Probably due to the great commercial success of their studio album TRUE BLUE mid 80 published Warner at that time a dance album titled YOU CAN DANCE, which picks up the partytauglichsten songs of Madonna and the new pass each DJ-typical love. HOLIDAY, EVERYBODY INTO THE GROOVE, and belong to the title list and are combined in the mix with the non-single-Releases Physical Attraction, OVER AND OVER and WHERE'S THE PARTY. They do not sound much like the familiar album versions, but have been drawn as slightly different remix versions in the length to be a bona fide Tanzplatte justice. Fans who already own Madonna's first greatest hits album The Immaculate COLLECTION will recognize the successful alternative version of Into The Groove, this has been adopted in a shortened version to the best of. As icing on the cake gets the hardcore fan the nice uptempo number SPOTLIGHT presents that made it so far in any other Madonna compilation and leads to a small supplement of the catalog. For the CD version, the title list was supplemented by the way, three mixes that are missing on the record otherwise congruent. These are so-called Dub versions of HOLIDAY, INTO THE GROOVE and WHERE'S THE PARTY, where ostensibly the instrumental to the actual songs comes into its own, very similar to the early 12 "-Vinylsingles - a rather harmless additive Vinyl Friends certainly not animated for CD purchase.
Conclusion: The name of the album says it all. To Madonna's songs from the 80s to dance but happy, even if these mild-mixed compilation covers by no means all the classics of the decade. Furthermore, provides the sampler until SPOTLIGHT nothing really new and therefore YOU CAN DANCE is objectively only recycled song material that happy again asks the really tough for fans of the brand name Madonna to checkout. All newcomers should rather resort to a pure greatest hits compilation as CELEBRATION.