Top 10 records every wedding DJ needs… NUMBER 1!!!
The scenario is this. It's your wedding day. You have 45 minutes left before the taxis arrive to whisk your guests away, and you want to finish in style. You have the dancefloor, the DJ, the lights and a one point twenty one Jigger-watt sound system, cranked to 11, hungry and waiting to be fed.
You need 10 records, all killer, no filler. There are thousands of worthy contenders out there, but you want the best of the best. Guaranteed floor-fillers: feel-great anthems, and who cares if there's the odd overtone of ripe camembert. Just get these weird and wonderful people onto the floor, cares cast aside and throwing moves like nobody's watching.
So here is the run-down: arguably the best ten records for wedding DJs.
No 10:Summer of '69: Bryan Adams
No 9: Billie Jean: Michael Jackson
No 8: Dance The Night Away: The Mavericks
No 7: Hey Ya: Outkast
No 6: Don't Stop Me Now: Queen
No 5: Nine To Five: Dolly Parton
No 4: I don't feel like dancing: Scissor Sisters
No 3: Young Hearts Run Free: Candi Statton
No 2: Brown Eyed Girl: Van Morrison
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But what comes next? What makes a song the greatest disco record of all time?
Humbly I suggest the following step-by-step guide…
HOW TO MAKE THE GREATEST DISCO RECORD OF ALL TIME: THE JIGBLOG GUIDE
Step 1: Hire the tightest disco rhythm section on the planet.
Step 2: Start it quickly. Just a snare drum leading into a killer horn hook intro.
Step 3: Load the subject material with light-hearted innuendo
Step 4: Write catchy, repetitive lyrical hooks over a 4-to-the-floor bassline
Step 5: Get your performers to wear outlandish costumes
Step 6: Invent a dance to go along with it.
The result? you've guessed it…
the greatest disco record ever produced.
Are we all agreed?
Fabulous choice! Now *that’s* the sort of song we should be singing at St.Silas!
Thought that would get you out of your shell Ryan. We played it at your sister’s wedding, but you were nowhere to be seen!
Oh dear…
No Dancing Queen, I Will Survive, Jump Around, Build Me Up Buttercup or Hi Ho Silver Lining?
I’d skip 4, 6, 7, 8 & 9. Good tunes, but not your multi-generational wedding floor-fillers.
Stewart…One word…Pah!
Definitely contenders for the top 20 there…just a little *too* cheezy or perhaps un-nuanced for my tastes. I used to play “Jump Around” quite a lot, but eventually it was just not getting the results every time. With Abba, I often pick some of their other records instead of the obvious Dancing Queen. Mamma Mia or Does Your Mother Know, for example. But I’ve not played Jeff Beck in a loooong time, and Build Me Up Buttercup just brings back too many sad memories
YMCA all the way.