April 13, 2002

 
I just finished up DJing a party - it wasn't quite what I thought it was going to be, it was mostly FIT students chatting and steadfastly refusing to dance. Oh, and coming up and asking me for metal every ten minutes. This is what I played:

Jake Slazenger "Supafunk"/ Cornershop "Heavy Soup"/ Missy Vs. O Jays Vs. Happy Mondays "Step On Man"/ Deee-Lite "Groove is in the Heart"/ Michael Jackson Vs. Q-Tip "Breathe Don't Stop"/ DJ Q-Bert "Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Muzik"/ Mike Viner's Incredible Bongo Band "Apache"/ Stevie Wonder "Sir Duke"/ The Rolling Stones "Let's Spend The Night Together"/ David Bowie "Rebel Rebel"/ The Human Beinz "Nobody But Me"/ Sleater-Kinney "You're No Rock N Roll Fun"/ Elvis Costello "Pump It Up"/ Gravy Train "Sippin 40z"/ Bitch and Animal "Best Cock on the Block"/ Strokes Vs. Christina "Stroke of Genius"/ James Brown "There Was A Time"/ Chuck Edwards "Downtown Soulville"/ Eddie Bo "Check Your Bucket"/ Jimmy Mamou "Funky Love"/ Iggy Vs. Beasties "Lust For Sureshot"/ The Strokes "Last Nite"/ The Beatles "I Saw Her Standing There"/ Missy Vs. Elastica "Connection Shots"/ Vanilla Ice Vs. Basement Jaxx "Where's Yr Ice At?"/ The Hives "Hate To Say I Told You So"/ Joan Jett "Cherry Bomb"/ James Chance "Contort Yourself"/ Mos Def "Ms Fat Booty"/ Destiny's Child Vs. Outkast "Jumpin Jackson"/ The Beatles Vs. DMX, Meth, Busta, etc/ Bjork "Big Time Sensuality"/ Cylob "Sex Machine"/ Sexual Harrassment "I Need A Freak"/ George Michael "I Want Yr Sex"/ Playgroup "Number One"/ Gonzales "Take Me To Broadway"/ Depeche Mode Vs. D12 "Just Can't Get Enough Pills"/ The Clash "Rock The Casbah (remix)"/ ESG "Dance"/ No Doubt "Making Out"/ Grandmaster Flash Vs. Blackstreet/ Madonna "Material Girl"/ The B-52s "Love Shack"/ Peaches "Set It Off (remix)"/ Crossover "Extensive Care"/ Michael Jackson "The Way You Make Me Feel"/ Beastie Boys "Hey Ladies"/ Busta Vs. Missy Vs. ODB/ Daft Punk Vs. Kraftwerk "Daftwerk"/ Jay-Z "I Just Want To Love You (MTV Unplugged version)"/ Ol Dirty Bastard "Got Your Money" Vs. Will Smith "Miami"/ Otis Redding "Mr. Pitiful"/ Big Ella "Too Hot To Hold"/ Billy Hambric "She Said Goodbye"/ Gloria Jones "Tainted Love"/ Sugar Pie Desanto "Go Go Power"/ The Supremes "Can't Hurry Love"/ Ike and Tina Turner "Bold Soul Sister"/ Wilbur Bascomb "Just A Groove In G"/ Loose Joints "Tell You (Today)"/ Tom Tom Club "Genius of Love"/ The Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop"/ Dub Narcotic Sound System "Fuck Shit Up"/ The Make-Up "Pow! To The People"/ Taylor Savvy "Share The Dream"/ Peaches "Fuck The Pain Away"/ Peaches "Lovertits"/ Prince "Kiss"/ Le Tigre "Deceptacon (remix)"/ Britney Spears "I'm A Slave 4 U"/ Latryx "Lady Don't Tek No"/ The Notorious BIG "Big Poppa"

This one didn't really get going til most of the people finally started leaving, and people started to dance unselfconciously. But this matters not - we're putting on a mega dance party in two weeks, and we're pulling out all the stops. It's going to be great. Oh, just you wait...