Music League: Roller skating
Songs that rule the rink
- The Pazant Brothers & The Beaufort Express: A Gritty Nitty
It’s a testament to the amount of quality material produced in funk’s heyday that these guys are footnotes at best. I dare you to try sitting still while listening to this. - Shannon: Let the Music Play
“Let the Music Play” is the standard-bearer for freestyle, a genre I strongly associate with my early adolescent roller rink days in the late ’80s. I’m sure the DJ was also spinning plenty of Paula Abdul and Bobby Brown and whatnot, and hair band power ballads were surely happening as well. But for whatever reason, the distinctive electro/synth-pop fusion of Debbie Deb, Exposé, Cover Girls, etc, emanating mostly from NYC and Miami, is imprinted on my memory of those skate nights more than anything else.