NME's Student Disco Anthems Of All Time Poll

KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL

1. I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor (Arctic Monkeys)
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)
7. Naive (The Kooks)
8. Last Nite (The Strokes)
9. Banquet (Bloc Party)
10. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)

What surprises me more is that anyone gives a fuck about what the NME is telling 18 year olds away from the first time that they're going to get to listen to whilst vomiting up cheap cider.

Also, no "Kill Your Television", no credibility (I am old).

there should be LAWS against this sort of thing. it is utterly repellent.

Where's Me Jumper?
Touch Me I'm Sick
Debaser
The Only One I Know
Upside Down
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Blue Monday
Endless Art

(I am old too!)

I am old too :P

Students read the NME nowadays? Hmmmm...

It was all trance and UK garage as far as the eye could see when I was a student, so I suppose it's Hed Kandi-friendly funky house these days, right?

More students own the James Blunt album than own the Arctic Monkeys album, I would guess.

-- The Lex

The Lex for London Mayor campaign starts now?

Cue "I don't need to hear them, I know in my soul that they are bad" etc etc

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')

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?

how bloody dare they?

it makes you sick, these people, listening to their music, in their club.

disgusting.

NO, it is turgid wimpy whine whine whine crap and his voice is GHASTLY.

how bloody dare they?

it makes you sick, these people, listening to their music, in their club.

they shouldn't be listening to that sort of music and they certainly shouldn't be desecrating LOVELY K8.

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?

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 average non specialist student disco night is execrable cheese of the non-boy with guitar nature yes yes.

What were indie discos playing 10 and 15 years ago?

like i say, i never gothed up beyond wearing an unfeasibly long earring (with an asymetrical haircut) and a black jumper with holes in it. by the time i was at potterrow, i was busy rocking the "total wanker" look:

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/MeWithTab1995.jpg

NB: NOT JUST AN EXCUSE, I POSSIBLY HAVE THE LEAST PHOTOS OF MYSELF OF ANYBODY WHO EVER LIVED.

There. I have tried a bit harder.

Now I look like a fat bald her.

Yes.

But I tend to think of it as Shadow as we only ever played the Shadow mix, because the Krush version was rubbish. Shadow made it good. It's got a sample of Prince Geno and the Tailor Mades at the end too, which is great.

HI DERE!

We HAVE to do this

right, YES. how? anyone?

Right, pick a city first. Glasgow or Edinburgh? Then we can work on logistics from there.

btw, I absolutely do not want to be a student again under any circumstances ever.

but yes, i know. that's not an excuse. 19-year-old me (maybe 20, actually) really did need teh massive beats.

No it wouldn't because I'm not talking about the late 90s and I'm not naming not particularly good bands. But whatever.

(that thread is awesome, btw. Also I have discovered that I actually own a single by Blaggers ITA. And that Matty Blag is now dead)

Revive, since some drunken japery in the pub last night has led Grimly and I to start discussing the possibility of making Club 30 Something a reality.

I found this thread by googling for "teethgrinder" :-)

I had forgotten drawing on this thread.

I'd like to start an indie disco.

And when all the cool indie kids had come inside with their cool indie haircuts, blazers and ironic lunchboxes I'd lock the doors, nail their palms to the walls and play Reign in Blood over and over again until they all bled to death.

I don't think that's unreasonable.

I don't know what's more depressing, the fact that all my friends are into the NME anthems and not much else, or the fact that the anthems haven't moved forward or changed AT ALL in five years. Seriously, if I was paying £5 a week every week I'd at least want to hear something beyond a "will this standardised iTunes playlist do?" effort.

Club 30 does sound pretty amazing.

what are the current anthems?

or the fact that the anthems haven't moved forward or changed AT ALL in five years

indie having been squeezed out of the charts a reflection/cause (chicken/egg) of this seemingly

feel like no-one gives a shit about the charts -- trying to factor in my own total lack of interest but still think im right

duh duh duh, duh duh duh, duh duh duh du-duh du-duh

HM's question seconded. What are the big anthems now?

a leading music critic needs to know!

http://www.forum.mobilediscodirectory.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-28706.html

Or in short:

1.Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
2.Killers - Mr Brightside
3.MGMT - Kids
4.Rage against the machine - Killing in the name of
5.Tenacious D - Tribute
6.Journey - Dont Stop Belivin'
7.Bon Jovi - Livin on a prayer
8.Brian Adams - Summer of 69
9.House of pain - Jump around
10.Black eye peas - Pump it
1-jamie t-if you got the money
2-hot chip-over & over
3-kasabian-processed beats
4-lets go surfing-the drums
5-klaxons-golden skans
6-stone roses-fools gold
7-shed seven-disco down
8-hot chip-ready for the floor
Leftfield - Open up
Delerium - Silence
Faithless - Insomnia
Blur - Parklife
Stone Roses - Waterfall
New Order - Blue Monday
Happy Mondays - Hallelujah (Club mix)
The Big Pink - Dominos
Florence and the Machine - Dog days are over
The Editors - Papillion
1: Pendulum - Slam
2: Prodigy: Voodoo People
3: Killers - Brightside
4: Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
5: Fratelis - Chelsea Dagger
6: N Trance - Set U Free
7: Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom (especially at Leicester Uni & Demontfort)
8: House of Pain - Jump Around
9: Fatman Scoop - Be Faithfull
10: Take That - Never Forget

Summer of 69?!

Shed Seven people!

no surprises there. the only truly offensive song in the list is the big pink one

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.

I forgot about Florence and the Machine. I think I've blotted last year's fashionable women things out of my mind.

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.

7: Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom (especially at Leicester Uni & Demontfort)

zing!

Corabar Steve
21-09-2010, 07:51 PM
Has everyone forgotten these threads are for lists, not discussion?

Yeah that guy is classic.

Top 10(ish) Grime

Corabar Steve
07-02-2009, 10:04 AM
Anyone?

Are the Mitchell Brothers the only exponents of this genre?

Top Ten Dubstep

DeckstarDeluxe
01-10-2009, 12:26 AM
Hope 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)

...

DeckstarDeluxe
01-10-2009, 07:20 PM
Good 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........

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

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??????????
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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?

Their dads would've played it in the car.

It's just like 30-somethings liking the Beatles.

Biffy Clyro's "Mountains" is so popular, which seems bizarre to me. The chorus makes me think of a Playdays dance routine.