Madonna's playing at the Padres' ballpark tonight, but she's not the first thing I associate with "aerobic old school." Neither is Flashdance, which I never saw during the '80s, and while my mom's favorite movie was Footloose, she didn't show it to us till we were teens (because of the language). I used to call the sounds on this playlist "Jazzercise" music. It's synthesizers (meaning totally '80s), but also urban, upbeat, and happy (call that gay, if you must - but what I mean is that you just can't hear this and stay sad). I was first exposed to songs like "Tell It To My Heart" by Taylor Dayne (see below) and "Nasty Boys" by Janet Jackson (sorry, not included) on the 1987 Disney TV special, Totally Minnie, which featured the guy from Revenge of the Nerds getting lessons on hipness from Suzanne Somers. San Diego has a radio station, Magic 92.5 (stream it here), that calls itself "old school" and that's what made me realize the rest of the world already has a term for "jazzercise" music.
1. "She Wants to Dance With Me" - Rick Astley
2. "Tell It to My Heart" - Taylor Dayne
3. "Sussudio" - Phil Collins
4. "So Emotional" - Whitney Houston
5. "Let's Hear It for the Boy" - Deniece Williams
6. "Who's Johnny" - DeBarge
7. "Get Outta My Dreams (Get into My Car)" - Billy Ocean
8. "I Feel For You" - Chaka Khan; one of my top 20 songs of all time
9. "Freeway of Love" - Aretha Franklin
10. "Into the Groove" - Madonna
11. "Crush on You" - The Jets
12. "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" - Jane Child
13. "Perfect Way" - Scritti Politti
14. "Point of No Return" - Expose
15. "I Can't Wait" - Nu Shooz
16. "Jump (For My Love)" - The Pointer Sisters
17. "She Works Hard for the Money" - Donna Summer
OUT TODAY ON DVD: WATERWORLD (2-disc Special Edition, but didn't people complain it was already too long?)
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