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Comment on top 200 list

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FWIW, a reason you may not hear many ’90’s songs yet is because most of the people who grew (or are growing!) up on that music haven’t been getting married a whole lot yet….wait a few more years, you’ll probably see some more often. FWIW, I’d add to your "good music" list "Starting tonight" by Alabama.

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One more thing….at least 50% of our requested songs are country.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > recomend that  the bride and groom go elsewhere if they don’t want alot of the > music that  was on that  list, I think 193 out of teh 200. My question is, how > many DJ’s feel that  way??  I must confess that  I  have not read the list, but > just the commentaries on it. > However I think that  probly 50% of the music that will be played at my > wedding will be heavy metal or Anime soundtracks. 25%"oldies" slow parent type > dances and the rest instramental or classical music.Since I do not hit alot of > weddings, I don’t know what’s played at them. But I am going to  live with the > fact that a lot of people are not going to  be happy with some of the > selections that  I made. My SO is no help at all becasue the only input I got > from him was. Slow songs that  we can dance a lot to. No weird stuff. > (Little that  he knows I am playing parts of the Sailor Moon soundtrack.) > Also the top 200 nation wide is a lot different than the top 200 regional. The > Northeast and California probably have a lot different musical tastes than > the South and the West. A reginal top 200 would have made a lot more sense, but > then the industry tries to force certain types of music down the throats of of > the public, without thinking of the demographics involved. > Christine 11/10/96

The Top 200 list (from Mobile Beat Magazine) lists what DJ’s have been playing the most over the last year or so.  These songs were voted on by several hundred mobile DJ’s across the country (quoted from a DJ). I reviewed the list, and it has little to do with anything but what mobile DJ’s play.  The ONLY place I hear YMCA/BeeGee’s are at Wedding receptions.   I feel strongly that if the Wedding couple is in favor of the songs on the list, they should use it. But if it were my Wedding, the list would be a very good ‘DO NOT PLAY under penalty of death’ list with a few exceptions. One thing that really strikes me about the list is that there are few (any) songs from the 90’s, most are from the 60’s/70’s/early 80’s.  There is Little to no jazz, country, hard rock/mettle, bluegrass, classical, Bigband, but lots of commercial R&B, classic rock, and Disco. Of the artists I like (Eric Clapton/Beatles/B52’s/ZZ/Stones/Van Morrison, maybe one or two more) few of the songs on the list are selections I’d want played by the artists I do like. Let me share my nightmare, I’m at my reception and this DJ in White Bell bottoms, a pink silk shirt with a huge collar, gold chains, a white belt, and purple platform shoes says "Groovy Guys and Groovy Gals, NOW for a blast from the Past here’s the Village people with YMCA, comming Right at YOU!!", I wake up screaming…. That is what this list reminds me of. I expect to get flamed for this, but IMO if this is what the mobile DJ industry feels is popular I think they are really out of touch with reality…. BTW, everything here is just MY OPINION. Here is the list….you decide…. 2 Unlimited Twilight Zone AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long Ace of Base The Sign Bryan Adams (Everything I Do) I Do for You Alabama Mountain Music Ray Anthony Bunny Hop /  Hokey Pokey Louis Armstrong What a Wonderful World AWB Cut the Cake B-52s Love Shack BTO Takin Care of Business Bayou City Beats Cotton Eyed Joe Beach Boys Barbara Ann Beatles   Birthday          I Saw Her Standing There         Twist and Shout Bee Gees Stayin Alive Harry Belafonte Banana Boat (Day-O) Chuck Berry Johnny B Goode Black Box Everybody Everybody         Strike it Up Blondie Heart of Glass Blues Brothers Soul Man Boyz II Men I’ll Make Love II You Laura Branigan Gloria Brooks & Dunn Boot Scootin Boogie   Garth Brooks Friends in Low Places         The Dance James Brown I Got You (I Feel Good) Peabo Bryson A Whole New World Jimmy Buffett Margaritaville C&C Music Factory Gonna Make You Sweat Clarence Carter Strokin Champs Tequila Ray Charles Georgia on My Mind Chubby Checker Let’s Twist Again         Limbo Rock         The Twist Eric Clapton Wonderful Tonight Climax Blues Band I Love You Patsy Cline Crazy Natalie Cole Unforgettable Nat King Cole The Party’s Over Harry Connick Jr. It Had to Be You   Contours Do You Love Me John Cougar Hurts So Good Counting Crows Mr Jones CCR Proud Mary Jim Croce Bad Bad Leroy Brown Sheryl Crow All I Wanna Do Billy Ray Cyrus Achy Breaky Heart Danny & the Juniors At the Hop Bobby Darin  Mack the Knife Bobby Day Rockin Robin Chris DeBurgh Lady in Red Diamonds The Stroll Dion Runaround Sue         The Wanderer Celine Dion Beauty & the Beast                    The Power of Love                    When I Fall in Love Dionne W. That’s What Friends Are for Dixie Cups Chapel of Love Dynatones Shout EU Da Butt Escape Club Wild Wild West Gloria Estefan Turn the Beat Around Firehouse Love of a Lifetime Four Seasons December 1963 Four Tops Reach out I’ll Be There Aretha Franklin Respect Rocky Horror Time Warp Gap Band You Dropped  A Bomb on Me Art Garfunkel I Only Have Eyes for You Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive Gary Glitter Rock &  Roll Grand Funk Some Kind of Wonderful Marcia Griffiths Electric Boogie Bill Haley Rock Around the Clock Jeff Healey Band Angel Eyes Heatwave Always and Forever Hollies Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) House of Pain Jump Around Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You Eddy Howard  Anniversary Waltz         Happy Birthday Engelbert Humperdink After the Lovin Billy Idol Mony Mony   Julio Igleasias To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before Alan Jackson Chattahoochee         Don’t Rock the Jukebox Michael Jackson Billie Jean         Wanna Be Starting Something Jive Bunny Swing the Mood Billy Joel Just the Way You Are Elton John Can You Feel the Love Tonight         Crocodile Rock Journey Faithfully Judds Love Can Build a Bridge Joshua Kadison Beautiful in My Eyes Katrina & the Waves Walking on Sunshine Kingsmen Louie Louie Kool & the Gang Celebration Bryon Lee Dollar Wine Dance Huey Lewis Heart of Rock & Roll Jerry Lee Louis Great Balls of Fire Guy Lombardo Auld Lang Syne Los Lobos La Bamba Lynyrd Skynyrd Gimme Three Steps Mc Hammer U Can’t Touch This Madonna Into the Groove         Holiday         Vogue Melissa Manchester Ice Castles (Theme)         Through the Eyes of Love Barry Manilow Copacabana Al Martino Daddy’s Little Girl         Spanish Eyes Johnny Mathis Misty Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light Bill Medley  (I’ve Had The) Time of My Life Miami Sound Machine Conga Bette Midler Wind Beneath My Wings Glenn Miller In the Mood         Moonlight Serenade Ronnie Milsap Lost in the 50s Tonight Kylie Minogue Locomotion Modern English Melt with You Van Morrison Brown Eyed Girl Anne Murray Could I Have this Dance Willie Nelson Always on My Mind New Order Bizarre Love Triangle Nice N Wild Diamond Girl Oak Ridge Boys Elvira Roy Orbison Oh Pretty Woman Original Cast Sunrise Sunset Johnny Otis Show Willie & Hand Jive Ottawa Hands up Johnny Paycheck Take this Job & Shove it Wilson Pickett Mustang Sally Platters Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Buster Poindexter Hot Hot Hot Pointer Sisters I’m So Excited / Jump Elvis Blue Suede Shoes         Can’t Help Falling in Love         Jailhouse Rock Prince 1999 Eddie Rabbitt Just You and I Lionel Richie Truly Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody Kenny Rogers Through the Years Rolling Stones Satisfaction         Start Me up Romantics What I like about You David Rose The Stripper Diana Ross Endless Love Rovers Wasn’t That a Party Mitch Ryder Devil with a Blue Dress Robin S Show Me Love Salt N Pepa Push it         Shoop Sam the Sham Wooly Bully Bob Seger Old Time Rock & Roll Sinatra Love and Marriage         New York New York Sir Mix a Lot Baby Got Back Sister Sledge We Are Family Percy Sledge When a Man Loves a Woman Sly & Family Stone Dance to the Music Sorta Crackers Band Chicken Dance Spin Doctors Two Princes Springsteen Dancing in the Dark         Pink Cadillac Steppenwolf Born to Be Wild Rod Stewart Have I Told You Lately Paul Stookey Wedding Song George Strait I Cross my Heart Donna Summer Last Dance Supremes You Can’t Hurry Love Tag Team Whoomp (There it Is) Technotronic Move This         Pump up the Jam Temptations Ain’t Too Proud to Beg       My Girl George Thorogood Bad to the Bone Three Dog Night Joy to the World Tokens The Lion Sleeps Tonight Tone Loc Wild Thing Tractors Baby Likes to Rock it Traditional Beer Barrel Polka  John Travolta Grease Megamix Luther Vandross Here and Now Village People YMCA Weather Girls It’s Raining Men Wild Cherry Play That Funky Music Stevie Wonder I Just Called to Say I Love You Young Rascals Good Lovin ZZ Top Legs   — Ron Frank Mirror Image Photography

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recomend that  the bride and groom go elsewhere if they don’t want alot of the music that  was on that  list, I think 193 out of teh 200. My question is, how many DJ’s feel that  way??  I must confess that  I  have not read the list, but just the commentaries on it. However I think that  probly 50% of the music that will be played at my wedding will be heavy metal or Anime soundtracks. 25%"oldies" slow parent type dances and the rest instramental or classical music.Since I do not hit alot of weddings, I don’t know what’s played at them. But I am going to  live with the fact that a lot of people are not going to  be happy with some of the selections that  I made. My SO is no help at all becasue the only input I got from him was. Slow songs that  we can dance a lot to. No weird stuff. (Little that  he knows I am playing parts of the Sailor Moon soundtrack.) Also the top 200 nation wide is a lot different than the top 200 regional. The Northeast and California probably have a lot different musical tastes than the South and the West. A reginal top 200 would have made a lot more sense, but then the industry tries to force certain types of music down the throats of of the public, without thinking of the demographics involved. Christine 11/10/96

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >recomend that  the bride and groom go elsewhere if they don’t want alot of the >music that  was on that  list, I think 193 out of teh 200. My question is, how >many DJ’s feel that  way??  I must confess that  I  have not read the list, but >just the commentaries on it. >However I think that  probly 50% of the music that will be played at my >wedding will be heavy metal or Anime soundtracks. 25%"oldies" slow parent type >dances and the rest instramental or classical music.Since I do not hit alot of >weddings, I don’t know what’s played at them. But I am going to  live with the >fact that a lot of people are not going to  be happy with some of the >selections that  I made. My SO is no help at all becasue the only input I got >from him was. Slow songs that  we can dance a lot to. No weird stuff. >(Little that  he knows I am playing parts of the Sailor Moon soundtrack.) >Also the top 200 nation wide is a lot different than the top 200 regional. The >Northeast and California probably have a lot different musical tastes than >the South and the West. A reginal top 200 would have made a lot more sense, but >then the industry tries to force certain types of music down the throats of of >the public, without thinking of the demographics involved. >Christine 11/10/96

I agree with you re: the regional thing. Regarding how many DJ’s feel that way, our DJ never even showed us a "top" anything list.  He gave us this huge fat book of about 10.000.000 songs, told he would play 50-60 at our reception and for us to pick 30-40 of them, giving him suggetions of genre, etc. for the rest of them so he would have freedom for mixing and guest requests (something we are big believers in). He (verbally) made us agree that we wouldn’t bitch at him for how the mixes sounded since *we* were picking the songs and god knows if anything goes together!  :)   He is really great so far.  We’ll see how it actually turns out at the wedding, though…. I can’t imagine a DJ doing it any other way — unless the couple said they didn’t knw what they wanted to hear and wanted suggestions — then I guess he would give you a list of what was most popular (requested the most often). Diane (and Jim, who loved the DJ as soon as he found out he was a fan of Pop Will Eat Itself) 11/23/96

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