We Don’t like Tired Wedding Songs or Line Dances
We’d rather not play the following (in fact, you’ll have to beg us to PLAY them):
Black Eyed Peas – Let’s Get it Started
Buster Poindexter – Hot Hot Hot
Celine Dion – My Heart will Go On
Clarence Carter – Strokin’
Dave Matthews Band – Crash
Donna Summer – Last Dance
Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy
Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
James Blunt – You’re Beautiful
John Mayer – Your Body is a Wonderland
Kool & the Gang – Celebration
Kung Fu Fighting
Meatloaf – Paradise By the Dashboard Light
Rednex – Cotton Eyed Joe
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
Shania Twain – Man, I Feel like a Woman!
Sister Sledge – We Are Family
The Village People – YMCA
Wang Chung – Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Weather Girls – It’s Raining Men
Yanni, Kenny G, etc
Or Line Dances of any kind:
Macarena
The Cha-Cha Slide
Chicken Dance
Electric Slide
Hokey Pokey
The Hustle
What We Love – a Long List of Styles & Genres
Torch, Twang, Swing, Jazz, 20s-30s
Benny Goodman – Sing Sing Sing
Bobby Darin – Beyond the Sea
Bobby Short – From this Moment On
Dean Martin – You’re Nobody til Somebody loves You
Ella & Louie – Cheek to Cheek
Ella Fitzgerald – Always
Eydie Gorme – Frenesi
Frank Sinatra – The Way You Look Tonight
Glenn Miller – In the Mood
Janice Siegel – Bie Mir Bist Du Schon
Julie London – Blue Moon
Mel Torme – Comin’ Home Baby
Nat King Cole – L.O.V.E.
Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares For Me
Sarah Vaughan – Ain’t Misbehavin’
The Squirrel Nut Zippers – Put a Lid On It
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50s & 60s: Classic Soul, Motown, British Invasion & Rock Around the Clock
Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
Aretha Franklin – Respect
Beach Boys – God Only Knows
The Beatles – Twist & Shout
Betty Everett – The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)
Brenton Woods – Oogum Boogum
Buddy Holly – That’ll be the Day
Chuck Berry – You Never Can Tell
The Creation – Making Time
The Crystals – Then He Kissed Me
Dave Clark Five – Glad All Over
Diana Ross & the Supremes – You Can’t Hurry Love
Dion – The Wanderer
The Dixie Cups – Iko Iko
The Doors – Peace Frog
Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling in Love with You
The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup
The Four Tops – I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
Gene Vincent – Be-Bop-A-Lula
Gladys Knight & the Pips – I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Gloria Jones – Tainted Love
Huey Smith & The Clowns – Don’t You Just Know it
Ike & Tina Turner – Proud Mary
Jackson 5 – ABC
James Brown – Get Up Offa That Thing
Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire
The Kinks – All the Day & All the Night
Manfred Mann – Do Wah Diddy Diddy
The Monkees – I’m a Believer
Nancy Sinatra – These Boots are Made for Walking
Neil Diamond – Cherry Cherry
Otis Redding – Hard to Handle
Ray Charles – Mess Around
The Ronettes – Be My Baby
Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs – Wooly Bully
The Shirelles – Will you Still Love me Tomorrow?
Shirley Ellis – The Clapping Song
The Shocking Blue – Venus
Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia
Sly & the Family Stone – I Wanna Take You Higher
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears Of A Clown
Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
The Temptations – Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
Tom Jones – It’s Not Unusual
The Who – Can’t Explain
The Zombies – Time of the Season
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70s: R&B, Rock, Disco & Funk
The 5 Stairsteps – Ooh Child
ABBA – Dancing Queen
Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
Archies – Sugar Sugar
A Taste of Honey – Boogie Oogie Oogie
Barry White – You’re My First, My Last, My Everything
The Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive
Bob Marley – Wait in Vain
Blondie – Heart of Glass
Blue Swede – Hooked on a Feeling
Cheryl Lynn – Got to be Real
Chic – Le Freak
Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
Diana Ross – Upside Down
Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Earth, Wind & Fire – September
The Emotions – Best of My Love
The Faces – Ooh La La
George Clinton – Atomic Dog
Heatwave – Boogie Nights
Hot Chocolate – You Sexy Thing
Isaac Hayes – Theme from Shaft
Jean Knight – Mr Big Stuff
KC & the Sunshine Band – Get Down Tonight
King Floyd – Groove Me
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terell – You’re All I Need to Get By
Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Startin’ Something
Rick James – Super Freak
Rolling Stones – Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Rose Royce – Car Wash
Staple Singers – I’ll Take You There
Stealer’s Wheel – Stuck In the Middle
Steely Dan – Peg
Stevie Nicks – Edge of Seventeen
Sugarhill Gang – Apache
Tavares – Heaven Must be Missing an Angel
Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Way
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – American Girl
T Rex – Get it On (Bang a Gong)
WAR – Low Rider
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80s: Popular Hits, New Wave & Retro
Adam & the Ants – Goody Two Shoes
B52s – Rock Lobster
Bananarama – Venus
The Bangles – Walk like an Egyptian
Billy Idol – Dancing with Myself
Billy Joel – Still Rock ‘n Roll to Me
Blondie – Call Me
Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark
The Cars – Let’s Go
The Clash – Train in Vain
Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
David Bowie – Modern Love
Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough
Devo – Whip it
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come on Eileen
Duran Duran – Hungry Like the Wolf
Elvis Costello – Pump it Up
English Beat – I Confess
Erasure – A Little Respect
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (are Made of this)
General Public – Tenderness
The Go-Go’s – We Got the Beat
Hall & Oates – You Make My Dreams
Human League – Don’t You Want Me Baby
The Jam – A Town Called Malice
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – I Love Rock ‘n Roll
Kajagoogoo – Too Shy
Kenny Loggins – Footloose
Lionel Richie – All Night Long (All Night)
M – Pop Music
Madness – Our House
Michael Jackson – P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
Modern English – Melt With You
Naked Eyes – Always Something There to Remind Me
New Order – The Perfect Kiss
OMD – If You Leave
Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
The Pretenders – Brass in Pocket (I’m Special)
Prince & the Revolution – Let’s Go Crazy
Queen – Under Pressure (feat David Bowie)
The Ramones – Rock & Roll High School
R.E.M. – It’s the End of the World (as We Know it)
Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl
Roxy Music – Let’s Stick Together
Sheila E – Glamorous Life
The Smiths – This Charming Man
Soft Cell – Tainted Love
Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Love
Violent Femmes – Blister in the Sun
Wham! – Wake Me up Before You Go-Go
When in Rome – The Promise
Yaz – Situation
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80s – 2000s: Dance & Current Hits
Adele – Rolling in the Deep
Amy Winehouse – Valerie
Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Britney Spears – Toxic
Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
Cee Lo Green – Forget You
Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
Daft Punk – One More Time
David Guetta – Titanium (feat Sia)
Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence
Deee-Lite – Groove is in the Heart
Electronic – Getting Away with It
Enur – Calabria 2007 (feat Natasja)
Estelle – American Boy (feat Kanye West)
Faith Evans – Love like This
Fine Young Cannibals – Good Thing
Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks
George Michael – Freedom ’90
Ghost Town DJs – My Boo
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Icona Pop – I Love It
James – Laid
Jamiroquai – Canned Heat (from Napolean Dynamite)
Jane’s Addiction – Been Caught Stealing
Jay Sean – Down
Junior Senior – Move Your Feet
Justin Timberlake – Rock Your Body
Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone
Ke$ha – Tik Tok
Killers – Mr Brightside
Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out of My Head
Lady GaGa – Bad Romance
Lauryn Hill – That Thing (Doo Wop)
Lisa Lisa & the Cult Jam – I Wonder if I Take You Home
LMFAO – Party Rock Anthem
Madonna – Like A Prayer
Mariah Carey – Fantasy (Remix – Featuring ODB)
Maroon 5 – Moves Like Jagger
Mary J. Blige – Real Love
Moloko – Sing it Back
Montell Jordan – This is How We Do It
Nelly – Hot in Herre
Nelly Furtado – Promiscuous (feat Timbaland)
Nicki Minaj – Starships
Pitbull – Give Me Everything (feat Ne-Yo)
Prince – Kiss
Rihanna – We Found Love (feat Calvin Harris)
Robyn – Call Your Girlfriend
Shakira – Hips Don’t Lie
Taio Cruz – Dynamite
Tiffany – I Think We’re Alone Now
Timbaland – The Way I Are
Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance with Somebody
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Hip Hop & Old Skool
A Tribe Called Quest – Scenario
Azealia Banks (feat Lazy Jay) – 212
Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey
Bell Biv Devoe – Poison
Black Sheep – This or That?
Blackstreet – No Diggity (feat Dr. Dre)
Busta Rhymes – Woo Hah!
Cali Swag District – Teach Me How to Dougie
Chris Brown – Forever
De La Soul – Me Myself & I
Digable Planets – Rebirth of Slick (Cool like Dat)
Digital Underground – The Humpty Dance
Flo Rida – Good Feeling
Ginuwine – Pony
Ice Cube – Bop Gun
Jay-Z – Empire State of Mind (feat Alicia Keyes)
Kanye West – Ni**as in Paris (feat Jay-Z)
Kelis – Milkshake
LL Kool J – Mama Said Knock You Out
Ma$e – Feels So Good
Missy Elliott – Lose Control
Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize
Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Baby I Got Your Money (feat Kelis)
Outkast – Hey Ya!
Pharrell & Snoop Dogg – Beautiful
Pras – Ghetto Superstar (feat Mya & O.D.B)
Punjabi MC – Beware of the Boys (feat Jay-Z)
Q Tip – Vivrant Thing
R. Kelly – Ignition (Remix)
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock – It Takes Two
Run DMC – It’s Tricky
Salt-N-Pepa – Shoop
Snoop – Who Am I (What’s My Name?)
Sugarhill Gang – Apache
T.I. – Live Your Life (feat Rihanna)
Timbaland – The Way I Are
Usher – Yeah (feat Lil’ John)
Warren G & Nate Dogg – Regulate
Wyclef Jean & Refugee All Stars – Stayin’ Alive
Young MC – Bust a Move
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Indie Rock/Pop, Brit Pop & the AlternaHits
Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)
Bloc Party – Banquet
Blur – Girls & Boys
The Breeders – Cannonball
The Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen in Love?
The Cardigans – Love Fool
Caesars – Jerk it Out
Dandy Warhols – Bohemian like You
Duck Sauce – Barbra Streisand
Elastica – Connection
Florence & the Machine – Dog Days are Over
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
Fun – We are Young (feat Janelle Monae)
Happy Mondays – Step On
Hercules & Love Affair – Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
Hot Chip – Over & Over
Interpol – PDA
Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
The Kills – Getting Down
LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
Le Tigre – Deceptacon
Lily Allen – Smile
M.I.A. – Paper Planes
MGMT – Kids
Modern Lovers – Roadrunner
Modest Mouse – Float On
Passion Pit – Little Secrets
Phoenix – Lisztomania
The Pixies – Here Comes Your Man
The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
Pulp – Disco 2000
The Rakes – Retreat (Phones Mix)
Scissor Sisters – I Don’t Feel like Dancin’
Spoon – I Turn My Camera On
The Stone Roses – Fools Gold
The Strokes – Last Night
Supergrass – Alright
Ting Tings – Great DJ
Ween – Voodoo Lady
Weezer – Buddy Holly
Wolfgang Press – Mama told Me not to Come
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Y Control (Faint Remix)
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Hair Metal, Rock & Dancefloor Sing-A-Longs
AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
Bon Jovi – Livin’ on a Prayer
Bryan Adams – Summer of ’69
Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me
Eddie Money – Take Me Home Tonight
Guns ‘n Roses – Sweet Child of Mine
Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
The Outfield – Your Love
Thin Lizzy – The Boys are Back in Town
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Easy Listening & AM Gold
Bee Gees – How Deep is Your Love
Burt Bacharach – This Guy’s in Love with You
Captain & Tennille – Love Will Keep us Together
The Carpenters – We’ve Only Just Begun
Dolly Parton – 9 to 5
Gerry Rafferty – Right Down the Line
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass – Casino Royale
Jackie DeShannon – Only Love can Break your Heart
Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton – Islands in the Stream
Maria Muldaur – Midnight at the Oasis
Marlo Thomas & Friends – Free to Be (You & Me)
Melanie – Brand New Key
Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgettin’
Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline
Nilsson – Everyone’s Talkin’
Orleans – Still the One
Roy Orbison – You Got It
Spanky & Our Gang – Like to Get to Know You
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Slow & Romantic
Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
Alicia Keys – If I Ain’t Got You
The Association – Never My Love
The Bangles – Eternal Flame
Beach Boys – Don’t Worry Baby
The Beatles – In My Life
Bill Withers – Lovely Day
Blur – Tender
Bobby Vincent – Blue Velvet
Bryan Ferry – Slave to Love
The Carpenters – Close to You
Chad & Jeremy – A Summer Song
The Delfonics – La La (Means I Love You)
Depeche Mode – Somebody
The Drifters – Save The Last Dance For Me
Duran Duran – Save A Prayer
Dusty Springfield – Son Of A Preacher Man
Etta James – At Last
The Flamingos – I Only Have Eyes For You
Frankie Valli – Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You
George Harrison – If Not For You
Heatwave – Always & Forever
James Brown – I’ll Go Crazy
Jesus & Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
Johnny & Santo – Sleepwalker
Johnny Cash – Cause I Love You
M. Ward – Rave On (feat Zooey Deschanel)
Madonna – Crazy For You
Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terrell – You’re All I Need To Get By
Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs – Stay
Mazzy Star – Fade Into You
Norah Jones – Don’t Know Why
Otis Redding – These Arms Of Mine
Patsy Cline – Crazy
Paul McCartney – Maybe I’m Amazed
Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes
Roxy Music – These Foolish things
Sam Cooke – You Send Me
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles – I Second that Emotion
Solomon Burke – Cry to Me
Spandau Ballet – True
Stevie Wonder – I Believe (When I Fall in Love)
Thompson Twins – If You Were Here
Weezer – Island in the Sun
Wham! – Careless Whisper
Yaz – Only You
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Cocktails & Lounge
Adele
Air
The Aislers Set
Al Green
The Aluminum Group
Le Fabuleux Destin d’ Amelie Poulain Soundtrack (Yann
Tiersen)
American Analog Set
Amy Winehouse
Angelo Badalamenti
Anita O’Day
Apples in Stereo
April March
Astrud Gilberto
Audrey Hepburn
Au Revoir Simone
Badly Drawn Boy
A Band of Bees
Barbara Manning
Beach Fossils
The Beatles
Bebel Gilberto
Beck
Beirut
Belle & Sebastian
Ben Folds
Bertrand Burgulat
Big Star
Bill Callahan/Smog
Bill Evans
Billie Holiday
Bishop Allen
B.J. Thomas
Blitzen Trapper
Blonde Redhead
Blossom Dearie
Bon Iver
Bottle Rocket Soundtrack
Brenda Lee
Brian Eno
Broadcast
Broken Social Scene
Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
Built to Spill
Burt Bacharach
Caetano Veloso
Calexico
The Cardigans
Cat Power
Chris Montez
Cibo Matto
Cinema Paradiso Soundtrack (Ennio Morricone)
The Cocktails
Coconut Records
Cocteau Twins
Coldplay
Cole Porter
Coralie Clement
Crooklyn (Vols 1 & 2) Soundtracks
Crystal Stilts
Cults
The Darjeeling Limited Soundtrack
Dave Brubeck
Dean Martin
Death Cab For Cutie
Denise James
Django Reinhardt
Dolly Mixture
Dolly Parton
Dusty Springfield
Eartha Kitt
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Ella Fitzgerald
Elliott Smith
Empire of the Sun
Erik Satie
Erlend Oye
Etta James
Everything but the Girl
Explosions in the Sky
Feist
The Fifth Dimension
Fleetwood Mac
The Free Design
Four Tet
France Gall
Francoise Hardy
Frank Sinatra
The Fresh & Onlys
Fugu
Fujiya & Miyagi
Gal Costa
Gerry Mulligan
Getz/Gilberto
Golden Era Jazz
Gotan Project
Grizzly Bear
Hank Williams
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Holden
Holly Golightly
Iron and Wine
Ivy
Jacques Dutronc
Jesus & Mary Chain
Johnny Cash
Jose Gonzalez
Juana Molina
Julie London
Junior Boys
Karen O & the Kids
Kate Bush
Kay Starr
Kings of Convenience
The Kinks
The Knife
Koop
Lee Hazlewood
Les Triplettes de Belleville Soundtrack (Benoit Charest)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Soundtrack
Lloyd Cole & the Commontions
Louie Armstrong
Luna
Madeleine Peyroux
Magnetic Fields
Mahogany
Mark Mothersbaugh
Margo Guryan
Marlene Dietrich
Massive Attack
Mazzy Star
Mel Torme
Melody Gardot
Metric
Miles Davis
Morrissey
Mos Def
Mosquitos
My Morning Jacket
Nancy Sinatra
Nancy Wilson
The National
Neko Case
Neon Indian
Nick Drake
Nico
Nicola Conte
Nina Simone
Noonday Underground
Nouvelle Vague
Ola Podrida
Paris Combo
Petra Haden & Bill Frissell
Petula Clark
Phoenix
Pink Martini
Pipas
Poolside
Quincy Jones
The Radio Dept
Ray LaMontagne
Real Estate
(The Real) Tuesday Weld
Regina Spektor
Richard Hawley
Roberta Flack
Roy Orbison
The Royal Tenenbaums Soundtrack
Royksopp
Rufus Wainwright
Rushmore Soundtrack
Ryan Adams
Sambassadeur
Sandie Shaw
School of Seven Bells
Scott Walker
The Sea & Cake
Sebastien Tellier
Serge Gainsbourg
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra
The Shins
Simon & Garfunkel
Sister Nancy
The Smiths
Sondre Lerche
The Spinanes
Spoon
St. Etienne
St. Vincent
Stars
Stereolab
Sufjan Stevens
The Sundays
Tame Impala
Teenage Fanclub
Tom Waits
Tracey Thorn
Twin Sister
Ulrich Schnauss
Vampire Weekend
Velvet Underground
Veronica Falls
Wanda Jackson
Washed Out
Wilco
Wild Nothing
The Woodentops
The xx
Yo La Tengo
Yves Montand
Zero 7
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International Artists
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Asha Bhosle
Astrud Gilberto
Bebel Gilberto
Buena Vista Social Club Soundtrack
Caetano Veloso
Celia Cruz
Cesaria Evora
Elvis Crespo
Ennio Morricone
Erlend Oye
France Gall
Francoise Hardy
Gal Costa
Gerry Mulligan
Gilberto Gil
Jacques Dutronc
Jens Lekman
Joao Gilberto
Jose Gonzalez
Laetitia Sadier
The Liminanas
Los Soberanos
Mambo All-Stars
Maria Rita
Nouvelle Vague
Os Mutantes
Punjabi MC
Regina Elis
Sambassadeur
Serge Gainsbourg
Sergio Mendez & Brasil ’66
Seu Jorge
Smoky & Miho
Stan Getz
Tito Puente
Tom Ze
Trash Pour 4
Wanda de Sah
Yves Montand
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What We’re Listening To…
Dusty Springfield — Spooky
18 January, 2012, 1:05 pm
Poolside — Harvest Moon
18 January, 2012, 1:04 pm
Empire of the Sun — Walking on a Dream
10 January, 2012, 10:51 am
Mos Def — Umi Says
26 September, 2011, 12:52 pm
Notorious B.I.G. — Juicy
26 September, 2011, 12:52 pm