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Now! That's What I Call What I Call Dance Classics

Various Artists
1 disc

1. Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C+C Music Factory
2. C'mon N' Ride It (the Train) - Quad City DJ's
3. It Takes Two - DJ E-Z Rock/Rob Base
4. Bust a Move - Young MC
5. U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
6. Push It - Salt-N-Pepa
7. Rumpshaker - Wreckx-N-Effect
8. Humpin' Around - Bobby Brown
9. Real Love - Jody Watley
10. You Dropped a Bomb On Me - The Gap Band
11. Word Up! - Cameo
12. Shake Your Body (Down To the Ground) - The Jacksons
13. Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind & Fire
14. It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
15. Straight Up - Paula Abdul
16. Finally - Ce Ce Peniston
17. Pump Up the Jam - Technotronic
18. What is Love - Haddaway
19. Beautiful Life - Ace of Base
20. I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
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Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 60492
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The tracks selected for NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL DANCE CLASSICS span four decades, but just over half of the disc pulls from the late '80s and early '90s, highlighted by Jody Watley's "Real Love," Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock's "It Takes Two," and Paula Abdul's "Straight Up." As to whether the songs are all classic, it's debatable. Who, in his or her right mind, would place Quad City DJs' "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" on the same plane as the Gap Band's "You Dropped a Bomb on Me," Earth, Wind & Fire's "Boogie Wonderland," and the Jacksons' "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)"? (Well, to be fair, quite a lot of people born after 1980.) Useful for parties and novice wedding DJs, but quite a bit arbitrary selection-wise. Sony could make a hundred other volumes of similar scope, and maybe they will.