Getting Freaky With The Hot Tub Jets

You can dance to all of today’s mp3 selections.

The Knife “Is It Medicine” – Another wonderful song from The Knife, this one being considerably more aggressive than the lovely ballad “Heartbeats” which I featured a few weeks ago. The Knife’s album isn’t very consistent, but the five or six excellent songs on the record definitely make it a worthwhile acquisition.

Scissor Sisters “Backwoods” – Oh, what a perfect song! It starts out as the kind of wink-wink naughty funk pop that Beck used to do before he decided to become a full-time boring folk singer, and then it turns into (to my ears, anyway) a homage to Level 42’s “Something About You.” When is this record ever going to be commercially released? There are six songs on the record which would be massive pop radio hits if the world were a just place.

The Rogers Sisters “I Don’t Want To Have To Live And Die Like A Dog” – Environmentalist dance punk, how quaint! “It feels so 80s/or early 90s/to be political,” indeed. This is perhaps the closest anyone can come to sounding like Le Tigre without actually being Le Tigre. I don’t mean to sound negative – I really love this song, and I think that you should too.

Carol Douglas “Doctor’s Orders” – Extremely cute disco classic. This may actually be better suited to roller skating than dancing.