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?

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...

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

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.

Oh yes.

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

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

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

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!

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

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!!!!

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...

Senser "Eject"

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

"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.

(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)

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

Nooooooooo!

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

Do you still go there, though?

(I know someone who DJs there occasionally)

i don't remember much about the actual club nights there, though.

I remember playing upstairs in Potterrow in about 1992.

I can remember seeing Fenn and Velvet Crush upstairs at potterrow in late 1991 or 1992. I think i may have seen Dawson (or was it badgewearer) there too.

Someone who then went on to post on ILM?

Right, we could really probably do this now, somewhere, in Edinburgh (or Glasgow), couldn't we? And people would go. Hurrah!

(though I'm still holding out for the festival)

I saw Fenn at Potterrow too in 1991 or 2. I saw Ballboy downstairs at Potterrow in about 1997 too, when they had a girl singer and Idlewild for that matter.

Roadrunner was good, beacause it was my music policy. It wasn't a student disco you bastards.

It plays indie.
-- Matt DC (runmd...), October 4th, 2006.

There's more to it than this. Preferably mid-week (cos a lot of students go home to places like Kilmaurs on the weekend and it eliminates the workies) and a cheap beer promotion is pretty much essential. eg. In the era discussed above, a bottle of Becks for a quid would be appropriate.

(Strathclyde's good night was on a Thursday at Level 8, but it wasn't quite as good for some reason).

This is all a touch Glasgow-centric, sorry. Just redressing the balance from all those Edinburgh sorts up there.

By the way, the idea that student discos in the early 90's were all about Kill Yr Television and Touch Me I'm Sick is only MOSTLY true. Didn't any of you Glasgow types go to Wednesday Night Fever at (I think) the Cotton Club? A very silly disco night for students and tons of fun.

No wonder I've got such a shit record collection degree.

Treefell, given that there were only about 30 people there; who are you? Do I know you?

DJ Shadow: Meiso
808 State: Cubik
Ultra Vivid Scene: Special One
Maurice Joshua: I gotta a big ....
I did play Kiss by the Age of Chance a fair bit
My Bloody Valentine: You made me realise (this was requested all the time)

I last went to Spiders about 5 years ago. It was full of 16 year-old emo/nu-metallers. I felt like a paed just being there. I don't think I can ever go back again unless somebody slips me acid or ket. Which would be nice, but still, I fear the party is over.

Love, noodle.

This one would do the trick too
This is the thread where we reminisce over not particularly good Evening Session bands from the late 90s

bubblegum/roadrunner/whatever. all the same to me. six pints each in happy hour, two joints (rolled in the bogs under the ever-watchful nose of g4vin the servitor [1]), as much vodka as i could neck ... funny, i don't remember much about anything after that. except that i NEVER PULLED. (still: those of you that have seen that shirt pic i posted on the "used to look like" thread will understand that.)

grimly's ace keith fact: i once wandered upstairs at potterrow, where keith was playing the weatherall remix of "soon". in my staggeringly young/naive/drunken/stoned state, i thought keith was actually MIXING MBV WITH SOME OTHER WEIRD SHIT LIVE IN FRONT OF ME, and stood there gawping until the painful need for more artificial stimulus took over (ie about 3 seconds).

[1] what a truly horrible fucking word! the student newspaper should have campaigned against it. oh ...

x-post: right, YES. how? anyone?

* I just wanted to go to Piper and drink myself diabetic but I was forced to listen to D und B DJs. It was good tho. But I was scared by lithe bouncy kinders who were probly at Primary School when I last cared about D und B.

apologies for above madness, just pulled the biggest nastey whitey ever. good greif.

damn, that was tonight? :(

clubs are too decorated? now

I was in a band called Sensoria (because we were all Cabs fans, obv). We were aiming for a cross between "Snake Hands Forever"-era Head Of David and Ministry, everyone thought we sounded like the Sisters. THIS MAY HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH OUR SINGER BEING AN ELDRITCH CLONE. We played with The Hunters Club and it all went a bit wrong somewhere - I remember being smuggled out to avoid fights. Which didn't stop us getting signed that night. Gary and I eventually ended up in Goat Science, which was more or less the Varikose Veins with me on bass (them having mutated into Forkeye).

For anyone trying to work out who I was generally, I was the DON'T LAUGH YOU FUCKERS painfully thin guy with the pretty long hair who used to hang about with Claire With The One Arm (she was friends with my ex-wife).

Fixed.

wasn't this DJ Krush? from '96?

mmmmmmmmmmph...pix? please? pretty please?

Sadly the link to the best one is now broked.

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.