Help me pick party songs

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A friend is having his fourth yearly music party. He has Apple Music and a few other services. His house is wired with speakers everywhere.

Each year he picks three or four song categories. Previously we’ve done “Song everyone will be surprised to find out you like” and “Song playing when you lost your virginity”. Everyone also brings a six pack or two and we all share beers.

He “DJs” ; announcing each category, then each person’s submission is played. It’s more fun than it sounds.:stuck_out_tongue:

This year I haven’t chosen my songs yet, and I’m getting nervous. Little help?

[ol]
[li]Best party song that is at least 50 years old. (He just turned 50)[/li][li]Best party song from the 70s.[/li][li]Best party song post 1980.[/li][/ol]

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Two years ago I submitted Lucille Bogan’s Shave 'Em Dry for the “Songs I like that I predict nobody will have heard before”. I won the category.
ETA: the amazing thing was, he punched in the title and the song played!

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Dance This Mess Around by the B-52’s. Late seventies or early eighties, can’t remember which.

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Released July 6, 1979.

Thanks! Listening now…

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Brown Eyed Girl and (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher are both 50 this year.

Beat It from the 80s.

Superstition from the 70s.

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Van The Man!!!

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Turns 50 this year: (Ain’t Nothin’ But a) House Party

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Extremely obvious: Tequila - The Champs (1962)

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The first songs to pop into my mind for each category (so, not the result of careful consideration):

  1. “Louie Louie” or “Twist and Shout”
  2. “September”
  3. “1999”
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Louie, Louie was also the first I thought of for that category!

PeeWee Herman cover (dance)!!

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I maintain that no one can remain sad/silent while the Romantics “What I like About You” is playing.

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Agree. Same with “96 tears” (Plus, how cool is the band name ? and the Mysterians?)

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Best is hard. How about fun and maybe not submitted by everyone?

Over 50, “Peppermint Twist,” by Joey Dee and the Starliters.

For 70s, You Should be Dancing, by the Bee Gees.

For post 80, I’m skipping some of the obvious answers like 1999 and going with “Let it Whip,” by the Dazz Band.

I thought I had a winner in “Sweet Caroline,” but it’s not quite old enough or quite new enough. Bah.

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Still got your monster platform shoes?

Please, not that version from that Amanda Bynes/Jennie Garth show.

What is it with that song? I was (hiding) in a biker/redneck bar once. “Sweet Home, Alabama,” finished, then Kid Rock’s bastard version ended, then everyone is screaming for the Neil Diamond tune. :confused::eek::confused:

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The Kings “This Beat Goes On/Switchin’To Glide”. Released in 1980 so does it go in category #2 or #3?

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  1. Twist and Shout was my first pick, but Johnny be Goode would be appropriate at this time.
  2. Hair if the Dog - Nazareth. (Now you’re messing with a son of a bitch.
  3. Don’t You Want Me - Human League

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  1. Twist and Shout was my first pick, but Johnny be Goode would be appropriate at this time.
  2. Hair of the Dog - Nazareth. (Now you’re messing with a son of a bitch.
  3. Don’t You Want Me - Human League

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A little less conversation, 1968 Elvis, remixed
Why can’t we be friends, 70’s, War.
WHAM!, because George Michael.

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IMO, one of the utmost perfect 70s party songs, if not THE utmost perfect one, is Parliament-Funkadelic’s “(Not Just) Knee Deep” (released in 1979, so almost barely 70s, but it works). My only concern would be its length at approximately fifteen minutes…but if that’s a problem, then there’s always the twelve inch cut.

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“Shout” by the Isley Brothers, hands down.