Forum: Music discussion

With all respect dizzyrocks2001 the post asked you to suggest some tracks not to trash the previous ones.

I could as easily trash your crowd cause if they (or you) don't know songs like Spagna - Call Me and some of the other tracks you trashed then you're not really 80's fans.

The songs I listed come not just from my opinion, i was a real eighties dj and those songs brought the house down.

Most of the songs you mention nobody knows are included in several cd and dvd eighties compilations... so just like that it's not just my opinion.

I can understand your opinion (if not your ways) if you or the people you play for did not live the eighties and are just fans of the eighties stuff played on the radio over the last few years, but if you want to play for people over the age of 35 that really lived those days on the club scene you should have more than Toni Basil on your deck.

Obscure... oh my god, all of this tracks are perfectly known in my country (Mexico) and we don't even speak english...

By the way I agree with most of your tracks, however some of the groups you mention in fact do have better tracks than the ones you selected, just to name one... Duran Duran - The Reflex is much better option than Hungry Like A Wolf (also great dance tune). But this is not a critic nor debate post is a playlist suggestion post.

the same old songs that you hear on every 80s compilation are the ones that work.

He wants people to dance, not reminisce and play name that tune. There's a big difference between what was big in the 80s and what will actually work on a dance floor today. And for the record, I wasn't trashing your list and saying they were bad songs, I was telling him that those songs just won't work to keep a full dance floor, there's a difference. Maybe in Mexico "The Great Commandment" by Camouflage was a big hit, but I'd bet my life that in Canada and the U.S. 9 out of 10 people who grew up in the 80s (me included) wouldn't even know or remember it. Guess what, the majority of people have middle of the road taste in music and the same old songs that you hear on every 80s compilation are the ones that work.

Add these to your list (in no particular order):

Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Tony Basil - Hey Mickey
Madonna - Holiday
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
RUN DMC & Aerosmith - Walk This Way
Prince - Kiss
Young MC - Bust A Move
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Tone Loc - Wild Thing
Prince - Let's Go Crazy
Prince - 1999
Denise Williams - Let's Hear It For The Boy
DeBarge - Rhythm Of The Night
Lionel Richie - All Night Long
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Bananarama - Venus
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
Irene Cara - What A Feeling (Flashdance)
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The Clash - Rock The Casbah
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
The Eurhythmics - Sweet Dreams
The Go Go's - We Got The Beat
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Madness - Our House
George Michael - Faith
Nena - 99 Red Baloons
The Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited
The Proclaimers - 500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be)
Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time

My additions might be songs that we've all heard a million times, but guess what? These songs actually keep people dancing.