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I've been a very busy boy these past few months. Promotion lead to new things with myself in the bar trade. Then came the girlfriend (argh!), then came the promotional side of my job and then came the new house! Blimey!
Anyway, and finally to the point of this post... I have come up with an idea for an event in my bar. The idea being to have 6 DJ's performing "simultaneously" (me being one of them hopefully). 200 songs. 3 hours. About a minute each track. Not just your ordinary rubbish tho. I'm talking the best of the best - songs you've grown up with - the tracks your parents played when you were a kid, the songs you dance to when you're drunk in a "cheesy" night. The tracks you hear in the radio "christmas" list of the best thing in the world ever.
My vinyl collection is pretty substantial, and so are the collection of the DJ's I will have playing for me. To see we are music geeks is a major understatement. However, we are having some trouble limiting ourselves to "just" 200 tracks.
Any thoughts on what your top 5 tracks are, of all time, cross-genre. Some sort of hints are below...
thanks very much in advance for any ideas... (I'll put you on the flyer ;) )
RT
Free ~ All Right Now
The Who ~ My Generation
The Undertones ~ Teenage Kicks
Sex Pistols ~ Anarchy In The Uk
Bruce Springsteen ~ Born To Run
Marvin Gaye ~ I Herd It Through The Grapevine
The Byrds ~ Mr Tambourine Man
Chuck Berry ~ Johnny B. Good
Queen ~ Bohemian Rhapsody
Otis Redding ~ (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay
Derek & The Dominos ~ Layla
Lou Reed ~ Walk On The Wild Side
The Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Rod Stewart ~ Maggie May
The Who ~ Substitute
The White Stripes ~ Seven Nation Army
The Kinks ~ You Really Got Me
Jimi Hendrix ~ Crosstown Traffic
Steppenwolf ~ Born To Be Wild
The Darkness ~ I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Five suggestions:
Ray Charles - What'd I Say
Earl Grant - House of Bamboo
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Small Faces - Tin Soldier
Doors - Riders on the Storm
Syzygy
neil diamond ~ sweet caroline
jimmy buffet ~ margaritaville
meatloaf ~ paradise by the dashboard lightthats
that's my top three. not my favorites but they sure are crowd pleasers.
Added that last one in just for some Canadian content. If you don't know the band or the song, log onto Kazaa and get it, and a few more from the Hip. Biggest band in the great white north for more than a decade.
pete_m it's a bar in Fallowfield - student-ville. Do you know it? If so, pm me :)
Thanks again so far guys....
one thing.... meat loaf? c'mooon! hehe :)
RT
"Herbie Hancock" ..." Rocket"
"Hawkwind" ..."silver machine"
"Jimi" ..."voodoo chile"
"Janis" ..."Summertime" ( or absolutely anything at all )
"Stones" ..."gimmeshelter"
not my top 5 or 6 ..by any means although the last 3 are in there ...along with Bach and a saxaphone solo I heard the other day and can't find the name of ...
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Human League - Don't you want me
Depeche Mode - Just can't get enough
Dead or Alive - YOu spin me round
Chaka Khan - I feel for you
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's delight
<added> I didn't notice, patoruzu already put down "Gimme Shelter" - oh well, I guess with two votes you'll have to include it!</added>
hotel california covered by gypsy kings
jah wobble - how much are they
white rabbit by jefferson airplane
Velvet Underground - Heroin (the rock version)
Guns 'n Roses - Sweet child of mine
Ahh, inspired me to play only two-chord songs. :)
Rare Earth: "Get Ready"
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers: "It's not Enough"
Gary Moore: "Empty Rooms"
white rabbit by jefferson airplane
Gotta go with that one. Although I also rave about the Airplane's cover version of Triad. Takes me back to the days when I lived in a commune in Hathersage Road, Manchester. We played that track a lot. If you know it, it gives you some idea of the sort of thing we got up to ;)
The full version of Hendrix's Voodoo Chile is the one to go for, not the reprise. Or else his version of All Along the Watchtower.
BTW Leosghost: I'm sure Jeff Beck's Hi Ho Silver Lining dates from the sixties. I think he recorded it just after leaving the Yardbirds. Though I'll take your word for it being an art skool bop classic during the seventies.
BTW Leosghost: I'm sure Jeff Beck's Hi Ho Silver Lining dates from the sixties. I think he recorded it just after leaving the Yardbirds. Though I'll take your word for it being an art skool bop classic during the seventies.
Yup, he sure did, and it sure was (although I recall it in the early eighties)...
Syzygy
How long ago were you a student? Revolution is now a bar which used to be a bank, on the corner, next to a bookies. Been there for about 4 years.
All these suggestions are absolutely amazing! Thank you so much ladies and gents! (my flyer is filling up fast!)
Again, thank you,
RT
Some others:
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
John Denver - Take Me Home Country Roads
