hypersongs

Make Them Dance

The opening track of the 1980 debut and Defunkt's most played song.
Defunkt, from Defunkt (1980)

It opens side A of the Hannibal debut. We found no writer credit. Other versions run 6:49 on The Legend of Defunkt Vol. 1, 6:58 live on Live at Channel Zero (Ljubljana, 2015) and a Stuttgart 1996 live album, so we cannot say which one our upload is. Setlist.fm logs five performances, the most of any Defunkt song among 43 logged song plays; the latest is the Bimhuis in Amsterdam on July 3, 2026. JazzTimes, as summarized in search, called it the first cut on the debut and said it embodies the band's approach, and Bowie describes the band's power as the Voodoo. John Morrison of Jazz Right Now called the live opener a showboating funk jam with a bold call and response horn line. We found no chart, video, covers or samples.

On stage

  • 2015, Channel Zero, Ljubljana Released on Live at Channel Zero (2016).

Sources

  1. Defunkt, Riviera Records
  2. Defunkt: Live at Channel Zero, Jazz Right Now (2016-07)
  3. Defunkt song statistics, setlist.fm