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Cheese vs. Scheese!
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by Hayley Foster
Cheese - bad for you, fattening, and involves cruelty to animals
Scheese - Tastes good, much lower in fat and doesn't harm animals in the process
I'm not about to write a debate about the merits of being vegan. Fooled you there! Cheese and scheese apply equally well to music...
Cheesy music is the sort that is played at parties in hired halls and community centres. (Especially at those wedding and anniversaries where all the relations you usually never see tend to hang out).
But cheesy music can be divided into two categories...
Cheese music is really bad for you - and I'm sure it's harmful to animals as well! (at least their ears...)
Cheese songs include things like Agadoo and The Macarena. If a party song has a silly dance to go with it, it's almost definitely a cheese song. And if it ever made it as a Christmas number one it's almost guaranteed to be cheese. These are the songs you should pay people not to play!
The other type is scheese music. A scheese song could easily be mistaken for cheese counterpart... except it's party music that's actually good! A lot of scheese songs are from the 1980's (e.g. Video Killed the Radio Star, You Spin Me Right Round) and there is also a high chance that your local alternative club plays them.
Let's face it, if a song played at your great uncle's 60th birthday party is still acceptable to play in an alternative club, it must be cool, right??
I can bet there's at least one scheese song that holds special memories for you. In my case it's Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations holds many personal memories of good nights with friends and revs me up whenever I hear it.
The next time you're the one hiring a DJ to play a set at a party, make sure you explain you only want scheese music... and NO cheese.
Because everyone needs to boogie to scheese occasionally...
DJ Moonlight's Top 10 Scheese Songs
1. My Sharona - The Knack
2. The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
3. The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
4. Ace of Base - All That She Wants
5. Nena - 99 Red Balloons
6. Banarama - Cruel Summer
7. The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
8. Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round
9. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
10. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
The Worst of Cheese
1. The Macarena - Los De Rio
2. Agadoo - Black Lace
3. Mr. Blobby - Mr. Blobby
4. The Birdie Song - The Tweets
5. Aqua - Barbie Girl
6. Coco cabana - Barry Manilow
7. YMCA - Village People
8. Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
9. Bee Gees - Staying Alive
10. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
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About the author
Hayley Foster lives in the UK and has her own riot grrl internet radio show, Pigtails and Army Boots. By day she works as a floral assistant in a supermarket, but come Sunday she's a rock chick dj - DJ Moonlight Phoenix! Hayley is also a regular activist for both animal rights and environmental issues.
