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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: rive gauche on 30 Nov 2005, 10:23
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If you were to have an 80s dance party, what songs would you play? I'm only going to mention two so I don't take up all of the good ones.
Fire In Cairo by the Cure
Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar
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anything and everything by the talking heads.
pyscho killer, burning down the house, artists only, anything really....
anything!
i am going to go listen to them now.
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anything and everything by the talking heads.
pyscho killer, burning down the house, artists only, anything really....
anything!
Yes yes and yes again. Lest we forget "Girlfriend Is Better" or "Crosseyed and Painless", there's really too many too list.
In addition, "This Charming Man"-the Smiths, "Shake Your Rump"-the Beastie Boys, "Girl U Want"-Devo, "I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down"-Elvis Costello and the Attractions, "Man In A Suitcase"-the Police, "Don't Let's Start"-They Might Be Giants, and, for good measure "Take on Me"-a ha.
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Anne Clark - Our Darkness
Bauhaus - She's in Parties
Christian Death - Death Wish
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Dead Can Dance - In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated
Gary Numan - Cars
Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby
KMFDM - Itchy Bitchy
Laibach - Get Back
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Monitor
Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
UK Subs - Party in Paris
And pretty much anything else you'll let me have from the above. Plus some Alien Sex Fiend.
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ABC - Poison Arrow.
"Shoot that poison arrow in my heeaaaaarrrrrt!"
Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls"
Plus Devo and Talking Heads and lots of other stuff.
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Phuture - Acid Trax
Lipps, Inc - Funkytown
And some other shit to fill in the gap between those two songs.
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New. Order.
And Stacey Q of course, if it's an 80's dance party.
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Gonna hit up all the obvious poppy shit.
Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf and Girls on Film by Duran Duran
Personal Jesus and Strangelove by Depeche Mode
We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister
Don't You Forget About Me by Simple Minds
China Girl and Let's Dance by David Bowie
Take My Breath Away by Berlin
Take On Me by A-ha
White Wedding, Rebel Yell and Dancing With Myself by Billy Idol
I Ran by Flock of Seagulls
Centerfold by J. Geils Band
Thriller by Micheal Jackson
99 Red Balloons by Nena
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham!
Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen
I Want To Break Free by Queen
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Serious lack of 2-tone!
Devo - Here To Go
Madness - It Must Be Love
Madness - Our House (its a Talking Heads cover)
Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
Patti Smith - Gloria
Blondie - 11:59
Blondie - Heart Of Glass
The English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
The Specials - Nite Klub
The Specials - (Dawning Of) A New Era
Faith No More - We Care A Lot (for headbanging and such...)
Gary Numan - Cars (word Khar... heheh.... Khar, car, cars.... madness...... HUAGHLAGHLGBAGLGLAGB)
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Oh, and I forgot Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels. Only because of th' RJD2 chopjob of said song.
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1999 - Prince
We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
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Anne Clark - Our Darkness
Bauhaus - She's in Parties
Christian Death - Death Wish
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Dead Can Dance - In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated
Gary Numan - Cars
Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby
KMFDM - Itchy Bitchy
Laibach - Get Back
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Monitor
Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
UK Subs - Party in Paris
Khar's list for the win. Best 80's music by far.
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I'd say the Swedish version of Devo's "Baby Doll", used in the movie Tapeheads.
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I would have a weird dance party:
Kim Wilde - Kids in America.
The Cure - Lovecats.
Steve Winwood - Higher Love.
The Pixies - Tony's Theme.
Randy Newman - It's Money That Matters (yeah I said it).
Nine Inch Nails - Sin.
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng.
Peter Gabriel like nobody's business.
And Khar? if "Cars" works as a dance tune (which I can't decide if it does), why not just spin the whole of Pleasure Principle? It's also got "M.E." (the song that Basement Jaxx sampled for "Where's Your Head At?") and "Metal" (which I don't know if it's danceable, but it's greeat).
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A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Duran Duran - Hungry Like a Wolf
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
man, 80s was about dance music. Get that 80s Music Box set deal.
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I think we can all agree that The Cure is the ideal music from the 80's. Therefore I suggest putting Galore on the stereo. It might have some 90's stuff on it but it's all good stuff.
And on that note, Metal by Gary Numan=yay.
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!!!HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE!!!
and a lot of Van Halen
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Shit yeah, of course you can spin all of Pleasure Principle. In what universe can you imagine me stopping you?
Also lets have:
Dio - Night People
Twisted Sister - I Just Wanna Rock/We're Not Gonna Take It
And I can't believe I was so concentrated on the small shit I forgot to mention The Cure! I vote for Just Like Heaven as a single song.
Also, what's everyone's opinion on taking some Joy Division? Yeah, technically they're late seventies, but they had a singles compilation released in the 80's, and fuck it, but the whole of the 80's stole off them.
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Well, Ian Curtis didn't kill himself until 1980, so we'll let it slide :)
Edit: I don't know why I put a smiley at the end of a sentence about someone killing himself.
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Every Oingo Boingo song ever.
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We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister
Oh hell yes. But I'd also be spinning:
King Kobra - Iron Eagle (Never Say Die)
Toto - Rosanna
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of The Heart
Starship - We Built This City
Huey Lewis - Power of Love
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
ZZ Top - Bad To The Bone
Stan Bush - The Touch
Stan Bush - Dare
Lion - The Transformers (theme)
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
David Bowie - Magic Dance
Basically, it's all about playing as much awesome music from eighties movies as possible. Particularly if it involves Michael J Fox, giant robots or teenage boys single-handedly waging war on Iraq. But I'd also have to throw in some other party hits to really get things going:
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off
Minor Threat - Filler
Black Flag - My War
Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song
Minutemen - Vietnam
Slayer - Angel of Death
Anthrax - Caught In A Mosh
Cro-Mags - Street Justice
Leeway - Enforcer
Fugazi - Merchandise
Big Black - Bad Penny
Judge - Bringin' It Down
Chain of Strength - True Till Death
Youth of Today - Youth of Today
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How could you reel off a list of old-school mosh classics and not include 'March of the SOD/Sergeant D and the SOD', 'Pussy Whipped' or 'The Milano Mosh' by the ever-awesomne Stormtroopers of Death?
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No 80's dance party is complete without Devo - Wip it. Falco - Amadeus is also a lot of fun.
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I thought Whip It was late seventies, otherwise I definitely would have been having a bit of that.
How could you reel off a list of old-school mosh classics and not include 'March of the SOD/Sergeant D and the SOD', 'Pussy Whipped' or 'The Milano Mosh' by the ever-awesomne Stormtroopers of Death?
You know what? I've never so much as heard SOD. Yes, this is shameful and I do feel bad.
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:O
High ye to a recorde shoppe and buy ye 'Speak English or Die'!
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The Specials- "Ghost Town"
The Specials- "Gangsters"
The Specials- "Little Bitch"
Madness- "Baggy Trousers"
Madness- "One Step Beyond" (Prince Buster cover)
Madness- "Bed & Breakfast Man"
Fugazi- "Waiting Room"
Devo- "Big Mess"
Devo- "Peek-a-Boo!"
Dead Kennedys- "Kill the Poor"
The (English) Beat- "March of the Swivelheads"
and i heartily second "Amadeus" by Falco.
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Finally, a topic I have some input on. I live for '80s dance music.
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Animotion - Obsession
Blondie - Call Me
A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
Ready for the World - Oh Sheila
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Romeo Void - Never Say Never
Janet Jackson - Nasty
Jody Watley - Looking for a New Love
Salt-N-Pepa - Push It
Cameo - Word Up
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
New Order - Blue Monday
Shannon - Let the Music Play
Re-Flex - The Politics of Dancing
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Madonna - Into the Groove
Pointer Sisters - Automatic
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Debbie Gibson - Only in My Dreams
Depeche Mode - Master and Servant
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Imagination - Just an Illusion
Human League - Don't You Want Me
INXS - Need You Tonight
Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin
Prince - Erotic City/When Doves Cry/1999/pretty much anything, really
Sheena Easton - Strut
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
Yaz - Situation