Matthew Rutledge » dance http://mattrut.com It's my website, but you can read it! Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:36:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to pick up girls? LEARN TO DANCE. How to pick up girls? LEARN TO DANCE. http://mattrut.com/2009/09/17/how-to-pick-up-girls/ http://mattrut.com/2009/09/17/how-to-pick-up-girls/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:08:22 +0000 Matthew Rutledge http://mattrut.com/?p=1246 Bobby Orlando is three things: a homophobe, a misogynist, and a great one-trick pony. His songs all sound the same, but his trick is an amazing one — it is an insistent, fun, driving synth beat that ties the line between disco and techno while never, never forgetting that pop is the name of the game.

Nothing gets me in the mood to dance like these songs — they are so good at what they do that even at 2AM in the middle of the week, I am gyrating inappropriately in my own bedroom while folding laundry. I long, long long long, for the chance to hear these in a bigger room, with a bigger audience, amongst my greater set of friends. I deserve a dance party after all these years going it alone.

So here’s a mini mixtape of Bobby O’s best songs. Click below to start:

actual track listings: Bobby Orlando — How To Pick Up Girls, Waterfront Home — Teenage Girl In Love, Roni Griffith — Spys, Bobby Orlando — German Girl, The Flirts — Helpless (You Took My Love), The Flirts — Passion, Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls (Original Mix)

]]> http://mattrut.com/2009/09/17/how-to-pick-up-girls/feed/ 0 Portion Control — The Great Divide http://mattrut.com/2009/08/25/portion-control-the-great-divide/ http://mattrut.com/2009/08/25/portion-control-the-great-divide/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:51:23 +0000 Matthew Rutledge http://mattrut.com/?p=943 This is my new “dance regardless of actual desire to dance” dance song of today.  It sounds like all the British bands of the next decade that were clearly influenced by it.

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