Look, nobody cares that you're a DJ

hating on dj's is so '96 though.

*snicker*

BUT it's still fucking shocking how many places you can go these days and hear the worst kind of lazy, crappy DJing.

AND it does fucking matter if you use an iPod because if its plugged into anything bigger than a clock radio IT SOUNDS LIKE SHIT.

I mean, someone could have needed that Craigslist space & bandwidth to sell complicated shoes, fer crying out loud!

Poor boy, he has no idea that ridiculous is the new black.

HANG THE DJ

one of the best ones.

But I probably think that because I don't like bars, gallery openings, raves or most parties.

What, no hating on Wedding/Bar Mizvah DJs?

Click the link in the first answer, cdwill.

I hate giving music for a DJ to play (on the fly at a bar) and they play it and think it sucks. Or maybe they don't and I'm too pessimistic or insecure about my music that I think that they think it sucks.

Either way I don't think I would be a good DJ unless I was just in charge of the radio music at a coffee hut.

Sure I would like to DJ at a bar, because I would have the last say on whether a song sucks or not ("it's my playlist you shits - like it or leave).
But giving music to "friends" that are bar DJs, always leaves me hanging. Like damn, I have to meet the standards of this guy AND the whole bar.

If the bar only played techno music I wouldn't have this problem. But for me, the traditional bar music has to be hiphop or rock/alternative songs that the DJ likes. FUCK THAT I QUIT. As much as I like hearing the music I like being played at a bar, the thoughts of people and whether or not they enjoy my music can be fatal.

and no, I don't play any animal collective.

i believed this until tonight

You guys. Covert Shazam-ing

o_O

why are you giving your dj friends inappropriate music and putting them on the spot like that? You're just asking for it.

well, It's a good way of introducing music I like to the outside world and seeing which stuff is agreeable or not
might come in handy one day when I make a chick a mix cd or something, i dunno man

i dont know

the one common strain to these "bullshit about other people" rants is that they always approve of black people and their activities. then it becomes evident: these rants are just masked self-hatred.

wtf are you guys even talking about

when i regularly DJed this one guy whose band would always play around the corner before retiring to our bar would always give me his band's cd and ask me to play a track off of it for him and his friends. it was fucking obnoxious. like, dude, let me just handle this, ok? you can listen to YOURSELF anytime you want

i'm a dj. nobody cares

Do you even care?

when i regularly DJed this one guy whose band would always play around the corner before retiring to our bar would always give me his band's cd and ask me to play a track off of it for him and his friends. it was fucking obnoxious. like, dude, let me just handle this, ok? you can listen to YOURSELF anytime you want

I used to get something similar to this when I was in radio. Dude would call me up and say, Hey, man, play me some "I Know A Little" by Skynyrd.

And, since all of our music was preloaded into the hard-drive, I'd tell him I didn't have that song, dude would say You just played "That Smell" and <sound of CDs being moved around> it's Track 4 off of the same album!

Like, dude, if you're sitting there holding the CD, fuckin' put it in and play it yourself, dawg.

most of my friends are DJs who play small venues throughout the city. They are mostly on a minimal/tech-house thing.

I feel the same way about DJs as I do about people who post their Photoshopped digital SLR photos on Flickr. And, at least in my group of friends, there's a big overlap between the two.

This is a big reason why I only spin vinyl. Not because I'm too snobby to use cd/mp3. But because it absolves me from having to play something awful that some drunk dude brings in.

Requests are bad enough. Shoving music in a Djs face is lame.

what if some drunk dude comes up to you all like "dude, you gotta play my acetate..."

Steal the acetate and sell it on eBay as a lost Velvets session.

Do you even care?
― Alex in SF, Friday, January 16, 2009 5:48 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not particularly

nobody likes an apathetic DJ.

they don't like amped up ones either though.

are there any animated gifs of peter hook dj'ing? that might save this thread

I'll explain myself, I brought an flash drive with a few songs on it to 2 different DJ friends that night. The first one took the song 'Led Zeppelin - The Crunge' off of it and played it during trivia night at wild wings... he didn't take any other songs off but he knew that was a good song and so did I.

The next bar had wii bowling night with a drunken party crowd watching basketball and what not. I gave another bar acquaitance DJ friend my zip drive. he copied all the songs over. I queued up 3 songs.

#1) Can - Vitamin C (he liked it - I didn't feel uncomfortable hearing it)
#2) M.I.A. - Fire Fire (Diplo mix - the song is basically "walk like an egyptian" with a hiphop/bliphop beat and OhhhhWeeeeOhhhWeeeeeOhhh
-response "what is this shit?" talking to another guy "man this song sucks"
I told him I wanted to redeem myself
#3) The Dismemberment Plan - What Do You Want Me To Say (I have been running out of good bar song ideas lately and helplessy put this on the stick)
-response "nothing" - made me wonder if the DJ or anyone else actually liked it. probably not so much. as the song played I realized how annoying the guitar? beat/squeal every second was.

if you want to help me out during my dry period - suggest some cool bar songs here

-it's not that I just want bar music. I want music that I will end up liking and playing all time. (mostly indie/rock/and alternative though)

4. Angry Hip Hop DJ -- Sup dude, you're cool.
LOL

dude who cares whether people are impressed with your music taste or not. especially in a bar where people are trying to do other things.

-response "nothing"

what were you expecting these bar patrons to do?

"well, It's a good way of introducing music I like to the outside world"

Clearly not.

look, captain lorax, no one cares that you want to be a DJ.

Well he cares, you have to give him that.

I've been DJing in bars and such for years and years now and if some dude approached me with a CD or a USB drive or whatever and was like "here's some songs for you to play" I'd be pretty wtf at that guy. But then I guess I am a dick.

nah man, DJs are hired to be DJs, not to put up with self-centered drunks.

Well, telling self-centered drunks that I'm not gonna play any Metallica tonight is usually about half the job.

well this is sorta a family bar where everyone knows your name, and the DJs are my friends (who havent turned down a usb once - it's not like I queue up a hundred songs),

dude who cares whether people are impressed with your music taste or not. especially in a bar where people are trying to do other things. (Jordan)

I know I'm kinda overprotective about music.
-this emerged through my OCD about making the best mix ever. music is my thing and that's why I constantly pursue new stuff. people judging whether or not my music taste is good, can feel kinda crushing when it's the crowd of cool people that ought to understand what cool music sounds like. in reality maybe they never will as all music tastes differ. that's when I started trying to find music specifically aimed at pleasing crowds of supposedly cool people. when someone dislikes the sound, it can feel kinda crushing. hence my complaints above.

yeah, 'other peoples opinions shouldn't matter', 'seeking acceptance through music is stupid' - but it all comes down to me and whether or not I'm progressing towards this holy grail of a music collection and whether I can be the most ultimate DJ in existence!

ummm, gotta collect them all

all of this is
1) exaggerations
2) me trying to psychoanalyze my own behaviors - like why I am occasionally disappointed when someone particular doesn't like my music

people judging whether or not my music taste is good, can feel kinda crushing when it's the crowd of cool people that ought to understand what cool music sounds like.

Come on.

and also, may i point your attention to livejournal.com?

I'm not trying to be emo. I was exaggerating. But how else can you explain why you or me would want to play a song that everybody likes???

(well hopefully they like it (but it doesnt really matter does it (but it does sort of matter in some way doesn't it (uhhh that's just your instincts saying that (but tmy insticts do factor in to a psychoanalysis of my behavior that I am reporting (save it for livejournal (I was only discussing what lies beneath (what does that even mean? ( I don't know anymore - let's get high and enjoy trippy tunes, good company and philosophy)))))))))))))

http://www.artuproar.com/uploads/skins/previews_m/trippy_by_ripfangdragon.jpg

music is my thing and that's why I constantly pursue new stuff. people judging whether or not my music taste is good, can feel kinda crushing when it's the crowd of cool people that ought to understand what cool music sounds like. in reality maybe they never will as all music tastes differ. that's when I started trying to find music specifically aimed at pleasing crowds of supposedly cool people. when someone dislikes the sound, it can feel kinda crushing. hence my complaints above.

dude stop killing music.

and btw here's your formula for success: 1 indie dance hit + 1 current hip hop 'banger' + 1 r&b crossover + 1 'emerging hipster jam', rinse/repeat. bingo, everyone's happy.

"But how else can you explain why you or me would want to play a song that everybody likes???"

Who cares to please EVERYBODY? And if the everybody in that bar is lame, Dj at a different bar.

Or just play some Metallica. That's one request I'll usually field. (Same for Slayer)

I'm not saying you have to care, I'm just saying that it just happens.
I shouldn't of had a lengthy psychobabble description of why this just happens but it does.

/kill thread now. I will stop posting

sure apathy would be great

"that's when I started trying to find music specifically aimed at pleasing crowds of supposedly cool people."
edit - and also myself. best of both worlds.

now I will kill this thread

cap

ban lorax

I am djing right now. I'm playing the coolest fucking records I own. I stopped the record curently playing and did a wicky wicky with it. No one batted an eyelash. People don't really care. Granted this is an art show and everyone is just here to socialize and not dance. Sure is awesome though

onle dj w 1 hnd
o yeah

some asshole (probably a good friend of mine) spilled beer all over some of my records. Sure is awesome

jaxon i would like to drink beer with you.

i'm djing tonight at bliss bar in noe valley w/san frandisco

hmmm...might pass cuz i'm totally wacked out by people right now (had friends staying at my place). but post when you next dj, i'm there.

I feel the same way about DJs as I do about people who post their Photoshopped digital SLR photos on Flickr. And, at least in my group of friends, there's a big overlap between the two.

So you are friends with both DJs and people who post their Photoshopped digital SLR photos on Flickr? Which, owing to the overlap between groups, often turn out to be the same people? You have already said you feel the same way about both types (which are often one type). How do you feel about them?

the same way: overlappingly

(xpost) jax i didn't know you guys were djing around here i kinda wanna come check it out too