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Question: Help find the title of this 80's song

Baud — Mon, 28 May 2007 01:48:27 -0800

Help find the title of this 80's song that's stuck in my head...

There is a fragment of this song is stuck in my head. Please help me identify it so I can get rid of it. Here are the clues :

- definitely eighties/new wavish/pop with electronic instruments. (think " a flock of seagull", "thompson twin" etc.)

- synthesizer keyboard riff is this song's signature, directly leading to...

- lyrics (maybe the chorus ?) are using the words "dance around the world" or something sounding like that.

It's not the B52's "dance this mess around".

I have a hunch it's by a one-song-and-they're-gone band. But I could be wrong.

thanks in advance !

By: Yorrick

Yorrick — Mon, 28 May 2007 01:57:23 -0800

Safety Dance?

By: Baud

Baud — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:05:56 -0800

Close but no cigar. Definitely that genre, that kind of band and that era but not that song. Sorry.

By: SoftRain

SoftRain — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:06:25 -0800

It's not Daft Punk's "Around the World," is it? It's not from the 80s, but it sounds like it could be, in that it consists of synthesizer beats and the words "around the world" repeated a lot.

By: Baud

Baud — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:10:27 -0800

Not Daft Punk's either. It's definitely from the eighties.

By: wemayfreeze

wemayfreeze — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:23:49 -0800

I'm going to go with "Dance Around the World" by Delta Queens? Off the Initial D album? Don't know a thing about 'em, but you can find the track here.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:25:26 -0800

Could it be Rick Springfield's "Dance This World Away"? (Video directed by David Fincher, just by the way.)

By: Baud

Baud — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:28:18 -0800

sorry to disappoint but it's not that one. I think a need a backwards time-travelling machine to find that one...

By: wemayfreeze

wemayfreeze — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:28:36 -0800

Actually, it may just have been used in the Initial D anime. Not sure. Can't find much about 'em.

By: mandlebrotz

mandlebrotz — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:45:50 -0800

could it be pop goes the world? also by men without hats.

By: wemayfreeze

wemayfreeze — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:47:46 -0800

Arrite, how about Dance Around the World by Richenel?

By: Baud

Baud — Mon, 28 May 2007 03:46:30 -0800

thanks hive ! thanks wemayfreeze ! that's the one !

By: wemayfreeze

wemayfreeze — Mon, 28 May 2007 12:14:15 -0800

For reference, I found it by Googling

"dance around the world" 80s