Forgotten Dance Classics: Lama - "Love is on the rocks."

Forgotten dance classics: Savage - "Computerized Love."

Forgotten Dance Classics: Barry Manilow - "In Search of Love."

Does anyone out there in Internetville have the Disconet version of this and "And Then He Kissed Me" by Saffron? Love their stuff.

Forgotten dance classics: That sound.

Forgotten 80s Classics: "Irgendwie Irgendwo Irgendwann."

Forgotten dance classics: Time Bandits - "Endless Road (And I Want You to know, my Love)."

Forgotten dance classics: American Fade - "I'm Alive (Let's Move On)"

And everyone knows your business.

There have been times when I've written of that peculiarly New York phenomenon of heading back home after having been properly laid and everyone you pass by sorta knowing your business from your carriage and demeanor. Well, if you ever wanted to know what that sounds like, strolling on home twenty-something blocks with a buzzed and blissful smile on your face around four in the morning, this is it.

Mr. Fingers - "Can U Feel it"
from 1986 on Trax Records.

So if you're trying to use iTunes (or whatever non-Apple and their damned proprietary software equivalent to make a playlist of the sounds of NYC as I've been hearing them, here are a few more to add to the list (in addition to our friend Mr. Fingers above).

OMD - "Enola Gay"
Charles Aznavour - "Emmenez-moi"
Buzzcocks - "Love You More"
m83 - "Kim and Jessie"
PiL - "This is not a Love Song"
Giorgio Moroder - "From Here to Eternity/Utopia, Me Giorgio"
The Jones Girls - "You're Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else"
Buzzcocks - "Noise Annoys"
Depeche Mode - "Big Muff"

I will add to the list as necessary and as is accurate.

Yesterday I saw:
LOLA MONTES (d. Max OPHULS) ** 1/2
UN CONTE DE NOEL (A Christmas Tale) (d. Arnaud DESPLECHIN) *** 1/2
LOVE IS DEAD (d.Eric CAPITAINE) ***
TOKYO SONATA (d. KUROSAWA Kiyoshi) *** 1/2

Forgotten dance classics: Kid 'n Play - "2 Hype."

Ah, the second summer of love. When Manchester's Hacienda was the tastemaking dance floor of choice for international sounds. Gaining ascendancy in the interim between Belgium's one-two punch of New Beat and techno, with acid house, hip-hop, and a lot of ecstasy playing nice together, it was a time of utter magic.

In the midst of that, you had all these American hip-hop artists getting remixed for the European dance market, and the end results were sometimes a mess and sometimes glorious. There's very little actual Kid or Play in Dancin' Danny D's House Mix, but the sounds are amazing (to be sampled themselves just a few years later in Altern 8's "Activ 8"). Luxuriate in it.

Forgotten dance classics: Revolting Cocks - "You Often Forget"

Because not all dance classics are pretty and frothy.

I don't really like any of the studio versions of this song, but this Live version, from their 1987 Cabaret Metro show that produced their "You Goddamned Son of a Bitch" live album, is probably my favorite industrial track of all time.

"You Often Forget" Live
Revolting Cocks

I first heard of it in John Peyton Cooke's novel Out for Blood, where it was bandied about in the same context as Rick Astley, which is my kind of sensibility, let me tell you.

Forgotten Dance Classics: One 2 Many - "Another Man"

It's the Danish take on that glorious hands-in-the-air PWL pop-dance magic of the 80s, from international one hit wonders One 2 Many. Some may remember their U.S. Top 37 hit "Downtown" from 1988, but it's sadly unlikely. Here's to ye, purveyors of majestic dance pop, forgotten by the world.