What Is Your Reaction When "Last Dance" Is The Last Song On A Live Mix?

[Salsoul1975]

The reason I ask this question is not out of the frustration of hearing it at a wedding reception or a Communion party but hearing it on a live internet radio show.

There is an internet disco show I listen to on Saturday nights. Somewhere between 8-10 pm a d.j. plays a live set. The mixes are usually good, and lots of obscure, non-Top 40 songs are played, but without fail, the last song played is Donna Summer's "Last Dance". Occasionally, the "On The Radio" LP mix of "Heaven Knows" segueing into "Last Dance" is played.

I don't know about you, but I find this to be a travesty. You would a think a d.j. like this would play Grace Jones' "La Vie En Rose" or Ashford & Simpson's "It Seems To Hang On" to close out a set. Furthermore, "Last Dance" ends on such an upbeat note that it leaves you thirsting for more music.

[Bernie]

It's cliché at best.

[Disco Funk]

But if it was 10pm for the end of the set, would a slower song have been appropriate? I could see the point of having a slower tune if it was 2am and the even was winding down. Did the live event end there, or did another DJ follow with more dance music?

I guess the DJ also like the fact that Last Dance has a cold ending, rather than having to fade out the end of his set.

Disco Funk

[Salsoul1975]

It's just an internet radio show. The live mix is on every Saturday evening from 8-10 pm. It's Disco365, and it's been mentioned here on the message board before.

[Disco Funk]

Sorry, I misunderstood what you had written. If this guy is always ending with the same song, it's probably just his signature tune, just like some DJs like to start with a particular tune. And if it's making you thirst for more, maybe that's his intention? Leave you hanging so you'll be checking in the following week. Sounds to me like it's working. :)

Have you tried emailing him to find out why he keeps playing Last Dance at the end of his show?

Disco Funk

[Cory Ander]

very predicatable...a few times when I played it in my DJ days, I used a personal cassette mix I made and edited out the ballad parts.

[darrens]

Maybe it's no coincidence that everyone who has posted on this thread so far is from "the other side of the pond"?

"Last dance" was not a Top 40 hit in the UK, it scraped into the 50-somethings, so technically a hit but in reality unknown here by all except disco afficionados. So my reaction wouldn't be negative; but I do know that this is one of the best known disco tunes.

Where is this radio show based? If not in the USA, then maybe that might cast a different light on the choice?

[SandraDee]

I have to say that if I had to choose one of my least favourite singles that Donna did in her 'golden period' (that sounds a bit pervy doesn't it?), i.e. 75-79, it would be Last Dance. I don't dislike it 'cos I love everything the queen did at that time but I remember the disappointment I felt when i first heard Last Dance. I felt that it was the first single she brought out that didn't push any boundaries or innovate in any way, it just sounded like a million other disco records to me (not necessarily a bad thing of course). It's not a bad record but after the likes of I Feel Love, Down Deep Inside, Rumour Has It, I Love You, Love's Unkind & LTLYB it sounded like she was 'treading water' somewhat.

[shives]

It's on par with playing Jolo's Last Call at quarter till closing.......

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Salsoul1975

"Last Dance" ends on such an upbeat note that it leaves you thirsting for more music.

That's for sure! So, it's a very bad choice!

BTW, we saw Donna live last Saturday @ The Lokerse Feesten in Belgium. She looked great, she sang great and she was oh so nice to the people. A real joy. Before her David Byrne also did very well!