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This is a most challenging meme, if only because there are a lot of possible answers for these questions! Very similarly to Day 1's prompt, today's choice is one that has a ton of possible answers. In fact, I have a playlist of songs that I love so much, I never skip them, and there are roughly five thousand songs in that grouping. Of course, some are for different moods so there are some that wouldn't fit my mental state at any given moment but they are all beloved, for whatever reason, to me.
Here's the story of this choice. In Central Park, on days when we aren't having a blizzard or days when it's not below freezing, days that seem like distant memories, there is an area designated for roller skating. If you want to find it, and you're visiting New York on a weekend day some time between Easter Sunday and the last weekend before Halloween, it's Southeast of Strawberry Fields, South by Southwest of the Bethesda Fountain, West of the Bandshell and North by Northeast of the Sheep Meadow.
The organization that runs it is known as the Central Park Dance Skaters Association or CPDSA. And yes, it's all about "dance skating." It's literally dancing on skates. It's been going on in an organized way since the days of boomboxes, when a couple of guys would set up their massive "portable" sound systems on industrial garbage cans at either end of the makeshift rink and call out the station: WBLS! Z100! WKTU! so the person near the other radio would know where to tune for the next great song.
There were a lot of what we called "Skate Anthems," basically songs that made everyone get on their wheels and start moving. And those songs still get played every weekend the skate sessions go on, just because they are crowdpleasers.
To me, foremost among that collection is the song I have selected for today, specifically because of the history, the sound, the message of the lyric, the beat, the elements of the musicianship and of course, because of the association with a part of my life that helps define who I am.
It's gotta be the remix version because that's the very, very best version. If this doesn't make you want to skate, I don't think anything will.
My choice for Day 3 - is Jamiroquai - "Space Cowboy" (David Morales Classic Club Remix)
Here's the story of this choice. In Central Park, on days when we aren't having a blizzard or days when it's not below freezing, days that seem like distant memories, there is an area designated for roller skating. If you want to find it, and you're visiting New York on a weekend day some time between Easter Sunday and the last weekend before Halloween, it's Southeast of Strawberry Fields, South by Southwest of the Bethesda Fountain, West of the Bandshell and North by Northeast of the Sheep Meadow.
The organization that runs it is known as the Central Park Dance Skaters Association or CPDSA. And yes, it's all about "dance skating." It's literally dancing on skates. It's been going on in an organized way since the days of boomboxes, when a couple of guys would set up their massive "portable" sound systems on industrial garbage cans at either end of the makeshift rink and call out the station: WBLS! Z100! WKTU! so the person near the other radio would know where to tune for the next great song.
There were a lot of what we called "Skate Anthems," basically songs that made everyone get on their wheels and start moving. And those songs still get played every weekend the skate sessions go on, just because they are crowdpleasers.
To me, foremost among that collection is the song I have selected for today, specifically because of the history, the sound, the message of the lyric, the beat, the elements of the musicianship and of course, because of the association with a part of my life that helps define who I am.
It's gotta be the remix version because that's the very, very best version. If this doesn't make you want to skate, I don't think anything will.
My choice for Day 3 - is Jamiroquai - "Space Cowboy" (David Morales Classic Club Remix)