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I actually like dancing, and I'm not too shabby at it. I don't go to clubs too often here, but compared to the frequency of NEVER before I came to Japan, I go a lot. I don't necessarily dance when I go to clubs and stuff, though. Why? I can only dance if the music inspires me to do so. I can't fake it; I have to feel it. I hate most of the music at most of the clubs I've been to. Upon learning this, people ask me, "Well, what kind of dance music do you like, then?" This is my response.
This was perhaps the hardest, or at least most time consuming, playlist I've made yet. At first I was thinking that it wouldn't be so hard, that there's not that much dance music in my collection, anyway. So the first thing I did was go through and make a huge playlist of everything I have that I would label as at least "moderately jiggy." If any one of those songs were to be played in a club, I would be ecstatic. That playlist contains 191 tracks. Who knew? That's like thirteen straight hours of jigginess. I could DJ an all-night rave no problem.
So then came the task of paring it back to a single CD. My personal conviction is that the best dance music in the history of the world came out of the 80s New Wave scene. In the beginning, looking at my list of nearly two hundred great dance tunes, I balked at the idea of having to adulterate my 80s tunes with other songs. So I decided to make two CD-sized lists: one 80s and one not 80s. The 80s one turned out to be relatively easy to make, since my New Wave collection really isn't THAT extensive. But the other one was harder. I got it down to forty. From there I put those in order from favorite to least favorite and cut the bottom twenty. But somehow the list as it was didn't sit right with me. What to do? The Jiggy Factor ended up being the only option. The Jiggy Factor is a subjective rating of how much a given song inspires me to move my cute little bum. Normally it'd be from 1 to 10, 1 being "not jiggy" (the "General Jiggy Factor"), but as all these songs already had clearly demonstrated jiggitude, I ranked them from 1 to 5, 1 being "fairly jiggy, actually" (the "Specific Jiggy Factor"). Anyway, I listened to all of the top twenty favorites, as well as a few from below that it just seemed couldn't possibly not make the list, and assigned them each a Jiggy Factor. Combining the Jiggy Factor with the general ranking, the path was clear.
But then, listening to those two playlists, I realized that both of them were quite jiggtastic on their own, but were I to take the jiggiest from each and then combine them I could reach heretofore undreamed of heights of jiggitopia. I ended up taking nine 80s tracks (which, surprisingly, were easy to choose) and eleven other tracks (having already done the hard part, choosing that group wasn't THAT hard, either; everything with a Specific Jiggy Factor of 4 or 5 was automatically accepted, and then a Jiggy Off was held between those that got a 3 in order to determine the remaining slots in the final eleven). Thus I attained Ultimate Jiggy Satori. Check it out.
( i'm no fucking buddhist, but this is jiggy enlightenment )
There's no shortage of good dance music out there, but sometimes it seems like there must be. It seems so RARE when you go out to clubs and stuff. So, as a public service, as part of my lofty aim of propagating dance music that doesn't suck, I will make a copy of this CD for anyone who wants one. It is the result of weeks of scientific studies (not to mention ten years of collecting music). As all these songs have a General Jiggy Factor of at least 8, this CD is guaranteed to get bums shaking at extraordinarily high frequencies. (Well, I can only GUARANTEE it if the bum in question happens to be MINE, but you know.)
And if you like that, there's more where that came from. You should hire me as a DJ! I'm cheap, I swear! Though you will have to cover any travel expenses I incur.
Actually, Kelly and I did DJ a dance once, our freshman year of college. It didn't go well. I can still remember the shouts: "Play Jock Jams! Just play Jock Jams!" Pearls before swine, man.
So. Next up on the docket is Desire.
This was perhaps the hardest, or at least most time consuming, playlist I've made yet. At first I was thinking that it wouldn't be so hard, that there's not that much dance music in my collection, anyway. So the first thing I did was go through and make a huge playlist of everything I have that I would label as at least "moderately jiggy." If any one of those songs were to be played in a club, I would be ecstatic. That playlist contains 191 tracks. Who knew? That's like thirteen straight hours of jigginess. I could DJ an all-night rave no problem.
So then came the task of paring it back to a single CD. My personal conviction is that the best dance music in the history of the world came out of the 80s New Wave scene. In the beginning, looking at my list of nearly two hundred great dance tunes, I balked at the idea of having to adulterate my 80s tunes with other songs. So I decided to make two CD-sized lists: one 80s and one not 80s. The 80s one turned out to be relatively easy to make, since my New Wave collection really isn't THAT extensive. But the other one was harder. I got it down to forty. From there I put those in order from favorite to least favorite and cut the bottom twenty. But somehow the list as it was didn't sit right with me. What to do? The Jiggy Factor ended up being the only option. The Jiggy Factor is a subjective rating of how much a given song inspires me to move my cute little bum. Normally it'd be from 1 to 10, 1 being "not jiggy" (the "General Jiggy Factor"), but as all these songs already had clearly demonstrated jiggitude, I ranked them from 1 to 5, 1 being "fairly jiggy, actually" (the "Specific Jiggy Factor"). Anyway, I listened to all of the top twenty favorites, as well as a few from below that it just seemed couldn't possibly not make the list, and assigned them each a Jiggy Factor. Combining the Jiggy Factor with the general ranking, the path was clear.
But then, listening to those two playlists, I realized that both of them were quite jiggtastic on their own, but were I to take the jiggiest from each and then combine them I could reach heretofore undreamed of heights of jiggitopia. I ended up taking nine 80s tracks (which, surprisingly, were easy to choose) and eleven other tracks (having already done the hard part, choosing that group wasn't THAT hard, either; everything with a Specific Jiggy Factor of 4 or 5 was automatically accepted, and then a Jiggy Off was held between those that got a 3 in order to determine the remaining slots in the final eleven). Thus I attained Ultimate Jiggy Satori. Check it out.
( i'm no fucking buddhist, but this is jiggy enlightenment )
There's no shortage of good dance music out there, but sometimes it seems like there must be. It seems so RARE when you go out to clubs and stuff. So, as a public service, as part of my lofty aim of propagating dance music that doesn't suck, I will make a copy of this CD for anyone who wants one. It is the result of weeks of scientific studies (not to mention ten years of collecting music). As all these songs have a General Jiggy Factor of at least 8, this CD is guaranteed to get bums shaking at extraordinarily high frequencies. (Well, I can only GUARANTEE it if the bum in question happens to be MINE, but you know.)
And if you like that, there's more where that came from. You should hire me as a DJ! I'm cheap, I swear! Though you will have to cover any travel expenses I incur.
Actually, Kelly and I did DJ a dance once, our freshman year of college. It didn't go well. I can still remember the shouts: "Play Jock Jams! Just play Jock Jams!" Pearls before swine, man.
So. Next up on the docket is Desire.
