Always Top 40/Open Format Negativity here

[padi_04]

Just posting to drop this song, I think some people in here could use it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M

[Citizen_Insane]

Preface: WARNING, this is written while tired as hell and probably has a bunch of rambling in it.

Ok, so I just read this whole thread and all I have to say is holy crap... kinda disappointed with some of the lack of respect / close mindedness.

So I'm just gonna say this:
Most, if not all the gigs I have played (which really isn't that many given I've only been at this DJing thing for a bit over two years now), I have played more on the commercial side of things and less to my taste... I still played songs that I enjoyed for the most part. Now I should point out that electro / dub/brostep / drum & bass isn't really mainstream, but when you're playing to a crowd that are all there to hear it, it may as well be. You bust out the Skrillex remix of Cinema? People will go nuts. Do I like the song? Eh, not too much, I grew tired of hearing it pretty quickly... but it's what people like and I enjoy making people have a good time (as long as I'm not having a really bad time as a result, I'm not that selfless lol).

Now, does this make me a prostitute?
Well, Nephew, your argument has it's reasoning and it works and it doesn't, I actually agree with parts of it, I just don't want to flog the horse (be it dead or alive).... Not to get into too much detail, I will say that in an ideal world I could play drum & bass gigs several nights a week to a huge crowd and earn tons of money and love it.... In the real world? There is barely a drum & bass scene where I am, and being busy with university, I rarely play out and usually when I do it's a house party or whatnot... I usually play mostly brostep (yeah, I'm being an ass by calling it that but 90% of it is trash to me and has lost it's dub roots entirely... still 2step though... sorta) and electro house, I tend to save the drum & bass for near the end when people have been energized (have been drinking) enough for it... even then I stick to the more commercial drum & bass (jump up), which is still pretty far underground by some standards.
Does this make me a prostitute? No, it makes me someone who plays out occasionally and takes the good with the bad and enjoys it for what it is.

I should also point out that I have a library that is maybe 2-3% top40/popular music/open format or w/e we're calling it unless Radiohead counts as top40... cause then it's like 7-8%, why? Cause I don't enjoy it and I generally don't buy / waste space on my HD with music that I don't like.

I really, really, really dislike most top40 I hear... just not to my taste and a lot of it does sound unoriginal to me (but hell I'm a drum & bass head and that just all came out of a 5.2 second drum loop that has been sped up and beat to death for the last nearly two decades). I will agree that I don't have too much respect for people spinning top40 who do it just for the money or women or w/e and don't mix well,don't work on their craft... I will respect a top40 dj who plays all the hot tunes that I so hate but I can tell is really mixing, creating a flow, making a journey or w/e.. cause that is definitely possible with such music.

Also just gonna point out that David Rodigan who is an AMAZING Reggae, Dancehall, Dub, etc. DJ pretty much just plays track after track... but his track selection makes his mixes fantastic.

P.S. I don't have a clue about A LOT of house music, but I can still appreciate a bunch of it... different strokes for different folks I guess.

P.P.S. It's 3:20am, I've been writing this for the last like 20 minutes... and I'm definitely suffering from insomnia again.... Hence probably 1/2 of this is rambling / incoherent.

Oh and @Padi: Good tune

tl,dr: What is this, I don't even.

[Alex Wild]

There are much worse songs that deserve people derision than Maroon fucking five.

Disagree. I hate that song with a passion.

[photojojo]

You people need to open up your ears and clean out your eyes.