― eh (fandango), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
all the same the association of the songs alext named and students seems right to me, and in a word-association game, 'student disco' would say 'wonder stuff' to me, even if the majority of students were and are non-indie.
this is because MOST wonder stuff (random example) fans were students whereas students are only a subset of all the people who listen to what was simply called "cheese", which was the main draw back in the day iirc, and comprised pretty much everything *except* guitar music.
― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
The average non specialist student disco night is execrable cheese of the non-boy with guitar nature yes yes.
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
What were indie discos playing 10 and 15 years ago?
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
haha i remember in my first week visting hmv with this guy on my course, and he bought... aleshas attic (if that was there name -- 'i am, i feel' anyway-- them). never spoke to him again.
― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Glasgow Uni had two student unions, which was nice. The GUU for the Simply Red fans, and the QM for the grebos and the crusties and the goffs (oh, yeah, get Sheriff Fatman in that list please, Carter USM = the studentiest band ever). However, the Thursday night "cheesy pop" night was still the best attended at the QM, I believe.
10 and 15 years ago it was all the kind of things everyone's been mentioning on this thread already.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, Kingmaker, and some other popular indie stuff too.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Other random faves (not necessarily of mine, oh, who am I kidding...):
"Kennedy" (actually, this was king of indie disco tunes ever)"Killing in the Name""Def Con One""Teethgrinder""Beers Steers and Queers""Freakscene"
then all the other stuff like "Mrs Robinson" and "Feed the Tree" and "Animal Nitrate" and "He's On the Phone" and "Saturn 5" and "Friday I'm In Love" which meant I wasn't the only girl on the dancefloor any more (or at least the only one not made entirely of dreads and piercings).
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I glanced at this thread earlier today, trying to dredge up specific memories of specific songs being played on the rare occasions I went to student union disco nights. The only ones that came to mind were this and 'Jump Around'.
At the weekend my workmate went to that Annie Mac / Erol Alkan etc studenty tour thing that's happening at the moment and said that Erol actually played 'Killing In The Name'. I feel like there's a lesson in here, but I can't quite dig it out.
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Jurassic 5, then House of Pain!
And if you were lucky, Intergalactic by the Beasties!
I once got the student DJ in the supposedly more "choice" upstairs union club to play some Public Enemy. It wasn't vintage PE, but that bouncy Get Up song from Muse-Sick, which is still pretty cool.
Another time i dressed up as Flava Flav for Halloween. I didn't black up or anything (jeez louise!) but I did borrow the clock from the student paper office. Sadly nobody got who I was supposed to be, until we arrived at the union and some drunken Irish bloke was like, "I see who you are, you're Flava Flav!"Note Flav rhymed with Bath or Cath. It's funnier as a spoken anecdote, I know...
― Stew (stew s), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
LOL yeah that would have been me, unless I was already shitfaced.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
No match for the awesome might of the early 00s hip-hop concessions: "Ante Up", "What About Dre", and A BEASTIE BOYS TRACK TO BE DECIDED LATER.
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
P.S.: The thought of people "dancing" to "Feed the Tree" is totally mind-blowing to me. I'm picturing lots of miming of taking hats off.
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
I was distracted by the site of a topless John McCririck on the TV.
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link
(this effect later ruining by bouncing around to Big Bad Baby Pig Squeal* about five minutes later)
*or whatever that Silverfish song was that they used to play all the time
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
i've heard erol play that disgusting song before, at the end. i was horrified and exited the dancefloor with HASTE; i am afraid to say that matt dc, anna-marie and kt had no such sense of propriety and did that headbanging thing to it :o
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 07:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link
DING DING DING! ailsa, thank you.
i once danced so insanely to kennedy i was very nearly sick.
this was long after i was a student too.
Also "Call It What You Want" by Credit to the Nation, which got everyone rushing onto the dancefloor because they thought it was "Smells Like Teen Spirit" then feeling foolish because it wasn't and being all "yeah, I knew it wasn't Nirvana".
HAHAHAHAH. o, happy days!
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Haha. Indeed. See also "Hippy Chick" by Soho.
― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
fucking kennedy, man. god that tune PWNS everything else here.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
right, this is a goer! ILX over-30s indie disco! kennedy on the hour, every hour! DJ ailsa and simon's carter-fest! book a venue now!
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
srsly, i think we should do this.
but i am notoriously sad.
(nb: it's not just for the over-30s. it's for the over-30s at heart too.)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
(but, yeah, totally, we should)
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
10. Guns'n'Roses - Paradise City 9. Michael Jackson - Anything at all up to 19918. Van Halen - Jump7. Killers - Somebody Told Me (ultimate haircut indie banker)6. N-Trance - Set You Free5. Undertones - Teenage Kicks (banker to end all bankers, really)4. Kriss Kross - Jump3. AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long2. Queen - Don't Stop Me Now1. EAST 17 - HOUSE OF LOVE
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
How can we make this happen?
xpost, gah, kids today...
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
QFT. Your modern day indie kid would take Snow before "Common People" nine times out of ten.
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
IF PEOPLE WANT UPFRONT MUSIC THEY'LL GO TO A CLUB. MOBILE DJS SHOULD PLAY NOTHING BUT THE CLASSICS????
Do you employ a guy whom needs educating or are you on now one of these DJ's WHOM REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE CLASSICS even though you run a mobile disco business??????????__________________
brilliant steve__________________DJ Gaz1Radio DJ
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Friday, 26 November 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i've been around student union nights embarrassingly recently and i'm so confused by the prevailing popularity of the mid-90s. vengaboys and other such things i can just about get my head around, somehow, but why are these 18-year-olds cheering when ocean colour scene come on?
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 26 November 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Their dads would've played it in the car.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 November 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
It's just like 30-somethings liking the Beatles.
― seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Biffy Clyro's "Mountains" is so popular, which seems bizarre to me. The chorus makes me think of a Playdays dance routine.
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Monday, 29 November 2010 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link