What Would You Play if Doing an 80's Gig?

[FranceJoliFan]

I'll play "Sister" by Prince instead. The next track on the CD. :icon_mrgreen:

Yes, a much safer choice.

: )

[djdanpooch]

If you have to ask, should you be playing at all?

[Illusion Music]

Here are some tracks that work for me, I was a club jock from 1979 until 1998 so I worked these tracks many nights and they always did well. I put this mix together recently for my car with some of my favorite 80's tracks.

I hope this helps.

Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Bananarama - Venus
Fleetwood Mac - Family Man
Figures On A Beach - You Aint Seen Nothing Yet
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon
Philp Oakey And Georgio Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams
Maria Vidal - Body Rock
Lemahal - Never Ending Story
Real Life - Send Me An Angel
Billy Idol - Catch My Fall
Cee Jay - A Little Love
Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts
Pat & Mick - Haven't Stopped Dancing
Rick Astley - Together Forever
Culture Club - War Song
Cyndi Lauper - Change Of Heart
Depeche Mode - Strange Love
Information Society - What's On Your Mind
Police - Voices

Andrew

[prince4u]

Well the night came and went. It was an amazing time we all had. The 80's night was a huge hit and it felt great to be behind the mixer again. The crowd went crazy. I played the usual 80's Rock/Pop dance stuff that was big back then and included a few sets of Club/Dance music and I still had it.

I started off with an 80's medley of 98bpm to 114bpm that I had made just to warm things up. I cut right into 1999 and looped the end of it and mixed New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle. Right there I knew it was going to be a good night. That's the first time I tried that mix.

Now here are some of the songs that went over very big.

1.Billy Idol - Mony Mony
2.Romantics - What I like About You
4.Madonna - Into the Groove
5.Bananarama - Venus
6.Rick James - Super Freak
7.Shannon - Let the Music Play
8.Dire Straits - Twisting by the Pool
9.ELO - Rock n Roll is King
10.D Train - You're the one for me
11.Culture Club - Karma Kameleon - A remix version
12.Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes - A remix version I had was well received
13.Go Go's Medley (Ultimix Version) - went very well.
14.Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
15.B52's - Love Shack
16.Communards - Don't leave me this way
17.Breakfast Club - Right on Track
18.Kylie Minogue - loco motion
19.Pet Shop Boys - What have I done to deserve this
20.Laban - Love in Siberia
21.Planet Patrol - Cheap Thrills
22.Information Society - What's on your mind

And Some Slow Jams

1.Lionel Richie & Diana Ross - Endless Love - This one was left for the end of the night
2.Journey - Open Arms
3.Lisa Lisa - All Cried Out
4.Spandau Ballet - True
5.Chicago - You're the inspiration
6.Prince - Purple Rain
7.Bryan Adams - Heaven - Appropriately so.

And not only that, I had a projector and during my breaks and when they were eating, they were able to watch some 80's videos on a big screen and got to see the likes of,

1.Duran Duran
2.Men at Work
3.Flock of Seagulls
4.Thompson Twins
5.Peter Gabriel
6.Paula Abdul
7.Depeche Mode

Wow! what a night I got to do it all over again just like I use to. Unfortunately, now it's back to reality and back to my 2 jobs and family which is just as good. Thanks guys for your input and helping me relive a time in my life that was the best, God bless.

[prince4u]

If you have to ask, should you be playing at all?

If you don't have any concrete input, should you be posting at all?
If you would have read the beginning of this thread you would have known why I was asking.

[DJVUE]

Slave To The Rhythm
Jump!/So Excited
Wake Me Up (B4 U Go Go)
Walking On Sunshine
Grease Megamix
YMCA
Gloria
Oh What A Feeling
I Love Rock n Roll
It's Raining Men
Disco Inferno
Rock The Boat

I could go on and on. These are normally great hits for me (I'm an Event-DJ)

[paul]

Sucker For Candy
Do It To the Music
Instinctual
You Can't Have Your Cake And Eat It Too
Billy Jean
Give It To Me Baby
Dress You Up
Touch Me All Night Long
You're The One For Me
No Parking On The Dance Floor
Your Love
I'm Ready
Around The World
Trapped
Never Gonna Give You Up
There is Something About You
It's My Life (Talk Talk)
West End Girls
Hungry
Set It Off
Secret Rendzevous
Ooh Love

ballads:
If You Were Here Tonight
United Together
Losing You
Guilty
Magic Man
Love Changes

[islandpeach]

WHERE IS MY MAN-Eartha Kitt
CRASH GOES LOVE-Loleatta Holloway
IN MY HOUSE-Mary Jane Girls
I LIKE YOU-Phyllis Nelson
OBJECT OF MY DESIRE-Starpoint
ANOTHER MAN-Barbara Mason
I'M NOT GONNA LET-Colonel Abrams
BREAKIN'...THERE'S NO STOPPIN' US-Ollie and Jerry
FASCINATED-Company B
POINT OF NO RETURN-Exposé
IF YOU SHOULD EVER BE LONELY-Val Young
GIVE ME TONIGHT-Shannon
AIN'T NOTHING GOING ON BUT THE RENT-Gwen Guthrie
OPEN YOUR HEART (12")-Madonna
SILENT MORNING-Noel
LOVE LETTER-Giggles
SHOW ME-Cover Girls
DREAMIN' OF LOVE-Stevie B
DREAMIN'-Will To Power
I CAN'T WAIT-Nu Shooz
FOR TONIGHT-Nancy Martinez
INFATUATION-Upfront
SEDUCTION-Val Young
LOVE COME DOWN-Evelyn King
JUMP TO IT-Aretha Franklin
FORGET ME NOTS-Patrice Rushen
SHAKE IT UP TONIGHT-Cheryl Lynn
CALL ME-Skyy

...and many more that I can't think of right now.

This is my first post on this site :) And a good start would be giving props to that list of yours, Salsoul. Some real gems there! Love perusing this site!



The more obvious stuff I would include on my 80's gig playlist:

Miami Sound Machine - Dr Beat
Phil Collins & Phillip Bailey - Easy Lover
Billy Ocean - Night (Feel Like Getting Down)
Kool & Gang - Fresh or Misled
Time Bandits - I'm Only Shooting Love
Janet - When I Think Of You
Donna Allen - Serious
Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover/Hall & Oates - Maneater
The Whispers - Rock Steady
Lionel Richie - Running With The Night
Alexander O'Neal & Cherrelle - Saturday Love
Alexander O'Neal - Criticize
Pebbles - Mercedes Boy (or Girlfriend)
Luther Vandross - You're The Sweetest One
Howard Jones - Like To Get To Know You Well
Joyce Sims - Come into My Life
Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
ABC - The Look Of Love
Princess - Say I'm Your Number 1
Dennis Edwards - Don't Look Any Further
Spandau Ballet - Chant No. 1
Isley Brothers - Between The Sheets



....could go on, but tooooo sleepy.

[InvisibleMan]

Baltimora - Tarzan Boy
Video Kids - Woodpeckers from space
Albert One - Turbo Diesel
Pet Shop Boys - That's my impression
Kool & the Gang - Fresh
Spagna - Easy Lady
Eddy Huntington - USSR
Shooting Party - Safe in the arms of love
Ken Laszlo - Tonight
Hubert Kah - Limousine
Astaire - Love Trap
Falco - Rock me Amadeus
Raf - Self Control
Nicci Gable - Strange Desire
Blue System - Magic Symphony
Lili & Sussie - Oh Mama
Taylor Dayne - Tell it to my heart
Secret Service - 10 o'clock postman
Peter Brown - Love is just a game
Nu Shooz - I can't wait
Dan Hartman - Name of the game
Oh Romeo - These memories
Pajama Party - Hide and Seek
George Lamond - Look into my eyes
New Order - Subculture
Human League - Don't you want me
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
A-Ha - Take on me
Red Flag - Russian Radio
Stevie B - Spring Love
Animotion - I Engineer
Dennis Edwards/Siedah Garret - Don't look any further
Expose - Come go with me
Technotronic - Pump up the jam
Shannon - Let the music play
Milli Vanilli - Girl you know it's true
Limahl - Inside to Outside
Information Society - Running
Johnny Kemp - Just got paid
Whitney Houston - Wanna dance with somebody
Bogart Co - All the best girls

few more will come to mind later

and close to Christmas/New Year's Holidays: Wham - Last Christmas :)

[Salsoul1975]

Islandpeach--Thanks for the props! :icon_cool:

Here's some more I thought about (sorry if these were already mentioned):

IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW-Duran Duran
HEARTBREAK BEAT-Psychadelic Furs
LOVE WILL SAVE THE DAY-Whitney Houston
MORE THAN PHYSICAL-Bananarama
PARANOIMIA-Art Of Noise w/ Max Headroom
BOY IN THE BOX-Corey Hart
I'M GONNA TEAR YOUR PLAYHOUSE DOWN-Paul Young
NO MORE WORDS-Berlin
OPERATOR-Midnight Star
MIDAS TOUCH-Midnight Star
LIVING IN A BOX-Living In A Box
MORE THAN YOU KNOW-Martika
BOY I'VE BEEN TOLD-Sa-Fire
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET-Brenda K. Starr
SAYIN' SORRY (DON'T MAKE IT RIGHT)-Denise Lopez
PUSH IT-Salt 'N Pepa
PUMP UP THE VOLUME-M/A/A/R/S
TALK TO ME-Chico DeBarge
COOL IT NOW-New Edition
A LITTLE BIT OF LOVE (IS ALL IT TAKES)-New Edition
I WONDER IF I TAKE YOU HOME-Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam w. Full Force
CAN YOU FEEL THE BEAT-Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam w. Full Force
SEX-Sylvester


For Semi-Sleaze:

JOY-Teddy Pendergrass
SHOULD I SAY YES-Nu Shooz
SWEETHEART-Rainy Davis
THE WAY YOU LOVE ME-Karyn White
ANGEL-Madonna

For Sleaze:

TIME WILL REVEAL-DeBarge
TRY AGAIN-Champaign
ALL CRIED OUT-Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam w. Full Force
THE CAPTAIN OF HER HEART-Double
THROUGH THE FIRE-Chaka Khan

[paul]

Also add to the mix, this song that Just came to mind.
You and Me Just Started



PS - Bernie, Johan, after years I finally got the youtube thing. :)

[Videoskooter]

PS - Bernie, Johan, after years I finally got the youtube thing. :)

[paul]

Just when I was feeling good about myself, you had to go there Johan.:icon_biggrin:
I'm not even gonna try the double youtube thing:icon_biggrin:

[markydefad]

Just when I was feeling good about myself, you had to go there Johan.:icon_biggrin:
I'm not even gonna try the double youtube thing:icon_biggrin:

Paul--you just put them side by side and you get the double thing.

[paul]

Paul--you just put them side by side and you get the double thing.

Thanks...duh!