Music that any DJ would need...

Bard

Okay- I've a pretty decent CD collection and may have some DJ'ing work to do. I've got yon dead-handy SNL connection to the Internet (complete with KaZaA installed on the ould PC )... what I want to know is... what songs are indispensible to any DJ? We're not talking Night-Club DJ, btw... just a regular DJ for parties and stuff...

Examples would be:

"I will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor
"Saturday Night" by Whigfield
and a fast version of the National Anthem...

What else?

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Superman

get some:

Grand Detroit Pubahs

In particular there song:

Sandwiches

sickle

yeah sandwiches really fits in with bards choice...hummm

Bard

Wonderful, Superman. Inspired stuff. I was ASKING for a list of the kind of MUST-HAVE songs a DJ should have. Stuff people will know, - stuff people will dance to. Generic, basic, run-of-the-mill music that ALL DJ's would HAVE to have in their collection.

Bob Marley for example. Even Richie Kavanagh's "Aon Focal Eile". Right Said Fred's "I'm too Sexy". Stuff that old people and young people alike would request and recognise.

Grand Detroit Pubah's "Sandwiches"??? WHA'???!

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b20uvkft6m5xwg

"Queen- we are the champions" (even if its about gay blokes )

"Quenn- Bohemian Rhapsody"

"You do the hokey kokey"

"The Village Ppl- YMCA"


These songs would annoy the fook out of me, but if its for some old fogies or middle aged sad ppl, these'll go down well

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Jackie Wilson - Your Love Lifts Me Higher

Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me

The Beatles - Twist and Shout

They'll normally even get most people up dancing.

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T.G Catter

Steelers wheel..stuck in the middle with u
all the abba stuff and of course brown eyed girl...aggh memories of the local disco..

Ed

The best thing to do is get a few compilations> a nice disco compilation, a best of 60's soul one (there's one called "Respect" , double cd, yellow cover, very very good)
and one with 60's and 70's hits on.

Dr. Loon

The Bee gees man, the bee gees

Stayin Alive
Night Fever
More than a woman

and other disco classics like
Carwash - can't remember who does it
Play that funky music
Boogie Nights
Disco inferno
love to love you baby

and some non-disco
Suspicious minds - Elvis
Cosmic Girl - jamiroquai

and all your usual slow ones....hope I've helped!

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Fink

Toast

Europe - The final Countdown.
BTW after youve arranged your list of songs can you inform me where you will be playing so I can avoid it? :-)

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Bard

as I'm going to use the list in this thread for reference, I might as well add a couple that have come to mind:-

Lipps Inc.: Funky Town
Martha and the Vandellas: Nowhere to Run
Village People: Macho Man, In the Navy, YMCA
Hot Chocolate: You Sexy Thing
Tom Jones: You can Leave your Hat on
The Blues Brothers: Everybody needs Somebody to Love
Madonna: Music, Like a Virgin
Michael Jackson: Bad, Billie Jean, etc.
DJ Ötzi: Hey Baby (Ooh, Aah)
Thin Lizzy: Whiskey in the Jar, Boys are Back in Town, etc.
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes: (I've had) The time of my Life
The Temptations: My Girl
Boy Meets Girl: Waiting for a Star To Fall

oh, and of course, songs for special occasions:

Cliff Richard: Congratulations, Summer Holiday
"I'm Getting Married in the Morning" from "My Fair Lady"
and that "Happy Birthday toooo ya!" track

...any more 'essential' DJ tracks?

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Son of Blam

I can't even begin to explain how wrong and evil this thread is.


-Son of Blam

Kopf

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exactly what was going through my head.. my word, Bard, you ought to be ashamed.. "Saturday Night"?

What kind of parties do you DJ? ;P

yellum

As well as the good suggestions up further try:

Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Grease MeGamix
All the ****e thats charting atm

Ed

there's not really any essential tracks that all dj's should have, the best way to do it is to find something you like and build on it, but compilations are the best way to start, it's a good idea to like the stuff you'll be playing, while some of the stuff listed will get drunken old folks dancing, it'll annoy the **** out of you after a while if you're only doing novelty tunes.

b20uvkft6m5xwg

Niall if I'm ever stuck for a track to d/l on Kazaa etc., I just go to amazon & cut & paste the track lists from loads of greatest hits albums & then weed some classic toons out of that.

Thats why my 1st post was so Queen influenced. Couldn't believe I didn't have Bohemian Rhapsody in my mp3 collection, but it was because I saw it on something like the "Best Rock songs EVER- Part 195"

Try a few searches like party mixes etc. & see what pops up!

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WhiteWashMan

pointer sisters, im so excited

LoGiE

Maybe you should try updating to some chart music

jamiroquai: Little L
Travis: Side
Muse: Newborn
Fun loving criminals: Bump
Superman lovers: Starlight
Robbie Williams:Eternity
Roger Sanchez: Another chance
d12: Purple pill
and for laughs....
Joy Division: Love will tear us apart (It's doing the rounds on a heiniken ad)
I downloaded all the above with Morpheus.

Farls

I wouldn't call this stuff music that "any" DJ would need, this is more party music that caters for all age groups, quickly glancing thru my 1300+ strong MP3 list heres what i would suggest....

Aerosmith - Pink
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire
Bloodhound gang - Bad touch
Blur - Song 2
Boney M 2000 - Carribbean Nightfever Megamix
Culture Beat - Mr. Vain
Hermes House Band - Country Roads
Love Inc. - Your A Superstar
Lynard Skynard - Sweet Home Alabama
N-Trance Feat. Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy
Off Kilter - Fields Of Athenry
Prodigy - Breathe/Firestarter/Voodoo People
Proclaimers - I Would Walk 500 miles
Robbie Williams - Rock DJ

I didn't name any hard house/trance or dance music in that for a reason, i don't think its that your looking for anyways any 1 of those tracks will get a full dance floor in the average pub or social event i know this cuz i worked in a hotel until recently, seen djs from every walk of life and when ur half pished theres nothing like a bit of "i would walk 500 miles"....hehe.....if u want a list of good hard house/trance choons just say

Farls

LoGiE

I was just catering for the under 25's all of the song's i've mentioned you'll hear in most pubs and shouldn't be left out at any party!! Anyone who's been away this summer will have heard them so there pretty well known. Did the hotel you worked in have T1..
1300+??

phobos

What you're really trying to describe is a weddings/21st DJ. The songs you have mentioned so far will do for that. But if you have decks, I say you use them properly.

As in don't press play, wait until there's 5 seconds left on the current tune and cue the next tune with a slappy crossfade. Decks cost enough bloody money for doing that kind of thing.

I don't know if you're in to dance music. I'm not trying to tell you to go completely Club Music, but it can be kewl if you're playin house parties or doing warmup gigs in clubs etc. First thing is learn how to beat mix. After that worry about selecting your tunes. This is a bigger problem than one might first think.

Like for example if you are starting off a set, do it with something like the full version of Delerium - "Silence", it's slow and it's something everyone is used to. It's also well respected. Then something more recent like Sono - "Keep Control" (excellent tune). Moby - "Natural Blues" (Katcha Rmx).

Then for the other end of the scale, the funky tribal house stuff is really popular. Chab is a master at this kinda stuff. Tunes like DJ Nukem - "Instinct" (Chab Rmx) and Chab - "Mattica". They're a little old but still good.

What I find is if you are in the middle of something pretty bangin and the crowd seem up for it, drop something that they all know, like for example the promo of Moby's "Porcelian".

There is literally thousands of tunes I could name out to you here, but I'll wait and see if you're interested first.

G'd luck :-)

;-phobos-)

Kolodny

And while you're on the subject of dance music no harm to throw in a few old classics. For example Underworld - Rez, Slam - Positive Education, and maybe Orbital - Chime. Have been known to do that from time to time. But if you're talking cheesy classics - Night Fever - Beegees, and non-cheesy Freedom - George Michael (always makes me feel like hopping around like a drunken idiot.

phobos

The non-cheesy stuff there is what I'm talkin about, datz da ****!.

Yeah on the subject of classics

Moby - "Go"
Chris Raven - "I know you love me too"
Manson - "Wide open spaces"
Planisphere - "O" (My fav tune of all time)

;-phobos-)

Karl Hungus

Play some Ozzy.

havok*

few more dance clasics

Orbital - lush 3.2
Underworld - Pearls Girl
The Grid - Swamp Thing
Olive - Your not alone
Josh Wink - Higher state of Consciousness
Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Remix)
Moby - Feel so Real
D Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Chicane - Offshore
Orbital - The Box
Felix - Dont you want me
Chemical Bro's - Setting Sun
Apex Twin - Come to Daddy
Underworld - Born Slippy
Orbital - Halcyon

Millions More, there there just a few that spring to mind
And some l33+ Stuff @ the mo

The Supermen Lovers - Starlight
Markus Nikolai - Bushes (Norman Cook Remix)
Ian Pooly - Balmes
Orbital - Tension

And Anything by Daft Punk (its all good )

Superman

Originally posted by havok*
few more dance clasics

Orbital - lush 3.2
Underworld - Pearls Girl
The Grid - Swamp Thing
Olive - Your not alone
Josh Wink - Higher state of Consciousness
Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Remix)
Moby - Feel so Real
D Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Chicane - Offshore
Orbital - The Box
Felix - Dont you want me
Chemical Bro's - Setting Sun
Apex Twin - Come to Daddy
Underworld - Born Slippy
Orbital - Halcyon

And Anything by Daft Punk (its all good )

Brilliant Choice's


Sanwitches is a good chillout song


why are you so desperate to get into DJing ?

You should stick to underground hard house stuff, it's the best of the lot

Superman

What you should do is go and buy the cd from tv you know the one :

• Step back and boogie

its 4 cd's so theres plenty of stuuf on it to boogie on down to!