“Go!” by Tones on Tail

"Go!" began as a B-side: Tones on Tail tucked it behind "Lions" on a single in May 1984, the same year the English post-punk band released Pop, the only studio album they ever made. That version ran a brisk 2:33, while the 12-inch stretched it into a Club Mix of 4:33, and the dance floors took it from there. It was a club hit before it was ever an A-side, though it eventually got a single of its own.

Daniel Ash wrote the words and shares the music credit with Glenn Campling and Kevin Haskins, and the band produced it themselves: post-punk with its dancing shoes laced up tight. AllMusic later counted it among the records that defined new wave dance in the early '80s, an odd duck that filled floors anyway.

The song has kept surfacing ever since. Moby sampled it in 1990 for a dance hit of his own with the same title, it played in Grosse Pointe Blank in 1997 and landed on the second volume of that film's soundtrack, and it turned up again in the 2003 cult film Party Monster.

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