Tunes
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, [...]
This (Blogless) Life
It’s very sad but I think my relationship to blogging has entered the “old friend” realm. You know, the one where “we really must catch up” is something that’s said with much feeling and good intention but rarely followed through. You may have noticed that the blog posts at WestonCulture have become few and far [...]
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 [...]
