VH1 - 100 Greatest Dance Songs

[NickNack]

This past Sunday VH-1 ran a five-hour countdown of the top 100 dance songs as rated by producers, dj's, magazine writers/critics, et.al. Is this the same program that prompted the early members of this board to create the Top 500. VH-1's list was dreadful.

What interested me more than the music was the 'history' behind a lot of it. I finally saw confirmation that Sylvester does have a version of "Love Hangover" out there. Per Martha Wash: "Sylvester's version was just as good as Diana Ross', but hers got all the radio attention."

Got to get my hands on this song.

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Dancin'... A Thing To Free Your Mind

Nicky

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[markydefad]

Strangely, I lived in SF during all those years and saw Sylvester perform countless times, yet I have NO memory of ever hearing his version of "Love Hangover". The 5th Dimension had a record that did chart in the lower echelon of the Billboard Disco Chart and actually prompted Motown to rush-release Miss Ross's version as a single, so as not to lose out on the momentum the LP cut was having in the clubs of the day. Ross raced up to the top of the charts, leaving the 5th Dimension & Sylvester (I guess) versions in the dust and now, ironically, as disco lore. It would be most interesting to hear these other versions.

[Fantomas]

I saw the show and it named Keep on Trucking be Eddie Kendricks as the first song in history to be called Disco; ofcourse this can be argued (almost anything can). I also see that in the top 100's were absent a few acts. I guess Cerrone and other popular artists weren't good enough to make the charts. The people who make these decisions are like the people who decide who gets the Oscar: it isn't always the best who gets the prize, but the most popular and the one one who made more $$$----oh, and don't forget looking good also sometimes is better than talent.

[Robbie]

I have seen these VH-1 "100 Best..." and think there are for the most part, misleading. The Dance Songs shows were nothing more than a list of the same old songs you hear on just about every disco compilation CD ever put out, along with some 60's, 80's, and 90's tracks thrown in to off-set the 70's-heavy list.

I had no idea Sylvester did a version of "Love Hangover". If I recall, Martha Wash said something like that song was a "hit". Where??

The idea is to get audiences, and VH-1's idea of disco are the ones you see on all the disco compilation CD's, so that everyone will know just about every song on the list.

Plus, did it shock ANYONE who watched that show from 100-1 that Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" was #1?? Naw....

[discokid]

YOU GUYS SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE ABOUT A YEAR & 1/2 AGO! BOY, DID WE HAVE SOME "LIVELY" DISCUSSIONS!! YES, IT WAS BECAUSE OF ALL THE UPROAR & DEBATE THAT WE CAME UP WITH WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE OUR OWN TOP-100 THAT BERNIE DECIDED TO MAKE A TOP 500 INSTEAD! WE ALL SUBMITTED OUR "LISTS" & MAARTEN COMPLIED THE VOTES AND CAME UP WITH OUR SONGS! I KNOW THERE WERE MANY SONGS ALOT OF PEOPLE DIDN'T HEAR BEFORE(I THINK MAARTEN HADN'T HEARD SUPERDISCO BY THE RIMSHOTS) & OTHERS I HADN'T HEARD IN YEARS! EVEN WITH THE 500 THERE ARE SOME GREAT SONGS THAT DIDN'T MAKE THE LIST! BUT ALL IN ALL, THE HORRIBLE VH-1 TOP 100 DID RESULT IN SOME GOOD, THAT BEING OUR TOP 500. WOW, WAS IT REALLY THAT LONG AGO??

[jim]

On 2002-05-28 15:57, NickNack wrote:
This past Sunday VH-1 ran a five-hour countdown of the top 100 dance songs as rated by producers, dj's, magazine writers/critics, et.al. Is this the same program that prompted the early members of this board to create the Top 500. VH-1's list was dreadful.

I didn't find it THAT bad.The big 500 here was club music heavy (not that that is not good,and the big 500 had its share of pop crossovers <Defined as a track that hit at least #40 on Billboard's Hot 100>)
Their survey had music from all eras like for example The Twist and La Bamba to name two.
OTOH "Getting Jiggy with it " had no place there if "He's The Greatest Dancer" which was MUCH better wasn't higher.