2006/2007

[Thames Valley Discos]

What would you say were the best songs from this period.
Songs that you would normally class as good enough to play at a function.

[PropellerHeadCase]

I don't know about good enough in all these cases, but certainly popular enough...

Allen Lily - Smile
Allen Lily - LDN
Bailey-Rae, Corinne - Put Your Records On
Barkley, Gnarls - Crazy
Beatfreakz - Somebody's Watching Me
Bootyluv - Boogie 2nite
Brown, Chris - Yo (Excuse Me Miss)
Daughtry - It's Not Over
Daughtry - Home
Deep Dish - Flashing for Money (Sultan Radio Edit, ft. Dire Straits)
DHT - Listen to Your Heart, ft. Edmée
Fall Out Boy - This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race
Fall Out Boy - Thnks fr th Mmrs (not txt speak this is the iTunes label)
Fergie - Fergalicious, ft. Will.I.Am
Furtado, Nelly - Promiscuous, ft. Timbaland
Furtado, Nelly - Maneater
Girls Aloud - Biology
Gorillaz - Dirty Harry
Gray, Michael - The Weekend
Hi_Tack - Say Say Say (Waiting 4 U)
High School Music - Breaking Free
Hinder - Lips of an Angel
Jamelia - Beware of the Dog
Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I Love You Less and Less (Spike Stent Remix)
Killers, the - Bones
Killers, the - Read My Mind
Kooks, the - Naïve
Kooks, the - She Moves in Her Own Way
K-OS - The Love Song (Edit - US Version)
Lavigne, Avril - Girlfriend
Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
Meck - Thunder in My Heart Again, ft. Leo Sayer
Mika - Grace Kelly
Mika - Love Today
Morningwood - Nth Degree
Ne-Yo - So Sick
Nickelback - Far Away
Oakenfold - Faster Kill Pussycat, ft. Brittany Murphy
OKGO - Here it Goes Again
Pussycat Dolls, the - Buttons, ft.Snoop Dogg (Radio Edit)
Raconteurs, the (aka The Saboteurs) - Steady, As She Goes
Rihanna - SOS
Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
Shapeshifters, the - Incredible
Sinclar, Bob - Love Generation, ft. Gary Pine
Sinclar, Bob - Rock This Party, ft. Cutee B, Dollarman, Big Ali & Makedah
Sneaky Soundsystem - Pictures
Stefy - Chelsea
Stefy - Hey School Boy
Sunblock - I'll Be Ready
Switchfoot - We are One Tonight
Thom, Sandi - I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)
Thom, Sandi - What if I'm Right
Timbaland - Give it to Me, ft. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake
Tunstall, KT - Suddenly I See
Tunstall, KT - Black Horse and a Cherry Tree
TV Rock - Flaunt it
Vandalism - Never Say Never
View, the - Same Jeans
Weezer - Perfect Situation
Ying Yang Twins - Dangerous

This doesn't include releases from 2006/2007 by artists that I have set aside as 10+ useable songs, so no Mariah or Gwen or Beyoncé... I'm sure someone will come in with all those, and it would take me a second or three to get that info (still workin' on the database).

[wensleydale]

interesting- I would play 1 or 2 of those songs.
I tend to find that there is not too much stuff around from the last couple of years that I think we will be playing in 5-10 years.

Maybe Scissor Sisters, Kaiser Chiefs, Girls Aloud, but not a lot else....

[PropellerHeadCase]

Well, it does depend on the gig, of course, but I think 'Suddenly I See' will definitely be around for a while, I was thinking of all gigs that I might do, be they weddings or 18th birthdays or, as is the case for the next few months, school balls.

By the way, the question wasn't what would be around in 10 years!

Oh, and I forgot Kaiser Chiefs 'Ruby'.

When you think about it, we think there are tonnes of "old songs" to choose from but if you look at the various charts on on the internet there are lots of songs that were "Number one" in someone's estimation that simply aren't known these days. I can probably, with a bit of work, come up with a top 100 for most years from the early-60s onwards... that doesn't alter the fact that thousands of singles were released in any given year, just like now.

[Thames Valley Discos]

The original question was because i struggle to come up with tunes that are that good really. Yes some good dance tunes but i cant think of any really good run of the mill.
Scissor sisters- dont feel like dancing,
Gnarls Barkley,
things like this as opposed to indie,dance,R&B

BUT this Thom, Sandi - I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)
I really hate that tune.

[BeerFunk]

BUT this Thom, Sandi - I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)
I really hate that tune.

Seconded, absolutely awful track. Don't see the appeal.

[Thames Valley Discos]

I do struggle with the average disco when they ask for modern music though, because other than dance,hip hop,r and b , indie, there is not much else

[Danno13]

Well Shakira is missed off that list.. thats got to be one of the most playable RnB type songs of recent times.

I also agree with Bob Sinclar - Rock this Party, Scissor Sisters (obviously!), and would add Fedde Le Grand - Put your hands up for detroit.

I think "something kind ooh" is more playable that "biology" by Girls Aloud.

Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger is another good one.

[theoloyla]

I think the current single by Maroon 5 is brilliant and a real crossover song which appeals to all ages and tastes and will there be played for quite some time.

[PropellerHeadCase]

I totally agree! I'm a big fan of Maroon 5, anyway... 'This Love' is still a regular play hereabouts.

There really isn't anyone doing the blue-eyed soul thing at the moment, even Mick Hucknall's gone a bit modern R'n'B of late.