that is.

does Pop WIll Eat Itself count in this?
I love them.

It's unbelieveable... to do what I want... right here right now!

*passes out in a frenzy*

True Story: Right Here, Right Now is responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall.

i love new order.

You know that I've been drunk a thousand times,
and these should be the best days of my life,
Life, it's not what I thought it was.
Damn blast, look at my past,
ripping up my feet over broken glass.
Oh wow, look at me now,
I'm building up my problems to the size of a cow.

Soup Dragons were ace

And seeing as no-one else has pointed it out, for those who don't know EMF stood for Ecstasy Mother Fuckers, due to their fondness for said drug

yay madchester

"Right here, right now" was the only song I ever requested from a radio station. They didn't play it.
Jerks

Fucking WMMS.

[Edited on Nov 05, 2005 by BillHaverchuck]