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ScarletKnight41
Jan 12 2006 05:23 PM

I'm now working on the music we'll have at the Bar Mitzvah reception. I'm looking for suggestions about the music. Not obligatory things (like The Hora), but just the general party music. What songs are extremely good in such environments? What songs suck?

Edgy DC
Jan 12 2006 05:27 PM

The bar mitzvahs I went to featured "Another Brick in the Wall" and "Call Me." Try those.

sharpie
Jan 12 2006 05:27 PM

My son was just at a bat mitzvah. He is of the opinion that every kid, black or white, likes "Another One Bites the Dust." He requested it of the DJ and it was the biggest hit of the affair.

MFS62
Jan 12 2006 05:28 PM

Like 'em or not, everybody gets up and dances to YMCA and Celebration.

Those songs get 'em off their tuchus.

Later

ScarletKnight41
Jan 12 2006 05:30 PM

So far, so good. I'll show this thread to the Bar Mitzvah boy at some point and consult with him about the suggestions. Thanks :)

KC
Jan 12 2006 05:53 PM

Gotta have some Sabbath and Priest. Go with main stream songs like
Paranoid and You Got Another Thing Coming so as no to totally
freak everyone out though.

Willets Point
Jan 12 2006 06:12 PM

At my wedding reception the song that got everyone up and dancing was "Walk of Life" by Dire Straits. Not a bad song, I just never would have guessed that it would be a crowd pleaser. I think a good party needs to have James Brown's "Sex Machine" and "Lets go Crazy" by Prince.

sharpie wrote:
My son was just at a bat mitzvah. He is of the opinion that every kid, black or white, likes "Another One Bites the Dust." He requested it of the DJ and it was the biggest hit of the affair.


When I was kid everybody thought Queen sucked BHMC. You Cranepoolers are the first people I ever met who like Queen. Sometimes I think you all live in a parrallell universe.

ScarletKnight41
Jan 12 2006 06:24 PM

KC wrote:
Gotta have some Sabbath and Priest.


ROFL - I don't think so.

We got The Ramones for you, though ;)

soupcan
Jan 12 2006 06:34 PM

Anything by Devo and/or the B-52s.

TheOldMole
Jan 12 2006 07:21 PM

"Shout" for audience response dancing.

KC
Jan 12 2006 07:23 PM

I've been caught doing the worm on video ... that will never happen again.

MFS62
Jan 12 2006 07:27 PM

Scarlett, We'd bet that before this is all done, the song that best describes you will be "19th Nervous Breakdown" by the Stones.

Later

Lundy
Jan 12 2006 07:45 PM

The "Cha Cha Slide" has been a big hit at all the parties I've been to recently...

TheOldMole
Jan 12 2006 09:19 PM

And, whatever this says about our society -- one generation to the next -- they'll never stop doing The Twist.

Centerfield
Jan 13 2006 09:38 AM

Anything by Marilyn Manson or Rage Against the Machine is usually a big hit.

Johnny Dickshot
Jan 13 2006 09:43 AM

KING OF LOVE -- Dave Edmunds

It made these loser white people dance, and they obviously suck at it.


HahnSolo
Jan 13 2006 10:26 AM

Gotta have I Will Survive and It's Raining Men.

Incidentally I'm a straight male.

Edgy DC
Jan 13 2006 10:28 AM

Yeah, well, we'll just plug that information with everything else into the database and see if you're straight.

seawolf17
Jan 13 2006 04:08 PM

Nothing says party like the velvet voice of [url=http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-AMAZING-METS-LP-THEY-SING-SEALED-A-MUST_W0QQitemZ4795230193QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem]Tommie Agee, Donald Cardwell, Cleon Jones, Nolan Ryan, and many others[/url]!

Edgy DC
Jan 13 2006 04:12 PM

You'll notice from that photo my super ability to fart searing white light.

ScarletKnight41
Jan 13 2006 04:17 PM

I actually own that album.

It's more appropriate for MK's Bar Mitzvah, which will take place some time in 2009. I love the version of Heart - 25 guys singing in 26 different keys ;)

Willets Point
Jan 13 2006 04:33 PM

Edgy DC wrote:
You'll notice from that photo my super ability to fart searing white light.


I notice more that there's an exit sign on your head.

Edgy DC
Jan 13 2006 04:36 PM

Super powers often come with a super burden.

Willets Point
Jan 13 2006 04:49 PM

It's too bad you missed my wedding, you would have added much to the dance floor (and I don't mean the farts).