there should be LAWS against this sort of thing. it is utterly repellent.
-- The Lex
The Lex for London Mayor campaign starts now?
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (elwisty), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Cue "I don't need to hear them, I know in my soul that they are bad" etc etc
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
2. Mr Brightside (The Killers)3. I Predict A Riot (Kaiser Chiefs)4. Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand)5. This Charming Man (The Smiths)6. Hounds of Love (Futureheads)8. Last Nite (The Strokes)9. Banquet (Bloc Party)10. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)
some of them i only heard half of, because my ears could not take it any more! it is difficult to pinpoint which one is the worst but i am leaning towards the futureheads' desecration of Lovely K8. how dare they, &c &c.
(nb i like the nouvelle vague cover of 'love will tear us apart')
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
are we talking about student discos actually on campuses? they're very segregated typically aren't they? one night is metal night, then goth night, then indie night, then dnb+dusbtep night or whatever, no?
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Venga (Venga), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
how bloody dare they?
it makes you sick, these people, listening to their music, in their club.
disgusting.
― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
NO, it is turgid wimpy whine whine whine crap and his voice is GHASTLY.
they shouldn't be listening to that sort of music and they certainly shouldn't be desecrating LOVELY K8.
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Steve OTM about the student discos being segregated. I only went to the indie ones (like what AlexT said, in fact occasionally the very same one that AlexT went to, I believe), and the 80s revival ones (lots of Dead or Alive and Tenpole Tudor and Westworld and stuff), so I'm assuming that all students are like what I was like when I was a student. This, I realise, is very wrong, but hell, this is ILM, being wrongheaded and egocentric is part of the fun, yes?
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― 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
duh duh duh, duh duh duh, duh duh duh du-duh du-duh
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Thursday, 25 November 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
HM's question seconded. What are the big anthems now?
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 26 November 2010 10:05 (thirteen years ago) link
a leading music critic needs to know!
― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Friday, 26 November 2010 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.forum.mobilediscodirectory.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-28706.html
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 26 November 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Or in short:
1.Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire2.Killers - Mr Brightside3.MGMT - Kids4.Rage against the machine - Killing in the name of5.Tenacious D - Tribute6.Journey - Dont Stop Belivin'7.Bon Jovi - Livin on a prayer8.Brian Adams - Summer of 699.House of pain - Jump around10.Black eye peas - Pump it1-jamie t-if you got the money2-hot chip-over & over3-kasabian-processed beats4-lets go surfing-the drums5-klaxons-golden skans6-stone roses-fools gold7-shed seven-disco down8-hot chip-ready for the floorLeftfield - Open upDelerium - SilenceFaithless - InsomniaBlur - ParklifeStone Roses - WaterfallNew Order - Blue MondayHappy Mondays - Hallelujah (Club mix)The Big Pink - DominosFlorence and the Machine - Dog days are overThe Editors - Papillion1: Pendulum - Slam2: Prodigy: Voodoo People3: Killers - Brightside4: Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire5: Fratelis - Chelsea Dagger6: N Trance - Set U Free7: Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom (especially at Leicester Uni & Demontfort)8: House of Pain - Jump Around9: Fatman Scoop - Be Faithfull10: Take That - Never Forget
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 26 November 2010 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Summer of 69?!
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 26 November 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Shed Seven people!
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 26 November 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
no surprises there. the only truly offensive song in the list is the big pink one
― thrillionaire (electricsound), Friday, 26 November 2010 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Do you mean "student anthems" or do you mean music that actually gets played at students unions, in my experience they're entirely different apart from that 2004-2007 period when it would've been all the Fratellis and Razorlight and Bloc Party and what have you. Only Kings of Leon, Mumford & Sons and yer sub-MGMTs have really done much since then.
The last time the charts felt this disconnected from guitar music was around 1999-2001, which was when I was a student. And the non-cheese nights at my union were playing chart 2-step, eurotrance and the occasional US RnB or hip-hop crossover. My guess would be that this year's student anthems are Katy On A Mission, Pass Out, the two Roll Deep number ones, some of the Magnetic Man stuff and Kanye/Gaga/Black Eyed Peas.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 November 2010 10:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I forgot about Florence and the Machine. I think I've blotted last year's fashionable women things out of my mind.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 November 2010 10:23 (thirteen years ago) link
The first top 10 looks like it's probably accurate. The one featuring Leftfield and New Order and the Roses/Mondays is patently written by someone who is in his 30s, at Manchester University, or both.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 November 2010 10:25 (thirteen years ago) link
7: Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom (especially at Leicester Uni & Demontfort)
zing!
― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Friday, 26 November 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Corabar Steve21-09-2010, 07:51 PMHas everyone forgotten these threads are for lists, not discussion?
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Friday, 26 November 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah that guy is classic.
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 26 November 2010 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Top 10(ish) Grime
Corabar Steve07-02-2009, 10:04 AMAnyone?
Are the Mitchell Brothers the only exponents of this genre?
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 26 November 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Top Ten Dubstep
DeckstarDeluxe01-10-2009, 12:26 AMHope the powers that be dont mind me doing this?
Ive noticed recently at 18th parties that I get requests for some dubstep however Im not up on this genre but would like to be
Ones I can post are
La Roux - In For The Kill (Screams Lets Get Ravy Remix)La Roux - Not Your Toy (Nero Remix)
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DeckstarDeluxe01-10-2009, 07:20 PMGood start keep em coming guys.
Got alot of country villages around here rich farmer types and its usually them that are asking for it and as Ive got a 17th this saturday I'd like to go prepared with some good stuff.
Personally not that keen on the genre but if its what the customer wants........
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 26 November 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
damn u gotta see this in full vbb glory
http://www.forum.mobilediscodirectory.co.uk/showthread.php?s=bf1b8a04cf8214f3b0688be4f509c5e1&t=12655
enjoying his idiosyncratic grasp of pronouns
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Friday, 26 November 2010 14:48 (thirteen 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