If you were asked to provide the music for an aftershow party, which involves nothing more than people chatting in a bar after an entertaining awards ceremony, what would you pick?
It's background music, and will on ipod, so it doesn't mean I'll be playing DJ, which is a relief. So nothing to loud, no jarring pop. I'm thinking mellow, Sixties, groovy instrumentals, the odd not too obvious Eighties curveball and lots of bossa nova. So far I've included the following (in no particular order). Does this look interesting to you? Any other suggestions?
Lee Hazelwood/My Baby Cried All Night Long
The Cure/Lullaby
Amy Winehouse/Back To Black
Aretha Franklin/I Never Loved A Man
Sergio Mendes/Scarborough Fair
Herb Alpert/Casino Royale
Os Mutantes/Bat Macumba
Cilla Black/You're My World
Queen Bitch/David Bowie
Roxy Music/In Every Dream Home A Heartache
Dusty Springfield/The Look Of Love
Bad Company/Feel Like Makin' Love
Shirley Bassey/Diamonds Are Forever
Hudson-Ford/Pick Up The Pieces
The Temptations/Ball of Confusion
Buffalo Springfield/For What It's Worth
Siouxsie & The Banshees/Dear Prudence
Rolling Stones/You Can't Always Get What You Want
Alan Hawshaw/Hot Pants
Donovan/Sunshine Superman
Traffic/Paper Sun
Do You Know The Way To San Jose?/Dionne Warwick
Runnin' Away/Sly and The Family Stone
Kooks/David Bowie
Time Of The Season/The Zombies
17 comments:
What, no Glen Campbell? Or would that be too likely to reduce grown men to fits of unbecoming tears?
I thought I might leave the country out of it, Kitten. Billie Jo Spears has been playing on my mind.
Now Jon, please can I have an invitation to this event...?
Who do you think you are? Lee Thompson?
Looks good to me.
How about adding some Marc Bolan? Nice and bright, '20th Century Boy' for instance, or 'Jeepster'.
Another Bond item could be Nancy Sinatra with 'You Only Live Twice'.
The Rolling Stones' 'Under My Thumb' always makes me laugh, but that's my problem.
I'd have thought 'Feel like makin' love' might destroy the carefully cultivated mood. I've nothing against the song itself, mind you.
If this is a real function you're preparing for, I'd check out the PA facilities if I were you. I spent hours preparing an hour of music for our office party last Christmas, only to find that it was played so quietly that it couldn't be heard above the sound of conversation. I actually had to ask afterwards if they'd really played it.
Thanks OP, I might do some Bolan, and TT you're right about Bad Company - could be a bit rock for the moment. The PA will be good and it will be bar level, so people have no choice but to hear it.
How about adding the other (some might say the superior) 'Pick Up the Pieces' by the Average White Band? You can sway around a little bit to it, whilst juggling your plate of buffet food and glass of warm Soave.
Hmmm, ISBW, I'm not a huge fan of that track, and they are different songs entirely. Though you have planted a Focus seed in my mind. Sylvia, anyone?
You say mellow 60s instrumentals, I say Booker T And The MGs. Or, while I'm on a funky soul "tip", why not some Meters? I vote for Just Kissed My Baby – funky enough for a party, unobstrusive enough for an aftershow. And just the right level of cool to prove how down with the kids you are. Well, if this was the early 70s...
I could go on. I won't.
Is 'Sylvia' the one with yodelling? It could be a bit distracting...
No, that's Hocus Pocus, way to weird for my plans. Yes, Squirrel, I'm thinking Time Is Tight and perhaps Green Onions too.
Slayer/Angel of Death
I prefer the Focus track that's used as the opening music for Saxondale.
Can I have an invite? I saw the fat bloke off The Office (not Ricky Gervais, the other one) over the weekend so I'm used to mixing with famous people.
I know THAT Focus track, and it's called 'House of the King'. Lots of handclaps.
Can I have an invite for that, even if I don't know my 'Sylvia' from my 'Hocus Pocus'?
WE should have a blogtogether or a blogboree. What's a coming together of bloggers called?
A cry for help?
I'm prepared to donate a jar of cocktail onions to the proceedings, if someone else will donate a witty name.
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