As if I needed another reminder of the rapid graying of baby boomers … Rolling Stone polled its readers, asking them to name their favorite "dance" songs (on the occasion of Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" continuing run at the top of the singles chart).

The results were rather grim, another reminder of the growing creakiness of the mag's readership. No knock on RS; it at least tries to be hip and contemporary. But by the looks of this list, they're not accumulating much of a youth readership.

Not until No. 8 — Justice's “D.A.N.C.E.” — do we get to an actual dance song. Without doing the math, all but a handful of the 15 reader selections were more than 20, 30, even 40 years old.

Most readers went with a song that had "dance" in the title —numbers by Abba, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, The Beatles and Tom Petty made the survey.

The winner: Elton John's "Tiny Dancer."

Y'see gang, back in the  olden days we had his thing called a "slow dance."

Here's the complete list.

This article appears in Jan 21-27, 2009.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...