NME's Student Disco Anthems Of All Time Poll

-- 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?

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.

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.

Yes, Kingmaker, and some other popular indie stuff too.

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).

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.

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...

LOL yeah that would have been me, unless I was already shitfaced.

Jurassic 5, then House of Pain!

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.

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.

I was distracted by the site of a topless John McCririck on the TV.

(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

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

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)

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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.