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Has there been a definitive 'death of the party' album? Spiritualised's 'Ladies and gentlemen...' and the Lo-Fidelity Allstars album are two I can think of. Does anybody know any others?

― Michael, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I imagine that someone mistakenly putting Abba's The Visitors on a party (thinking it was the happy go lucky abba of old) would probably kill it. Everyone would leave the house in floods of tears.

― Robin, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I put 'cool waves' on in the pub sunday. And I scored.

An episode of Futurama recently - Fry's relatives of the 21st century cleared out the wedding reception room with the Breakfast Club soundtrack. A good party can survive even the most toxic of Whitney songs, I reckon.

― matthew james, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know if this counts, but there's a record store nearby that puts on Shaggs' Philosophy of the World whenever they want to clear the store. I'd imagine it'd do the same for a party.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Joy Division's best of really annoys people at parties. We did it once because we hated everyone at the party and wanted to annoy them. It worked. Then we fought over the music. So I put on the Manics instead. No one seemed to like songs that chorus "He's a boy/You wanna girl/So tear off his cock/Tie his hair in bunches/Fuck him/Call him Rita if you want" either. "You girls listen to depressing angry music!" It was hilarious.

Everyone else wanted to listen to the Spice Girls, for the record.

― Ally, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sean, would that be Rhino? If so, the guy behind the counter, Russell, has mentioned this quite a few times.
The Shaggs would in fact keep me in the store. Kenny G however would make me run for the hills.
I think most of my Noise records do the trick. Harry Pussy, Prick Decay,... Maybe my ole NKTOB and Bros records as well but those are somewhere up in the attic.

― Stevie Nixed, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Codiene's "the White Birch" would kill most parties, unless of course it was a slow core party!...Hmmmm..."there ain't no party like a slow-core party".

― james e l, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I for one would love it if Spiritualized was played at a party. Preferably one I was attending at the time.

― Josh, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, Stevie, it's a place in Toronto called She Said Boom. I'm guessing that it's probably a common thing for smaller/indie record stores. Another thing they've recently discovered is a bootleg of John Lennon drunkenly yelping his way through a standard (name of which eludes me at the moment) and adding in screeches about sucking someone's nipples...for a full six minutes before Phil Spector pulls the plug on the number. I can tolerate the Shaggs, myself, but by about 3 minutes into this Lennon piece, I'm seriously considering giving up shopping forever.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i really liked that futurama with the repeated references to the breakfast club soundtrack, especially at the end when the simple minds song played over the emotional climax. ironic sentimentality that good doesn't come around often. plus, it's a really good song.

― ethan, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You didn't just say "Don't You Forget About Me" was a good song, did you Ethan? I CAN NEVER TRUST YOU AGAIN. *throws self off cliff, crying*

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Erm, is this thread about 'death of the party' as a real house clearer (eg 'Metal Machine Music', 'Outside the Dream Syndicate' etc.) or a rec that somehow captures the melancholy that accompanies the end of a happy time/place/era? Just asking...

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i didn't say it was a good song. i said it was a really good song.

― ethan, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I want to clear a dancefloor, I put on the Japonize Elephants, who play psychadelic hillbilly fiddle, with a touch of circus music thrown in.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, Abba's _The Visitors_ has been mentioned and it fits into both Andrew's categories ...

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, one record to clear the room would be Kid606's fantastic remix of NWA's "Straight Outta Compton"! Enough hi-and-mid freq trills and glitches to drive everyone out of the room! Either that, or put Aphex Twin's "Bechephulous [?] Bouncing Ball" on...

Old Fart!!!!

― Old Fart!!, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My example is almost the exact opposite of Ally's. I was at a Halloween party a few years ago and it was FULL of smelly metallers. And they insisted on playing their shitty music all evening...so I retaliated with the Spice Girls. I almost got badly hurt...

― DG, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh dude... Metal Machine Music

― JM, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude. Me and Jessica are NOT smelly metallers.

― Ally, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, Ally, I didn't mean that you were, I was a bit vague...sorry! What I meant was that there were elements there playing smelly downbeat rock music. And that they didn't appreciate the value of 'Who Do You Think You Are?'

― DG, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was doing promo outdoor broadcasts for this radio station with some other people, including three indie kid girls, two of whom I had never met. The remote broadcast gear had crapped out, so we were playing the CDs we had brought, but the crowd weren't digging the twee indie nonsense we had initially put on. I put on a Q comp. I really liked, and they started getting into it. So there I am, turned around, munching on a burger and enjoying the sunshine, and all of a sudden this arm pushes me aside and turns off the CD player, no warning of any kind. The girl sits back down and just stares blankly at me. The entire crowd cleared out in twenty minutes. I hate girls.

― Dave M., Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, I was thinking more of Andrew's description but what the hell....

― Michael, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, old fart, i was out once when kid606's straight outta compton was played and it didn't clear the room. didn't even clear the dancefloor. that night was a bad night, but for personal reasons not san diego glitchkid related reasons...

― gareth, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We have found playing Beefheart and dancing wildly to him clears a room within three numbers.

― Guy, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes has received a puzzled and bewildered reaction.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anything by Captain Beefheart, Anal Cunt, or my countless death-metal compilation tapes. The latter only works around non-metalheads, though.

Lately, I've also discovered that Anton Maiden and putting Ween's "Push th' Little Daisies" on continuous replay will also clear the room real fast.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We used to clear the rekord shoppe @ closing time by playing "The Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle". Worked every time! I imagine it would finish of any party, unless it was, like, a fetish do, or suchlike.

x0x0

― Norman Fay, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once cleared a friend's party by playing Jacques brel followed by Dolly parton, trying to convince veryone to sing along with me...try it! It really works.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If Turbonegro gets played at my party this weekend, it'll kill it because Steph is all about never hearing Turbonegro again.

― Ally, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Returning to what Michael meant by his original question, I'd say Abbey Road was supposed to have that kind of end-of-the-sixties feel about it, especially ending with 'and in the end / the love you take is equal to the love you make'. And in a more crass way, the Plastic Ono Band LP does, especially with 'God'. Or maybe that's more of a bad hangover album.

What 'party' was the Spititualised album supposed to document the death of? I'm not saying it didn't, it's just that I only listened to it about twice and didn't get much from it at all.

― Nick, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

....easy, I just invite some rock critics to the party and then have them discuss music. I eventually leave at some point, though, as well...

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― /<-r4/>, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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