So I'm DJing a party in three weeks, the theme of which is "Delusions of Grandeur"...suggest really overblown music for me to play

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LA'ers are invited natch, will provide details later. For now however, suggestions please! Lots of hair metal balladery and wankery, lots of prog, lots of U2, and if I can successfully track down any hip hop that contains any boasting I'll include some of that.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I really wanted this to be another country party, but fuck it.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

silverchair "luv your life"

― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

mercury rev "the dark is rising"

― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

whitney houston - "didn't we almost have it all?"

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

night ranger - "sister christian"

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

marissa marchant - complete discography

― Sean M (Sean M), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ryan Adams' telephone message to Jim DeRogatis

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bohemian Rhapsody"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Rush - "Distant Early Warning"

― kickitcricket, Monday, 10 May 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

All of trance.

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Didn't I blow you mind this time?" and if you give me a minute, the name will come to me...

― Huck, Monday, 10 May 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Am The Resurrection" - Stone Roses
"Welcome to the Pleasure Dome" - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
"Princes of the Universe" - Queen
"I'm Still Numer One" - Boogie Down Productions

― sexyDancer, Monday, 10 May 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

One could compose some really kick ass mix tapes with the Delusions of Grandeur theme. Most of these are "boasting" songs:

Bryan Adams - "Everything I Do I Do It For You"
Pulp - Joyriders
BDP - Love's Gonna Getcha (boasting, but with a worthwhile take-home message)
Oasis - Acquiesce
Armando - 100 % of Dissin' U

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus how could I forget Oasis? of course!

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Jocelyn Brown - "The greatest performance of my life"
Meco - "Star wars"
Donna Summer - "Love symphony"
Winc - "Thoughts of a tranced love" or whatever it's called
Acen - "Trip II the moon"
Jay Z - "The takeover"
Ghostface - "Apollo Kids"
2Pac - "All eyez on me"
P. Diddy - "Victory" (P Diddy being the ultimate "delusions of grandeur" musician ever, pretty much)
Q Tex - "Power of love"

And lots of Prince (tho in his case it's not a delusion)

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

jay-z - hovi baby. the synth intro is just so megalomaniacal, usual jay-z arrogance etc

and of course, jefferson starship - we built this city

(eerily similar xpost)

― jake in portland (cerybut), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

also, "if I can successfully track down any hip hop that contains any boasting I'll include some of that"; is this a joke?

― jake in portland (cerybut), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Chesney Hawks - I Am The One And Only

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 10 May 2004 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

human resource 'dominator'

― tylero (tylero), Monday, 10 May 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

boniface-cheeky
redman-srash something
stairway (nach)
gary wright-dream weaver
any and all happy hardcore
deniece wiliams-lets hear it for the boy
kenny loggins-highway to the danger zone
abba-the day before you came (turn down the volume and shout out "I" when she sings "you"

― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 10 May 2004 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Rick Wakeman to thread.

― ___ (___), Monday, 10 May 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

yes: "and you and i"
bowie + phillip glass + aphex twin: "heroes"
or just bowie: "rock and roll suicide"
mott the hoople: "marionette" or "through the looking glass"
judas priest: "between the hammer and the anvil"
the human league: "wxjl tonight"
ultravox: "vienna"
kim wilde: "kids in america"
elo: "daybreaker" or "standing in the rain"
omd: "romance of the telescope" or "the new stone age" or a few others
andrew wk?
kinda obvious, but "kashmir" by led zeppelin
soft cell: "baby doll"
roxy music: "out of the blue" or a couple others ("song for europe?")
wire: "I should have known better"
um, prokofiev "finale" (from ivan the terrible)
or maybe EPIC by faith no more
heaven 17: "let's all build a bomb"
theme from a clockwork orange by wendy carlos
love: "you set the scene"
also david bowie: "cygnet committee" (but it doesn't really get epic until the end, at like 8 & 1/2 minutes in)

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Monday, 10 May 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

really epic, overblown music is something that I specifically like

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Monday, 10 May 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

If we're talking danceable stuff:

Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z: 'Crazy In Love'
Fatboy Slim: 'The Rockefella Skank'
Beastie Boys: 'Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim remix)'
A+: 'Enjoy Yourself'
Fiddy: 'In Da Club'
2pac: 'California Love'

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 10 May 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

kenny loggins otm, by the way

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 10 May 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete Bellotte - Push It To The Limit (from the Scarface soundtrack)

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 10 May 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

And your floor-fillers are:

The Final Countdown - Europe
Fame - Irene Cara
We Are The Champions - Queen

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 10 May 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Creed, anyone?

― Prude (Prude), Monday, 10 May 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Rufus Wainwright.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 May 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

john farhnam-the voice

― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 10 May 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

mike otm

also:
Survivor: Eye Of The Tiger
Rod Stewart: I am Sailing
Boney M: Rasputin

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 10 May 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

All of Embrace's first album!

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 May 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Boney M/Erasure: A Man After Midnight
Pet Shop Boys: Go West

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 10 May 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Keane!

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 May 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Gold! Always believe in your soul!

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 10 May 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Heal the world! Make it a better place! For you and for me and the whole f***ing human race!

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 10 May 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The Sister's Of Mercy - "This Corrosion", definitely - 10 minutes and 22 seconds of ridiculously overblown choral electrogoth operatic wonder.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 10 May 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"Didn't I blow you mind this time?" and if you give me a minute, the name will come to me...

The Stylistics.

I really like this song.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 10 May 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The Stylistics.

I really like this song.

The DELFONICS

clearly, I don't like the song enough to remember who sung it.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 10 May 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

q-lazzarus - goodbye horses

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 10 May 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Anything from Tears for Fears, The Seeds of Love

Bob Dylan, "Brownsville Girl"

R. Kelly, "I Believe I Can Fly"

(artist unknown) "For the Love of Him"

Vicki Carr, "With Pen in Hand"

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 10 May 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART", people!!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 May 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

clearly, I don't like the song enough to remember who sung it.

see that's why I was having trouble with it. It is a great song though.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 May 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm presumably going to include a little Dead Can Dance, M83, and Spiritualized as well.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 10 May 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Grace Jones "Slave To The Rhythm"
Propaganda "P-Machinery"

Most 80's Trevor Horn production is terrifically overblown.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 10 May 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"O FORTUNA" - APOTHEOSIS

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 May 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It's more conceptually fitting than sonically, but Prince's "Jam Of The Year" should do.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 10 May 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, "My Name Is Prince"!!!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 May 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

but his name is Prince! And he IS funky! nothing delusional about that.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 10 May 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

In the beginning
God made the sea
But on the seventh day
He made ME

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 May 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

dan, i've been pondering something for a while. why are you now VENGAdan perry?

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

does it have something to do with the vengaboys?

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The transformation is chronicled here. Vengastrange but Vengatrue.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

In the beginning
God made the sea
But on the seventh day
He made ME

haha, forgot about that line.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The Associates-Party Fears Two

now that's grandeur.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Vengastrange but Vengatrue.
InVengadeed.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Servotron "Theme For An Ultimate And Inevitable Victory"
James Brown "Papa Don't Take No Mess"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Nazareth "Now You're Messing With"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Just stick Topographic Oceans on and spend an hour and a half at the bar.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

williamsburg-style electrocla$h = delusions of grandeur

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

if I can successfully track down any hip hop that contains any boasting I'll include some of that.

Ironic statement or you actually find hip hop hard to find (you live in LA, so def. not)?

x-post - great, there goes my suggestion.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Belvedere Kane's "Never Felt as good" (the chorus is "I NEVER FELT AS GOOD AS I FEEL TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" with huge orchestral sweeps. it's early '80s disco-y)

― robin edgerton, Monday, 10 May 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

thong song-sisqo
carmina burana-carl orff

― robin (robin), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear, when exactly is this party? Most of my upcoming weekends are already booked.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Just stick Topographic Oceans on and spend an hour and a half at the bar.

My kinda party!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ringo starr, "i'm the greatest"
helen reddy, "i am woman"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Klaus Nomi-"Total Eclipse"

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

morrissey, "last of the famous international playboys"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"You Get Mad at Napster," Princess Superstar

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Walker Brothers-"No Regrets"

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

How has no one mentioned The Darkness, or Tarkus?

How has no one written a pompous song rhyming "The Darkness" with "Tarkus"?

Some one please do so and post an MP3. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

― wetmink (wetmink), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought Barrington Levy's 'Here I come' with it's chorus of "I'm broad, I'm broad, I'm broader than broaaaaaaaaadwaaaayyy" was an excellent piece of self-aggrandisement.

― tylero (tylero), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Propaganda "P-Machinery"

For this particular use, and no other(?), I think I'd go with some huge "Dr Mabuse" mix instead. Good call nonetheless.

Hm, late Manics?

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

FGTH - Warriors Of The Wasteland
The Mission - Tower Of Strength (Kashmir basically)

― mzui, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Future Sound of London - "Papau New Guinea"

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What - no mention of "River Deep, Mountain High" yet?!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm Every Woman" by the woman who did that whose name I forgot all of a sudden.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the party seems to be taking a turn for the "grandiose, misguided arena rock/metal/power ballad" sounds, resulting in a list that so far includes...

Kansas
Journey
Starship
Kix
Queen
Yes
ELP
Queensryche
Pink Floyd
Iron Maiden
Nazareth
Skid Row
Survivor
Creed
Europe
Berlin
Motley Crue
Poison
Rush
Asia
Chicago
Boston
Toto
Genesis
Phil Collins
Cutting Crew
Steelheart
G'N'R
George Michael
Van Halen
Styx
Blood Sweat and Tears
Dio
Bad Company
Foreigner
Pat Benatar
Night Ranger
Heart
Meat Loaf
Peter Frampton
Scorpions

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

wagner.

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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