The next six hours

of music have been completed (last night), and, as I spoke to my brother about it, it dawned on me that I actually find the more populist strain of DJing difficult - I can (as you all know) be wilfully obscure with my selections - I think the CDs I send out are testament to that, but once the music needs to pass into the realm of drunken popularity, as it must do when playing for punters in a pub or bar, I find myself limited.

Maybe I simply have fewer bridging tracks amongst the popular tunes - maybe there simply is less crossover potential between 'pop' classics than there is between my usual fare of jazz/soul/funk/reggae/hiphop. Or maybe there is, yet my ears are not attuned to it in the same way - the DJs at the 80's clubs of my youth seemed capable of playing this stuff without the jarring change of song or genre I feel when I try to do it. Maybe I am also too conservative in my view of drunken punters - maybe they are more open-minded after six shandies than I give them credit for?

What are the song(s) you cannot help but get up and dance to after drinking?