![]() And it’s easy to understand his overreaction: It’s practically criminal to not know this jam. On Parks and Recreation, Anne Perkins inadvertently committed one of the infractions on Tom Haverford’s “ Oh, no no” list: Not knowing who Ginuwine is. It’s all in the deep funk of its hook, sure to send heads nodding and groins grinding. Lyrically, Ginuwine doesn’t tread any ground that hasn’t been covered before, and that’s fine. And “Pony” - an extended double entendre in which the first entendre seems to be mostly absent - is just raunchy enough to make things interesting. Raunchy songs about sex generally double as fine party fodder, probably because inhibitions go down as alcohol consumption goes up. While “Little Red Corvette,” was the album’s big hit single, “1999,” grew to be one of Prince’s signature songs and certainly help eased the world’s pre-millennium tension. The title track and opening cut from 1999, Prince’s first double album, the song is blast from the opening synth attack to the shared lead vocals with members of the Revolution. But every wheel of chance must stop on something and “1999” is the winner. Now, you could fill God’s own dance floor with Prince’s dance floor fillers, so picking just one is a lottery. ![]() Then that bass line loops around again and you can’t help but “put some joy in.” – SC And if you do take a breather and listen to the lyrics you’ll find an excellent picture of the dailiness working class life in early years of Thatcher. ![]() “ Struggle after struggle, year after year/ The atmosphere’s a fine blend of ice/ I’m almost stone cold dead/In a town called Malice” Everybody, now! Dance! Written about Paul Weller’s hometown of Woking, “Town Called Malice,” is like a John Osborne play reimagined as a Motown single. Watch out for the Jason Mraz cover (seriously, there is one), which will have the diametrically opposite effect, although it may give your dentist an undeserved sense of wryness. I personally argue it’s more because of the weapons-grade guitar riff that launches the song than the “Hey! Ho! Let’s go!” lyric, because you could shout any four-syllable phrase after that riff and you’d still sound fired up: “Let’s! Get! Some Soup!” “Where! Is! The Glue!” “You! Get! A Car!” “And! Now! Coldplay!” Possibly a comment on the disenfranchised youth of the mid-‘70s marching towards an early grave, “Blitzkrieg Bop” pours down from the sky like a burned-out fuselage and still causes community leaders a great deal of concern. The first thing many of us heard from The Ramones is the source material for all adrenalized rock that came after it. Not just parties - baby showers, memorial services, divorce proceedings, lawnmowers, episodes of The Good Wife. So we present 10 guaranteed party starter songs - now let’s get this party started! There was a long list of preliminary songs that got narrowed down to the 10 elite tracks we have below. So that got us thinking - what song is absolutely necessary to get a party started? Journey’s “Anyway You Want It”? Not bad, but we can do better. Not that we’re giddy to speed along the process, but there’s one thing that summer has a lot more of than other seasons (except around the winter holidays): Parties! People, the weather is warm, the beer is cold, and all we need now is a playlist full of rock-solid jams. But now that Memorial Day weekend is behind us, the unofficial beginning of summer has already arrived. That’s still a few weeks off according to the calendar year we observe. Summer hasn’t started just yet - not technically.
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