Help with a party playlist

JeffH

Having an apartment warming party soon, looking for good songs for drinking and debauchery. Probably like 25-35 people there, ages generally between 21-27. Musical taste varies pretty widely, so just looking for fun party songs.

Not looking for: Death Metal, hardcore, techno

Songs should preferably be fairly well known

ShimSham

Pretty much any single by the Beastie Boys

D.T.

Pretty much anything by Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, The Pogues, and Against Me! (particularly "Pints of Guinness Make You Strong).

"40 Oz to Freedom" by Sublime

"Good Ol' Days" by Authority Zero

Carnivore

Blur - Parklife

MC Hammer - Hammertime

pretty much anything from the 90s.

Tarantio

Build me up Buttercup

The version by Save Ferris.

Also The Way We Get By by Spoon.

PlasticLack

311 - I'll Be Here A While
ACDC - Highway To Hell
A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour
Beck - Loser
Bob Marley - Jammin
Bone Thugs - First Of The Month
Blues Traveler - Hook
Cake - The Distance
Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running
Dr. Dre - Fuck Wit Dre Day
Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sherfiff
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Jay-Z - I Just Wanna Love U
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
Kanye West - Gold Digger
Lionrock - Rude Boy Rock
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Notorious BIG - Big Poppa
Outfield - Your Love
Outkast - The Whole World
Q-Tip - Vivrant Thing
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane
Santana - Oye Como Va
Snoop Dogg - What's My Name
Spacehog - In The Meantime
Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
The Clash - Rock The Casbah
The Police - Roxanne
The Strokes - Last Nite
Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
War - Why Can't We Be Friends
Weezer - The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
White Town - I Could Never Be Your Woman

If about half (or more) of the people there are girls: Tori Alamaze - Dont Cha = AWESOME.

...and I'm spent.. Of course, a lot of these depend on how drunk everyone is and what time of the night it is. But with this should at least get you started.

JeffH

PlasticLack wrote: »

If about half (or more) of the people there are girls: Tori Alamaze - Dont Cha = AWESOME.

I don't throw sausage parties

Thanks for the big list, some of it just clashes with my personal tastes but the other half is great and gave me lots of ideas

Xaquin

Lust for Life by Iggy Pop is a staple

MotherFirefly

You have to throw a couple of Tenacious D songs in there, if you have the right crowd, it's pretty fun. I'm sorry this will probably be long

We Are Family - Sister Sledge (everyone knows this song)
White Room- Eric Clapton
Flathead - The Fratellis
Jerk it Out - The Caesars
8 Easy Steps- Alanis Morsette
I Bet that You look good on the Dance Floor- Arctic Monkeys
Girl - Beck
All Of the Above - Big City Rock
Hey Mama- Black Eyed Peas
It's Amateur Night at the Apollo Creed-- Cobra Starship
John the Revelator -- Depeche Mode
All I want for Christmas - Draco and hte Malfoys (seriously, good song)
Jacqueline/Dark of the Matinee --Franz Ferdinand
Punk Rocker -- Teddybears feat. Iggy Pop
Crazy -- Gnarls Barkley
Clint Eastwood -- Gorillaz
Brain Stew-- Green Day
Sweet Child O' Mine / Welcome to the Jungle -- Guns N Roses
(Guitar Hero Soundtrack might work for a lot of it tooooooooo)
Clothes Off! - Gym Class Heroes
Pretty much anything from Head Automatica's First Album
Keep Fallin' --Hot Chip
Warning- Incubus
Evil/ Slow Hands - Interpol
Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson
Are You Gonna Be My Girl/ Cold Hard Bitch - Jet
Most of the "Bleed American" album by Jimmy Eat World
Freetime - Kenna
Somebody told me -The Killers
Hung Up - Madonna
Harder to Breathe/ This Love - Maroon 5
Lose Control - Missy Elliot
Invincible/Here it goes Again -- OK Go
Wait A Minute -- Pussycat Dolls
Most of Queen's Greatest Hits
Dani California - RHCP
Temperature - Sean Paul
Hips Don't lie - Shakira
Le Disko - Shiny Toy Guns
Spitting Games - Snow Patrol
Johnathon Fisk- Spoon
Phenomena - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Grundlterror

Girl Talk, seriously... its not exactly well known by itself but its a mashup of a lot of well known stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Ripper - list of all the songs off his current, and best, album. and what popular clips those songs contain.

http://www.myspace.com/girltalkmusic

Virum

Well, I doubt most of this is what you are looking for, but here are some ideas.

Big Balls - ACDC
Darling Niki - Prince
Eat Me Alive - Judas Priest
Feeling the Love - Reactor
Rag Doll - Aerosmith
Steady as She Goes - The Raconteurs
Start Wearing Purple - Gogol Bordello
It's Hip to Be Square - Huey Lewis and the News
Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
Dude (Looks Like A Lady) - Aerosmith
Moving in Stereo - The Cars
Knocking On Heaven's Door - Guns and Roses
I am a Passenger - Iggy Pop
I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful
Play the Funky Music White Boy - Wild Cherry
Follow Me Up to Carlow - Off Kilter
Evil Night Together - Jill Tracy

tony_important

Well, if you are drinking and need music, why not combine the two.

Play my favorite drinking game, "Roxanne".

All you need is to get everybody in a circle. Then, you put on "Roxanne" by The Police.
Every time that Sting sings "Roxanne" somebody drinks. Go one at a time, in a circular fashion.
Fun/drunkenness will ensue. Repeat as necessary.

Additionally, you might want to add these to your party mix:

"Party All the Time" - Eddie Murphy
"The Party's Crashing Us Now" - Of Montreal
"7/4 (Shoreline)" - Broken Social Scene
"The Noise Of Carpet" - Stereolab
"Say it Ain't So" - Weezer
"Plea From a Cat Named Virtue" - The Weakerthans
"Roses" - Outkast
"Two Words" - Kanye West ft. Mos Def (I'm not the biggest hip-hop fan, but this song is awesome)
"Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" - The Killers
"Jackie Dressed in Cobras" The New Pornographers
"Signs" - Snoop Dogg ft. Justin Timberlake
"Crooked Teeth" - Death Cab for Cutie

I realize that someone already put Roxanne on their list, but I wanted to point out the drinking game!
Enjoy!

W2

I know you said "no death metal" but the Eagles of Death Metal are actually not a death metal band, but rather a really awesome dancing rock band.

Good party music, I would say, would be their songs I Only Want You and Cherry Cola.

Shazkar Shadowstorm

Junior Senior... fo real. Fun times.

JeffH

Thanks again for all the suggestions, I will take the time to listen to the clips in Itunes and download what I like. As far as the no death metal, I really have no qualms with recs of other metal bands, but I doubt the girls at the party would love to hear stuff like Cryptopsy or Necrophagist

NexusSix

I like all types of music, but prefer dance/fun stuff for these types of parties. So, in no particular order:

"Faster Kill Pussycat," "Ready, Steady, Go" - Paul Oakenfold
"I Hate Everybody," "Busted Speaker," "Living Sound of Reality" - DeeJay Punk-Roc
"Ohh La La" - Goldfrapp
"Why You Have to Be Me?" - Whitey
"Commodore Rock" - Ladytron
"Where's Your Head At," "Jump 'N Shout" - Basement Jaxx
"Robot Rock," "Da Funk," "Musique" - Daft Punk
"Three Little Birdies Down Beats" - Chemical Brothers

Sorry, have to get back to work now. I'll try to remember to pull this thread back up over the weekend when I have iTunes open and a beer in hand.

But also: thumbs up on MotherFirefly's Teddybears & Iggy suggestion!

DynamiteKid

Some of these may have already been said, but:

Dr. Dre - Still D.R.E.
Dr. Dre - The Next Episode
Safety dance!
Any of the singles by the Klaxons

matt7718

Dancin on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie

if not for the actual music, for the people who remember the video!

Grundlterror

JeffH wrote: »

Thanks again for all the suggestions, I will take the time to listen to the clips in Itunes and download what I like. As far as the no death metal, I really have no qualms with recs of other metal bands, but I doubt the girls at the party would love to hear stuff like Cryptopsy or Necrophagist

But how cool would it be if they did want to hear it? You never know! (although you are more than likely 100% right they would not like those bands).

MotherFirefly

JeffH wrote: »

Thanks again for all the suggestions, I will take the time to listen to the clips in Itunes and download what I like. As far as the no death metal, I really have no qualms with recs of other metal bands, but I doubt the girls at the party would love to hear stuff like Cryptopsy or Necrophagist

If you want any of the songs, PM me, I can get some for free because I work at a radio station--we're allowed to give stuff out.

Also, Basement Jaxx is pretty good.

JPArbiter

From the classic rock bin

Talking Heads- Take me to the River, Psycho Killer, covered in daisies, Burning down the House

ELO: Pretty much anything

Genesis: Abacab, Invisible touch, I Can't Dance

Aerosmith: Walk this way, Back in the Saddle

The Police: anything

Steppenwulf: Born to be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride

Van Halen: Diamon Dave days; Jump, Panama, Running with the Devil

Van Hagar: Right now, Top of the World, Dreams

Fatboy Slim: Weapion of choice

DynamiteKid

Well, if no-one's said it yet...THE FINAL COUNTDOWN.

Mad Jazz

Grundlterror wrote: »

Girl Talk, seriously... its not exactly well known by itself but its a mashup of a lot of well known stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Ripper - list of all the songs off his current, and best, album. and what popular clips those songs contain.

http://www.myspace.com/girltalkmusic

Oh god, YES. Girl Talk is so damn good it's ridiculous. Really good music to hang out to, or get down to.

Also, The Go! Team is really good upbeat music, very suitable for hanging out, although not that well known either.

Bunta

I cant stress this enough, but a well placed playing of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is a must. There's nothing like 30 some people singing that classic offkey and drunk.