We're having a birthday party for my wife on Friday night, and whenever we do something like this her younger brother and sister always bring a bunch of their friends and they're all into the hip hop crap, and they always try to force it down our throats and take over the party. They dont really have any bad intentions, they just dont realize that we hate it.

Anyway, I need to make a few mixed cds with ROCK songs that would be good for a party. I have some of my own ideas but I need a lot more suggestons.

Anything from modern to classic rock...as long as it has a guitar. (well actually some electronic music might be ok too)


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Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones are always good for parties.

"Hey man. Neither she nor I like hip hop very much and since it's her birthday party, I'd really rather that you not play any of it".

Mother by Danzig.

Going on the list.

Also Zeppelin and the Stones are good suggestions too.

lynyrd skynyrd

Michael Jackson. Nothing says sophisticated boy-girl party like MJ's Black and White. And also, this phrase "boy-girl party."

Talking Heads

"One in a Million" - Guns N Roses
please somebody get this

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PRINCE!

Albums that will work for a party.....

Beck - Midnite Vultures, maybe my fav party album
Basement Jaxx - Rooty, electronic-pop. If you need more easy-listening electronic, go with Fatboy Slim's You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Bob Marley - any album will do, but for a party, go with Legend or Exodus
The Cars - The Cars if you want to throw in some `80s
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet if you just want loud music about partying
Jamiroquai - go with Emergency on Planet Earth
as suggested above, any Zeppelin or Stones album is good. Zeppelin I and IV might be good, Stones, go with Let it Bleed or Exile on Main St.
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Unclassified
Slightly Stoopid - Everything You Need
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
Tom Petty - Highway Companion
Widespread Panic - Til the Medicine Takes

This should just about cover it.....

Psycho Killer!

Oh wait..maybe that wouldnt be a good song for this week.

Everyone elses suggestions are appreciated too, especially the MJ...more songs! I need to fill like 4 hours.

See above post, Flushgarden, have edited it.

For Bob Marley I'd go with Babylon by Bus, or the find the Sasalito(sp?) recordings in '70 or '71.

Just a whole lot more energy in the live shows.

Depending on the mood of the party, throw in some Chuck Berry, Jack Johnson, or Sublime.

Can you tell me some particular songs from these albums that I should check out? I dont have time to download the entire albums, and I cant afford to buy them right now.

Also Sublime and Jack Johnson are musts. Do you listen to CYY, sublime? Thats what I listened to when I was in Maine...it was a pretty good little station.

I am CYY.

Ha, just kidding. I wonder if they still use that, I bet they do. I used to listen to it, but I really haven't listened to the radio much at all recently. I'll have to next time I am in the car.

Have a blast with the party, and don't be afraid to say what Scram said. (We really don't like hip hop, it's her party, we'd appreciate it if you let go...)

edit -The two Chuck Berry's I would recommend are: Memphis, Tennessee and Maybelline. People will be singing at those, although anything from Blues Berry would work.

Here's what I have so far...they are in no particular order, just numbered to keep track of how many I have.

I'd like to get at least another 50 or so.

1. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
2. Led Zepplin - Whole Lotta Love
3. Audioslave - I Am The Highway
4. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
5. Danzig - Mother
6. Incubus - Dig (or another incubus song)
7. 311 - Beautiful Disaster
8. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
9. Sevendust - Going Back To Cali
10. Bush - Machinehead
11. Social Distortion - Ball and Chain
12. Sublime - Summertime
13. The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
14. The Killers - Mr. Brightside
15. The Killers - When You Were Young
16. The Kooks - Naive
17. The Kooks - Ooh La
18. The Kooks - You Don't Love Me
19. Doors - Roadhouse Blues
20. Toadies - Possum Kingdom
21. Gin Blossoms - Allison Road
22. Future Leaders Of The World - Let Me Out
23. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
24. Sublime - Santeria
25. Eve 6 - Here's To The Night
26. The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Lump
27. Nelly Furtado - Permiscuos Girl (my wife likes this song)
28. Sevendust - Angel's Son
29. Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
30. Queens Of The Stone Age - Little Sister
31. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
32. Slightly Stoopid - Everything You Need (or something else)
33. STP - Sour Girl
34. Weezer - Island In The Sun
35. Weezer - The Sweater Song
36. Weezer - Say It Ain't So
37. Weezer - Buddy Holly
38. Everclear - Santa Monica
39. Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life
40. Third Eye Blind - Hows It Gonna Be
41. Eve 6 - Inside Out
42. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
43. The Pussycat Dolls - Buttons
44. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
45. Foo Fighters - Everlong
46. Janes Addiction - Been Caught Stealin
47. Alterbridge - One Day Remains or Find The Real
48. Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole

Modest Mouse, Float On is good.

I have never listened to The Killers that I know of. I probably have heard a song or two and not known it, but, get to it?

How about some early Black Crowes, No Doubt, some old school Sam and Dave, and U2.

Every single song from Metallicas black album.

Weezer has also probably made the best album ever in Pinkerton, just listen to it, it's genius.

These kids today and their hip hop music. Old man FlushGarden hates sh*t.

But but.. he likes the pussycat dolls!

Dimension by Wolfmother AINEC

Nice!

And I'm sure he reads playboy for the articles too.

If I'm ever caught with a Playboy, assume there was an artical I wanted to read. Anyone who claims they still jerks off to Playboy is prolly a fag. I'm so desensitized at this point I can't get it up for anything that isn't illegal for at least seven reasons.

"WOLFMOTHER YOU SUCK!!!"

I still need more suggestions, I know there's a lot of good stuff out there and I'm just not thinking of it and/or I've never heard it.

Updated List:

1. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
2. Led Zepplin - Whole Lotta Love
3. Audioslave - I Am The Highway
4. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
5. Danzig - Mother
6. Incubus - Dig (or another incubus song)
7. 311 - Beautiful Disaster
8. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
9. Sevendust - Going Back To Cali
10. Bush - Machinehead
11. Social Distortion - Ball and Chain
12. Sublime - Summertime
13. The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
14. The Killers - Mr. Brightside
15. The Killers - When You Were Young
16. The Kooks - Naive
17. The Kooks - Ooh La
18. The Kooks - You Don't Love Me
19. Doors - Roadhouse Blues
20. Toadies - Possum Kingdom
21. Gin Blossoms - Allison Road
22. Future Leaders Of The World - Let Me Out
23. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
24. Sublime - Santeria
25. Eve 6 - Here's To The Night
26. The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Lump
27. Nelly Furtado - Permiscuos Girl (my wife likes this song)
28. Sevendust - Angel's Son
29. Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
30. Queens Of The Stone Age - Little Sister
31. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
32. Slightly Stoopid - Everything You Need (or something else)
33. STP - Sour Girl
34. Weezer - Island In The Sun
35. Weezer - The Sweater Song
36. Weezer - Say It Ain't So
37. Weezer - Buddy Holly
38. Everclear - Santa Monica
39. Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life
40. Third Eye Blind - Hows It Gonna Be
41. Eve 6 - Inside Out
42. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
43. The Pussycat Dolls - Buttons
44. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
45. Foo Fighters - Everlong
46. Janes Addiction - Been Caught Stealin
47. Alterbridge - One Day Remains or Find The Real
48. Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole

Added today....

49. Buckcherry - Crazy *****
50. No Doubt - Spiderwebs
51. Modest Mouse - Float On
52. Buckcherry - Lit Up
53. Stone Temple Pilots - Wicked Garden
54. Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
55. Coldplay - Yellow
56. Pearl Jam - Even Flow
57. 112 - Peaches & Cream
58. Crossfade - Cold (Hip Hop Remix)
59. Bob Marley - Get Up Stand Up
60. Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
61. Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
62. Wolfmother - Dimension
63. Barenaked Ladies - Alcohol
64. Beasty Boys - Brass Monkey
65. Dropkick Murphys - The Dirty Glass
66. Dropkick Murphys - Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced
67. Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey
68. Afroman - Because I Got High
69. Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
70. Guns N'Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine
71. N.E.R.D - She Wants To Move
72. Nickelback - Figured You Out
73. Outkast - Hey Ya
74. Oasis - Wonderwall
75. OAR - Crazy Game Of Poker
76. Lenny Kravitz - Lady
77. White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
78. White Stripes - My Doorbell
79. White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
80. The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes
81. N.E.R.D. - Lapdance
82. Coldplay - Talk
83. Rage Against The Machine - Know Your Enemy

Anything by Jimmy Buffett

Yeah, I know, but I had to say it

It's your wife's b-day, throw in the song you had your first dance to

Stormy Monday - Cream: Live at Royal Albert Hall

Audioslave - Show Me How to Live
Bowling for Soup - 1985
(if she has a sense of humor) Bowling for soup - The bitch Song
Kaiser Chiefs - Sink That Ship
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness
Jimmy Eat World - Pain
Jimmy Eat World - Nothingwrong
Jimmy Eat World - Just Tonight
Franz ferdinand - Take me Out
Franz Ferdinand - Do you want to?
The Explosion - Here I Am
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Foo Fighters - DOA
Foo Fighters - Best of You
Foo Fighters - All My Life
Foo Fighters - Times Like These
The Fray - How to save a life
Green Day - Wake me up when september ends
More Green day
Jet - Are you gonna be my girl
Jet - Rollover DJ
Muse - Hysteria
Muse - time is running out
The Offspring - Defy you
Papa Roach - Scars
Queens of the stone age - No one Knows
The Raconteurs - Steady, as she goes
Staind - How Bout You
staind - So Far away
staind - how bout you
sugarcult - memory
sugarcult - do it alone
sum 41 - fat lip
System of a down - Chop Suey!
White Stripes - Blue Orchid



Edit: Barenaked Ladies - One week

"Cheeseburger In Paradise" and "Margaritaville" definitely are great party sing-alongs.

Dave Matthews Band (particularly songs off of "Crash" give you some more mid-90's cred). Other mid/late-90's potentials: Blues Traveler, Cake, Blind 182, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, REM.

depending on the age of the crowd, 80s music usually kills at parties. some often forgotten classics that people are excited to hear:
(most of this stuff works better later in the night when people are pretty drunk)

modern english - melt with you
the cure - just like heaven
hall & oates - private eyes
michael jackson - rock with you
inxs - need you tonight
starship - we built this city
wang chung - everybody have fun tonight
belinda carlisle - heaven is a place on earth
madonna - all of it, girls <3 madge

and then of course everyone loves a healthy smattering of cock rock like...

whitesnake - here i go again
motley crue - kickstart my heart
joan jett - i love rick n roll
winger - seventeen (if i'm at a party and someone plays this song i approach them and make out with them violently)

the possibilities are endless, really.

also, if you don't play maneater by nelly furtado at your party, i don't want to be there.

I thought you didn't want hip-hip?

My wife likes Peaches & Cream, the other bands have all been heard on rock radio stations. And its ok to mix in a little, its nice to have a good mix, I just dont want it dominated by it.

Thank you everyone who has suggested songs...many of them will be played tonight. I'm still not quite finished so if anybody has more ideas post them.

Ditto. I just meant it metaphorically because the pussycat dolls blow, and the only reason to watch one of their videos has nothing to do with the song.

Shania Twain: I feel like a woman.

No doubt: I'm just a girl



Next time don't let someone else take over your parties

This is a horrible song for a party. It makes me think of a bunch of total losers from the 70's sitting around the bong or passing joints down the line.

led zepplin has some good songs but the mood they set for the party is more of a big downer.

make it Disco night!!!

ahh, i see you have some Doors. LA Woman is the kick *** tune

lol

orion - metallica
leper messiah - metallica
turn the page - metallica's version


hendrix

little wing - both hendrix and srv.

live wire - motley crue

black sabbath, ozzy yrs..

The party was last night.

Hope it was fun Flushgarden!

Still recovering.

The hip-hoppers were not impressed...but****em.

lol, oops!

Wow Im pissed I missed this thread, What the hell ever happened to AC/DC? They always rock at parties no matter the age group(cept maybe 70yr olds)

Sorry I missed this thread the first go round. Next time, have a CD mocking them. Weird Al has a few tunes that would work (White and Nerdy comes to mind). Also check out MC Hawking - physics meets rap, all sung with Stephen Hawking's synthesized voice box. Maybe they will get the message then.