[candymoan]

okay, so i've turned 30.. i know it's no big deal, but i still have a sad streak about it..

dear friends..
your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to write a brief list of party tunes.. what songs would make a great party? any original ideas, are welcome.. as always, should you or any of your ideas be caught or killed, candymoan will disavow any knowledge of your actions..

thanks guys..

[truncated]

I don't generally have playlists for parties, but it depends on your goal - how diverse of a crowd will you have? Are you looking to get everyone's, er, mojo going?

If I'm at a party with varied musical taste, unity comes with nostalgia. And for that, I like to defer to my old friends, cheesy 80s and 90s hip-hop or dance.

I highly recommend "Monster Booty." Bust out some Tone Loc, Young MC, Prince, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Technotronics, LL Cool J...you get the idea.

You can all commence laughing anytime you like, but in your secret hearts, you all like to shake yo' ghetto bootays.

When was your birthday? Happy Belated!

[alyasa]

hip priest - the fall
heliosphan - aphex twin
ooh la la - goldfrapp
the hardest walk - jesus & mary chain
do re mi - isolee
two timing touch and broken bones - the hives
lb. - bardo pond
mbv arkestra - primal scream
anything by chemical brothers

haha, sorry
i suck at parties...

[candymoan]

well..?

it couldn't be that difficult to come up with a few songs..
i'll give you a small example...

nirvana - negative creep
pixies - vamos

et cetera
et cetera

edit -- sorry.. something screwed up my browser.. couldn't see your posts..

basically, it's going to be bout 10 people, mixed crowd of assorted ages.. lots of booze, so they will mingle..
i'm looking for songs that will keep "the mojo" at a certain level, then perhaps disintegrate to bawdy singalongs..

[sonicl]

How about Acid Mothers' version of Terry Riley's "In C" for when you want to get all your overstaying guests to go home?

[h8kurdt]

Anything by Queen has to be a winner surely?

[truncated]

Singalongs, eh? Again, dependent on the crowd's varied tastes.

In these instances I like to think of the local bar jukebox (a place and object of evil by many rights). I have found myself singing along to things like Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Van Morrison, The Police, Rolling Stones, to name a few. While I don't necessarily like all of these bands, when you're in a crowd of mixed preferences, you get on that level, if you catch my drift. You know if you put The Fall on in a bar, 99% of the people in there are going to go silent, with puzzled looks on their faces.

You know your guests. What will they dig?

[candymoan]

okay, i'll include "fat bottomed girls" and "bohemian rhapsody" for their singalongabilities..

i'm also going to include a lot of pixies.. some early cure.. some fast paced morphine songs, and some dEUS..

a big "NO" for any beatles suggestions...

[candymoan]

the bloodhound gang's "fire water burn" is a thought.. some morrissey songs.. everyone will know "where is my mind" thanks to the final scene of "fight club" - and i will resist the temptation to play any radiohead songs due to overexposure..
some ramones, some eagles of death metal, and some beach boys - the poll beach boys vs. beastie boys ticked that off..

my wife bought me a TRUMPET for my 30th..
how cool is that?

[porkmarras]

Music:
Songs of worship vol 1

Food:
lamb spread crostini

drinks:
literally anything(including the lonely bottle of pasties that noone paid attention to until nothing else was available)

[Onani Nic]

sleep- dopesmoker

[nicfit]

daisy chainsaw - "love your money"
presidents of the usa - "volcano"
liars - "mr you on fire mrs" (sp?)
sy - "mary christ"
starlight mints - "twilight showdown"
james brown - "sex machine"
ex girls - "esaya"
fugazi - "do you like me"
ex models - "love japanese style"
manfred mann - "do wah diddy"

[candymoan]

thanks guys..

anyone else?

[Inhuman]

Tonnes of good party music!

Diplo (check out "notorious")
Debbie Deb
Dr.Dre
Noah23
Some stuff by Roots Manuva

I have to go now, I can list a whole bunch more later on today

[DemonBox]

Candymoan! you wont go wrong with the RAMONES at a party. Neither will you go wrong with some jumpy the doors hits. Like: Light My Fire, and Hello, I Love You. The Cure - Boys Dont Cry. Or mabye some Led Zeppelin to get the guests grooving. Whole Lotta Love or We're Gonna Groove.

Hope you have a great party dude!

[candymoan]

thanx guys..
i'll update you on what happened at the party on monday..

have a great weekend y'all!

[krastian]

Put on some B-52's and just get drunk as hell

[atari 2600]

I tried to put on a B-52s live concert video for a party (well, a gathering) the other week & everyone was like "sure" & then when it played everyone lost interest & wanted Metallica's s/t black album...at the last real party I threw everything was going fine because I was playing it safe with the music & then I put on Tom Waits' "Chocolate Jesus" & shortly thereafter I had a couple of people asking if they could pick out the music haha. I was at a party once in Athens & Michael Stipe complimented my choice of the Goo record. I didn't know the people giving the party at all & I had just helped myself. One time at another Athens party that Ancient Baby & The Drovers (both bands are from Chicago) were playing, the cops were called out & the second time they showed up (after the warning had been issued), I put on The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows & cranked the stereo all the way up. It was surreal to see the police roaming through the house & yard with it playing. Surprisingly, they never turned it down. I let that one song play really loud & then let the stereo fall silent. I am the Walrus would have been cool for the "pretty little policemen in a row" part, but there was no Magical Mystery Tour cd to be played; no Body Count either.

is it a party w/o
Kool & the Gang - Jungle Boogie?


i think not.

here's around a hundred song suggestions (a party in three acts)


early party amp-up (since you're 30, i'm takin a gamble on a lot of '80s stuff here)
if anyone complains about "too much '80s music" then promptly put on Frank & Moon Unit Zappa's Valley Girl

These were picked because they are great tunes; if you're more interested in just being cool daddy then go with whole albums by the likes of Butthole Surfers, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, Funkadelic, Bob Marley, Smashing Pumpkins, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus Lizard, Black Sabbath & Metallica. Ultimately, it depends on how many people are there & what kind of crowd they are really.

The Cars - Good Times Roll & Bye Bye Love
Laurie Anderson - From the Air
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Duran Duran - Girls on Film & Planet Earth
B-52s - Rock Lobster & Planet Claire
Kool & the Gang - Jungle Boogie
Sonic Youth - Into the Groove(y), StreamxSonik Subway, 'Cross the Breeze, Beat on the Brat & I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
Ramones - I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You & Outsider
Flava Flav -The Hot 1
Deerhoof - Twin Killers & Milk Man
Public Enemy - Back in the Building & By the Time I get to Arizona
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love & Running Up That Hill
Kinks - (I wanna be like) Superman
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Kiss - Rock n' Roll All Nite (kiss are overblown cheesemeisters, but this is a great party song)
David Bowie - Hang on to Yourself & Queen Bitch
Beastie Boys - Body Movin' & Girls
Black Flag - Wasted
Camper Van Beethoven - Hippie Chix, We Saw Jerry's Daughter, I Was Born in a Laundromat & Eye of Fatima Pt. 1
The Beatles - Dizzy Miss Lizzie, I Am the Walrus, Helter Skelter & Twist and Shout


mid-party
Eric Clapton - Cocaine (or the original J.J. Cale version I suppose)
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk, Gold Dust Woman, & Dreams
R.E.M. - Superman & Wolves, Lower
Devo -That's Good, Through Being Cool & Peek-a-Boo
Tommy James & the Shondells - Crimson and Clover
The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
Neil Young - Like A Hurricane & Don't Cry No Tears
Sonic Youth - Rats (if you dl'ed), Dirty Boots, Mote & Pipeline/Kill Time
Wylde Rattz - the whole thing
Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick & 'N' & Out of Grace
Foghat - Slow Ride
Camper Van Beethoven - Wasted, The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon & When I Win The Lottery
The Beatles - Rain, Happiness is A Warm Gun, Yer Blues & (I Want You) She's So Heavy


winding down
Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs & Pale Blue Eyes
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs & Gun Street Girl
Al Green - Love and Happiness
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
John Coltrane Quintet - My Favorite Things
Cat Power - Werewolf
Sonic Youth - Disappearer, Small Flowers Crack Concrete, The Sprawl & I Know There's An Answer
The Cure - A Hundred Years
Camper Van Beethoven - Sad Lover's Waltz
Cracker - Don't Fuck Me Up (with Peace & Love) & Dr. Bernice
The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
The Replacements - Unsatisfied
Nico - The End (should get any straglers out the door haha)
Lou Reed & John Cale - A Dream (this really gets the straglers out the door...if all else fails put on Eno & Fripp, & if that still doesn't do it, John Cage or scottish bagpipe music really loud)
The Beatles - Blue Jay Way, Long Long Long, Revolution No. 9 & Good Night (wind-down music for the people you want to be staying)

[kingcoffee]

Flaming Lips-Talkin' 'bout the Smilin' Death Porn Immortality Blues

The song was written when Wayne Coyne was feeling blue about turning 30. It's perfect for you!

[kingcoffee]

The Cure sucks!