"What do I look like, a Jukebox?" or, top 100 ridiculous requests, comments, suggestions or complaints DJs get from the dancefloor.

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Partially covered in Top 100 Response To Requests While DJing but what are the requests, comments, complaints or general stupidity you get from people while DJing that create the need for such responses.

Tell me your best stories.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

100. In the middle of mixing Idjut Boys remix of Emperor Machine into DFA remix of Hot Chip: "I know it's really cool that you're playing trance music right now and everything, but can you maybe play some 80's... or 'We Like to Party'?"

(I was guesting at a regular nite where "We Like to Party" was a semi-ironic anthem, but this was at like 10:30 PM when people were just starting to warm up to the dancefloor).

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

99. Let's make a list of DJ comments.

― christopherscottknudsen (christopherscottknudsen), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

we already did that

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

"'80s," my favorite genre.

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Jukeboxes are preferable to DJs. Everyone can choose what to listen to, and there's one less twat in the room. It's a win-win situation.

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

which is obv awesome when everyone in the room picks the same fucking pixies song every night

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Pixies every night vs. "We Like To Party" every night. Ooooooo tough call.

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

when i was sixteen, we used to go into the billards hall that all the cool kids hung out at and if we couldnt get a table we'd put five dollars worth of Macarena (Extended Remix) on the jukebox and then go get burrtos down the street.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, my bartending friend installed an 86 button behind the bar so people couldn't pull stunts like that with his jukebox there. Unfortunately he started power-tripping with it.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

"I don't like techno"

while playing Stevie Wonder "All I Do"

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

98. I had a guy come up to the booth, make eye contact, smile, nod, and after a good 20 seconds or so ask "....what else ya got?" in a snotty "i'm not enjoying this style you're playing."

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

manner.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Worst request I ever got was "Summer of '69" by Bryan Adams. Not that it matters, but I'm a house/techno dj. I dont remember what I was playing at the time of the request but even if I was a Bryan Adams DJ playing at a Bryan Adams A-to-Z Night, I still wouldnt play that piece of crap tune.

― ml (mltronik), Thursday, 14 September 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

95. Owner of the club asks - "when you going to play some old school hip hop?" during "Planet Rock"

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 14 September 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

"Have you got any Daina?"

"Who? What?"

"You know, Daina. Daina Ross."

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

During bangin' Techno set - "Can you play one track for me? "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley". Yeh sure, do I look like a BUSKER?!

Also we were playing an electronica gig once as Autofire and got asked to "play some Silverchair" because "everyone loves Silverchair".

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

i asked a dj if he had any hip-hop (he was being fairly eclectic as it was). he didn't, but he said he had 'hey ya!'

he closed the night with 'hey ya!'.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

There's also an ILE thread:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=5482925#5482925

Pasted from there:

Him: "Do you got any eighties hits?"
[Asked while "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood is playing.]

[After I've played over an hour of crappy songs people requested.]
Her [noticeably drunk]: "You know, I've been listening to you playing, and it's amazing how every song you choose, you know, kinda touches my soul..."

(Yes, I know she was hitting on me, but what can you say?)

Her: Do you got anything more commercial?
Me: Huh? More commercial?
Her: Yes, I'm an economics student.
Me: Well, that's your problem...

Her: Oh God, please, no more swing!

-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...) (webmail), February 12th, 2005. (Tuomas) (link)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

Her: Do you got anything more commercial?
Me: Huh? More commercial?
Her: Yes, I'm an economics student.
Me: Well, that's your problem...

she made a good joke and you insulted her like a twat. kudos.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, doesn't the html work anymore?

Favourite comments you've received while DJ:ing.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

(x-post)

You should've seen her face, I don't think she was joking.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

On the more positive(?) side, I've also been asked out while DJing, even though the girl in question didn't even like my records. I had to decline.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and last spring I ended up having a brief relationship due to DJing in a student party. I wonder what is with that thing, I'm not a professional in any sense, I only play student parties every couple of months, and yet some girls seem to find even that interesting.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, here's some more:

Her: Hey, play some Iron Maiden!
Me: I don't have any Iron Maiden.
Her: What do you mean you don't have Iron Maiden?!
Me: I play dance music. I don't even have any rock records.
Her: But Iron Maiden isn't rock!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

["Rio" by Duran Duran is playing.]

Her: Hey, would you play some eighties music, like Duran Duran?
Me [bemused]: This is Duran Duran.
Her: Yeah, but could you play some hit tune?
Me: Well, this was a big hit in the eighties...
Her: Okay, but could you play some tune I know!

(That conversation, I think, boiled down an essential part of the relationship between a DJ and the audience.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

I got roped into playing in a pub for someone's 40th birthday. I got told to bring lots of ska and two tone, so that's what i brought. Tough bunch. Rude as well, for so-called grown ups and they were fairly vocal and nobody danced. I had one particularly snotty blonde woman, who had been there for all of five seconds, come up to me nose-a-rankle and say

"Look I know we're all old duffers, but can't you play some good music"
"Sorry, but I Don't know what you mean?" (I was playing James Brown or the Specials or something)
"Only I work for a music company and I'm used to hearing stuff that isn't... well, shit music".

Then she suggested I put on the Hoosiers.

― the next grozart, Sunday, 31 August 2008 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

I also had a rather pushy couple of Vietnamese ladies manhandling me into playing their favourite song "Sek Bomb" and wouldn't take the excuse I don't have "Sek Bomb" as an answer.

― the next grozart, Sunday, 31 August 2008 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

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