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[johny k 0]

hi everyone,

i have a disco coming up soon and my client has asked for a lot of rock music. can you tell me which you would put on the playlist.

thanks john

[John C 0]

What type of Rock music are they after? The old ACDC type or the newer stuff?

[Dukesy 0]

hi everyone,

i have a disco coming up soon and my client has asked for a lot of rock music. can you tell me which you would put on the playlist.

thanks john

No indications from the client?

[johny k 0]

No indications from the client?

 

 

old and new rock music required

thanks

john

[Dukesy 0]

old and new rock music required

thanks

john

Ok - How you put everything together on night is of course, down to you, but merely suggesting artistes like, for example, Bryan Adams, and U2 is one thing, Iron Maiden, Metallica and Judas Priest is another!

 

Music is oh-so-personal, and I would rather get it right with the client than gamble on third party suggestions alone!

The age of your client may help indicate the type of rock music they grew up with / listened to as a teen, onwards. Gleam as much info from them as possible!

 

Lets say for example that your client is mainly into Glam rock or progressive rock, then I'm sure one of us could reel off a load of suggestions.

If they like heavy metal or even punk rock, better to allow your self the time to get to know the tracks - as first impressions indicate you have no rockin idea! Apologies if I am wrong. smile icon

 

Have a look here when you get 10 mins. See if there are any names of groups you recognise in your music collection / can cross reference with an informal phone call with your client.

 

The more info you can share, the more we can help you.

[supersound dj 0]

there were lots of rival bands and fans of rock in the 70s and 80s,there were also allot of artists that joined difererent bands tooeg ritchie blackmoor ozzy ozbourne ect.

 

 

my personal fave is restless Ian Gillan band

[Robster 0]

may be you guys can help the original poster and me at the same time!

 

I have been asked once or twice for metallica but they always seem to go down like a lead balloon... most of there songs have way too elaborate and long winded intros and last too long ..what are you guys playing when asked for metallica?..also i get the reply "anything" by metallica when i ask what song by metallica from the often drunk old rockers asking the request..

 

usually i play enter sandman... metallica is not a rock band i ever got into or really liked , i have sat down and listened to a few of there hits (non really made it big in the UK singles charts highest single was a number 5 according to wikipedia) and enter sandman is probably the only one that i thought was ok to be honest.

Edited February 16, 2009 by Robster

[Slimboy Fat 0]

I have been asked once or twice for metallica but they always seem to go down like a lead balloon... most of there songs have way too elaborate and long winded intros and last too long ..what are you guys playing when asked for metallica?..also i get the reply "anything" by metallica when i ask what song by metallica from the often drunk old rockers asking the request..

 

Enter Sandman is probably the most "neutral friendly" and most well known of Metallica's tracks but if you are dealing with purveyors of the Finest thrash metal then you may want to give a run-out to the following tracks:

 

Master of Puppets (Master of Puppets Album)

Am I Evil (a cover of the old Diamond Head classic) (EP)

Creeping Death (Ride the Lightning)

Blitzkreig (Ride the Lightning)

Seek & Destroy (Kill 'em All)

Whiplash (Kill 'em All)

One (....And Justice For All)

 

& a couple of "end of nighters":

 

Nothing Else matters (Black Album)

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Master of Puppets)

 

Hope this helps expand your knowledge and understanding of the greatest band ever to walk this earth! :Thumbup:

 

 

By the way.... I seriously wouldn't bother with any of the stuff released after the "Black Album" - Metallica went a little bit "off the rails" for a while and the material they produced just wasn't the same.

 

hi everyone,

i have a disco coming up soon and my client has asked for a lot of rock music. can you tell me which you would put on the playlist.

thanks john

 

It's an extremely wide area of music you are being asked to pick from - as the other guys quite rightly state you really need more input from the client as to exactly which genre of Rock they require. As a kind of heads up, I would make sure you stock up on music from as many of the following bands as you possibly can:

 

AC/DC

Aerosmith

Alice Cooper

Alice In Chains

Bad Company

Bachmann Turner Overdrive

Black Sabbath

Bon Jovi

Deep Purple

Def Leppard

Faith No More

Free

Foo Fighters

Graham Bonnet

Green Day

Guns 'n' Roses

Hawkwind

Iron Maiden

Jane's Addiction

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

Journey

Judas Priest

Kiss

Led Zeppelin

Meatloaf

Megadeth

Metallica

Motley Crue

Motorhead

Nine Inch Nails

Nirvana

Ozzy Osbourne

Pearl Jam

Quiet Riot

Rainbow

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Poison

Rage Against the Machine

Sex Pistols

Sisters of Mercy

Skid Row

Slayer

Soundgarden

Steppenwolf

The Cult

The Doors

The Scorpions

Thin Lizzy

Thunder

Twisted Sister

Van Halen

W.A.S.P.

 

....to name but a few of the "classic" Rock bands. Newer stuff you need to go for:

 

Airbourne

30 Seconds to Mars

Biffy Clyro

Billy Talent

Black Stone Cherry

Blink 182

Bullet For My Valentine

Disturbed

Dragonforce (anyone who plays Guitar hero loves these)

Drowning Pool

Elliot Minor

Evanescence

Fall Out Boy

Foo Fighters

Funeral for a Friend

Good Charlotte

HIM

Hoobastank

Kaiser Chiefs

Kid Rock

Kids in Glass Houses

Korn

Lacuna Coil

Limp Bizkit

Linkin Park

Lost Prophets

Madina Lake

Marilyn Manson

Muse

My Chemical Romance

Offspring

Paramore

Pendulum (Goes down well with the Rock crowd)

Puddle of Mudd

Rammstein

Queens of the Stone Age

Slipknot

Stoned Sour

Sum 41

System of a Down

Tenacious D

The Killers

Trivium

Velvet Revolver

You Me At Six

 

 

As I say it is an EXTREMELY wide ranging question you ask so expect wide-ranging answers. Each one of the classic bands has at least 3 or 4 top tracks you could play so listing them would take all week. If you pick out the groups that appeal to you I will reply with the tracks you can play.

 

Jase.

Edited February 17, 2009 by Slimboy Fat

[Norfolk DJ 0]

If someone wants some rock music, they must know what they like and don't like!

 

it puts the DJ in a tricky position. I would tend to build up a rock set and test how far to go.

 

start off with:

 

Bryan Adams - Summer of 69 (straight forward everyone knows tune)

Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer or You Give Love a Bad Name

Reef - Raise your Hands (well known)

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (Well Known and not too Heavy)

 

After AC/DC it would be decision time. eg Metalica or Iron Maiden maybe some Quo or totally change the tempo.

 

You will simply need to play it by ear.

 

Rob

 

[Kingy 0]

For an average gig I think it's important to keep it fairly commercial.

 

Try "Best Rock Album in the world ever" and the mastermix Classic cuts range.

 

If you go too far off the beaten track at weddings etc you MAY loose some of the rest of the folks who are not rock fans but would be happy enough to have some well known bits & bobs.

[supersound dj 0]

may be you guys can help the original poster and me at the same time!

 

I have been asked once or twice for metallica but they always seem to go down like a lead balloon... most of there songs have way too elaborate and long winded intros and last too long ..what are you guys playing when asked for metallica?..also i get the reply "anything" by metallica when i ask what song by metallica from the often drunk old rockers asking the request..

 

usually i play enter sandman... metallica is not a rock band i ever got into or really liked , i have sat down and listened to a few of there hits (non really made it big in the UK singles charts highest single was a number 5 according to wikipedia) and enter sandman is probably the only one that i thought was ok to be honest.

 

Metallica did a rendition of whiskey in the jar too.

[Gary (GDK) 0]

Playlist from a night Im involved with at the moment:

 

13th feb

10 - 11:30 - Dave, Manic And Tim

 

metallica-merciful fate

anthrax-antisocial

Him - Wicked Game [R]

Sound Garden - Blackhole Sun

Twistered Sister - I Wanna Rock

Van Halon - An't talkin about love

Deathstars - cycinde [R]

Marilyn Manson - redeemer

Sign - Thank god for silence [R]

CoF - From Cradel to enslave

Deacide - When Satan Rules His World

Claw Finger - Hate Yourself with Style

Danzig - Dirty Black Summer

Him - Burried Alive By Love [R]

Metallica - All Nightmare Long [R]

White Zombie - Black Sunshine

Pantera - Cemetary Gates

bls - funeral bell

jerry cantrell-anger rising

drowning pool -numb

rammstien - fruer frei®

 

11:30 - 12:00 - Dave

 

Soul Fly - Eye for an Eye [R]

ACDC - Highway To Hell

Metallica - The Unforgiven

Ozzy - No More Tears

Kidnet thieves - Before I'm Dead

Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus [R]

Flight Of The Conchords - Robots

Stone The crow - Down

 

Tim & Manic

 

decapitated-spheres of madness

carcass-corporate jigsaw quandry

Sepultura - Biotech Is Godzilla

Fear Factory - Resurrection

Slipknot - Psycosocial

Metallica - Motorbreath

Therapy - Die Laughing = Dancing!!!!

RHCP - Suck My Kiss

Faith no more & boo yaa tribe - Another body murdered.

Perl Jam - Jeremy

Filter - Hay Man Nice Shot [R]

Buck Cherry - Sunshine

Motley Crue - Chicks = trouble

greeenday-welcome to paradise [R] - Bar Staff

mushroomhead-crazy

def leppard -pour some sugar on me

Guns N' Roses - Out Ta Get Me

 

01:00 - 03:00 - Dave & Tim

 

ACDC - Hells Bells

Mudvayne - Dig

Rocket From The Crypt - On Rope

Faith No More - Epic

fithy/georgeous-scissor sisters

hey boy hey girl-chemical bros

pendulum-hold your colour

NIN - Heresay

MSI - shut Me Up

Korn - Twisted TransiSTOR

Slipknot - Wait And Bleed [PC Crash]

Smash Mouth - All Star

Wheetus - Teenage Dirtbag

Limp Bizkit - Faith

Kill Switch Enagage - My Last Serenade [R]

Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack [R]

QOTSA - Little Sister [R]

LIT - My Own worst Enemy

Def Leppard - Animal [R]

Sum 41 - In Too Deep [R]

feeder-just a day

Tool - Stinkfist

soad-chop suey

Distured - Down With the Sickness [R]

Drowning Pool - Let The Bodies Hit The Floor [R]

Duran Durran -wild Boys

Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer [r]

warrant-cherry pie

Pantera - Cowboys From, Hell [R]

Kings of Leon - Sex Is On Fire [R]

Tenacious D - **** Her Gently

Electric Six - Gay Bar [R]

Fesh Prince Of Bell Air - Yo Home Yo Bell Air

 

6th Feb

10 - 10:30 Manic

 

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Alter Bridge - Blackbird

Motley Crue - Down at the Whiskey

HIM - Burried Alive by Love ®

Cradle of Filth - From the cradle to Enslave ®

Einsferum - Token of Time ®

Twisted Sister - Wer'e not Gonna Take it ®

 

10:30 - 11:00 - Dangerous Dave

Deathstars - BlitzKrieg ®

Aiden - Teenage Queen [R]

Brigade - Cant Remember The Name

Rammstien - Moskau [R]

Rasmus - In The Shadows [R]

The Vapors - Turning Japanese

Flight Of The Conchords - Robots

The Qemists - Lost Weekend

 

11:00 - 11:30 - Andy

 

The Cure - Mint Car

AFI - Miss Murder®

Papa Roach - To Be Loved®

QOTSA - Little Sister [r]

Skindred - Pressure

Rage Against the Machine - Testify

AC/DC - T.N.T. ®

Children of Bodom - Living dead beat

Mastadon - Blood & Thunder ®

 

 

11:30 - 12:00 Manic

Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills ®

Puddle of Mud - Control

Megadeth - trust ®

Velvet revolver - Slither ®

Black Stone Cherry - Backwoods Gold

Megadeth - trust ®

The Almighty - Ultraviolent

3 inches of blood - Night Maurauders01:

 

12:00 - 01:00 - Dangerous Dave

Turisas - Battle Metal

Megadeth - Trust [R]

Stone Sour - 30/30-150 - [R]

Alice In Chains - Bleed The Freak [R]

New Found Gorly - My Friends Over You [R]

The Used - Taste Of Ink [R]

Andrew WK - Party Hard [R]

NIN - Wish [R]

Slipknot - Wait Anfd Bleed

Coal Chamber - Sway

Type O Negitive - My Girlfreinds Girlfreind [R]

Korn - Twisted Transistor [R]

Rob Zombieb Living Dead Girl [R]

Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love

Static-X - Black And White

Soil - Halo [R]

Disturbed - Down With The Sickness [R]

 

Andy 1:00 - 2:00

 

Rammstein - Feuer Frei®

MSI - Straight to Video ®

Paramore - Misery business®

Alexisonfire - This could be anywhere in the world®

SOAD - Revenga ®

Slipknot - Psychosocial®

Alice in Chains - Man in the box ®

Buckcherry - So Far ®

Iron Maiden - The trooper®

Guns n Roses - Nighttrain®

Motorhead - ace of Spades (Air guitar comp)

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the name of®

Tool - Stinkfist ®

Muse - Knight of Cydonia ®

Pulp - Common People ®

 

Andy/Dave 2:00 - 3:00

 

QOTSA - First it Giveth ®

The Used - Tastes of Ink ®

FFAF - Juneau®

Yellow Card - Ocean Avenue [R]

Rammstein - du Hast [R]

Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar [R]

ACDC - Thunderstruck - [R]

Dropkick Murphys - Kiss Me I'm Shitfcaed

Pedulum - Slam [R]

M.S.I - Shut Me Up

Podigy - Smack My Bitch Up [R]

Kansas - Carry on my Wayward son

Manowar - Warriors of the World ®

QOTSA - Go with the Flow ®

Human League - Don#t Want Me Baby

Dead Or Alive - You Spin Mr Right Round

Kiss - God Gave Rock And Roll To You

 

30th Jan (Launch Night)

Manic 10-10.30

 

Clawfinger - Warfare

Sabastian Back - Angel Down

Peeping tom - Five seconds

White Zombie - Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks & Cann

Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now In The Fire

Social Distortion - reach For The Sky

Cobra Starship - Snakes On A Plane

Lou Gramm - Lost in the Shadows

Iron Maiden - The trooper ®

 

Andy / Manic 10.30-11.00

 

Bloodsimple - dead man walking

Queens of the Stone Age - 3's and 7's

Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock

Weezer - Beverly Hills

SoHo Dolls - Stripper

3 Colours Red - Paralyse

AFI - Girls not grey

 

Dave and Tim 11:00 - 11:30

 

soil-pride

foo fighters - Times Like These

Yellow Card - Rough, Landing Haolly

Down - Ghosts Along Mississippi

Buckcherry - Porno Star

motleycrue-smokin in the boys room

Pearl Jam - Even Flow [R]

Jimmy Eat World - The Authority Song [R]

Guns N Roses - Mr Brownstone

 

Tim 11:30 - 12:00

 

fragile dreams-anathema

bls-fire it up

kreator-lucretia

holy one- gothminister

slayer-bloodline

nin-bite the hand that feeds®

left behind-slipknot

tnt-six feet under

 

 

Andy 12.00 - 12.30

 

Billy Talent - Red flag

MSI - Never wanted to dance®

Fear Factory - Linchpin

Sepultura - Refuse/resist®

Marilyn Manson - Rock is dead®

Serj Tankian - Empty Walls

3 days Grace - Riot

Rancid - red hot moon

 

DANCER

 

Andy 12:30 -1:00

 

Rise Against - Prayer of the Refugee®

yeah yeah yeahs - black tounge®

Less than jake - History of a boring town®

Jesse James - Shoes

My chemical Romance - Teenagers®

Korn - Here to stay

Def Leppard - Heaven is®

Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch ®

 

 

Dave 01:00 - 2:00

 

Skid Row - 18 And Life [R]

Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl

Drowning Pool - Bodies [R]

Megadeth - Hanger 18 [R]

Dragon Force - Sonic Fire Storm

Iron Maiden - Number Of Beast [R]

Slipknot - Sulphur [R]

NiN - Heresy [R]

M.S.I - Shut Me Up [R]

Pedulum - Slam [R]

Rocket From The Crypt - On A Rope

Green Day - Basket Case [R]

Feeder - Just A day

Incubus - Cerrtain Shade Of Green [R]

Lost Prophets - Shinobi Vs The Dragon [R]

Fall Out Boy - Sugar We're Going Down

Panic! At The Disco - We Write Sins Not Tragadies [R]

 

Andy/ Dave 2:00 -3:00

 

Kasabian - Reason is treason®

Kings of Leon - sex on fire®

The Used - Taste of ink

Mushroomhead - Solitaire Unravelling®

Rammstein - feuer frei®

Motley Crue - Kickstart my heart®

Buckcherry - pump it up®

Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills [R]

American Head Charge - Just So You Know[R]

Godie Lookin Chain - Guns Dont Kill Peoiple [R]

Sound Garden - Jesus Christ Psoe [R]

Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere [R]

Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up [R]

Reel Big Fish - Take On Me

Bright Side Of Life

 

® indicates request, sorry about spelling!

[Slimboy Fat 0]

I just want to know how the HELL you got away with following Drowning Pool with Duran Duran!

 

:omg: tongue out icon

[Gary (GDK) 0]

would you like me to ask the particular djs :P

[Slimboy Fat 0]

would you like me to ask the particular djs :P

 

I would doff my cap to the DJ who pulled that one off ..... assuming he DID get away with it lol.

 

Seriously.....I would love a residency playing the music that I love......if only it paid as well as mobile.

 

[johny k 0]

 

i can't thank you all enough for your playlists, im sure it will help someone else to who has a rock night coming up.

thanks

john