Seger's "Old Time Rock & Roll"

Heh. Having just started the fourth book in a series, the first of which is called "Rock & Roll Never Forgets", I'm all over the Seger thang.

edit: OH! And mustn't forget BNL. I'm thinking either "Alcohol" or "Brian Wilson", but I may be missing something obvious.

I didn't realise there was a "classic Bollywood music" category, however.

Well, the songs from the old era do have a very different sound from the songs today. Just like American music. For instance, far fewer awkward insertions of English.

Musically? I have no clue what that is.

Can't go wrong with "Jaan Pehchaan Ho". Nor "O Hasina Zulfonwali" or "Ek Sawal Hai".

As far as recent stuff "Maahi Ve Maahi Ve" or "Radha Kaise Na Jale" (the latter of which could be waltzed to because it's in that kind of 6/8).

Also, Seger's "Old Time Rock & Roll" has been the song most likely to get everyone dancing at the bulk of parties I've attended.

For my brother, it's Amii Stewart's "Knock On Wood". I cannot say he's wrong.

That is a great one.

I'm good with a music mix that doesn't ignore any of the decades. Since I noticed music in the 60's rock will always be my first love. And yet I still can enjoy a bit of Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It and a whole lot that came in between.

I'm thinking I might not be sitting a whole lot.

Just a bunch of good dance songs that I skimmed real quick off of my iTunes list:

"Close To Me" The Cure, "Lips Like Sugar" Echo And The Bunnymen, "Dancing With Myself" Billy Idol, seconding Matt's "Train In Vain" The Clash, "Pop Life" Prince, "Pop" NSync (in SA's honor), "Skylines and Turnstiles" My Chemical Romance, "Just Can't Get Enough" Depeche Mode, "Mirror In The Bathroom" The English Beat, "Midnight Show" The Killers, "Interjections!" Schoolhouse Rock (kidding), "Kiss Them For Me" or "Peek-a-Boo" Siouxsie and The Banshees, "C'mon C'mon" The Von Bondies...

To name a few. And, really, I have no horse in this race since I like just about every damn kind of music there is. Just offering some suggestions. If even one of them is on the F2F playlist, I'm happy as can be.

Classic ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!

Oh, and any song Deb requests, 'cause she rocks.

See, my list is tiny. I adore a lot of stuff out there, visceral reaction stuff. I'm not suggesting 99.9% of it, because it's purely visceral to me. Not everyone out there is going to want to hear Patti Smith singing "Horses" or "Radio Ethiopia", or the BoDeans "Good Things" or the Ozark Mountain Daredevils doing "If You Want To Get To Heaven". "Anarchy in the UK" isn't to everyone's taste; while everyone's mentioning "Train in Vain", I'm all about "Shed This Skin".

But the ones I'm digging my heels in on? Nice classic rock, and nice classic rock was completely or virtually completely missing from the first two F2Fs I went to.

So with all due respect to songs from Bollywood musicals, I want the Stones. And the Who. And Bob Seger.

Keep in mind that in LA, DC, and NO, I put together a playlist, it got about 20 minutes in and then folks started picking and choosing what they wanted out of the close to 20,000 tracks that are on my portable drive. There was quite a bit of stuff played that even I didn't know.

The way this is going I'm thinking we'll set up a CD player, everyone can bring their stack of CDs and then we can let people duke it out in front of the speakers.

The way this is going I'm thinking we'll set up a CD player, everyone can bring their stack of CDs and then we can let people duke it out in front of the speakers.

BWAH! Celebrity deathmatch: Van Halen versus Hoobastank?