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johny k
hi everyone,
i have a disco coming up soon and my client has asked for a lot of rock music. can you tell me which you would put on the playlist.
thanks john
John C
What type of Rock music are they after? The old ACDC type or the newer stuff?
Dukesy
QUOTE(johny k @ Feb 15 2009, 08:18 PM)

hi everyone,
i have a disco coming up soon and my client has asked for a lot of rock music. can you tell me which you would put on the playlist.
thanks john

No indications from the client?
johny k
QUOTE(Dukesy @ Feb 16 2009, 11:39 AM)

No indications from the client?



old and new rock music required
thanks
john
Dukesy
QUOTE(johny k @ Feb 16 2009, 07:34 PM)

old and new rock music required
thanks
john

Ok - How you put everything together on night is of course, down to you, but merely suggesting artistes like, for example, Bryan Adams, and U2 is one thing, Iron Maiden, Metallica and Judas Priest is another!

Music is oh-so-personal, and I would rather get it right with the client than gamble on third party suggestions alone!
The age of your client may help indicate the type of rock music they grew up with / listened to as a teen, onwards. Gleam as much info from them as possible!

Lets say for example that your client is mainly into Glam rock or progressive rock, then I'm sure one of us could reel off a load of suggestions.
If they like heavy metal or even punk rock, better to allow your self the time to get to know the tracks - as first impressions indicate you have no rockin idea! laugh.gif Apologies if I am wrong. smile.gif

Have a look here when you get 10 mins. See if there are any names of groups you recognise in your music collection / can cross reference with an informal phone call with your client.

The more info you can share, the more we can help you.
supersound dj
there were lots of rival bands and fans of rock in the 70s and 80s,there were also allot of artists that joined difererent bands tooeg ritchie blackmoor ozzy ozbourne ect.


my personal fave is restless Ian Gillan band
Robster
may be you guys can help the original poster and me at the same time!

I have been asked once or twice for metallica but they always seem to go down like a lead balloon... most of there songs have way too elaborate and long winded intros and last too long ..what are you guys playing when asked for metallica?..also i get the reply "anything" by metallica when i ask what song by metallica from the often drunk old rockers asking the request..

usually i play enter sandman... metallica is not a rock band i ever got into or really liked , i have sat down and listened to a few of there hits (non really made it big in the UK singles charts highest single was a number 5 according to wikipedia) and enter sandman is probably the only one that i thought was ok to be honest.
Slimboy Fat
QUOTE(Robster @ Feb 16 2009, 10:53 PM)
I have been asked once or twice for metallica but they always seem to go down like a lead balloon... most of there songs have way too elaborate and long winded intros and last too long ..what are you guys playing when asked for metallica?..also i get the reply "anything" by metallica when i ask what song by metallica from the often drunk old rockers asking the request..


Enter Sandman is probably the most "neutral friendly" and most well known of Metallica's tracks but if you are dealing with purveyors of the Finest thrash metal then you may want to give a run-out to the following tracks:

Master of Puppets (Master of Puppets Album)
Am I Evil (a cover of the old Diamond Head classic) (EP)
Creeping Death (Ride the Lightning)
Blitzkreig (Ride the Lightning)
Seek & Destroy (Kill 'em All)
Whiplash (Kill 'em All)
One (....And Justice For All)

& a couple of "end of nighters":

Nothing Else matters (Black Album)
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Master of Puppets)

Hope this helps expand your knowledge and understanding of the greatest band ever to walk this earth! thumbup.gif


By the way.... I seriously wouldn't bother with any of the stuff released after the "Black Album" - Metallica went a little bit "off the rails" for a while and the material they produced just wasn't the same.

QUOTE(johny k @ Feb 15 2009, 08:18 PM)

hi everyone,
i have a disco coming up soon and my client has asked for a lot of rock music. can you tell me which you would put on the playlist.
thanks john


It's an extremely wide area of music you are being asked to pick from - as the other guys quite rightly state you really need more input from the client as to exactly which genre of Rock they require. As a kind of heads up, I would make sure you stock up on music from as many of the following bands as you possibly can:

AC/DC
Aerosmith
Alice Cooper
Alice In Chains
Bad Company
Bachmann Turner Overdrive
Black Sabbath
Bon Jovi
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
Faith No More
Free
Foo Fighters
Graham Bonnet
Green Day
Guns 'n' Roses
Hawkwind
Iron Maiden
Jane's Addiction
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Journey
Judas Priest
Kiss
Led Zeppelin
Meatloaf
Megadeth
Metallica
Motley Crue
Motorhead
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Ozzy Osbourne
Pearl Jam
Quiet Riot
Rainbow
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Poison
Rage Against the Machine
Sex Pistols
Sisters of Mercy
Skid Row
Slayer
Soundgarden
Steppenwolf
The Cult
The Doors
The Scorpions
Thin Lizzy
Thunder
Twisted Sister
Van Halen
W.A.S.P.

....to name but a few of the "classic" Rock bands. Newer stuff you need to go for:

Airbourne
30 Seconds to Mars
Biffy Clyro
Billy Talent
Black Stone Cherry
Blink 182
Bullet For My Valentine
Disturbed
Dragonforce (anyone who plays Guitar hero loves these)
Drowning Pool
Elliot Minor
Evanescence
Fall Out Boy
Foo Fighters
Funeral for a Friend
Good Charlotte
HIM
Hoobastank
Kaiser Chiefs
Kid Rock
Kids in Glass Houses
Korn
Lacuna Coil
Limp Bizkit
Linkin Park
Lost Prophets
Madina Lake
Marilyn Manson
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Offspring
Paramore
Pendulum (Goes down well with the Rock crowd)
Puddle of Mudd
Rammstein
Queens of the Stone Age
Slipknot
Stoned Sour
Sum 41
System of a Down
Tenacious D
The Killers
Trivium
Velvet Revolver
You Me At Six


As I say it is an EXTREMELY wide ranging question you ask so expect wide-ranging answers. Each one of the classic bands has at least 3 or 4 top tracks you could play so listing them would take all week. If you pick out the groups that appeal to you I will reply with the tracks you can play.

Jase.
Norfolk DJ
If someone wants some rock music, they must know what they like and don't like!

it puts the DJ in a tricky position. I would tend to build up a rock set and test how far to go.

start off with:

Bryan Adams - Summer of 69 (straight forward everyone knows tune)
Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer or You Give Love a Bad Name
Reef - Raise your Hands (well known)
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (Well Known and not too Heavy)

After AC/DC it would be decision time. eg Metalica or Iron Maiden maybe some Quo or totally change the tempo. sad.gif

You will simply need to play it by ear.

Rob
Kingy
For an average gig I think it's important to keep it fairly commercial.

Try "Best Rock Album in the world ever" and the mastermix Classic cuts range.

If you go too far off the beaten track at weddings etc you MAY loose some of the rest of the folks who are not rock fans but would be happy enough to have some well known bits & bobs.
supersound dj
QUOTE(Robster @ Feb 16 2009, 10:53 PM)

may be you guys can help the original poster and me at the same time!

I have been asked once or twice for metallica but they always seem to go down like a lead balloon... most of there songs have way too elaborate and long winded intros and last too long ..what are you guys playing when asked for metallica?..also i get the reply "anything" by metallica when i ask what song by metallica from the often drunk old rockers asking the request..

usually i play enter sandman... metallica is not a rock band i ever got into or really liked , i have sat down and listened to a few of there hits (non really made it big in the UK singles charts highest single was a number 5 according to wikipedia) and enter sandman is probably the only one that i thought was ok to be honest.


Metallica did a rendition of whiskey in the jar too.
Gary (GDK)
Playlist from a night Im involved with at the moment:

13th feb
10 - 11:30 - Dave, Manic And Tim

metallica-merciful fate
anthrax-antisocial
Him - Wicked Game [R]
Sound Garden - Blackhole Sun
Twistered Sister - I Wanna Rock
Van Halon - An't talkin about love
Deathstars - cycinde [R]
Marilyn Manson - redeemer
Sign - Thank god for silence [R]
CoF - From Cradel to enslave
Deacide - When Satan Rules His World
Claw Finger - Hate Yourself with Style
Danzig - Dirty Black Summer
Him - Burried Alive By Love [R]
Metallica - All Nightmare Long [R]
White Zombie - Black Sunshine
Pantera - Cemetary Gates
bls - funeral bell
jerry cantrell-anger rising
drowning pool -numb
rammstien - fruer frei®

11:30 - 12:00 - Dave

Soul Fly - Eye for an Eye [R]
ACDC - Highway To Hell
Metallica - The Unforgiven
Ozzy - No More Tears
Kidnet thieves - Before I'm Dead
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus [R]
Flight Of The Conchords - Robots
Stone The crow - Down

Tim & Manic

decapitated-spheres of madness
carcass-corporate jigsaw quandry
Sepultura - Biotech Is Godzilla
Fear Factory - Resurrection
Slipknot - Psycosocial
Metallica - Motorbreath
Therapy - Die Laughing = Dancing!!!!
RHCP - Suck My Kiss
Faith no more & boo yaa tribe - Another body murdered.
Perl Jam - Jeremy
Filter - Hay Man Nice Shot [R]
Buck Cherry - Sunshine
Motley Crue - Chicks = trouble
greeenday-welcome to paradise [R] - Bar Staff
mushroomhead-crazy
def leppard -pour some sugar on me
Guns N' Roses - Out Ta Get Me

01:00 - 03:00 - Dave & Tim

ACDC - Hells Bells
Mudvayne - Dig
Rocket From The Crypt - On Rope
Faith No More - Epic
fithy/georgeous-scissor sisters
hey boy hey girl-chemical bros
pendulum-hold your colour
NIN - Heresay
MSI - shut Me Up
Korn - Twisted TransiSTOR
Slipknot - Wait And Bleed [PC Crash]
Smash Mouth - All Star
Wheetus - Teenage Dirtbag
Limp Bizkit - Faith
Kill Switch Enagage - My Last Serenade [R]
Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack [R]
QOTSA - Little Sister [R]
LIT - My Own worst Enemy
Def Leppard - Animal [R]
Sum 41 - In Too Deep [R]
feeder-just a day
Tool - Stinkfist
soad-chop suey
Distured - Down With the Sickness [R]
Drowning Pool - Let The Bodies Hit The Floor [R]
Duran Durran -wild Boys
Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer [r]
warrant-cherry pie
Pantera - Cowboys From, Hell [R]
Kings of Leon - Sex Is On Fire [R]
Tenacious D - **** Her Gently
Electric Six - Gay Bar [R]
Fesh Prince Of Bell Air - Yo Home Yo Bell Air

6th Feb
10 - 10:30 Manic

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Motley Crue - Down at the Whiskey
HIM - Burried Alive by Love ®
Cradle of Filth - From the cradle to Enslave ®
Einsferum - Token of Time ®
Twisted Sister - Wer'e not Gonna Take it ®

10:30 - 11:00 - Dangerous Dave
Deathstars - BlitzKrieg ®
Aiden - Teenage Queen [R]
Brigade - Cant Remember The Name
Rammstien - Moskau [R]
Rasmus - In The Shadows [R]
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Flight Of The Conchords - Robots
The Qemists - Lost Weekend

11:00 - 11:30 - Andy

The Cure - Mint Car
AFI - Miss Murder®
Papa Roach - To Be Loved®
QOTSA - Little Sister [r]
Skindred - Pressure
Rage Against the Machine - Testify
AC/DC - T.N.T. ®
Children of Bodom - Living dead beat
Mastadon - Blood & Thunder ®


11:30 - 12:00 Manic
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills ®
Puddle of Mud - Control
Megadeth - trust ®
Velvet revolver - Slither ®
Black Stone Cherry - Backwoods Gold
Megadeth - trust ®
The Almighty - Ultraviolent
3 inches of blood - Night Maurauders01:

12:00 - 01:00 - Dangerous Dave
Turisas - Battle Metal
Megadeth - Trust [R]
Stone Sour - 30/30-150 - [R]
Alice In Chains - Bleed The Freak [R]
New Found Gorly - My Friends Over You [R]
The Used - Taste Of Ink [R]
Andrew WK - Party Hard [R]
NIN - Wish [R]
Slipknot - Wait Anfd Bleed
Coal Chamber - Sway
Type O Negitive - My Girlfreinds Girlfreind [R]
Korn - Twisted Transistor [R]
Rob Zombieb Living Dead Girl [R]
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love
Static-X - Black And White
Soil - Halo [R]
Disturbed - Down With The Sickness [R]

Andy 1:00 - 2:00

Rammstein - Feuer Frei®
MSI - Straight to Video ®
Paramore - Misery business®
Alexisonfire - This could be anywhere in the world®
SOAD - Revenga ®
Slipknot - Psychosocial®
Alice in Chains - Man in the box ®
Buckcherry - So Far ®
Iron Maiden - The trooper®
Guns n Roses - Nighttrain®
Motorhead - ace of Spades (Air guitar comp)
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the name of®
Tool - Stinkfist ®
Muse - Knight of Cydonia ®
Pulp - Common People ®

Andy/Dave 2:00 - 3:00

QOTSA - First it Giveth ®
The Used - Tastes of Ink ®
FFAF - Juneau®
Yellow Card - Ocean Avenue [R]
Rammstein - du Hast [R]
Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar [R]
ACDC - Thunderstruck - [R]
Dropkick Murphys - Kiss Me I'm Shitfcaed
Pedulum - Slam [R]
M.S.I - Shut Me Up
Podigy - Smack My Bitch Up [R]
Kansas - Carry on my Wayward son
Manowar - Warriors of the World ®
QOTSA - Go with the Flow ®
Human League - Don#t Want Me Baby
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Mr Right Round
Kiss - God Gave Rock And Roll To You

30th Jan (Launch Night)
Manic 10-10.30

Clawfinger - Warfare
Sabastian Back - Angel Down
Peeping tom - Five seconds
White Zombie - Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks & Cann
Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now In The Fire
Social Distortion - reach For The Sky
Cobra Starship - Snakes On A Plane
Lou Gramm - Lost in the Shadows
Iron Maiden - The trooper ®

Andy / Manic 10.30-11.00

Bloodsimple - dead man walking
Queens of the Stone Age - 3's and 7's
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Weezer - Beverly Hills
SoHo Dolls - Stripper
3 Colours Red - Paralyse
AFI - Girls not grey

Dave and Tim 11:00 - 11:30

soil-pride
foo fighters - Times Like These
Yellow Card - Rough, Landing Haolly
Down - Ghosts Along Mississippi
Buckcherry - Porno Star
motleycrue-smokin in the boys room
Pearl Jam - Even Flow [R]
Jimmy Eat World - The Authority Song [R]
Guns N Roses - Mr Brownstone

Tim 11:30 - 12:00

fragile dreams-anathema
bls-fire it up
kreator-lucretia
holy one- gothminister
slayer-bloodline
nin-bite the hand that feeds®
left behind-slipknot
tnt-six feet under


Andy 12.00 - 12.30

Billy Talent - Red flag
MSI - Never wanted to dance®
Fear Factory - Linchpin
Sepultura - Refuse/resist®
Marilyn Manson - Rock is dead®
Serj Tankian - Empty Walls
3 days Grace - Riot
Rancid - red hot moon

DANCER

Andy 12:30 -1:00

Rise Against - Prayer of the Refugee®
yeah yeah yeahs - black tounge®
Less than jake - History of a boring town®
Jesse James - Shoes
My chemical Romance - Teenagers®
Korn - Here to stay
Def Leppard - Heaven is®
Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch ®


Dave 01:00 - 2:00

Skid Row - 18 And Life [R]
Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl
Drowning Pool - Bodies [R]
Megadeth - Hanger 18 [R]
Dragon Force - Sonic Fire Storm
Iron Maiden - Number Of Beast [R]
Slipknot - Sulphur [R]
NiN - Heresy [R]
M.S.I - Shut Me Up [R]
Pedulum - Slam [R]
Rocket From The Crypt - On A Rope
Green Day - Basket Case [R]
Feeder - Just A day
Incubus - Cerrtain Shade Of Green [R]
Lost Prophets - Shinobi Vs The Dragon [R]
Fall Out Boy - Sugar We're Going Down
Panic! At The Disco - We Write Sins Not Tragadies [R]

Andy/ Dave 2:00 -3:00

Kasabian - Reason is treason®
Kings of Leon - sex on fire®
The Used - Taste of ink
Mushroomhead - Solitaire Unravelling®
Rammstein - feuer frei®
Motley Crue - Kickstart my heart®
Buckcherry - pump it up®
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills [R]
American Head Charge - Just So You Know[R]
Godie Lookin Chain - Guns Dont Kill Peoiple [R]
Sound Garden - Jesus Christ Psoe [R]
Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere [R]
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up [R]
Reel Big Fish - Take On Me
Bright Side Of Life

® indicates request, sorry about spelling!
Slimboy Fat
I just want to know how the HELL you got away with following Drowning Pool with Duran Duran!

omg.gif tongue.gif
Gary (GDK)
would you like me to ask the particular djs :P
Slimboy Fat
QUOTE(WotUWnt2Hear @ Feb 18 2009, 10:41 AM)

would you like me to ask the particular djs :P


I would doff my cap to the DJ who pulled that one off ..... assuming he DID get away with it lol.

Seriously.....I would love a residency playing the music that I love......if only it paid as well as mobile.
johny k

i can't thank you all enough for your playlists, im sure it will help someone else to who has a rock night coming up.
thanks
john


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