Party music help!

[Johnnytheboy]

Having recently - and perhaps accurately - been called a "cretinous idiot" on another music thread, I am looking to my superiors for help.

As a 39 year old I have long since stopped buying music by new artists, and even when I did it was never what you might call pop (think old rock/grunge/metal/rap/the nasty end of techno/etc.).

I'm having a big party in a few weeks. I've got the booze, food, stereo, guest list, accomodation, etc. sorted, but I don't have any music to put on for the ~8 hours it will last.

Guest list includes my oldest friends, neighbours, 76 year old father and some teenage staff from the local pub.

I intend to assemble a USB stick of music specifically for the party and I am looking for recommendations, as so far I have a bit of paper with "Motown? Disco?" written on it.

Recommendations of individual tracks or whole albums worth acquiring please.

[illmonkey]

A recent playlist of mine. Some old, some new, some classics, some cheesy, some dance, some slow, you get the idea.

I also suggest getting Spotify. I paid £10 for a months subscription, downloaded it all (offline mode) to my laptop and just pressed play. Its legal too!

Nena – 99 Red Balloons
Calvin Harris – Acceptable In The 80's
The Kinks – All Day And All Of The Night
blink-182 – All The Small Things
The Who – Baba O'Riley - Original Version
Pitbull – Back in Time - featured in "Men In Black 3"
Michael Jackson – Bad
Madness – Baggy Trousers
Michael Jackson – Beat It - Single Version
Chris Brown – Beautiful People
Weezer – Beverly Hills
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean - Single Version
New Order – Blue Monday [88]
Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha - The Norman Cook Remix (Single Version)
The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup
Katy Perry – California Gurls - feat. Snoop Dogg
Blondie – Call Me
Kylie Minogue – Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head
Kool & The Gang – Celebration - Single Version
Dexy's Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe - Original Version
Journey – Don't Stop Believin'
Queen – Don't Stop Me Now
Simple Minds – Don't You (Forget About Me)
The Coral – Dreaming Of You
Labrinth – Earthquake feat.Tinie Tempah - Full Version
Philip Bailey Duet with Phil Collins – Easy Lover
Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Labrinth – Express Yourself
Survivor – Eye Of The Tiger
Katy Perry – Firework
Irene Cara – Flashdance...What A Feeling
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want To Have Fun
KC & The Sunshine Band – Give It Up
Spandau Ballet – Gold
Daniel Bedingfield – Gotta Get Thru This - Radio Edit
Blondie – Heart Of Glass
Bonnie Tyler – Holding Out For A Hero
Dizzee Rascal – Holiday
Roxette – How Do You Do!
The Rolling Stones – (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - (Original Single Mono Version)
Calvin Harris – I Created Disco
Divinyls – I Touch Myself
Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes – (I've Had) The Time Of My Life
Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
Rick Springfield – Jessie's Girl
The Pointer Sisters – Jump (For My Love)
Shannon – Let The Music Play
Chase & Status – Let You Go
Fleetwood Mac – Little Lies
Ricky Martin – Livin' La Vida Loca
Bon Jovi – Livin' On A Prayer
Erasure – Love To Hate You
Michael Sembello – Maniac
Swedish House Mafia – Miami 2 Ibiza
The Shamen – Move Any Mountain (Beat Edit)
The Knack – My Sharona
Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up
Barenaked Ladies – One Week
Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart
The Stranglers – Peaches
Duran Duran – Planet Earth
Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
Salt-N-Pepa – Push It
S Club 7 – Reach - Original Version
Calvin Harris – Ready For The Weekend
The Clash – Rock The Casbah
Herbie Hancock – Rockit - Single Version
Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
David Guetta – Sexy bh (feat. Akon)
Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy
The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Utah Saints – Something Good
Bryan Adams – Summer Of '69
a-ha – Take On Me
Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag - Explicit Album Version
Europe – The Final Countdown
Roxette – The Look
blink-182 – The Rock Show
Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance
Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody
RUN-DMC – Walk This Way
Fun. – We Are Young - feat. Janelle Monáe
Rihanna – We Found Love
blink-182 – What's My Age Again?
Billy Ocean – When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
Bronski Beat – Why?
The Cult – Wild Flower
Calvin Harris – You Used To Hold Me

[Hoofy]

Just leave the hifi tuned in to Absolute Radio. http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/

[Johnnytheboy]

That's just the kind of list of suggestions I was hoping for.

Absolute Radio is a fallback position too - good call.

[Hoofy]

It's what I did.

[anonymous-user]

Illmonkey's list is 95% excellent IMO, although I personally would have thrown in some INXS such as Need U Tonight.
Also good for partys are LCD Soundsystem and a bit of Rythm Stick by Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

[Johnnytheboy]

"95% excellent"



Couldn't you just say "very good"?

Keep the suggestions coming!

[The Hypno-Toad]

illmonkey said:

A very, very good playlist for a party.

[The Hypno-Toad]

Anyway here's a few of mine;

ABC - The Look Of Love
A-ha - Take On Me
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
The Archies - Sugar Sugar
Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall
The Beat - Too Nice To Talk To
Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall
Britney Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time
Britney Spears - Toxic
Cat Stevens - Another Saturday Night
Deepdish - Flashdance
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin'
Fatboy Slim - Sho Nuff
George Michael - Too Funky
House Of Pain - Jump Around
The Human Beinz - Nobody But Me
Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Stool Pigeon
Kylie Minogue - Your Disco Needs You
Len - Steal My Sunshine
Level 42 - Livin' It Up
M - Pop Muzik
Madness - Night Boat To Cairo
Madonna - Over & Over
Madonna - Hung Up
Mylo - In My Arms
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky
Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
Robert Palmer - Clues
Pete Heller - Big Love
Pet Shop Boys - Go West
Phil Feron & Galaxy - Everybody's Laughing
The Power Station - Get It On
Primal Scream - Rocks
Prince - Delirious
Prince - Kiss
Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone
St Etienne - You're In A Bad Way
St Etienne - He's On The Phone
Scritti Politti - Wood Beez
Soft Cell - What?
Sonny J - Can't Stop Moving
The Source Featuring Candi Staton - You've Got The Love
Spandau Ballet - Chant No1
Squeeze - Cool For Cats
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Strike - U Sure Do
Sugababes - Freak Like Me
Sugababes - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Sylvester - You Make Me Feel
The Superman Lovers - Starlight
The Teardrop Explodes - Reward
Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love
Vapors - Turning Japanese
Voice Of The Beehive - I Say Nothing
Whigfield - Saturday Night

The Toad knows baby, The Toad knows...

Edited by The Hypno-Toad on Tuesday 21st August 20:22

[greengreenwood7]

i'd say the million dollar question is are you looking for background music or hoping to ramp things up at some point where foot tapping turns to shoe shuffling? If the latter that's something you need to think about in terms of timing....no point in having some floorfillers at a time during the party when no one is likely to appreciate it.
i've done music for parties at home, pub etc where the emphasis is more jukebox style - meaning there isn't a too much of 1 genre at any one time - so that older folks don't get hacked off with stuff they don't like and vice versa.....until a rough time in the evening when gradually foot tapping turns to shuffling....

if you want welcome to ping me a mail and i'll reply with x hrs worth that you can hack around. am fortunate enough to have a DJ based bit of software that will spew out a playlist based on whatever criteria. chrs Mark.

[Johnnytheboy]

greengreenwood7 said:

i'd say the million dollar question is are you looking for background music or hoping to ramp things up at some point where foot tapping turns to shoe shuffling? If the latter that's something you need to think about in terms of timing....no point in having some floorfillers at a time during the party when no one is likely to appreciate it.
i've done music for parties at home, pub etc where the emphasis is more jukebox style - meaning there isn't a too much of 1 genre at any one time - so that older folks don't get hacked off with stuff they don't like and vice versa.....until a rough time in the evening when gradually foot tapping turns to shuffling....

if you want welcome to ping me a mail and i'll reply with x hrs worth that you can hack around. am fortunate enough to have a DJ based bit of software that will spew out a playlist based on whatever criteria. chrs Mark.

Background music. If anyone starts dancing in my house I'll need a bigger house!

I like the sound of a jukebox style, I'll email you.