Your votes, pelase, for a "Best of 2004" DJ set I'm doing on NYE

then just put on my CD for a bit

Polysics - My Sharona
Fans Of Kate - Tape 23
Basement Jaxx - Lucky Star
Madrugada - Blood Shot Adult Commitment
Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Celebrity Sanctum
Girls Aloud - The Game
The Black Keys - Summertime Blues
The Magic Numbers - Hymn For Her (final tune)

etc

Futureheads 'Hounds Of Love' and Streets remix
Daft Punk remix of Franz
er...Stellastar*?

If you were me, sure. But i'm too lazy to sift out the dancefloor-friendly stuff. Jentina's a good call though, as is Annie obv.

Hounds Of Love is indeed in my sights, but I think their Streets remix, while entertaining once, is a bit "novelty". We'll see.

I dunno, it's like hearing a comedy bootleg of "Parklife" or something - it's all terrible clever and amusing for about a minute, then you either want to hear the original or, more likely, something else entirely. Both artists involved - that is, The Streets and The Futureheads, dunno much about all those MCs - have better work.

Also The Go Find, delicious Electronic Indie Pop.

Kelis: Millionaire

Will also play The Go! Team in some capacity, and The Walkmen's "The Rat".

i'd upload it if i wasn't on 56k.

maybe 'Stand up tall' as well

Cee-Lo feat. Pharrell: "The Art of Noise"
Cee-Lo: "Glockapella"
The Alchemist feat. B-Real: "Bang Out"
The Alchemist feat. Stat Quo & M.O.P.: "Stop the Show"
The Alchemist feat. Mobb Deep: "It's a Craze"
Infinite Livez feat. Sir Ster: "Claati Bros"
Infinite Livez feat. Shadowless: "Tek Fi Joke"
Dead Prez feat. Jay-Z: "Hell Yeah (Pimp the System) [Remix]"
Nas feat. Kelis: "American Way"
Nas. feat. Maxwell: "No One Else in the Room"

Hmm, seems like I haven't been buying much new rap this year. Anyway, you should especially check out the Cee-lo and the Alchemist tracks, they're all bangers.

armand van helden - my my my (edit)
sia - where i belong (hot chip mix)
kylie - i believe in you
the egg - wall (mylo mix)
franz ferdinand - dark of the matinee (headman vocal)
lemon jelly - stay with you
hakan lidbo - 100 specimen
basement jaxx - right heres the spot (switchs drunk at the dogstar)
switch with ms thing - love guide
evil nine - crooked
esthero - og bitch
max sedgley - happy (bent mix)

at midnight, with all the lights out, after spiking the punch with DMT

...and, oh come on, you KNOW you want to: Lola's Theme - Shapeshifters.

cos if not:

Juvenile - "Nolia clap"
Jim Jones - "Certified gangsta"
Mr Vegas and Irishman - "Never leave you lonely"
Paul Wall - "Still tippin"
Lil Boosie - "I smoke I drank"
Trick Daddy - "Menage a trois"
I Wayne - "I can't satisfy her"

Tell me more about this song/band please.

Barima, I've not been able to hear any of your kindly forwarded randoms as yet due to PC trouble - but thanks for sending 'em anyway!

So is it like some horrible George and Dragon type place where people dance to dire straits?

I'm *really* hoping it won't be - it's a pub/bar venue owned by J0n C4rt3r in Sh3ph3rd's Bu5h, not been there yet myself but have quite liked spending time in its C4md3n equivalent in the past.

Down with irony! Only playing songs I like, yo.

The Noveltones - The Gonk (Kid Koala mix)
The Cure - Meathook
Franz Ferdinand - Matinee
Polysics - My Sharona
Bloc Party - Helicopter
*Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For
Fans Of Kate - Tape 23
Basement Jaxx - Cish Cash
Madrugada - Blood Shot Adult Commitment
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Mylo - Destroy Rock'n'Roll
Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Celebrity Sanctum
Freeform Five feat. Bounty Killer - Eeeeaaooww
The Delgados - Everybody Come Down
Girls Aloud - The Show
Johnny Boy - You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve
The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart
Art Brut - My Little Brother
Kylie - I Believe In You (Mylo remix)
Le Tigre - Don't Drink Poison
The Walkmen - The Rat
Infinite Livez feat. Sir Ster - Claati Bros
Belle & Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo (Avalanches version)
Annie - Chewing Gum
The Black Keys - Summertime Blues
Sissor Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous
Kelis - Millionaire
Interpol - Evil
*Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot
Rachel Stevens - Some Girls
The Futureheads - Hounds Of Love
Jentina - Bad Ass Strippa
The Chemical Brothers feat The Magic Numbers - Close Your Eyes

Anything with a * by it, I don't actually own, so all MP3s greatly appreciated!

Rip it up, folks.

> Tell me more about this song/band please.

From the recently-deceased Enthusiastic But Mediocre:

The reason why everyone is so keen to point out that Lucianna was in Crush with Donna Air is because Crush's Jellyhead is one of the best songs ever, and if you disagree, YOU ARE WRONG. It's that simple. Few people get to make two masterpieces in two separate halves of a career, so for god's sake people, stop hating and RECOGNISE that Covered In Punk is ludicrously catchy, pumping, pounding, incredibly fun to dance to AND suitable to be played extremely loudly in car. Of course, that means it crashed out of the charts and unlike Jellyhead didn't get a stomping Motiv8 remix that at least made it a minor hit overseas.

And how about Lethal Buzzle - "Pow! (Forward)"? It makes people riot, donchaknow?

If, hypothetically, I were to choose one song from the list outlined above, and print out the lyrics in 72-point Bookman - one line per side of A4 - so I could hold the sheets up one by one as the singer sang them on the night, which song should I pick?

Right now, I'm leaning towards "The Rat".

(NB. I've done this before, with The Flaming Lips' "The Gash", so I know it can be quite effective!)

My initial thought was Jentina, just for the St Tropez/Burberry line, but I doubt enough people know it if you want a crowdpleaser. Also, it's a bit too specific a lyric, no?

Charlie - everyone knows the Scissor Sisters album. Surely it's better known than 'The Rat' at least (this assumption is possibly based on my never having heard anything by the Walkmen).

Good point re: Scissusissssuz, might go for it.

Woo! Ta folks.