Joy Retro Disco
Joy Retro Disco presents What You Waiting For by Gwen Stefani
I’ve been cleaning out my iTunes over the last couple of weeks – desperately trying to squeeze another couple of gigs room on my hard-drive – and this song just jumped out at me while I was trawling through the least-played lists last night. I know it’s a noughties song and so is barely retro, [...]
Joy Retro Disco presents What a Wonderful World by Axwell & Bob Sinclair feat. Ron Carroll
Joy Retro Disco presents Uplifting Tunes for your Weekend I must have first heard this tune when I was having a really bad day, as I recall my initial thoughts of it being “bloody useless hippy crap”. However, my bad day passed and after hearing this 2008 dance anthem a few more times, I really [...]
Joy Retro Disco presents I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash
Uplifting tunes for your weekend. Oh, it was tough to decide which version of this uplifting tune to go with this week, but I had to go with the original by the dude who actually wrote and performed the original hit, Johnny Nash. Nash had a number one hit with I Can See [...]
Joy Retro Disco presents Shackles (Praise You) by Mary Mary
Uplifting tunes for your weekend Take those shackles off my feet so I can dance. Okay, I may not be about to praise “him” because I’m, like, an atheist, and as a feminist, I would have difficulty believing in a patriarchal all-loving, all-condemning god. But. I love this song because it taps into a joyful [...]
Joy Retro Disco presents H.A.P.P.Y. Radio by Edwin Starr
Uplifting tunes for your weekend! Soul singer Edwin Starr might be more well-known for his 1970 classic, War (What is it good for), but it’s this little 1979 stomper that I love. I’m not sure what it is about this tune but it has been well and truly stuck in my head all week. It’s [...]
4 My People by Missy Elliott
Joy Retro Disco presents Uplifting Tunes for your weekend! Oh, I had a dilemma this week folks. Choose a tune with god- or drug-references? Drug won. But only because I was trying to redress a very bad I did in my Top Tunes for a Women’s Dance list last weekend. I didn’t put any Missy [...]
Ten top tunes for a Women’s Dance 2009-style
Happy International Women’s Day! Woooo! Wave your handbags in the air! Shake your chardies like you just don’t care! International Women’s Day is usually a time when we stop and take stock of where our society’s at on the gender agenda. We acknowledge and celebrate those who have come before us, who lobbied, yelled, insisted, [...]
Can’t Stop Moving by Sonny J
Joy Retro Disco presents: Uplifting tunes for your weekend! I thought I’d get a little bit modern with this weekend’s tune and play something new(ish). This little sampled leg-shaker from Sonny J is one of the most infectious pop-dance tracks I’ve heard in recent years. I’m not sure if it’s because it samples one [...]
Valentine tune: You + Me = Love by Undisputed Truth
Joy Retro Disco presents: Uplifting tunes for your weekend! Twas the night before Valentines and all through the house, not a creature was sleeping, not even a mouse. Oh, it’s been a frantic V Eve here at Club C’ran. With the day of the valentine tomorrow, we’ve been a-looking for a festive tune to bring [...]
Proud by Heather Small
Joy Retro Disco presents: Uplifting tunes for your weekend “What have you done today to make you feel proud?” asks Ms Small, in this anthem to self-belief and the power of positive change. I thought this was a fitting tune for this weekend as the show that made it a mainstream earworm, The Biggest Loser, [...]
