DJing a Halloween dance party tomorrow; what should I play?

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The crowd: college-aged "indie" kids, random other peers
The setting: a house
Equipment: a set of CDJs, so I can download and burn whatever I need

Thoughts?

― Steev (Steev), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

"Dead Man's Party"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

(that's Oingo Boingo, btw)

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Just play Metal Box three times. And then some Radiohead if people haven't left yet.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

New Order - Truth from Movement. actually, just play Movement in full.

― biz, Friday, 28 October 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Last year I almost got lynched for not playing Monster Mash. So I suggest playing it. At least once.

― scout (scout), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

The Mellotron.

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Blondie - "Rapture"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

RJD2 - The Horror

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

most Blood Brothers would work.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

iggie pop "funtime"
au pairs "you"
new york dolls "personality crisis"
gang of four "natural's not in it" (ladytron remix)

― ahmahm, Friday, 28 October 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Good call on "The Horror", but Blood Brothers? Yick.

― Steev (Steev), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

college aged indie kids would all go for Blood Brothers and they kinda have a halloween-y vibe maybe.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Friday, 28 October 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

you should play a Rocket From The Crypt song just cuz they are playing their last show ever on halloween.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Friday, 28 October 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

twin peaks -o.s.t.
human - elastica
aisha - death in vegas (dirge as well maybe)
chupacabras - super furry animals
the soundtrack to 'profondo rosso' from dario argento
light & magic - ladytron

― hub, Friday, 28 October 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Midnight Mike's "Necro Dance" off the Kitsune Midnight comp. Campy as hell, dude sings about necrophilia in the best bad Boris Karloff impression ever. Midnight Juggernauts' "Raised By Wolves."

― telephone thing, Friday, 28 October 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

The Monster Mash

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 28 October 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Just play Metal Box three times. And then some Radiohead if people haven't left yet.

That would be totally PUNK

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

dana dane "nightmare"

geto boys "chuckie"

any gravediggaz

― burna (burna), Friday, 28 October 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

I should add that songs with Halloween themes are optional. I'm gonna try to get people dancing.

Thoughts pt. deux?

― Steev (Steev), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

i have some halloween album from the meat beat manifesto dood it works well at halloween parties!

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

"Everyday is Halloween" by Ministry and then switch it up and play all of "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste".

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

don't steal music

― eBay Item number: 7358717916 (mookie wilson), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/16836

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Elf Power's version of "I Walked With A Zombie."

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

giorgio moroder - the chase?

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Danny and the Nightmares - Haunted House

― bob in occupied europe (pete and pete), Saturday, 29 October 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Not sure how danceable it is (unless you're doing the Gothy wavey arm dance), but any Halloween party that doesn't play "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus isn't a Halloween party worth its candy corn.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 October 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

Not sure how danceable it is (unless you're doing the Gothy wavey arm dance), but any Halloween party that doesn't play "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus isn't a Halloween party worth its candy corn.

I was thinking the same thing with that Dream Syndicate song.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 29 October 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

"Days of Wine & Roses"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 October 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

"HAlloween", which is off that album, yes.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 29 October 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm doing the exact same thing you are tomorrow night. A few that I'm playing are:

Joy Division - Disorder
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Suicide - Ghost Rider
Patrick Wolf - Bloodbeat
Larry and the Blue Notes - Night of the Sadist

I'm also having trouble sticking with the Halloween theme while also making it danceable. I've ended up giving up some danceableness in favor of keeping with the Halloweenyness.

― Matt McEver (mattmc387), Saturday, 29 October 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

i'm like 3 years behind, but-

Heiden/Blood-Smagghe's fabric mix (i think this is political but sounds v/ gothic and dancy at same time)
Rippin' Kittin - Miss Kittin (she wants to take a life)

gotta be some scary/dancy Nina Hagen songs too.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Aphex Twin - come to daddy (pappy mix)
T-Raumschmiere - an army of watt
Combichrist - this shit will fcuk you up

NON, coil, throbbing gristle

white zombie

metal

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

oh dance party... forget the bottom stuff i was just going halloween in general there.

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf

― JornHootchisopn, Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

I don't think anyone would mind in the least if you played "Thriller."

Alternately, if you have a lot of theatrical types at this bash, you can do that goofy "Masquerade" song from Phantom of the Opera ...

And some random shit that I'd want to hear if I were going to a costume party this weekend:

K.W.S., "Please Don't Go"
Bingoboys f/ Princessa, "Show Me How to Dance"
Kyper, "Tic Tac Toe"
Commodores, "Machine Gun"
Jimmy Castor Bunch, "Bertha Butt Boogie"
Leon Haywood, "I Wanta Do Something Freaky Ta You"
Spinners, "One of a Kind (Love Affair)"
Nancy Sinatra, "How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin'?"
Maxine Nightingale, "Right Back Where We Started From"
Odyssey, "Native New Yorker"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

lot's and lot's of cure

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - After the Flesh

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

maybe some kraftwerk?

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Saturday, 29 October 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

tha mothafuckin misfits, fules///

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Saturday, 29 October 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

Odyssey, "Native New Yorker"

Such a great song.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 October 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

flipper-sex bomb into
stooges-dirt into
beck-clap hands into
gorillaz-are we the last living souls into
ciccone youth-macbeth II into
sumpin scary

― eedd, Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

The Horrorist - "One Night In NYC"
EON - "Fear (The Mindkiller)"
Green Velvet - "Flash"
Insane Clown Posse - "Ol' Evil Eye"
Atari Teenage Riot - "Sick To Death"

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

"It's Halloween" by the Shaggs? Maybe not.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

rise from your grave and give me more ghoulish dance music

― The Macallan 18 Year, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Skatt Bros.-Walk the Night

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Disco Volante
Zombina and the Skeletones obv.

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 25 October 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

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