NME's Student Disco Anthems Of All Time Poll

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As someone who actually DJed at a haircut indie night for a year, I can safely say all the above 10 were absolute "oh no I'm losing the dancefloor what will save me?" bankers. Except the Arctic Monkeys and the Kooks who were after my time. HOWEVER, ten songs that regularly got a far better haircut indie disco reception than any of the above except Take Me Out. NME in failing to understand own demographic shocker.

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

Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

It couldn't be that NME doctored these results to put them in line with their editorial as well, could it? Because that would be really, really, really sad

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Essentially, the entirety of the 90s is incredibly unfashionable among today's indie kids with the exception of early 90s chart rave and Kriss Kross/Informer/Here Comes The Hotstepper.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Seriously, the other day I was discussing with a friend about the kind of potential ATP-type fest that we would like to see and organise if we had the chance. And next to the line-up we decided on at that time, a Carter/Weddoes/PWEI-type weekender would be like the greatest thing EVER. With me and Grimly DJing (or at least submitting playlists so we could dance too).

How can we make this happen?

xpost, gah, kids today...

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Essentially, the entirety of the 90s is incredibly unfashionable among today's indie kids with the exception of early 90s chart rave and Kriss Kross/Informer/Here Comes The Hotstepper.

QFT. Your modern day indie kid would take Snow before "Common People" nine times out of ten.

Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

a Carter/Weddoes/PWEI-type weekender

PWEI (or vilevil, or whatever the clint-less line-up calls itself) would probably be well up for this. i imagine we'd be able to get jimbob cheaply. and after the thousands of words i've written both on the web and in print about the godlike genius of the weddoes ("better than the smiths", "the most important british rock band of the past 20 years" [1]), gedge owes me a fucking favour :)

[1] let's not start arguing this, shall we? i know i'm right.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

was 'Informer' actually getting played at student discos at the time?

Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

was 'Informer' actually getting played at student discos at the time?

Oh yes.

Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Carter/Weddoes/PWEI-type weekender would be like the greatest thing EVER.

And you have the added bonus of knowing that theres no way you would have to worry about meeting me there!

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that's often a concern of mine everywhere I go. In fact, I think I was terribly prescient to gain such taste in music several years before I started giving a shit about the possibility of running into random people that I don't actually know.

(PS when me and Simon actually really do this, you and The Lex can have free weekend passes)

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

[considers trying to draw parallels between godflesh and PWEI to pique kerr's interest; gives up quickly as a bad job]

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

inverse:

Play "Harlem Shuffle" and see how many people are up on the dancefloor in order to "Jump Around"...

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I am SO at your club. Pished on bottles of Apple Hooch, if such a thing still exists...

alext (alext), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

BLASTAWAY!

also, an indie night calle 30 something is long bloody overdue. i've been asked to play a britpop night on saturday, and even five minutes of thinking about it has made me realise i'm actually going to have a fantastic night. SO, COUNT ME IN, IN SHORT :-)

i'm also playing an indie wedding in sydney in a couple of weeks, and have been told "pulp, the house of love, sugar, saint etienne - y'know, that sort of thing" - BRING IT!

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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!

YAYY!

Add:
"American Pie" (Killdozer)
"Waiting Room"
"Rubbish" (or "After The Watershed" or "Do Re Mi So Far So Good")
"Tail-lights Fade"
"One Hundred Years"
"The Trumpton Riots"
"Eighties"
"In'N'Out of Grace"
"Teenage Riot"
"Too Much Kissing"
"Wise Up Sucker"
"Big Bad Baby Pigsqueal" (for the ladeeez)
"Everything Flows"
"This Is How It Feels To Be Lonely"
"Right Here Right Now"
...(cont p94)


Something by Jesus Jones

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

"You Suck" by Consolidated & the Yeastie Girlz was the tune for the ladeez at early 90s indie discos I went to :)

Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

bah, I was going to post that then I had to go answer the phone! I already mentioned Silverfish upthread, but that was for the ladiez with the piercings.

We also have to play:

"Love Your Money"
"Insomniac"
"Connection"
"Mansize Rooster"
"Twisterella" (or "Taste")
"Head Like A Hole"

and and AND


"Epic" by Faith No More!!!!

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there a seperate grunge room I can go to?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Get your own festival, grunge boy!

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Noooo, how could I forget FNM?!

AND AND AND AND
"The Only One I Know"
"Step On"
"Alice" (or more likely that awful remix of "Temple Of Love")
"Blister In The Sun"
"Garden Of Delight" (or "Like A Hurricane")
"Kiss" (Age Of Chance)
"Safety Net"

um...

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll come so I can moan, drink Blastaways, and mosh Crusties in the face. You'll be needing the 1000 Homo DJs version of "Supernaut" too, I reckon.

Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Crusties!

Senser "Eject"

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Fugazi's "Waiting Room" was pretty ubiquitous too.

Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

This game is basically me trying to remember what they played in Spiders in 1991, even tho I was drunk for the entire year.

Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, I give up, what exactly is a "student disco"?

musically (musically), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Mary, if ya gotta ask...

Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

30 Something i would come to this.

seeing as Kiss (Age of Chance) has already been sorted, could i please request 'sold down the riiiiiverrr' by the three johns please.

mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

New Model Army, "Vengeance" or possibly "No Rest".

Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

or "Green and Grey" for the full hand-waving effect

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

It seems like a British thing...

musically (musically), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

VENGEANCE! i'd forgotten all about that song! GOD DAMN BEING AT WORK, I WANT TO GO HOME AND DOWNLOAD!

"Epic" by Faith No More!!!!

heheh, i bought "the real thing" on CD for a fiver on saturday and have been re-living the glory days of listening to it while smoking industrial quantities of tabs in my mate's car ever since.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

erm nineties retro nites exist already. not to spoil things.
also can we get a decent definition of "indie kid" cos people who like the fratellis and people who wear skinny trousers and likely to get down to snow are possibly not the same people. they might overlap thou. the "indie kids" with the trousers tend to like plan b; probably like booka shade and mia and rihanna as well as the klaxxons or whatev.

acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

You bastards have made me think of Teenage Turtles by Back to the Planet and I hate you all.

(I own it on 12", for some reason I shall attribute to the shit I accumulated during several years of hanging round the student paper cadging free stuff, so we can play it when we do this club which I really really want to do despite the great distances separating the half-dozen folk who might actually attend)

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

acrobat, I think for the purposes of this thread now we are talking about "big-stripey-jumper-wearing cider-swilling NME/Select/Melody Maker-reading students of the early 1990s in the UK".

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

haha this thread got good

eh (fandango), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

ailsa reminds me of my old english teacher. in a good way.

acrobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmmm.

This threads need some "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" on it.

ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link

If this takes place at Potter Row, I AM THERE.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:09 (seventeen years ago) link

sadly, potterrow has gone all upmarket :(

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link

No Headhunter, no credibility.

Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:37 (seventeen years ago) link

The basement of Teviot still has electro-goth-industrial-tech-thrash-gabba-horror-core nights, though.

alext (alext), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link

What the fuck is an indie disco and how is it different from any other club?

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

It plays indie.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I appreciate that may be a difficult concept to digest.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

No Abba no credibility (student disco kids, not student indie disco)

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

that's wedding disco surely

Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

PLEASE DO THIS

emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

"Sheela-na-gig"? Check!

Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

And "Motown Junk" so's I can pogo.

Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

recently i was at a wedding in york - and the dj was the drummer from shed 7.
the folks getting wed were ex-goths/crusties.
so this 30-something has actually happened (all
the set by alan was mighty good fun actually, i danced a lot.
not that i remember much of the track selection, as i was caught up in the beer fuelled nostaglia of days gone by.

mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link


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