Toploader - Dancin In The Midnight [britpop]

The story continues where the last entry, with “Dreams” by ohasiTrio, had ended. After sharing the song with a few other friends, one of them asked if I had listened to the “Dancin In The Moonlight” cover (originally by Toploader), which is in the same album as “Dreams”. I hadn’t heard it before and was glad my friend brought it up because it was a good listen.

As an aside, it seems I have a bit of a deficiency when it comes to more upbeat music. Granted, “Dancin In The Moonlight” wouldn’t be characterized as “exuberant” or “ecstatic” but it is at the very least cheerier than the vast majority of my current playlist.

Anyway, the next day, I’m with a few friends, enjoying a sunny late-summer afternoon with a circulating guitar. Eventually someone asks what to play next and someone asks, as one could guess based on the entry so far, “Do you know ‘Dancin In The Midnight’? You know, the one by Toploader”.

But, there is no moral to this story, no greater meaning to be derived, just a pleasantly strange, however transient, sense of cohesion in the backdrop of an otherwise mundane weekend.

Toploader themselves are an English band. "Dancin In The Moonlight" was on their 2000 release Onka's Big Moka. The band went on an extended hiatus following the release of their second album in 2002 due to the disbandment of their label S2. They reconvened to release their third album in 2011 Only Human and since then have continued to be active.