{"items": [{"author": "Jan-Willem", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/100580955183019057735", "anchor": "gp-1352301960498", "service": "gp", "text": "I guess 4/4 rules out YYZ by Rush... :-)", "timestamp": 1352301960}, {"author": "Ken", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/104541722876199850443", "anchor": "gp-1352304836730", "service": "gp", "text": "Julie Metcalf rocked my world when she played Nyan Cat at a contra.", "timestamp": 1352304836}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=100822123416722", "anchor": "fb-100822123416722", "service": "fb", "text": "I love the \"Stunt Double\" use of the Cantina Band music from Star Wars, and I have always thought Powerhouse might work, but both of these want sax/brass. Separately I would love it if you added Flying Tent to your repertoire (similar to the Big Bandemonium version, not the PeM version).", "timestamp": "1352308495"}, {"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=100848656747402", "anchor": "fb-100848656747402", "service": "fb", "text": "Call me maybe? 120bpm, 16 beat chorus?", "timestamp": "1352312095"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1352314125019", "service": "gp", "text": "@Jan-Willem\n\u00a0Doesn't have to be 4/4: 2/4, 6/8 and 10/8 should also work. \u00a0But something in 5/4 probably won't work unless you play it twice as fast.\n
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\nListening to YYZ in particular, I think its main downside is not being well enough known. \u00a0If we're going to play with something we want the dancers to recognize it. \u00a0Though maybe I'm just not old enough?", "timestamp": 1352314125}, {"author": "Jonah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=100977690067832", "anchor": "fb-100977690067832", "service": "fb", "text": "Did you check with your bandmates before promising to take requests on Facebook? ;-)", "timestamp": "1352332027"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=101005886731679", "anchor": "fb-101005886731679", "service": "fb", "text": "@Jonah: no promises!", "timestamp": "1352337183"}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=101006206731647", "anchor": "fb-101006206731647", "service": "fb", "text": "I assumed this to be a feedback mechanism, not a request line", "timestamp": "1352337264"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=101006443398290", "anchor": "fb-101006443398290", "service": "fb", "text": "@Phillip: requests are fine, but if I don't think we can make something fun to dance to I'll pass.", "timestamp": "1352337329"}, {"author": "Jonah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=101013343397600", "anchor": "fb-101013343397600", "service": "fb", "text": "The title of your post is \"Songs for the Free Raisins?\" You'd better start learning \"Free Bird,\" my friend.", "timestamp": "1352338170"}, {"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=101020143396920", "anchor": "fb-101020143396920", "service": "fb", "text": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4y-w9eIaUk yo I wanna hear this jam contra dance remix with Jonah", "timestamp": "1352339461"}, {"author": "Jonah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=101021630063438", "anchor": "fb-101021630063438", "service": "fb", "text": "i'm munchin on a poptart at the barclays center with j sidman", "timestamp": "1352339791"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=101027633396171", "anchor": "fb-101027633396171", "service": "fb", "text": "@Alex: I don't think that would be a good match for us.", "timestamp": "1352341165"}, {"author": "Yoyo", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112374925965540306459", "anchor": "gp-1352439235328", "service": "gp", "text": "Some songs with good phrasing:\n
\n- Leaving of Liverpool\n
\n- The Engineer's Drinking Song (only 1/2 length)\n
\n- I'm Gonna Be\n
\n- The Longest Time\n
\n- Cecilia", "timestamp": 1352439235}, {"author": "Ken", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/104541722876199850443", "anchor": "gp-1352727274272", "service": "gp", "text": "Also: Puttin' on the Ritz.", "timestamp": 1352727274}, {"author": "David", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104159509749650", "anchor": "fb-104159509749650", "service": "fb", "text": "Jeff, are you looking for songs people might recognize, or any songs that would fun to dance to?", "timestamp": "1352745588"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104220153076919", "anchor": "fb-104220153076919", "service": "fb", "text": "@David: the combination. We know lots of dance tunes that are fun, but there's something extra you get when people know the song from elsewhere, and we'd like to have a bit more of that sometimes.", "timestamp": "1352750818"}, {"author": "Allison", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104223053076629", "anchor": "fb-104223053076629", "service": "fb", "text": "@Jonahs, is that what you're really doing (down the block from me!) or the name of a new tune? Because I think \"Munching on a poptart at the Barclay's Center\" needs to be written, if it hasn't been already.", "timestamp": "1352751124"}, {"author": "David", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104223329743268", "anchor": "fb-104223329743268", "service": "fb", "text": "Jeff, so by \"the combination,\" you mean that you're looking for more tunes that people recognize from outside of dancing AND that are fun to dance to? You're not looking for non-traditional tunes that would be fun to dance to but that almost nobody will recognize?", "timestamp": "1352751147"}, {"author": "Jonah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104230959742505", "anchor": "fb-104230959742505", "service": "fb", "text": "Alas, Allison, I have not yet seen this Barclay's Center with my own eyes. Last I remember it was a big hole in the ground with seemingly abandoned train tracks--but I hear it's quite fancy now? I also can't remember the last time I saw Jonah, or ate a pop tart. Maybe I'll see all you New Yorkers at the end of December?", "timestamp": "1352751877"}, {"author": "Jonah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104232019742399", "anchor": "fb-104232019742399", "service": "fb", "text": "Is it too late to see Jay Z? ;-)", "timestamp": "1352751988"}, {"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104239063075028", "anchor": "fb-104239063075028", "service": "fb", "text": "Jonah: Jay-Z songs: hard knock life is 77bpm, dirt of your shoulders is 82bpm, h to the izzo is 88bpm, 99 problems is 93bpm(swearing in the chorus isn't helpful) - do you have any other suggestions?", "timestamp": "1352752753"}, {"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104250259740575", "anchor": "fb-104250259740575", "service": "fb", "text": "Other pop that people know but are a bit trickier: I gotta feeling is 128bpm, gangnam style is 133bpm, domino by jessie j is 127bpm, S&M is 128bpm, hot in here is 110bpm, party rock anthem is 128bpm.", "timestamp": "1352753810"}, {"author": "Kim", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104267149738886", "anchor": "fb-104267149738886", "service": "fb", "text": "Second Phillip re: Flying Tent; Best contra tune ever!", "timestamp": "1352755226"}, {"author": "Kim", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104267886405479", "anchor": "fb-104267886405479", "service": "fb", "text": "I liked your Childgrove (at a recent BIDA dance?), but suspect not a lot of other dancers there recognized it. You might check out Lisa Greenleaf's AMP playlists, though she and Clark have to play with the speed controls to make some of those work.", "timestamp": "1352755316"}, {"author": "Kim", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104267996405468", "anchor": "fb-104267996405468", "service": "fb", "text": "There is a *lot* of potential couple dance music out there; I can provide some pointers if that's of interest.", "timestamp": "1352755335"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/100776470087954?comment_id=104301869735414", "anchor": "fb-104301869735414", "service": "fb", "text": "@David: \"You're not looking for non-traditional tunes that would be fun to dance to but that almost nobody will recognize?\"
Right; not looking for those.", "timestamp": "1352759226"}]}