C[o]m[e] on feel the noise!

[Pheidippides]

I am chaperoning a church dance this evening with my wife. It is themed around the 80s.

I am listening to the music (a mix of modern and 80s music) and am struck buy the number of songs that are wildly inappropriate for church dances that we play anyway. Heard this evening:

- Let's Dance (the lady gaga song - stops just short of describing gaga as shitfaced).
- Whip It
- Cum on Feel The Noise (maybe it is just the "cum" part?)


I think back to my youth/college years and several others come to mind. Mambo #5, YMCA, etc.

I don't care at all but think its interesting.

[Portland Ute]

I am chaperoning a church dance this evening with my wife. It is themed around the 80s.

I am listening to the music (a mix of modern and 80s music) and am struck buy the number of songs that are wildly inappropriate for church dances that we play anyway. Heard this evening:

- Let's Dance (the lady gaga song - stops just short of describing gaga as shitfaced).
- Whip It
- Cum on Feel The Noise (maybe it is just the "cum" part?)


I think back to my youth/college years and several others come to mind. Mambo #5, YMCA, etc.

I don't care at all but think its interesting.

Cum on feel the noi-oise....girls rock your boys. Get wild...wild...wild...

Hilarious they are playing that a church dance.

[wuapinmon]

I had a calling to DJ stake dances in the early 90's in the Marietta Georgia East Stake. I had to meet with the Stake Youth Committee to review songs to come up with appropriate playlists. That is, I had the calling until I played "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on a whim--I had bought it that week, and it was brand new and all the rage. The crowd went wild. Like really wild.

Some stake presidency member actually came over and put on Phil Collins' "Sussudio" as the next song. Then they just played U2 and Joe Jackson songs all night because I guess that's what some of the leaders had in their car.

I was never ever asked to DJ a dance again.

[Mrs. Funk]

Our DJ at stake dances (I'm in my 20s, get over it) stopped playing Blink 182's "All the Small Things" due to a comparatively veiled reference to cunnilingus pointed out by a fellow suck-up stake dance attendee. It was not a popular decision.

[Viking]

I can't really think of many songs that are in the popular category that don't have some form of sexual, drug, or violent innuendo.

I guess you could play Radiohead but that's not exactly dancing music.

[Commando]

I remember when Rump Shaker got blacklisted from stake dances.

I listen to it now and laugh that it ever got played in the first place.

[doctorcoug]

Ice Ice Baby

[Viking]

Ice Ice Baby

I went to a multi-stake dance at BYU while visiting our developmentally arrested cousins in Provo when I was 16. I saw my cousin bust out a perfectly coordinated Hammer dance with his friend Tony. I decided I could not be close friends with him any more after witnessing that.

[CJF]

This is something Utah Mormons could make fun of non-Utah Mormons. Stake dances? Weird. I did not go to a "church" dance until I was about 23. It was at Saltair. I thought it was pretty boring so I headed upstairs to watch the silliness from above. There I witnessed the only enjoyable part of the night. Two girls who had also decided to head upstairs. They were locked into a serious make out session. I was caught off guard and embarrassed so I headed to the other side. First and last church dance I attended.

[TripletDaddy]

This is something Utah Mormons could make fun of non-Utah Mormons. Stake dances? Weird. I did not go to a "church" dance until I was about 23. It was at Saltair. I thought it was pretty boring so I headed upstairs to watch the silliness from above. There I witnessed the only enjoyable part of the night. Two girls who had also decided to head upstairs. They were locked into a serious make out session. I was caught off guard and embarrassed so I headed to the other side. First and last church dance I attended.

You should make fun of your stake for having lame dances in your youth. SoCal stake dances were the place to be, not just for the Mos. Some of the dances were DJd by KROQ. Hundreds of kids coming from all over the place, and in some instances, you would have over a thousand kids at a Tri-stake dance. The Hacienda Heights dances were stuff of legend when I was in HS.

The kids here dont know what they are missing. I have never understood why they are not a big deal here given that there are so many kids and they have nothing else really to do. The dances here could be great for the youth.

[Pheidippides]

This is something Utah Mormons could make fun of non-Utah Mormons. Stake dances? Weird. I did not go to a "church" dance until I was about 23. It was at Saltair. I thought it was pretty boring so I headed upstairs to watch the silliness from above. There I witnessed the only enjoyable part of the night. Two girls who had also decided to head upstairs. They were locked into a serious make out session. I was caught off guard and embarrassed so I headed to the other side. First and last church dance I attended.

We had stake dances all the time when I was growing up. Usually I met at the church and then skipped off to make out with my girlfriend.

[Katy Lied]

You should make fun of your stake for having lame dances in your youth. SoCal stake dances were the place to be, not just for the Mos. Some of the dances were DJd by KROQ. Hundreds of kids coming from all over the place, and in some instances, you would have over a thousand kids at a Tri-stake dance. The Hacienda Heights dances were stuff of legend when I was in HS.

The kids here dont know what they are missing. I have never understood why they are not a big deal here given that there are so many kids and they have nothing else really to do. The dances here could be great for the youth.

Our stake was the same way. I'd get asked by non-mo kids in my school if they could go to church dances. To please let them know when they were. We also had a decent budget for live bands, so I got lots of bands asking how they could get a gig.

And SoCal dances were huge fun. I remember the church renting out entire malls in the OC, and stationing different types of music at each mall cul de sac. Big Bands, DJs, disco, rock, all different kinds. You could walk the mall and dance every style.

I think DDD has made fun of Mr. Sun in the past, but those dances were a blast. Lots of non member guys found their way to Mr. Sun. There were so many non members, I really did ask a lot of them what ward they went to.

[TripletDaddy]

Our stake was the same way. I'd get asked by non-mo kids in my school if they could go to church dances. To please let them know when they were. We also had a decent budget for live bands, so I got lots of bands asking how they could get a gig.

And SoCal dances were huge fun. I remember the church renting out entire malls in the OC, and stationing different types of music at each mall cul de sac. Big Bands, DJs, disco, rock, all different kinds. You could walk the mall and dance every style.

I think DDD has made fun of Mr. Sun in the past, but those dances were a blast. Lots of non member guys found their way to Mr. Sun. There were so many non members, I really did ask a lot of them what ward they went to.

We would have a regular contingent of NoMos making the rounds at the stake dance circuit where I grew up. Dance cards made more sense because you had kids that really had no idea what the exact rules were at these things. Girls getting turned away for dressing inappropriately quickly learned the ropes and by the next week, they weren't wearing miniskirts to dances

Thousand Oaks stake dances were always well attended. Every Saturday there was a dance within a 20 minute drive....Newbury Park, Westlake, Ventura, Camarillo, Simi. The closest Tri Stake dances were at Northridge. They had a massive stake center but sometimes they would rent out CSUN. And once we were sophomores, we made our way out to Hacienda Heights for the KROQ dances.

Technically, I was a NoMo at the time but it was always interesting to see NoMos that would otherwise be foul mouthed or poorly behaved at school show up to the stake dance wearing their tie and saying "yes sir" or "no thank you, ma'am."

As an adult, i chaperoned my share of irvine and Newport stake dances. The Irvine ones were the local regional hub dances. Always packed. Hundreds of kids.

I have heard of the mall dances but never attended one as OC was so far away when you are still in HS. Stake dances were so much fun. Utah could be the global epicenter for youth dances if it would get its act together.

[Surfah]

We would have a regular contingent of NoMos making the rounds at the stake dance circuit where I grew up. Dance cards made more sense because you had kids that really had no idea what the exact rules were at these things. Girls getting turned away for dressing inappropriately quickly learned the ropes and by the next week, they weren't wearing miniskirts to dances

Thousand Oaks stake dances were always well attended. Every Saturday there was a dance within a 20 minute drive....Newbury Park, Westlake, Ventura, Camarillo, Simi. The closest Tri Stake dances were at Northridge. They had a massive stake center but sometimes they would rent out CSUN. And once we were sophomores, we made our way out to Hacienda Heights for the KROQ dances.

Technically, I was a NoMo at the time but it was always interesting to see NoMos that would otherwise be foul mouthed or poorly behaved at school show up to the stake dance wearing their tie and saying "yes sir" or "no thank you, ma'am."

As an adult, i chaperoned my share of irvine and Newport stake dances. The Irvine ones were the local regional hub dances. Always packed. Hundreds of kids.

I have heard of the mall dances but never attended one as OC was so far away when you are still in HS. Stake dances were so much fun. Utah could be the global epicenter for youth dances if it would get its act together.

Our stake dances rocked and were well attended by non-mos as well. Even when we didn't have a tri-stake dance, lots of other stakes would show up anyway. We'd get kids from San Fernando, Ventura, Santa Paula and Palmdale/Lancaster all the time. It seemed like each stake held their dances a different weekend so everyone would basically do the stake dance circuit. After our stake dances we'd head up to hamburger hill and hit up In-N-Out or Denny's. Also, all of our dances were casual dress.

[Clark Addison]

When I was about 16, I was a member of the Stake Youth Dance Music committee. I don't remember much about it except for getting in a fairly major argument about the propriety of playing Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop".

I was kind of a modern-day Voltaire, having no personal desire myself to hear "She Bop", but defending to the death Ms. Lauper's right to have it played at a Mormon dance.