DJ's SUCK. What would you like to hear?

guitarzero

Anytime I go out to a dance bar/club, What am I doing there I here you say, its the same play list pretty much over and over and over. No DJ ever takes a risk. Its those same R'nb Dancey kinda tunes in any given dance bar. I'm sure I speak for 100% of folks when I say the music DJ's play pretty much sucks. I find it hard to approach a bird to this shít too. Its pretty aggressive, played loudly, no class at all. I think this music makes people more aggressive.

If you had a few songs you could dance to, what would you chose? Could someone let me know how to post a youtube vid (mod?), I'm not ofay with the App. Cheers.

Jimmy Garlic

They would argue that it is what people want to hear but the truth is most DJs are crap. Playing whatever rn'b/hip hop rubbish is in the charts + whatever rn'b/hip hop crap was in the charts is the limit of their ability.

guitarzero

I dont know if it necessarily 'what people wanna hear'. I think its a case of this is whats playing - its got a beat - I've come to dance = Bust a move. I dont hear anyone saying "I wanna hear Lil' Wayne!". So much good dance/synth/electro around it could probably rewire the attitude of the headaballs. I think it can be said that the DJ pretty much always went down the cheap and easy route. But you would think even one of many would just offer somethin fresh.

nyarlothothep

Hmmm, off the top of my head and this would essentially be in my ideal world where everyone would like the same music as me

Metallica: Unforgiven/For Whom the Bell Tolls/Fight Fire with Fire/Orion
Radiohead: Anything off Ok Computer or The Bends
The Prodigy: Poison, Their Law, Smack my Bitch Up
The Cure: Lovecats, In Between Days
Simon and Garfunkel: Keep the Customer Satisfied
The Mars Volta: Inertiac ESP, tracks 5, 8 and 10 off Deloused, tracks 1, 2, 3 off Frances the Mute
Bjork: Army of Me, All is Full of Love
Prince: Party like its 1999
Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb, Time, Money, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, the recording of that 10 minute song they played in Pompeii with the excellent whammy bar action
Reverend Bizarre: Caesar Forever, Doom over the World, Dark Sorceress
Led Zep: Black Dog, When the Levee Breaks, Misty Mountain Hop, Kashmir
Opeth: Fair Judgement, Heir Apparent, Ghost of Perdition, The Drapery Falls
Pantera: Cowboys from Hell, Mouth for War
At The Drive In: One Armed Scissor, track one off relationships of Command
Jimi Hedrix: Vodoo Child, Freedom
Animals as Leaders: Tempting Time, Cafo
All of my own music hehe.


One can always dream.

CountryJoe

guitarzero wrote: »

I think it can be said that the DJ pretty much always went down the cheap and easy route. But you would think even one of many would just offer somethin fresh.

Always wondered this myself, surely if one went against the mould and starting playing some 70s funk & the like, then word would spread that this late bar/club plays great music, getting in a few extra punters on a Friday / Saturday night. Only reason I can think of is that maybe the dont want to take the risk of alienating their clients & hence losing out on their gig.

Ive been at functions where stuff like Talking Heads, Funkadelic, Sly & the Family Stone , Led Zeppelin & Pink Floyd (which would be the stuff id love to hear on nights out) were being played, and they got great reactions, so in my own opinion, I dont believe that late bars and clubs would loose many customers with a radical shift in music policy. But you hit the nail on the head pretty much, they do just go down the cheap & easy route.

Jerichoholic

Depends where you go. If you're going to a meat market, you're going to hear the cheap r n' b crap that will hurt your brain. I play an hour a week in a bar and always make an effort to do something different. Here's what I mean:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32467704/Jawsmelt.mp3

Just stay away from the bad places.

Plumpynutt

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Depends where you go. If you're going to a meat market, you're going to hear the cheap r n' b crap that will hurt your brain. I play an hour a week in a bar and always make an effort to do something different. Here's what I mean:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32467704/Jawsmelt.mp3

Just stay away from the bad places.

precisely this.

depends entirely where you go. there are clubs for any and all tastes in music, not just cattle market rnb type places.