184. "Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai
This was a favorite song of mine while I was going to graduate school and working at Utah State. I often listened to several Jamiroquai albums while I typed out HTML code for my work projects. Jamiroquai has a lot of outstanding music, and I actually started to like his other songs more than this one. But then something completely unexpected happened in 2004 that not only made this song my favorite Jamiroquai song, but also thrust it into top 200 territory--Napoleon Dynamite.
Napoleon Dynamite is the only film in which I experienced genuine shock at the high school flashbacks I had while watching it. I'd been in Preston High School for various sports and drama events, and on the inside it looked pretty much like Marsh Valley High School. The clothes looked like ones we would have worn in high school. The people they rounded up as extras looked like the people I had known in my youth. And the outdoor scenes of the homes and the fields triggered memories of Arimo that were so vivid that the film kind of felt a bit surreal the first time I watched it.
The climax of the film is when Napoleon helps Pedro become student body president by dancing to "Canned Heat" in front of the whole school. He only dances to the first part of the song in the film, which was kind of a disappointment since it was such a funny scene. I really wanted to see more of that Dynamite boogie! Fortunately, some enterprising fans have figured out how to make Napoleon dance for the entire song.
Yeah, it looks pretty sweet. It looks awesome. That dance, it's... it's incredible.
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