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Duran Duran “Burning the Ground”

sfilzen — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:24:38 +0000

Duran Duran “Burning the Ground” 1989. I don’t remember that many people’s birthdays, but Simon LeBon’s is permanently embedded in my brain — today, October 27th is Simon’s 68th birthday (b. 1958). This is the 12″ single of their stand-alone single released to promote Duran Duran’s comp LP Decade (also released in 1989). “Burning the Ground” is itself a compilation/mashup of their biggest hit singles up to that point; the song was not included on Decade however. It actually charted (well, I’m not surprised as it is a dance floor banger), going to #31 in the UK and making the US Dance/Club chart at #23. It did even better in Italy for some reason, hitting #2 over there. Side A of the 12″ has the aforementioned “Burning the Ground” plus a couple versions of “Decadence” – the regular version and the Extended Mix. That song is also a mashup of their old hits but is even more sampled (heavy on “Save a Prayer,” “The Reflex” and “Notorious”) and instrumental than “Burning the Ground.”

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Madonna “Finally Enough Love”

sfilzen — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:04:39 +0000

Madonna “Finally Enough Love” 2022 on clear vinyl. This past weekend was the Queen of Pop’s birthday (b. 1958) so I’m putting on this abridged vinyl release of her 2022 Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones remix compilation that celebrated the milestone of her having 50 number one tracks on the Billboard dance club songs chart. The 50-track release would be kinda cool but I honestly don’t even have time for a double LP (which this is) so I’m pretty ok with this 16-track version. The songs range from the early 80’s (the lead track is “Everybody (You Can Dance Remix edit)” from 1982 (on her first demo tape and then on her ’83 debut LP Madonna) all the way to the 2020 single “I Don’t Search I Find (Honey Dijon Radio Mix).” For many reasons the earlier material on the comp is my favorite: “Into the Groove (You Can Dance Remix Edit)” will always be one of my top 80’s tracks of all-time ever (1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan was my everything for a minute that year). “Vogue (single version)” is another one – it’s from 1990 but in my head it is still 80’s as I associate it with going to dance clubs in the Fox Valley (probably The Option in Green Bay, long gone) most likely on break from freshman year at college. There’s a few songs from the 90’s that I don’t really know at all but then we get into the early 2000’s: “Music (Deep Dish Dot Com Radio Edit)” and “Hung Up (SDP Extended Vocal Edit)” from 2005 which samples most excellently ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” After that I’m lost again – I think I know the early 2000 material because we finally got cable around that time and I was watching a good deal of VH1 for a minute, until VH1 went the stupid direction that MTV did and no longer played videos. Anyway, I don’t know the songs from the 2010’s either. All are very Madonna and are obviously highly danceable, in a very #1 kind of way.

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Deee-Lite “Groove is the Heart”

sfilzen — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:32:46 +0000

Deee-Lite “Groove is the Heart” 1990. 12″ single. One of my favorite dance songs of all-time, infectiously funky with the added of bonus of Bootsy Collins (Parliament/Funkadelic) on guest vocals along with a mid-song rap by Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest). The 12″ has two versions of “Groove is in the Heart” – the Meeting of the Minds Mix and the Peanut Butter Mix. Both are fairly similar to the single, which hit #4 on the US single chart, #1 on the dance chart and #2 in the UK, with the Meeting of the Minds Mix slightly longer than the single; the Peanut Butter Mix is about the same in length but omits Bootsy and Q-Tip entirely. (The Peanut Butter mix was the version released in the UK.) The track consists of a lot of different samples including a few of the following: Herbie Hancock’s “Bring Down the Birds,” Vernon Burch’s “Get Up,” Ralph MacDonald’s “Jam on the Groove,” The Headhunters “God Make Me Funky” and theme from Green Acres. In 1990 I had no clue about any of those samples and didn’t know who Q-Tip was (I did know about Bootsy, though!) but still danced my ass off at many house parties that fall while at college in Madison. The B-side is “What Is Love” with two versions, Holographic Goatee Mix and Rainbow Beard Mix. It’s more of a slow-groove, hypnotic dance track for later in the evening after the adrenaline high has worn off at the club.

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