Guaranteed Dancefloor Fillers cont'd

also important to consider: you need a follow-up song (OR TWO) for when you drop your GDF or you have to work 2x as hard to regain the dancefloor's confidence...

Once had a guy sing along in French to Serge Gainsbourg's 'Requiem Pour Un Cunt'. This eclipses everything.

Lance Lockarm's "Don't You Want My Big Head". All the kids at Akbar go nuts when I play it!

oh damn, that Ms. Jade/Human League bootleg really is godlike.

Heh heh heh. The goodness of Lance proven again. I wonder when he'll do something else and if he can hear me and if he's AROUND HERE ANYWHERE hm...

I DJ'd a friend's wedding in New Jersey a couple of months ago.

Hits: "The Humpty Dance," "Bust a Move," "Crazy in Love," "It Takes Two," "Best of My Love," and, for the bride's wallflower college friends and no-one else, "Hit Me Baby, One More Time."

Misses, much to my disappointment: "It's My Beat" by Sweet Tea & Jazzy Joyce and any pre-disco soul music

Has anyone played 'Whole Lotta Love'? I'm wondering how the big tabla or whatever ambient section goes down.

if your floor cant dance to "Ten Percent" by Double Exposure then you may be DJing at the wrong place.

DJed a party in singapore on friday. Some of the tunes people didn't dance to:

Basement Jaxx - "Lucky star"
Outlaw Breaks - "Dutty" (Wiley mix)
Sean Paul and Ce'Cile - "Can you do the work"

In fact the only things that got people going were "Like Glue" and Sizzla, weirdly.

Jacob: I'm from Singapore, and I'm not surprised! The exposure of the average clubber here to, er, whatever genre of music Lucky Star can be intelligently described as falling into, is only just beginning. I hope you keep playing them though. People will catch on soon, hopefully! :)

nice one fritz - it's usually me that revives that one.

future filler : 'got your number' - young punks

beyonc'e & jay-z: crazy in love,
followed by:
sean paul: get busy
and
beatnuts: watch out now

dmx - party up, followed by ... NOTHING

All DJs should have "Jump Around" in one of those "In case of emergency: BREAK GLASS" cases.

is little red corvette too slow?

Yes. You're much better off with "Kiss", "U Got The Look", "Gett Off", "Cream", "1999", "When Doves Cry", "Housequake", "Pop Life", "Raspberry Beret", or "My Name Is Prince".

what about batdance?

YES

what about courtin' time?

I DJ a lot. not always successfully, I will play occasional "hits" but won't sell out. Here are my dance-floor fillers, many are very obvious:

Tom Tom Club-Genius of Love
JJ Fad-Supersonic(always mixed into Tour De France, then any number of west coast electro type tracks, Egyptian Lover, Jamie Jupiter, Twilight 22)
Liquid Liquid-Cavern
Human League-Don't You Want Me(League Unlimited Orchestra instrumental)
New Order-Blue Monday (both New Wave hits easily mixed into and out of house and/or italo disco)
Laidback-White Horse
Prince-Eroctic City or Contraversy or Kiss
Vanity 6-Nasty Girl
Shannon-Let the Music Play

etc

and my dancefloor fillers that aren't hits:

David Gamson's cover of Sugar, Sugar on Rough Trade
Bo Boss-Tequila(the electro-italo version)
La Bionda-Wanna Be Your Lover (painfully catchy italo-disco-new wave-pop)

eh, there's more but I just lost the abilty to think...

reeeee-wind selecta!

(revive)

stevie wonder - superstition

a bit hard to follow up though

... which was filed under "obvious" in the linked thread. bah.

'Housequake' and 'Pop Life' are strange choices. The former because it's kind of not funky enough, though maybe huge speakers could take care of that. The latter because it's a little on the slow side, the sort of track you might play when everyone's tired and wants to sashay about instead.

An interesting floorfiller: Len - 'Feelin' Alright' (Dust Brothers Mix). Guess it's the classic rock riffs.

Ignore that I brought the Len song up on the original thread. I forgot I really meant to give props to 'Steal My Sunshine' (as well).

Another couple of faves: Richard X feat. Tiga - 'You Better Let Me Love You', Esther Williams: 'Last Night Changed It All'.

I hope by April that 'Plug It In' will be a serious floorfiller. Ditto 'Cop That Shit'.

Housequake isn't funky enough - I'm sorry, but you should probably chop off your legs round about now.

The biggest dancefloor fillers are 80s pop staples played at events / parties where no one is there for the music. I have seen 'Fiesta' by the Pogues cause more people to go from standstill to frenzy (granted, this was at a drunken charity event) than any house / techno / jungle / garage tune could ever hope for.

'Dancing Queen' and 'C'mon Eileen' also to thread.

c'mon eileen!!! aaaaaarrrrrrr!!

latest :
'baby i'm burning' - dolly parton. no honestly.

i wonder if Agoria's 'Stereolove (Me & Timy mix)' and Junkyard Band's 'The Word' would qualify. I fear not.

Really shit music it seems.

Maybe it's the places I go.

Jedmond, you would DIE after seeing my legs work a dancefloor. Die weeping.

ah come on now Barima surely you gotta concede that 'Cop That Shit' is weak...anything else by Timba over that. i don't know this 'Housequake' number. will JC's 'Some Girls (Dance With Women)' do the bizness?

(that was a special one-time bit of egotism there)

I can dance to 'Housequake' no problem, but I don't think of it as a floorfiller. Clear? 'It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night' otoh...(stevem, relisten to Sign O' The Times this week, yeah?)

JC-maybe. 'Blowin' Me Up' and 'ADIDAS' have better chances tho'. 'Cop That Shit' is not weak (not really a floorfilla tho, I realise), but having bought Indecent Proposal recently, I think 'Drop' was robbed and should be bigger than it was (all-together now: "FATMAN SCOOP! TIMBALAND! TIMBALAND! TIMBALAND!").

Yeah "Drop" was great!

My nomination for this thread: Diana Ross "Upside Down"

latest?

I've DJ-ed to full dancefloors with both "Housequake" and "It's A Beautiful Night".

Mind you, this was in 1987.

So, keeping it inna 1987 style, and because they were playing both of these when I got my hair cut this lunchtime:

"Cross The Track" - Maceo & The Macks
"I Believe In Miracles" - The Jackson Sisters

sent a place nutty last week with these three

dub taylor and vital - your soul (vanilla mix)
luomo - tessio (moonbootica mix)
anita ward - ring my bell (12" vocal)

played house for a bit, slipped into a nostalgia section on 2step garage, which went down brilliantly then got grimy, which lost at the very least 50 percent of the floor, resuued matters with my fail-safe patented mixt of a great d&b bootleg of tweet's "oops" mixed into "changes" by ce'cile and then went dancehall until the end. my vegas and iriahman on the red alert went down a treat, which made me smile as it's my favourite tune of the moment.

that was mr vegas and irishman - i can't type but you know that, and the three tracks highlighted were one after the other and mix perfectly...

people should stop playing "Blue Monday."

no they shouldn't. it must be earned though.

nah ...

I once heard phillipe petit from Bip_Hop mix from Love Will Tear Us Apart into Blue Monday into Here To Stay (all with lots of added radio noise) and it made me want to save drowning kittens.