I don't know WHY I keep saying this...
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acroyearEvery time somebody says to me, "hey, can you bring some cd's along to a party" I keep thinking "geeze, not again...dammit, I don't have any party music...".
So I dig through the collection. The key stuff to look for is early-to-mid 80s, mostly "new wave".
Lemme see here.
Duran Duran, Big Country, Dexy, Roxy Music, King Crimson '81, Tears for Fears, A-Ha, U2, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, Thomas Dolby, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, The Police, Chris De Burgh, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Psychedelic Furs, Planet P, The Cars, Nik Kershaw, Dream Acadamy, Madness, The Motels, Naked Eyes, Men at Work, Flock of Seagulls, 'Til Tuesday, Strange Advance, 10000 Maniacs, and The Cure.
Then there's my "totally 80s" cd set which includes Culture Club, Wang Chung, The Escape Club, Kajagoogoo, John Waite, The Romantics, Nena, and Mr. Mister.
Then there's the arena-rock and pop-80s mix in all that, including Journey, REO, GTR, [Jefferson] Starship, Queensryche, Foreigner, Asia, Rush, Hall & Oats, Paul Simon, Yes, Billy Joel, The Who, String, Quarterflash, and Queen...oh, and on totally 80s: Buster Poindexter, The Bangles, the late Robert Palmer, Katrina and the Waves, Rick Springfield, Glenn Frey, J. Geils Band, Stray Cats, Eddy Grant, Laura Branigan, Tommy Tutone, Corey Hart, and Mike & the Mechanics...
...crap, I didn't even put a Genesis/Phil Collins hit in there...
I really need to make some pop-only cdroms for this sort of thing. Right now, if I bring all that, I'm looking at 4 boxes worth...
oh, and just found 2 80s CD's in cyd's collection, hits from 84 and 86, including Kenny Loggins, Eddie Money, Huey Lewis, Bananarama, Survivor, The Bangles, Wham!, and Tina Turner...
The World Is My Oyster. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...
So I dig through the collection. The key stuff to look for is early-to-mid 80s, mostly "new wave".
Lemme see here.
Duran Duran, Big Country, Dexy, Roxy Music, King Crimson '81, Tears for Fears, A-Ha, U2, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, Thomas Dolby, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, The Police, Chris De Burgh, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Psychedelic Furs, Planet P, The Cars, Nik Kershaw, Dream Acadamy, Madness, The Motels, Naked Eyes, Men at Work, Flock of Seagulls, 'Til Tuesday, Strange Advance, 10000 Maniacs, and The Cure.
Then there's my "totally 80s" cd set which includes Culture Club, Wang Chung, The Escape Club, Kajagoogoo, John Waite, The Romantics, Nena, and Mr. Mister.
Then there's the arena-rock and pop-80s mix in all that, including Journey, REO, GTR, [Jefferson] Starship, Queensryche, Foreigner, Asia, Rush, Hall & Oats, Paul Simon, Yes, Billy Joel, The Who, String, Quarterflash, and Queen...oh, and on totally 80s: Buster Poindexter, The Bangles, the late Robert Palmer, Katrina and the Waves, Rick Springfield, Glenn Frey, J. Geils Band, Stray Cats, Eddy Grant, Laura Branigan, Tommy Tutone, Corey Hart, and Mike & the Mechanics...
...crap, I didn't even put a Genesis/Phil Collins hit in there...
I really need to make some pop-only cdroms for this sort of thing. Right now, if I bring all that, I'm looking at 4 boxes worth...
oh, and just found 2 80s CD's in cyd's collection, hits from 84 and 86, including Kenny Loggins, Eddie Money, Huey Lewis, Bananarama, Survivor, The Bangles, Wham!, and Tina Turner...
The World Is My Oyster. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...
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My first college memory...
Date: 2003-10-24 06:31 pm (UTC)This dance was dead. Period. The guy knew nothing about the crowd at all, and kept playing lots of mid-80s hiphop to a completely white audience right as Hysteria was hitting its stride. I basically came up and said fuck this. Dug into the guys CDs, pulled out five, put them in order, and said "this shit ain't workin'. You play these 5, in this order, you know which songs i mean, and you got yourself a night."
Ended up being the most popular dance of the entire summer's set of orientations. Just by going "man, put on some real stuff", I salvaged a night into a good experience for a LOT of people.
I'm still just amatuer DJ, but somehow i gotta come up with a party with all that tomorrow nite (Dante's wedding reception).
Now I gotta figure out how to take my stereo apart to get it over to the site...