NME's Student Disco Anthems Of All Time Poll

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

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!

Haha. Indeed. See also "Hippy Chick" by Soho.

fucking kennedy, man. god that tune PWNS everything else here.

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!

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.)

(but, yeah, totally, we should)

10. Guns'n'Roses - Paradise City
9. Michael Jackson - Anything at all up to 1991
8. Van Halen - Jump
7. Killers - Somebody Told Me (ultimate haircut indie banker)
6. N-Trance - Set You Free
5. Undertones - Teenage Kicks (banker to end all bankers, really)
4. Kriss Kross - Jump
3. AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
2. Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
1. EAST 17 - HOUSE OF LOVE

How can we make this happen?

xpost, gah, kids today...

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.