Welcome to My Music Mondays, the basic premise is that each week I will be delving into my music collection and looking at a new artist going somewhat randomly currently but eventually (probably not) from A to Z. I’ll examine why I first started listening to them, my favorite album and my top 10 songs for the artist. As my music collection is pretty extensive and I have a lot of one offs, I have set a qualification to be featured here. That is that I have to have at least two albums of the artist’s music before they can be considered. This week I break from the ordinary scheme though and explore my favorite 80s/90s party music.

I’m a rather reserved dude and I am certainly not a dancer. When tasked with dancing I move like a 95 year old grandma with a walker but when pushed (and really, really intoxicated) I have been known to embarrass myself on a dance floor. The problem with me getting drunk is that while I am a rather reserved gentleman most of the time, once alcohol hits my system I become an entirely different person. I love everyone, think I can dance and often times proclaim myself to be a long dead French dictator, in an awful French accent. I’m serious get me drunk and ask me to say Fantastik (as in the household cleaner).

At one point in my past, the city of Philadelphia had a night club called Polyesters that was a frequent hang out for me. I mostly went there because I liked the fact that the club had three floors and one of them was an 80s / 90s floor where all they played was music I enjoyed. Everything from AC/DC to Young MC hit the turntable and after a six pack of Cranberry and Vodka and a Lemon Drops I would “hit” the dance floor (sometimes face first depending upon how much I had to drink) because I felt the groove. Looking back, those were some great times but sadly they are long gone (like Polyesters) but the music remains. This past Friday I was in a weird mood and I started listening to “Things That Make You Go Hmmmmm…” By C + C Music Factory, which spiraled into “Bust a Move” by Young M.C. and thus the below list was born.

10 Favorite Songs

10. Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby”
9. Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing”
8. Digital Underground’s “The Humpty Dance”
7. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince’s “Boom! Shake the Room”
6. DJ Kool’s “Let Me Clear My Throat”
5. MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This”
4. C + C Music Factory’s “Things That Make You Go Hmmmmm”
3. Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”
2. Run DMC and Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way”
1. Young MC’s “Bust a Move”

What are some of your favorite tracks for partying?