You're at a party / club / social gathering. Everyone's enjoying themselves but the music's crap... Do you...

at a club? presumably i had some idea of what the music would be beforehand. depends who i'm with and my mood more generally - stick it out and get drunk or bail early or persuade friends to leave and go elsewhere are all options

at a house party i might make a sarky comment to a like-minded friend but i would just go into another room. no one likes the whinger in the corner at a party. i don't have ready-made party playlists and would only put my ipod on if invited or pushed by friends

at a pub-type venue i'm probably there for eg someone else's bday, so i would just stick it out, it's not my party

at an afterparty i'm probably good enough friends with most ppl present to object if it's really bad but this isn't often the case bc afterparties tend to be for people of like-minded taste

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I have been invited / pushed by friends to put music on before at house parties. But if not asked, I don't like to take it upon myself to change the music, even if it's crap. There's nothing worse than a douchebro at a party trying to force his music on other people as if his is the only taste that matters.

If I really don't like the music I will express that in a way that's hopefully not too obnoxious to someone I think will agree with me. Or I might just leave the dancefloor and go to the loo or something.

at a club? presumably i had some idea of what the music would be beforehand. depends who i'm with and my mood more generally - stick it out and get drunk or bail early or persuade friends to leave and go elsewhere are all options

at a house party i might make a sarky comment to a like-minded friend but i would just go into another room. no one likes the whinger in the corner at a party. i don't have ready-made party playlists and would only put my ipod on if invited or pushed by friends

at a pub-type venue i'm probably there for eg someone else's bday, so i would just stick it out, it's not my party

at an afterparty i'm probably good enough friends with most ppl present to object if it's really bad but this isn't often the case bc afterparties tend to be for people of like-minded taste

― lex pretend, Monday, October 20, 2014 7:04 AM (1 week ago)

agree with pretty much all of this

Club: Either leave if thats consensus or stick it out if its about the afters anyway. Doesnt usually happen but have seen some unexpectedly bad sets on occasion

House party: If its bad probably knew it was going to be bad beforehand so tune it out

Pub: If randomly bad probably dont even notice the music, if its prepared or themed and bad probably comment to friend on it but suck it up

Afters: An afters with decks is where all the best music comes out!

Ah, how it was..

How it is now? Well..

I was asked about some music for a house party for wife's father who was having a load if ex-service friends around. I didn't have anything that would have suited in the car so left whatever was playing on the cassette player in the hi-fi on auto-rotate.

Anyway, when it was all over, I went to see what had been giving some atmosphere underneath all the hubbub and chatter. Yep, you guessed it, it was Shabba Ranks.

Last house party I was at everyone took turns DJ'ing off of their phones. Worked out pretty well too.

Its good when people take turns on the decks because you have to show respect for the record playing before, especially if you want to do a good transition. At a regular party when people are in a hurry to get 'their' track on it can be really horrible

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