Music you would play at a party

[Legmeervogel]

Which songs would you play at a grand party, when there will be a lot of people with different musical taste! Make a top 10 if you like!

[TheImplodingVoice]

Ramones- Blitzkrieg Bop
Depeche Mode-Enjoy the Silence
Blondie-Heart Of Glass
Bjork-Big Time Sensuality
Dick Dale and his Deltones- Misirlou (from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack)
New Order- Subculture
New Order-Blue Monday
Joy Division- Love will tear us apart
David Bowie-Heroes
Love and Rockets-So Alive

All of them ultramainstream and poppy, but extremely good...and danceable

[dufer]

Knowing what the music at those sorts of parties is like I would not want to be associated with it.

[Spaced]

Definitely Born Slippy by Underworld. Also anything by Moby or Chemical Brothers. Nice miscellaneous music.

[Mark E. De Sade]

The Model by Kraftwerk

[vaya con dios]

I don't do parties, so chances are I would just play the same music I like to listen to. That is, anything I damn well please in the first place.

That being said, if I wanted to be a dick I'd play something like... I dunno. Merzbow.

[Mark E. De Sade]

Originally posted by vaya con dios
That being said, if I wanted to be a dick I'd play something like... I dunno. Merzbow. haha, nasty.

Get some early Swans like Cop on the go, some Melt Bannana, some Napalm Death, Carcass, REALLY early Sonic Youth, some fuckin' TG or something, get some Monte Cazazza on the go, that'll teach 'em, Metal Machine Music

[Mister Grieves]

1. "Sexxx Laws" by Beck
2. "Sexxx Laws" by Beck
3. "Sexxx Laws" by Beck
4. "Sexxx Laws" by Beck
5. "Sexxx Laws" by Beck
6. "Sexxx Laws" by Beck
7. "Sexxx Laws" by Beck
8. "Sexxx Laws" by Beck
9. "Sexxx Laws" by Beck
10. "Sexxx Laws" by Beck

There we go.

[Jackal]

All AC/DC.

[Kinbote]

Which sort of party? Because at parties at which I'm getting drunk, I don't much notice what music is being played - I just like the layer of background noise. Whereas if it's a party at which I'm getting coked up, I'm intensely interested in the music, and will want to change it every few minutes, as my whims fly and flail. I don't attend other sorts of parties.

[Narcissistic Nihilist]

The Moldy Peaches

[mixtaper]

!!!

[vaya con dios]

Originally posted by Jackal
All AC/DC.

ahh that's good stuff. only bon, though.

[Gutter Glitter]

Originally posted by vaya con dios

That being said, if I wanted to be a dick I'd play something like... I dunno. Merzbow.

I like you for that.

One time, I made a nice mix cd that had all the music my friend and I liked plus a bunch of silly songs that went with the skanky/sleazy theme of the party. They turned it off and played 50 cent type rap for the rest of the party.

It was AWFUL!!!!!!!!!

[Peter]

for the person that started this thread...

check your PMs.

[twee fangs]

this would be fun:

of montreal: so begins our alabee
mates of state: along for the ride
the zombies: friends of mine
the arcade fire: rebellion
violent femmes: i held her in my arms
the smiths: sheila take a bow
prince: starfish and coffee
beach boys: sloop john b
belle and sebastian: legal man
brian eno: cindy tells me

[vaya con dios]

Don't forget WIRE.

[Herr Lipp]

AudioBully's - My Baby Shot Me Down
Adam F - Circles
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
Tupac - I Dont Give A Fuck
Brand Nubian - Brand Nubian
Spandau Ballet - Gold
Ghostface - Winter Warz
Wu Tang - Shadow Chess Boxing
Faithless - all of 'Sunday 3pm'

then I would take requests. no christmas party is complete without Wham - Last Christmas. One of my favourite christmans songs....swet, sweet 80's :D

[Kris Klam]

A bunch of songs about the finer things in life....drinking, smoking, and women.

Seriously, ain't that what a party is all about?

So, lots of AC/DC!!! The songs are great for drinking/partying, hard riffs and a straight "i don't give a fuck," attitude in the lyrics.

"FORGET A HEARSE CUZ I NEVER DIEEEEEE"

[Kill the Poor]

Notorius BIG
Papoose
Cam'ron
Jefferson Airplane
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Baile Funk
MIA
DJ Caffeine
Antibalas
Common

I think might make everyone moderately happy at some point.

Logic being that Baile Funk and MIA are better than typical Raggaeton.
Jefferson Airplane/CCR is better than Metallica or alternative rock.
Notorius BIG/Papoose/Cam'ron is better than 50 Cent.
DJ Caffeine just because it's better than happy techno.
Antibalas and Common because it's better chill out music than Alicia Keys and Dave Matthews.

[Mary Alice]

Originally posted by vaya con dios
Don't forget WIRE.

I like what I've heard of WIRE. REM did a cover of their song Strange and always talk about being fans so someone posted a few of their songs on a messageboard. I guess I haven't heard that much but they seem wierd-good. (then again wouldn't necessarily play it at a party)

anyways...
ummmmm....first stuff that comes to mind...
first 2 Oasis albums (Danny might laugh at this but they always put me in a good mood and I used to play them in my college dorm all the time and made many a convert)
Outkasts' Aquemeni
The Chronic or Doggystyle just for kicks
Beck - like Odelay or Midnite Vultures
The Cars greatest hits
old B-52's like Rock Lobster, My Own Private Idaho, and "my name is Mary Alice and I am a Sagittarius from Jacksonville, Florida, I like cornbread and rock and roll music..." (oh that's not how it goes...sorry)

good call on Mates of State I like that song...Fluke is it called...where there the high falsetto "oooooh oooh ooooh" at the end (followed by "I'm About to Bust"...that song) I played that album at work after the store closed and we were cleaning up (we can't choose the songs when the store is open) and my co-workers said it made them want pot. I don't know I like them but I get the impression that many people would need drugs, and more than just alcohol, to really like it so I probably wouldn't play it at a party.

I thought of another setlist that's more jazzy...like some big band stuff, and some Jazzy rap, and Les Nubians (A french soul group, these two black girls, they are sisters actually, who sing like angels) and some spanish music. That would be a more sophisticated kinda part-ay.

I've also always wanted one day to have a pool party (I don't have a pool and never desired to get one, but my friend once rented out this clubhouse with a pool for her party, so something like that) and play the Breeders' Last Splash, Belly's Star

[Kelly Kapowski]

last saturday i was partyin it up with kids who were only into hip hop and kids who were into 'indie' shit, and we couldn't agree on music so i said "I KNOW!" and put in Boards of Canada and they turned it off before it was even half way over, god i hate people.

[Kill the Poor]

Originally posted by Kelly Kapowski
last saturday i was partyin it up with kids who were only into hip hop and kids who were into 'indie' shit, and we couldn't agree on music so i said "I KNOW!" and put in Boards of Canada and they turned it off before it was even half way over, god i hate people.

As someone who both listens to indie and hip hop I would have done the same thing.

[Kelly Kapowski]

what, turn it off?

[Kill the Poor]

Originally posted by Kelly Kapowski
what, turn it off?

Yeah :/

aren't indie kids supposed to like rap now anyways... you know, ironically?

[Kelly Kapowski]

god, i'm so mad at you.


fuck if i know, i'm too busy listening to awesome music.

[Reginald I. Perrin]

Either Public Image Ltd. - Careering or Special AKA - The Boiler (feat. Rhoda Dakar). Surely perfect if you're bored of the party and want everyone to leave.

[Reginald I. Perrin]

Originally posted by Floogleberry Hanzelsworth
haha, nasty.

Get some early Swans like Cop on the go, some Melt Bannana, some Napalm Death, Carcass, REALLY early Sonic Youth, some fuckin' TG or something, get some Monte Cazazza on the go, that'll teach 'em, Metal Machine Music

Wouldn't it be great if you were just DJ'ing at a party, playing nice songs...and then suddenly, you throw in "You Suffer"? Just to keep everyone on their toes.

BWWWOOUUGHHH!!!

[Mark E. De Sade]

Originally posted by Reginald I. Perrin
Wouldn't it be great if you were just DJ'ing at a party, playing nice songs...and then suddenly, you throw in "You Suffer"? Just to keep everyone on their toes.

BWWWOOUUGHHH!!! The entire dance floor would jump out of their skin. I must try this.

[fond_farewell]

i would play "party all the time" by Eddie Murphy with the help of Michael Jackson!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 cant go wrong with that!

[Kill the Poor]

Originally posted by fond_farewell
i would play "party all the time" by Eddie Murphy with the help of Michael Jackson!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 cant go wrong with that!

quoted for truth.

[Liam-M]

Metric
Ratatat
Daftpunk

[vaya con dios]

Originally posted by Reginald I. Perrin
Public Image Ltd. - Careering

*processed fuzz tone, low beat*

.....EYYYYAAAAGHHHH!

[Mark E. De Sade]

I actually picked a lot of the music for last night... Chemical Brothers, Hendrix, Soft Cell, Kanye West, MC Hammer... eh.

Oh, and there was no Napalm Death around, but I did manage to play 'Mike Mahan Has Gingivitis'.

[vaya con dios]

I know what I would play. I completely forgot about it... it has a Devo-ish sound. Anyone listen to Six Finger Satellite? That works good.