Finally got a copy of The Dance's debut EP on GoGo record, 1980. Musically the EP is very much an early 80s post-punk/no-wave record leaning towards disco. The shining song on the EP is definitely the funky Do Dada. The title song, Dance For Your Dinner, sounds to me like some sort of proto-underground-rap with the awkward horn "loop". Recommended for fans of post-punk/no-wave, but I still feel that Soul Force was The Dance's best effort.
Listen: The Dance – Do Dada
Listen: The Dance – Dance For Your Dinner
Filed under: Punk - Post Punk
I’ll bet you’d be extra hungry if you had to dance for your dinner.
You’re slipping in your old age, crink.
wordup! im glad you got a copy of it
One day, I’ll get your adress and get into your house and steal your record collection. I’m silent and hard-working
thanks for the music. Always
so hey, Robie,(dance Drummer), told me about this reveiew and while I dont know about the later single he mentions, Ive always believed we had alot more to give had things not gone the way they did.
But however let me clarify that the “Sax Loop “was in fact, A live performance al the way thru by the fantastic multi-instrumentalist Jim Martin!! we were too new to it to do loops !!!
the same the dance that backed chandra?
Yes, the same The Dance.
Thank you for posting this! Now I just need to try to find a copy online…
bit late to the party but here ya go Scott
http://www.lastdaysofmanonearth.com/blog/?p=245