Time Out magazine's 100 best party songs - "guaranteed floorfillers"
I was following down some wikipedia rabbithole, reading about Lady Miss Kier losing lawsuit against sega, when I found this. Thought I'd post for its shitness.
Imagine you're at a dance party, and the DJ leads with this set list:
‘Everywhere’ – Fleetwood Mac (their number 4)
‘Brown Eyed Girl’ – Van Morrison
‘This Charming Man’ – The Smiths
hey, at least some morrisey fan shoegazers are dancing, so it's time to drop some....
‘You Can Call Me Al’ – Paul Simon
‘Sweet Child o' Mine’ – Guns N' Roses
‘Fancy’ – Iggy Azalea
I don't know if they make eccys strong enough
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 1:15,
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Having done a very few pro, non-genre DJ spots
- these are exactly the kind of thing that you have to have in your collection to please the cloth-eared nincompoop crowd.
If you have the luxury of playing at a genre club or event, then you can be more creative in your playlists - but playing a wedding? You'd better have the fucking Birdy Song.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 8:34,
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as a retired DJ I concur with this statement
You must also carry at least one Nolans album and a shed load of Abba.
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TBL I posted this on, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 14:04,
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Good god the fucking abba
I used to play student nights in the late 90s - we took requests (because students, in the 90s) and in a 2hr set I’d get at least half a dozen requests for dancing queen. Any attempt to explain we played it 5 minutes ago was met with wailing and gnashing if teeth that could only be placated with Waterloo.
To this day I can’t fucking stand abba.
Or chumbafuckingwamba
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LP, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 20:59,
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No idea. You can sing it all day long.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 9:38,
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They mostly seem good pop songs
that have been so overplayed that you never want to hear them again.
I'd enjoy going to a night that played the b-side from every one of them.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sun 23 Aug 2020, 10:15,
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I don't doubt that these were all pop songs of variable success, but the "guaranteed floorfillers" suggests these are song that people particularly like to dance to
you watch as you put on "fancy" as people stand around awkwardly wondering how to dance to a song with a nonrhythmic sparse bass line, no beat, and a long rap bridge in the middle of the song. Graceland was good album, but a party album to get people up and dancing? not quite, more for listening to on a long drive. ditto brown eyed girl with its time changes. Dancing queen is a floor filler because it's easy to dance to, catchy hook to a disco beat. Anyway, it's just some internet fodder article, but i reckon there's crap choices in there by any criteria
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 24 Aug 2020, 2:29,
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I've got a list of my favourite 100 party songs
but they're all really obscure, and you've probably never heard of them.
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