If you were a DJ and could play 20 songs what would they be?

This can be for any genre. This would be my choice for an indie night. Some of these are choosen because I know they will all go down well with the crowd, some are choosen because they are my personal favourites.

1. Blondie – Dreaming
2. M People – Moving On Up
3. Pulp – Disco 2000
4. Beatles – Ticket to Ride
5. Oasis – Don't look back in Anger
6. Stone Roses – Made of stone
7. The Smith's – Shop Lifters of the world unite
8. Franz Ferdinand – Michael
9. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
10. Doves – Last Broadcast
11. Happy Mondays – Step On
12. Morrissey – First of the gang to die
13. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart (B Side)
14. The Smith's – What Difference Does it Make/Panic/Big Mouth Strikes Again – Live remix
15. The Verve – Bittersweet Sympathy
16. The Cure – Friday I'm In Love
17. The Buzzcocks – Ever fallen in Love?
18. Stone Roses – Resurrection
19. New Order – Blue Monday
20. James – Laid
Final Song – Smith's – Sing me to sleep (played quietly as people leave the building)

 

I'll do 10:

Non - Rise
Throbbing Gristle - Weapon Training
Come - Come Sunday
Nurse With Wound - Salt Marie Celeste
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
John Coltrane - Ascension
Peter Brotzmann - Die Like a Dog
AMM - The Nameless Uncarved Block
Faust - The Faust Tapes
Earth Wind and Fire - Boogie Wonderland

Be fun watching people trying to dance to the first 9, anyway...

-- Ian

 

I'll do 2:
The Who - I can't explain
CCR - Molina

I'd just alternate these two

 

Not in any particular order but mostly funk 45's with a couple of hip-hop classics thrown in for good measure.

1) Sissy Walk - Billy Ball & the Upsetters
2) The Hatch - The T.M.G.'s
3) Save Me - Wanda Davies
4) Tell Her - Fred Williams & the Jewels Band
5) What-cha Feel Is What-cha Get - The Wallace Brothers
6) Po' Boy's Dream - Illinois Connection
7) Love Loves to Love Love - Lulu
8) Expo '83 - Backyard Heavies
9) Fun Buggy - The Poets
10) California Soul - The Messengers
11) It's The Real Thing - Ivor Raymonde Orchestra
12) The Basic - Milk
13) Two More Dead ft. Boca 45 - RJD2
14) I Turn You On - Latin Breed
15) There's Got To Be Someone For Me - The Groove Merchants
16) Who Will Be The Next Fool - Little Jimmy Tyson & the Highway Robbers
17) The Cat - Jimmy Smith
18) Concrete Schoolyard - Jurassic 5
19) Lesson 6: The Lecture - Jurassic 5
20) Midnight In A Perfect World - DJ Shadow

 

Really difficult this one, so I thought up of 20 tracks that would be guaranteed to get me onto the dancefloor and going for it in a club...

1. Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
2. Duran Duran - Rio
3. KC and The Sunshine Band - Give It Up
4. The Proclaimers - I'm Going To Be (500 Miles)
5. Inner City - Do You Love What You Feel
6. 808 State - In Yer Face
7. Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69
8. Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer
9. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
10. Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only
11. Chaka Khan - I Feel FOr You
12. Kool And The Gang - Get Down On It
13. Fatback Band - I Found Lovin'
14. Bee Gees - Staying Alive
15. DJ Sammy - Boys of Summer [I like Don Henley version too ]
16. Spiller (original version or the one featuring Sophie Ellis Bextor) - Groovejet
17. PPK - Resurection
18. Minimalistix - Close Cover
19. Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation
20. Oforia - Grounded (track 2 from "Full On 6, Trance Waves")

 

Damn - Henryt's nicked a lot of the ones I'd have used...

Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
No feelings - Sex pistols
The only one I know - The Charlatans
Transmission - Joy Division
Blue Monday - New Order (HOW obvious!?)
Cranked up really high - Slaughter and the dogs
Too shy - Kajagoogoo
Scientific reality - Astrix
Step on - Happy Mondays
White Lines - Grandmaster Flash
The reflex - Duran Duran
Kill/Gobbing on life - Albertos Y Los Trios Paranoias
The jack that house built - Jack 'n Chill
Hurt you so - Johnny L
Dance with me (I'm your ecstacy) - Control
Cuddly toy - Roachford (just for the hell of it)
She's electric - Oasis
Mescaline - 1200 Mics
Chime - Orbital
I want your love - Transvision Vamp

There's tonnes more but I just can't think of them right now!

 

ok can any of you worn me if you do, do a disco so i can be out of the area

personaly I would start of with some cracking tunes like

1: Max Sedgley: Happy (Fat Boy Slim Mix)
2: Stonebridge featuring Therese: Put 'Em High
3: Armand Van Helden: My My My (Original Mix)
4: Junior Jack: Luv 2 U
5: Junior Jack: Stupidisco

Then for a second part go into some classic Tunes from the 90's/ early 00's

6: Lasgo : Somthing
7: Milk inc.: Walk on Water
8: Bullet in the gun 2000
9: Underworld: Born Slippy
10: Josh Wink: higer state of contiosness

Then for a Little bit of soul/80's (dont kill me for bad grouping titles)

11: del la soul: the magic number
12: Bill Withers: lovely day
13: isle brothers: summer breeze
14: fugees: ready or not
15: police: message in a bottle

I would finish of with 5 tracks that are relly mellow yet I cant think of what I would pick atm.

 

Mine would be just a 'soft rock' night (i.e. for soft rockers). I would play:

'Broken wings' Mister Mister
'I want to know what love is' Foreigner
'We Built This City' Starship
'Can't Fight This Feeling' REO Speedwagon
'Magic Man' Heart
'Eye of the Tiger' Survivor
'Carry on Wayward Son' Kansas
'More than a feeling' Boston
'St. Elmo's Fire' John Parr
'The Living Years' Mike and the Mechanics

I would then replay them so as to make 20 songs. It would be a f*****g ace night, wouldn't it?

 

A little taster: http://rockkansas.com/kansas/radio.ram