Mixtape: Nineties vs. Now – Party Anthems

In the past decade, there has been one thing that has remained constant in my life: there’s nothing I enjoy more than a solid party track. Whether I was a bumbling teenager, busy funnelling water back into the bottles of my friends’ parents’ liquor cabinet to replace the vodka and rum we drank while they were on vacation, a completely lush bar star in my undergraduate years at my STFXU’s bar “The Golden X Inn,” or raving at an underground after-hours club in the almost-continuously-winter-locked city of Edmonton, I was quite literally unable to deny the forces of party anthems from taking over my seemingly possessed body. These are the songs that inspire girls to throw their hands up in the air, scream and dance with so much gusto you’d swear they were auditioning for So You Think You Can Dance. So put on these tracks, grab your favourite alcoholic beverage, and put your inhibitions to the side―there’s no room for them where this mix is about to take you!

Listen to the mixtape here: 8tracks.com/the_concordian/90s_vs_now

SIDE A: The 90s

1. “Pump Up the Jam” – Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam: The Album (1989 – close enough)
2. “Gonna Make You Sweat” – C+C Music Factory – Gonna Make You Sweat (1990)
3. “Baby Got Back” – Sir Mix-A-Lot – Mack Daddy (1992)
4. “Mr. Vain” – Culture Beat – Single (1993)
5. “Rhythm of the Night” – Corona – The Rhythm of the Night (1993)
6. “Whatta Man” – Salt-N-Pepa – Very Necessary (1993)
7. “U.N.I.T.Y.” – Queen Latifah – Black Reign (1994)
8. “Pony” – Ginuwine – Ginuwine… The Bachelor (1996)
9. “Lollipop (Candyman)” – Aqua – Aquarium (1997)
10. “Jumpin’ Jumpin’” – Destiny’s Child – The Writing On the Wall (1999)

SIDE B: Now

11. “Work It” – Missy Elliott – Under Construction (2002)
12. “Satisfaction” – Benny Benassi – Hypnotica (2003)
13. “Let’s Get it Started” – Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk (2003)
14. “Hey Ya!” – Outkast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)
15. “Dance Like This” – Wyclef Jean ft. Claudette – Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
16. “Promiscuous Girl” – Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland – Loose (2006)
17. “Gimme More” – Britney Spears – Blackout (2007)
18. “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” – Beyoncé – I Am…Sasha Fierce (2008)
19. “Just Dance” – Lady Gaga ft. Colby Odonis – The Fame (2008)
20. “I Gotta Feeling” – Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. (2009)

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