Little Red Corvette by Prince. Not sure what dance it would work with though.

Great thread.

VW to Eidelweiss
Waltz to Dreams of a Everyday Housewife
Foxtrot to You Make me Feel so Young.

Don't want to do a latin!

Took some time to think but here goes:
Waltz - Cold Shoulder Garth Crookes
V Waltz - Sound of Silence Simon and Garfinkel
Foxtrot - A Wink and a Smile Harry Connick jr
Tango - Gipsy Tango Earth-Wheel-Sky Band
Arg Tango - La Santa La Camorra
Quickstep - 9 to 5 Dolly Parton
Rumba - Wind Beneath My Wings Bette Midler (wouldn;t be sexy.......don't know what it would be but I'd give it a go)
Paso - Dirty Little Secret The All-American Rejects
Samba - A-Tisket, A-Tasket Ella Fitzgerald
Dance a lot in my head I do
American Smooth - One Moment in Time Whitney Houston
Show Dance - Fever Peggy Lee

128 bpm apparently, I looked it up. I wonder if you could Tango to it?

Well, I doubt I could Tango to anything but yeah, Tango sounds good to me

Wow! BIB is adventurous. I'll sit that one out I think for a Salsa. Too difficult for me.

http://youtu.be/vQObWW06VAM

Me neither quite unsuitable

No this on the other hand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwvYfN9toRE

You can't beat a bit of timba

Love lots of these and thank you for giving the links. A true labour of love.
(Wish I knew enough about dance to make my own list)

Great stuff. I'm still compiling my list, but BIB, snap! That's my VW too!

Good job I'm on the ground floor with the foot-tapping, legography and armography that you've made me do.

Interesting that the "About" featured a concert in the Empire Leicester Square. I was there!

Have you heard Ochestra Baobab? They are a Senegalese salsa band.

Bul Ma Min

http://youtu.be/Ukgznh-q8zc

And their version of the classic El Son Te Llama

http://youtu.be/3K8pdf8uTsg

It is odd that I love African and Cuban music but I dislike US and UK rap style music - that includes Eminem, Black eyed peas, etc. - anything that involves a hunchback, reversed baseball caps, inward pointing of fingers and hands flicked ...

Check this video of it - though it is more SCD AT than proper AT

http://youtu.be/trQqegQxiLw

Pink Martini are (amongst) my favourites


love this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVbyaEwtUAk

I reckon I could make this work for a cha cha, son. Argentine Tango and a rumba.

Behind the Groove - Teena Marie, Samba
Smooth - Rob Thomas and Santana, Cha Cha Cha
Crazy - Mud, Tango
This Masquerade - George Benson, Rumba
Devil Gate Drive - Suzi Quatro, Jive
Danse Macabre - Saint Saens, Viennese Waltz
Cosmic Girl - Jamiroquai, Salsa
It Had To Be You - Harry Connick Jnr, Foxtrot
Moondance -Van Morrison, American Smooth
My Kind of Town - Frank Sinatra, Quickstep
Face to Face - Siouxsie and the Banshees, AT
Moon River - Andy Williams, Waltz
Thoroughly Modern Millie - Julie Andrews, Charleston

[quote=henrywilliams58;70012490]Good job I'm on the ground floor with the foot-tapping, legography and armography that you've made me do.

Interesting that the "About" featured a concert in the Empire Leicester Square. I was there!

Have you heard Ochestra Baobab? They are a Senegalese salsa band.

No I haven't. It sounds suspiciously Kizomba like to me. I detest kizomba.

Bul Ma Min

http://youtu.be/Ukgznh-q8zc

Not sure about this one - might grow on me though.

And their version of the classic El Son Te Llama

http://youtu.be/3K8pdf8uTsg

Now you are talking

wrong for cha or at but a perfect rumba

I have danced AT to this several times. It can be done I promise.

The judges will burst their collective blood vessels if you do a proper Rumba Flamenca to that - I've not tried a Rumba Flamenca yet so will watch and knock back the Sherry.

This shows original Rumba Flamenca

http://youtu.be/Ur2_A-0IWB0

Well, this thread flies in the face of the many threads and comments from people who want traditional music for dances; the producers seem to have judged it about right then.

I thought that very thing this afternoon.

I just get quite bored with traditional tango music. With salsa et al its the music that drives me. In Argentine Tango a lot of those old tracks that sound as if they were recorded on wax cylinders and dug out of grandma's attic turn me off. Hence I find a change such as jazz, Spanish gypsy guitar stuff and Pink Floyd refreshing.

At the last milonga I went to I had danced a lovely tanda to some Spanish guitar and when it ended I went to ask the DJ what the "lovely" tracks were. He told me that one of the other dancers had remonstrated with him for playing such dreadful music. She had said these are not dancer's tracks and never play them again.

Hey ho!

I'm not so sure.

There is a Milonga salon in London that has two rooms - for traditional and for modern.

There is plenty of modern AT music so I don't feel the need to creatively match Gringo stuff. I would have thought you have to be pretty good at AT to go off-piste. I need the sound of a bandoneon. I can't AT without it.

http://youtu.be/BJobwWfpzf4

But I too dislike scratchy old records but like the old tunes recorded recently.

I am not sure Henry. I certainly wouldn't class myself anything more than a fairly competent social tanguera. But I am a bit weird with music. I don't seem to be wired normally in the way I perceive it compared to normal people. I really struggled for example in the early days of salsa to understand where the one was or the two. In fact I even struggled to understand the concept although I know there are four beats to the bar, understand a strong beat and a down beat and such like. But it is an intellectual understanding that seems to live in a different place and doesn't connect with my body.

It used to take me ages in class to learn steps and I really struggle to learn choreography. Its as if the place the information goes in my head is so disconnected from the rest of me that the journey time between thinking where I need to step and doing it is too slow. Eventually I become familiar enough to stop thinking it and start feeling it. Then I am fine. Its as if it starts coming from my gut instead of my head.

However that isn't to say my head isn't doing anything with music. It is but just not what apparently other people seem to be doing with it. I hear music as a set of patterns - not numeric or mathematical ones but more shapes. So for example I hear short fat music - timba to me is short and fat. Latin Jazz on the other hand is tall and thin music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71W5PkBGls - this is tall and thin.

It gets worse - I also hear circular music, straight lines, U shapes - you name it. My Favourite Things for Sophies VW is more of a paisley shape - long tear drop with a bend.

So I sort of dance to shapes. In AT the shapes are changing as the song progresses. So there might be straight line bits - good for walks etc, then might come some circular bits so I want to do boleos or maybe molinetes. Hard to explain and I must sound like a basket case. But the music and my weird way of relating to it tells me what to do. This is only a problem if the music speaks louder than the lead - then I go off piste a bit.

Do it anyway, I don't think most of us do, but we're enjoying it.

I teach photography and your way of learning is fascinating, I really enjoyed reading it