Best. Party. Playlist. Ever.
Published January 11, 2009 @ 11:26 in Lists, Music
Some* are calling this the Best. Party. Playlist. Ever. I premiered this playlist on Thursday night to rave reviews.
Keep in mind, I avoided songs with swears (although a few slipped through the cracks) and tried to appeal to the masses, thereby avoiding my mosh anthems. The objective was to get the most people on the dance floor... with most in attendance born in the 70s.
The playlist was shuffled, but I sorted this table alphabetically by song name.
| 1979 | 4:24 | Smashing Pumpkins |
| Alive | 5:43 | Pearl Jam |
| American Boy | 4:47 | Estelle |
| Anarchy In The U.K. | 3:32 | Sex Pistols |
| B.O.B. | 5:04 | OutKast |
| Barbie Girl | 3:18 | Aqua |
| Basket Case | 3:03 | Green Day |
| Believe | 3:46 | The Bravery |
| Bizarre Love Triangle-94 | 3:54 | New Order |
| Body Movin' [Fatboy Slim Remix] | 5:31 | Beastie Boys |
| Bring Me To Life | 3:57 | Evanescence |
| Cannonball | 3:34 | The Breeders |
| Clint Eastwood | 5:41 | Gorillaz |
| Come On Eileen | 4:08 | Dexy's Midnight Runners |
| Come Out and Play | 3:18 | Offspring |
| Common People | 5:52 | Pulp |
| Connected | 3:38 | Stereo MC's |
| Crabbuckit | 3:49 | K-Os |
| Crazy | 3:01 | Gnarls Barkley |
| Dancing Queen | 3:52 | ABBA |
| Diamonds And Guns | 4:02 | Transplants |
| Do You Realize?? | 3:33 | The Flaming Lips |
| Drinking In L.A. | 3:56 | Bran Van 3000 |
| Dude (Looks Like A Lady) | 4:25 | Aerosmith |
| Everlong | 4:13 | Foo Fighters |
| Funky Cold Medina | 4:09 | Tone Loc |
| Gangsta's Paradise (LP Version) | 4:00 | Coolio |
| Get Busy | 3:35 | Sean Paul |
| Get The Party Started | 3:12 | Pink |
| Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3:56 | Cyndi Lauper |
| Gold Digger (Featuring Jamie Foxx) | 3:28 | Kanye West |
| Hate To Say I Told You So | 3:22 | The Hives |
| Heart Of Glass | 4:12 | Blondie |
| Hey Baby | 3:27 | No Doubt |
| Hey Ya! | 3:55 | OutKast |
| Home for a Rest | 4:27 | Spirit of the West |
| Human | 4:06 | The Killers |
| Hypnotize | 3:49 | The Notorious B.I.G. |
| I Will Survive | 3:51 | Cake |
| Informer | 4:30 | Snow |
| Insane In The Brain | 3:33 | Cypress Hill |
| Into Action | 3:40 | Tim Armstrong |
| It Takes Two | 2:57 | Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock |
| Joy and Pain | 3:49 | DJ Rob Base and EZ Rock |
| Jump Around | 3:24 | House Of Pain |
| Just a Friend | 4:00 | Biz Markie |
| Just Can't Get Enough | 3:44 | Depeche Mode |
| Karma Chameleon | 4:03 | Culture Club |
| Laid | 2:38 | James |
| Last Nite | 3:18 | The Strokes |
| Lazy Eye | 5:54 | Silversun Pickups |
| Little Bones | 4:45 | The Tragically Hip |
| Live Your Life [Ft. Rihanna] | 5:39 | T.I. |
| Love Shack | 4:17 | The B-52's |
| Lump | 2:15 | Presidents of the United States of America |
| Mama Said Knock You Out | 4:50 | LL Cool J |
| Mony Mony | 5:01 | Billy Idol |
| Mr. Cab Driver | 3:50 | Lenny Kravitz |
| Mr. Jones | 4:32 | Counting Crows |
| O.P.P. | 4:31 | Naughty By Nature |
| Ordinary Day | 3:11 | Great Big Sea |
| Paper Planes | 3:24 | M.I.A. |
| Paradise City | 6:46 | Guns N' Roses |
| Piece Of Me | 3:32 | Britney Spears |
| Pour Some Sugar on Me (Historia Video Edit) | 4:52 | Def Leppard |
| Red, Red Wine | 5:19 | UB40 |
| Rehab | 3:33 | Amy Winehouse |
| Rock Me Amadeus | 3:17 | Falco |
| Romantic Rights | 3:15 | Death From Above 1979 |
| Salute Your Solution | 3:00 | The Raconteurs |
| Santa Monica | 3:12 | Everclear |
| She Sells Sanctuary | 4:13 | The Cult |
| Shut Up And Let Me Go | 2:53 | The Ting Tings |
| Single Ladies [Put A Ring On It] | 3:13 | Beyoncé |
| Song 2 | 2:02 | Blur |
| Stronger | 5:12 | Kanye West |
| Summer Of '69 | 3:33 | Bryan Adams |
| Sunday Morning | 3:47 | k-os |
| Sundown | 3:59 | Elwood |
| Swagga Like Us [Ft. Jay-Z, Kanye West,Lil' Wayne] | 5:28 | T.I. |
| Sweet Caroline | 3:22 | Neil Diamond |
| Sweet Child O' Mine | 5:56 | Guns N' Roses |
| The Bad Touch (The Eiffel 65 Mix) | 3:36 | The Bloodhound Gang |
| The Humpty Dance | 6:31 | Digital Underground |
| The Power | 5:43 | Snap |
| The Rockafeller Skank | 6:54 | Fatboy Slim |
| Time to Pretend | 4:21 | MGMT |
| Toxic | 3:22 | Britney Spears |
| Tubthumping | 3:27 | Chumbawamba |
| Umbrella (ft Jay-Z) | 4:24 | Rihanna |
| Unbelievable | 3:30 | EMF |
| Walk This Way | 5:11 | Run-D.M.C. |
| Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' | 4:17 | Michael Jackson |
| We Will Rock You | 2:02 | Queen |
| Whatever You Like | 4:10 | T.I. |
| Where it's At | 5:31 | Beck |
| Whip It | 2:39 | Devo |
| Womanizer | 3:44 | Britney Spears |
| Wonderwall | 4:19 | Oasis |
| Y.M.C.A. ('93 Remix) | 3:46 | Village People |
| You Shook Me All Night Long | 3:30 | AC/DC |
* By some I mean me.
Ajax Mike
January 11, 2009 / 12:18
Shuffled? Really? I would think a really good playlist would need to be balanced out. You need to start out with easy, poppy stuff to get people on the dance floor. You don't want 3 slow songs in a row. That sort of thing.