The quality of "DJ-ing" at CTYI...

jono087

The quality of DJ-ing left a lot to be desired... He was ok at times considering he played some danceable songs. But no dance music... I can't understand it: 3 discos without any dance music. And before rockers retort, I'll have you know that discos are for dancing, not jumping around with flailing limbs. But fair play, I enjoyed the moshes too. Pity about the lack of decent dance music, I requested at least 10 songs and not one of them was played. So I'm posting this thread on behalf of all future ctyi'ers to petition for a decent dj for next years sessions.

Raphael

jono087 wrote:

Pity about the lack of decent dance music

Wait, hold the phone

Theres decent dance music? Since when?

pinkpimp

Agreed. Theres 3 paths you can go down when in the djing business...
1: Dance music-crap from a musical point of view, but discos arent about good music, they're about dancing and whatnot.
2: Rock music-Hard rock is really all that works, moshable sh1te where you can't hear the words. (this isn't likely to happen in ctyi, because of the high chance...nay...inevitibility of broken limbs, loss of limbs/consciousness/life.)
3: Cheezy Disco music-Crap from the 70s and 80s; no one can look good dancing to it, so everyone feels at home.

You can play one or a combination of all 3 of these, depending on the audience...in ctyi, I reckon it should be all 3.

Anyway... the point is that what you don't do is play crappy pop remix's. Not a lot of people can dance to 50 cent/Nelly etc., unless they are incredibly comfortable with themselves dancing, and confident in their ability to dance...and lets face it, ctyi isn't exactly packed with that kind of people.

So theres my two centsworth. Hope I haven't put everyone to sleep.

ps. as i have said in other posts, please excuse bad spelling and/or blatantly stupid remarks & statements.(I havent been sleeping too well.)

It wasn't me!

*Swish*
I'm with Aonghus. I already started a petition anyway. Doubt you'd agree with it somehow.... *snigger*
Fair enough discos are for "dancing", that being very much the operative term for what passes for it in discos these days, but when people who go to discos and dance are very much the minority, like in CTYI, the guy would be killed for playing much dance music. He should be anyway for not playing more metal! Me and Matt gave him 120 CD's at the first disco and he wouldn't play anything off any of them! For christ's sake we had a pit-chant going for Slayer but he wouldn't play Angel of Death! Now I've got myself angry. Somebody get me his address!

Zounds

i really got the impression he played nothing but dance music well, that and pop. Also previous years the DJ has managed to give a good mix of most genres this year we only got good music at the last one and even then there wasn't much and only because Matthew won the 2 songs

pinkpimp

I never said playing all dance was the ctyi option...

i just know too many skangers.

his_dudeness

Proper dance music wouldn't be a problem. Stuff like Basement Jaxx, The Prodigy, PVD, The Chemical Brothers.

Stuff like Dj Sammy and all those others reworking songs that were crap in the eighties and that are still crap now, I have a deep resounding moral objection against those

pinkpimp

his_dudeness wrote:

Proper dance music wouldn't be a problem. Stuff like Basement Jaxx, The Prodigy, PVD, The Chemical Brothers.

Stuff like Dj Sammy and all those others reworking songs that were crap in the eighties and that are still crap now, I have a deep resounding moral objection against those

I second that sentiment.

buffalo

The sportugitaliards used to have proper beats blaring when you walked past the Hub. Bit of Chemical Brothers certainly wouldn't have gone astray. The student choices for the final Session 1 disco were fantastic as well - Radiohead and the Pixies.

Raphael

I prefer Opeth and weird Al tbh

jono087

buffalo wrote:

The student choices for the final Session 1 disco were fantastic as well - Radiohead and the Pixies.

I agree with you totally, that's good music. But really it's not suiteable for a disco. Some dance music would be good because you an dance to dance music. Also i agree with whoever posted that pop song remixes are sh*te, well said.

pinkpimp

buffalo wrote:

The sportugitaliards used to have proper beats blaring when you walked past the Hub. Bit of Chemical Brothers certainly wouldn't have gone astray.

This is true.

david

Raphael wrote:

I prefer Opeth and weird Al tbh

Me also. I still have a pain in my neck from the 11 minutes of Opeth

PurpleFistMixer

jono087 wrote:

I agree with you totally, that's good music. But really it's not suiteable for a disco. Some dance music would be good because you an dance to dance music. Also i agree with whoever posted that pop song remixes are sh*te, well said.

You can dance to anything if you're determined enough. And if there's no one around to dance with, you can dance with a wall. That's what hardcore discogoers do.

pinkpimp

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

You can dance to anything if you're determined enough. And if there's no one around to dance with, you can dance with a wall. That's what hardcore discogoers do.

Hardcore discogoers also drink scrumpy jack, while driving starlet gt's around with 'scooters' latest album blaring from the massive sound system they've installe. All of this while defying gravity with the angle of their baseball cap.

Do you really want to be that person?

jono087

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

You can dance to anything if you're determined enough. And if there's no one around to dance with, you can dance with a wall. That's what hardcore discogoers do.

Again, I totally agree. You know dancing is better when your only with a wall because there's no possibility of better dancers tainting your rythm. But seriously dancing is a lot more fun when your with people...

PurpleFistMixer

pinkpimp wrote:

Hardcore discogoers also drink scrumpy jack, while driving starlet gt's around with 'scooters' latest album blaring from the massive sound system they've installe. All of this while defying gravity with the angle of their baseball cap.

Do you really want to be that person?

Ah, but they're not hardcore CTYIdiscogoers. I should have specified.

PurpleFistMixer

jono087 wrote:

Again, I totally agree. You know dancing is better when your only with a wall because there's no possibility of better dancers tainting your rythm. But seriously dancing is a lot more fun when your with people...

You've obviously never seriously danced with a wall. I assure you - they're good.

jono087

pinkpimp wrote:

Hardcore discogoers also drink scrumpy jack, while driving starlet gt's around with 'scooters' latest album blaring from the massive sound system they've installe. All of this while defying gravity with the angle of their baseball cap.

Do you really want to be that person?

Ya, "boy racers" are always dance-heads, and btw starlet gts are called "glanza". But its a way of life, how else can you gain respect if not through a civic R with a 1000W Xplod stereo system... and your car done up to the bollix with engine mods??

pinkpimp

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Ah, but they're not hardcore CTYIdiscogoers. I should have specified.

Yeah...You should have...









YE BOLL*X

PurpleFistMixer

pinkpimp wrote:

Yeah...You should have...
YE BOLL*X

Hey, CTYIdiscogoers are the only discogoers that matter, alright?

pinkpimp

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Hey, CTYIdiscogoers are the only discogoers that matter, alright?

Yes, but not the only ones that exist, alright?

PurpleFistMixer

pinkpimp wrote:

Yes, but not the only ones that exist, alright?

Shush, if we ignore them enough they'll go away eventually.

Pyschopath666

i musr congradulate Matt on gettin Opeath palyed caue if he didn't my 5 mins of decide would have been in his words "a pile of boll0x".... instead we got over a quarter of an hour of steady moshin...

btw i agree that there should be a mix of genre's as its the only DEMOCRATIC way......

Raphael

Shush, if we ignore them enough they'll go away eventually.

Didnt churchill say that about the nazi party?

Aoibheann

i think we're all in agreement that the djing was, to put it nicely, not the best.
but why did you stay inside? outside was great. people were dancing(weird, yes but hilarious to watch), talking and we even saw Irwin, Niall O T and Elaine EATING A PIZZA!!!! It was exciting stuff. Well no it wasnt, but it was better than inside.
Best part of disco.......YMCA, nevermores on stage. Oh the hilarity. I took a photo, but to my anger, it was underexposed! Evil camera shop, I'll get my revenge yet. When I'm world dictator......(oops, I mean democratic leader), I'll........
*mumbles under breath about incompetent camera people.*

Dredz

Raphael wrote:

Didnt churchill say that about the nazi party?

Chamberlain, possibly.

Raphael

Ah yes, chamberlain. My bad

nosmo

Pyschopath666 wrote:

i musr congradulate Matt on gettin Opeath palyed caue if he didn't my 5 mins of decide would have been in his words "a pile of boll0x".... instead we got over a quarter of an hour of steady moshin...

But the thing is, Deicide are a pile of bollocks.
But Opeth at the discos, I approve of. Still can't beat Carcass last year, or when they played Death Magick for Adepts in 2002. Ahh, memories

vikki

the best way to enjoy yourself when the music is s**t is to get all your friends to do some ironic dancing in a circle... oh the memories...

Piste

Who cares abou the dancing anyway? We all know what really goes on at the discos. If ya get what I mean........;)

meeka

lol liz, what else do you think about?!

meh... the music cud hav been better, but it cud hav been a lot worse though.... and the discos arent really what cty is sposed 2 be about anyways, so...

xxx meeka

mr. scanger

The music wasn't the best, but he did play a few good songs even for dance fans like me.The best IMO (not counting the CTYI tradition crap) were:

The dance at the beginning of most discos - normally 2/3 tracks
Shapeshifters - aaah the memories
The Show - It's the type of thing you only appreciate when it's really loud
Come with me - One of the best songs to play at CTYI.Me and one other person especially appreciated this
And finally MANIAC 2000!!!My favourite song ever and he played it at the last disco coz I requested it, the legend.He threw it in near the end with all the CTYI stuff too.

Next year play the national anthem man!!!Lanlih always had to start it off, but well done to her she managed to pull it off every time

pinkpimp

yeah, you so have to finish with the national anthem.

Raphael

Excuse me...tradition crap?

Stephen Forde

hihi. yea i thought the DJ did play alot of crap. Even songs that had set dances that nobody knows for sum reason. SO no1 would dance.But it is hard to please every1 when u are a DJ.But he should have played a more general music tho. He played sum fuking great toons tho. Pixies and more which i cant remember now tho. But it could have been better with a better DJ.

wat happened to that Dermo being da first hobo DJer or sumthing petition?

Raphael

Go die quietly. Or learn to speak proper english. Either/or

Aoibheann

Raphael wrote:

Go die quietly. Or learn to speak proper english. Either/or

As much as I agree with you, be nice to the guy. Its not his fault he's unable to type without reverting to text. Oh wait. *Realisation.*
Perhaps it is.........

nosmo

Stephen Forde wrote:

wat happened to that Dermo being da first hobo DJer or sumthing petition?

I think Lee "Scratch" Perry filled that vacancy a long time ago

mentalimplosion

mr. scanger wrote:

Come with me - One of the best songs to play at CTYI.Me and one other person especially appreciated this

woooo! off my cd! glad to see i wasn't the only one dancing like some kind of thing that dances to that!

HeyYou

He played Come With Me? As in the P Diddy/ Puff Daddy/ Big Idiot song? As in the song that sampled one of Led Zeppelin's best songs and destroyed it? Gah! I'm glad I missed that one.

I'd agree the muzak wasn't the best at the discos but I'm very surprised by just how much people didn't like it. As CTYI discos go I didn't think the music was so bad. And I'm sorry to all the Opeth fans, but that song just wasn't disco music. Fifty people loved it, the rest were driven from the canteen by it with their ears bleeding. Anywho, go cheesy disco music, a guilty pleasure is still a pleasure!

Spog

It was bad, but tolerable in my humble opinion. He played alot of crap, but played enough good stuff to keep the slight majority happy. What i'd complain about was the order of things... he'd play 3 mosher songs in a row, and none for the rest of the night, put all the classics together and the rest was filled up with crap. I'm surprised he remembered to finish with American Pie at all... ON that note be happy - at least he didn't pay the crap madonna American Pie. That would be heracy of the highest order!

jono087

mentalimplosion wrote:

woooo! off my cd! glad to see i wasn't the only one dancing like some kind of thing that dances to that!

Does that mean that someone besides me made an effort to dance to the music at CTYI? Im shocked, everybody just seemed to not give a ****...

pinkpimp

HeyYou wrote:

go cheesy disco music, a guilty pleasure is still a pleasure!

Listen to the man, he's taller and therefore wiser than you.

It wasn't me!

I started that petition. It was never going to work but I had nothing better to do on that particular morning. I think it was the day I went to the museum of modern art.... *shudder*

Raphael

And cat, john and I refused to be the first signatries, and told you to sod off

It wasn't me!

And I became the first signatory, got about 120 signatures in the 45 minutes I actually bothered to try, and you three signed somewhere in the middle where it didn't make a difference.

COCK

Yeah the music at those discoes was incredibly crap.
The real problem is that they dont honor ANY of the requests, theyve probly got their reasons, im not complaining.
They need more dance, for the dancing
more rock, for the moshing
and less of that **** in the middle, it wastes time

john barry








(ned kelly was irish)

mr. scanger

HeyYou wrote:

He played Come With Me? As in the P Diddy/ Puff Daddy/ Big Idiot song? As in the song that sampled one of Led Zeppelin's best songs and destroyed it? Gah! I'm glad I missed that one.

I'd agree the muzak wasn't the best at the discos but I'm very surprised by just how much people didn't like it. As CTYI discos go I didn't think the music was so bad. And I'm sorry to all the Opeth fans, but that song just wasn't disco music. Fifty people loved it, the rest were driven from the canteen by it with their ears bleeding. Anywho, go cheesy disco music, a guilty pleasure is still a pleasure!

No, Special D - Come with me

skanger666

i dunno, they never seem to get the mix right.... I personally thought that had he timed the mix better i.e. had he not played all the rock in once little spurt of wonderful moshability (yes, I do make up words; that's how language evolves), and spread it out so that the mix went something like: mosh song, dance song, pop song, miscellaneous, mosh song, pop song, dance and so on and so forth, it would have been somewhat better.

That said, more rock wouldn't have hurt anything but my poor, almost broken neck

:D mags :D

mr. scanger wrote:

No, Special D - Come with me

Woo I love that song!