We've all been to weddings and parties where the DJ just didn't seem to play the right music.

OK. So you think you know better?

What would you play if you were the DJ?

Here's your opportunity to come up with a playlist of the songs that you'd consider fitting for a DJ to play that will keep the party going and dancing.

Don't go OTT but a list of 20 songs will do.

Diezel

We've all been to weddings and parties where the DJ just didn't seem to play the right music.

OK. So you think you know better?

What would you play is you were the DJ?

Here's your opportunity to come up with a playlist of the songs that you'd consider fitting for a DJ to play that will keep the party going and dancing.

Don't go OTT but a list of 20 songs will do.

Diezel
it is alwasy difficult at parties and weddings as there is such a mix of people, and you wont be able to please everyone .. i am going to have to think about this as i must have done 200 weddings throughout the 80s while working in a hotel. will get back to you

99 red balloons-Nena
Common people-Pulp
Olivers army- Elvis Costello
Suspicious minds- Elvis
Dancing Queen-Abba
Ride on time-Black box
Don't stop me now-Queen
once in a lifetime- Talking heads
town called malice-The jam
teenage kicks-Undertones
dancing in the dark-Bruce Springsteen
panic-The Smiths
Kiss-price
Relax-Frankie goes to Hollywood
lovecats-The Cure
can't stand my baby-Rezillos
come up and see me make me smile-Cockney rebel
and to close down the night- I will always love you-Dolly Parton
Angels-Robbie

Everyone has a good and a bad gig, know matter who they are, the key here is to discuss prior to the function what they want, plus giving them advice, you are as good as your audience wants you to be.

Plus no matter what music you have, you need to know how that music goes, I had a DJ member off here call me the other week because he had a motown and northern soul night, however although he had got the tracks, did not know them.

99 red balloons-Nena
Goldfinger did a great cover of that song and to be honesty i much prefer it over the original!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhiuyW17XBw

I think you need to gauge your audience too... I went to a wedding where the DJ kept playing dance/house type music (the dancefloor emptied).
When they played motown, or 80's cheese, the dancefloor filled. You'd think they'd notice and lay off the house stuff!

I went to a wedding once and the DJ played "In Shreds" by the Chameleons.

The marriage didn't last.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXLHUThBib8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxA3atHD2QM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGLZqDXau98
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcmBaRAj7FU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5krtVb9zZFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X36nhed3p-4 (50's mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXKRcgRrCY0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPf0jCF1wHQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr64KOyrh5s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REElUors1pQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDQE4UMVhEQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtT6rE1A6_A&playnext_from=PL&feature=PlayList&p=56B436AC6AA9417A&playnext=1&index=2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWGJpfS3zIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyDMCn60lhY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai_q2KWUzww
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSXWWrIxSB4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iuP87yhbw4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCRsoD5ATwo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9de6jeOevi8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V6N4elMVX4

I could go on forever ; )

Here's a few starting from 60s

Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Drifter's - Saturday Night at the Movies
Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
Isley Bros - This Old Heart of Mine
Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself
Supremes - Baby Love
Barry White - You're The First, The Last My Everything
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You
Wham - Freedom
Katrina and The Waves - Walkin on Sunshine
B52s - Love Shack
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
Bon Jovi - Living On a Prayer
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Bob Marley - Jammin
T-Spoon - Sex on the Beach
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Jam - Town Called Mallice
House Martins - Happy Hour

In theory if you played the above tracks in that order, someone would be on the dancefloor throughout.

I would consider the above to be a good mixture at a wedding.

Any twenty songs by Leonard Cohen would be on my playlist, Then the buffet and the complimentary bottles of wine and champers would be all mine i tell you..... :hihi::hihi:

I'd open the floor to requests, that way people get to hear what they want, within reason... I refuse to play cheesy dance tracks by the likes of Black Lace, and I definitely will NOT play the chuffin' Birdie song!

Here's a few starting from 60s

Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Drifter's - Saturday Night at the Movies
Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
Isley Bros - This Old Heart of Mine
Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself
Supremes - Baby Love
Barry White - You're The First, The Last My Everything
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You
Wham - Freedom
Katrina and The Waves - Walkin on Sunshine
B52s - Love Shack
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
Bon Jovi - Living On a Prayer
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Bob Marley - Jammin
T-Spoon - Sex on the Beach
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Jam - Town Called Mallice
House Martins - Happy Hour

In theory if you played the above tracks in that order, someone would be on the dancefloor throughout.

I would consider the above to be a good mixture at a wedding.

Cheers Bruno for the list.

Cummon all those that moan at disco's..... What songs would you play if you were the DJ???

Diezel

Some good songs!

If you were DJ and were playing to a wide audience like at a wedding then what would be the guaranteed failsafe list of songs to get the majority up on the dance floor?

Diezel

When i got married, i told the DJ that if he played 'Band Of Gold', he wasn't getting paid!

When i got married, i told the DJ that if he played 'Band Of Gold', he wasn't getting paid!

This kind of thing happens quite alot lol, then when someone comes up and asks for the song, and we say sorry, can't play that cuz the bride asked us not to.

Thats when they slag the bride off lol, you would be suprised at what we have to listen to lol.

it was always best when i was aksed for the birdie song you would have been amazed how many used to dance to it pity mobile phones with cameras were not about in the 80's lol

Ok then serious reply...
1: Pink..... party started
2:the gap band.... oops upside your head
3:Tom browne.... funkin for jamaica
4:Tom browne... funge momma (may have spelt that rong ?)
5:Grandmasterflash.... white lines (Kate Moss remix) ;)
6:George benson.... gimmee the night
7:Earth wind and fire... september
8:Freeze.... southern freeze
9:Rockers revenge... walking on sunshine
10:Earth wind and fire... boogie wonderland
11:Sam the sham and the pharoes.... Wully bully (gets the old uns up)
12: Kenny g..... nightbird (oo hes luvverly him)
13:prodigy....Firestarter (someone call an ambulance)
14:KLF... what time is love (quick they have stopped breathing)
15:Altern8... Acceler8 (forget the ambulance call the coroner)
16:Two4joy... in a state
17:Two bad mice.... two bad mice
18:Weapons of bass destruction... rain and thunder
19:John B.... imagine
20:Frank sinatra.... my way
Was it eclectic they called me or did i miss hear something ?? :hihi::hihi::thumbsup:
Forgot the encore track ??? Age of panic by senser ;-)

I once did a Wedding for a guy who worked for Channel 4, one of the guests who was there used to read the news bulletins on Calendar for our region, he came up to me and asked have you got Dancing Queen by Abba, I said yes, he said "can you put it on next" I said I will work towards it as it wont go with the music they are dancin to at min, and that it would be on within the next 20 mins, he said "do you know who I am, I read the news on Calender I want it next"..... I said do you know who I am, he said "who?" I said The DJ, it will go on when I can put it on....

Then you get the classics, those who wade through the packed dance floor and ask can ya play summat gud, summat we can dance to!

or say "have ya got come on eileen, I say yeah, "can ya put it on and say its for me lol as if we automatically know thier name...

Rashspateen

wooly bully is by sam the sham and the pharohs
walkin on sunshine is Katrina and the waves or if its the other one its Rockers Revenge :)

brunos that good a dj he's not working on a saturday night! he will claim he's subbed his work out while he claims a bit of the disco charge tut tut nah he's not a bad dj he's just too expensive:hihi::P:P:hihi:

Ya get what ya pay for lol

Rashspateen

wooly bully is by sam the sham and the pharohs
walkin on sunshine is Katrina and the waves or if its the other one its Rockers Revenge :) Cheers mate I knew there were a few dubious ones in there, goes to edit now :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

I have the Japanese version of Village Peoples YMCA which is interestingly very funny :)

I have to admit I'm far too lazy to type out a list but I was a party DJ for many years. (Since 1984)
I had a routine of cheesy, get up and dance music, I used almost all the time at parties.
Never failed to bring the place to life.

If the lasses are dancing everyone is happy.

Wedding discos are like the Peter Kay sketch to start off with anyway. All the boys skidding across the floor as far as they can. All the girls twirling in their skirts to make their petticoats go higher....


and as for the children...

and the bride dancing alone with her guests whilst her new husband props up the bar until he's so drunk he comes and dances to an old skool favourite, attempts to Jam jump to Going underground and ends up giving himself a groin injury!



The best wedding discos i've been to were,where the couple asked all their guests to request 3 songs in the invitation thus playing at least three songs that everyone liked all night and giving a bit of variation to the phil collins/katrina and the waves/abba predictability.

HOWEVER, at the last one i went to we were discussing what we had requested and as a lot of the people there were teens in the mid eighties, many of the ladies had requested Wham! The DJ hadn't played one! So off people went to see if he was going to do a large Wham! montage. The DJ's response? I'm not playing Wham because they are *expletive* :hihi:

Wedding discos are like the Peter Kay sketch to start off with anyway. All the boys skidding across the floor as far as they can. All the girls twirling in their skirts to make their petticoats go higher....


and as for the children...

and the bride dancing alone with her guests whilst her new husband props up the bar until he's so drunk he comes and dances to an old skool favourite, attempts to Jam jump to Going underground and ends up giving himself a groin injury!



The best wedding discos i've been to were,where the couple asked all their guests to request 3 songs in the invitation thus playing at least three songs that everyone liked all night and giving a bit of variation to the phil collins/katrina and the waves/abba predictability.

HOWEVER, at the last one i went to we were discussing what we had requested and as a lot of the people there were teens in the mid eighties, many of the ladies had requested Wham! The DJ hadn't played one! So off people went to see if he was going to do a large Wham! montage. The DJ's response? I'm not playing Wham because they are *expletive* :hihi:
that is so wrong on the djs part they are there to entertain the guests and not induldge in their own taste of music and so not to tell customers in that way waht they think of certain groups

Here's a few starting from 60s

Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Drifter's - Saturday Night at the Movies
Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
Isley Bros - This Old Heart of Mine
Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself
Supremes - Baby Love
Barry White - You're The First, The Last My Everything
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You
Wham - Freedom
Katrina and The Waves - Walkin on Sunshine
B52s - Love Shack
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
Bon Jovi - Living On a Prayer
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Bob Marley - Jammin
T-Spoon - Sex on the Beach
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Jam - Town Called Mallice
House Martins - Happy Hour

In theory if you played the above tracks in that order, someone would be on the dancefloor throughout.

I would consider the above to be a good mixture at a wedding.


I ran a successful moble disco for 12 years and I wouldn't dream of playing any of the songs in your list. Also you can't specify what order to play songs before hand you have to judge the mood of the evening minute by minute.

I ran a successful moble disco for 12 years and I wouldn't dream of playing any of the songs in your list. Also you can't specify what order to play songs before hand you have to judge the mood of the evening minute by minute.

Not saying many would be my choices but I thought it was part of the initiation of the mobile disco DJ to play 'Build me up buttercup!' :o I am shocked and dismayed to find out the bitter truth that it's not!

To me that song will always be "it's the end of the night, time to go home" from the Leadmill! :hihi:

I ran a successful moble disco for 12 years and I wouldn't dream of playing any of the songs in your list. Also you can't specify what order to play songs before hand you have to judge the mood of the evening minute by minute.

Well they've all been top 10 hits, im still running a succesful business 30 years on, point of the thread the OP asked for a list of 20 songs and i still say nothin wrong with that selection based on a wedding party with a mixed age group.

As the old sayin goes you can't please everyone all the time, but some, some of the time.

Why did you pack in a succesful mobile disco after 12 years?

I ran a successful moble disco for 12 years and I wouldn't dream of playing any of the songs in your list. Also you can't specify what order to play songs before hand you have to judge the mood of the evening minute by minute.
i cant see anything wrong in those choices of music there is somthing there for everyone especially at weddings and 25th aniversaries etc. fair enough that list would not do for say a 21st or an 18th birthday but all in all something there for everyone

[QUOTE=Bruno;4758940]I once did a Wedding for a guy who worked for Channel 4, one of the guests who was there used to read the news bulletins on Calendar for our region, he came up to me and asked have you got Dancing Queen by Abba, I said yes, he said "can you put it on next" I said I will work towards it as it wont go with the music they are dancin to at min, and that it would be on within the next 20 mins, he said "do you know who I am, I read the news on Calender I want it next"..... I said do you know who I am, he said "who?" I said The DJ, it will go on when I can put it on....



:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: L.M.A.O :hihi:

You can't please everyone and there'll always be someone that either the music was too load or the the DJ never spoke and if he did we could not hear a damn word what he was saying.

As DJ's you know that every gig is different and it's not just about having a set list of songs to play and your're sorted but being aware of the mood, age group and all that.

If the DJ was suddenly taken ill what fail safe songs would almost certainly keep them dancing"?

.........Dancing Queen, Billy Jean, Staying Alive, Come on Eilleen, YMCA.

So there is a set list of fail-safe songs that will always get you out of trouble which is what the OP was asking based on say a wedding or mixed age group party.

If the DJ has some ounce of personality he will be able to draw in the audience and this will encourage people to participate.

hence my post lol :)

You can't please everyone and there'll always be someone that either the music was too load or the the DJ never spoke and if he did we could not hear a damn word what he was saying.

As DJ's you know that every gig is different and it's not just about having a set list of songs to play and your're sorted but being aware of the mood, age group and all that.

If the DJ was suddenly taken ill what fail safe songs would almost certainly keep them dancing"?

.........Dancing Queen, Billy Jean, Staying Alive, Come on Eilleen, YMCA.

So there is a set list of fail-safe songs that will always get you out of trouble which is what the OP was asking based on say a wedding or mixed age group party.

If the DJ has some ounce of personality he will be able to draw in the audience and this will encourage people to participate.

YMCA?! No, just, no! :gag:

It gets wheeled out at EVERY disco, when people are that bladdered they don't care that they look daft doing the dance to it! :loopy:

YMCA?! No, just, no! :gag:

It gets wheeled out at EVERY disco, when people are that bladdered they don't care that they look daft doing the dance to it! :loopy:
Lol thats the whole point and it is a good song as well........ahh the sands of time are coming back to me now always went down a storm at the school disco in 1978 pmsl

I once did a Wedding for a guy who worked for Channel 4, one of the guests who was there used to read the news bulletins on Calendar for our region, he came up to me and asked have you got Dancing Queen by Abba, I said yes, he said "can you put it on next" I said I will work towards it as it wont go with the music they are dancin to at min, and that it would be on within the next 20 mins, he said "do you know who I am, I read the news on Calender I want it next"..... I said do you know who I am, he said "who?" I said The DJ, it will go on when I can put it on....

Then you get the classics, those who wade through the packed dance floor and ask can ya play summat gud, summat we can dance to!

or say "have ya got come on eileen, I say yeah, "can ya put it on and say its for me lol as if we automatically know thier name...They always make me laugh, ask you to play a really bad song saying "everyone will dance to it"

I always say "I wont" :hihi:
On one occasion, it was the bride that said it - and who am I to refuse - she was paying me.....guess what !

Dance floor cleared in record time :hihi:

Saying that, I covered a wedding reception for another dj on here, I didnt have a clue as to the kind of music they wanted...got there on the night and spoke to the bride & groom - they wanted rock all night :D

PARRRRRTY :banana::headbang::banana:

That was one of the best night I have ever had...still have the photos I took somewhere, will have to dig them out one day.

Half Way up the Stairs
Shaddap you face
Seven Days (Sting)
Take 5 (Dave Brubeck)
Theme from News at Ten
There's no one quite like Grandma
Roundabout (Yes)

If the dancefloor still wasn't full, I'd slam down "Oh what an Atmosphere"
10 times in a row.

"Oh what an atmosphere", now there's a song I'd love on Mp3, but can never seem to find anywhere - apparently old Russ Abbott's highly ashamed of it nowadays and refuses to let it be released/played.