Please the edm group. they’re most lively to dance. i am slightly drunk. Maybe someone else has a better idea 
or play psy trance that fxxks every one up 
They’re the crowd that will most likely show up to see YOU play rather than just to get wasted and attempted to fuck someone.
My response to all requests is usually “I’ll see what I can do”.
If they come up and complain that they haven’t heard their song, I just tell them it hasn’t fit in yet. For some reason I’ve had luck with this.
i want to give you a standing ovation.
that annoying girl
The thread should be stickied somewhere, these stories are hilarious.
I try to appease requests if it fits into the mood…the night the guy asked for Tool I was playing Christmas music and top40 crap, if someone asked for something and I could fit it in, I would try to oblige. The night people kept asking for country, I just explained I didn’t have any. It wasn’t that great of a night, so I wanted to end early…played Friends In Low Places as my last song, cut it off half way through and pulled all my cables…“I’m done.” The next morning I played electro at high volume for about 4 hours to help me get over my pissy mood.
I like to have these two songs in my arsenal for situations that involve idiot girls and and dick-hole guys
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If the club is big enough, this is actually an ideal situation. Rotating the dancefloor can drive bar sales. You just have to be careful not to play too much house in a row or too much hip-hop because people will end up leaving if they can’t dance. A good trick is to play hip-hop style house songs. I play a lot of jump-smokers, hyper crush, cataracts, DJ Chuckie, etc… and other top-40’s style and hip-hop style 4 to the floor remixes. Throw in some party breaks (Fatman scoop and little john IN MODERATION can be your friend at a club/bar that has a top-40/hip hop type crowd)and maybe even spin a little moombahton as long as it isn’t too heavy in between the hip-hop and house (I’m starting to get into it).
Sometimes I’ll even make tracks (Just did one last night actually - using Niggas in Paris) that will transition from house at 128-130 bpm, to hip hop (at say 70-85 bpm), and back to house. Then again I spin a lot of dutch/latin style house with syncopated beats that mixes well with a lot of club hip hop and party breaks so it works out. If you spin more traditional house songs you can get people into it by doing the above and then transitioning into more “regular” house as people get into their groove. Just remember - you can’t please all of the people all of the time, so don’t sweat it. Last thursday I was spinning for 4 hours in an absolutely dead bar, just burning through R&B and Top40’s tracks, hardly even mixing, so consider yourself lucky that you have a crowd.
that annoying girl
The don’t be a douchebag song sums up almost every Scottsdale club I’ve been in. Pretty much the reason I never go out anymore.
couple weeks ago, a buddy of mine turned 40. he asked if i would spin some records, and i agreed because hes a pretty cool dude. Mind you, no girls there, and he loves classic rock. I brought over a pile of old records (eagles, rush, acdc stuff like that) everyone was havin a good time and digging the music, u til his roomates brother who is 46 demanded that i stop playing shitty music, and play something dancey. Still no girls there, so i told him i left my dance tracks at home. A few songs later, dude demands again that i stop playing music thats putting him to sleep, and play some dancey stuff. I reminded him that we are very different generations, and that what i consider dance may be different from him, and suggest something…ready? He asks for some JaRule! 46 years old, and hes telling me that hotel california is putting him to sleep, and JaRule has a voice that “just makes the music” Laughed straight in the dudes face and told him to go dance outside to his walkman. Spun classic rock all night, and my buddy whos birthday it was loved it.
dude Ja Rule…he’s like an enigma wrapped in a puzzle wrapped in a rubix cube contained in a corn maze… end of story
Had it so many times with girls. They figured out they can request anything just by being cute. Now the thing is, I do take requests if I judge them adequate and at the end of the day:I decide when to flip the dancefloor. Exceptions made for house parties as I within house parties, you’re generally with your friends.
Had that russian girl and her friend once threatening to smash my gear as I would not play her scratched to oblivion CD full of top 40 shite. She tried everything, the paper list with kisses and hearts and “we love you DJ”, “everyone is going to dance if you play this” messages all over it, and a tip. She turned into a demon after I declined it all…
There is one simple trick: stop the music. watch the whole house grind to a halt and all eyes converging towards the booth. Then shout, or even feel free to use the microphone: “what part of no you don’t understand”.
I saw these 2 girls a few weeks later, they came to me and apologized. Good times.
My favourite thing I’ve ever had was this girl made a request, but she didn’t know the name of the artist or song, so she tried to hum it to me, and I told her I have no clue what it is. She then pulled out her phone and told me she’d recorded the song off youtube using her phone and she wanted me to listen to it and find out what song it was. Still no luck, and as a last hope she asked me if she could plug her phone into my mixer and I could play the song off her phone.
She wasn’t too mean about asking, but she was quite drunk, and by the end she was almost in tears, and I felt bad but I just couldn’t do anything…
just do this
Wtf? That was just mean he could just say that to her ear. Arrogant prick
+1
I love that Pete Rock & CL Smooth track but he’s pissing other people off with that rant.
Shut the fuck up and rock the party. I don’t care who you are, one little request should not get you so worked up. Guy needs a valium.
ALL THE FUCKING TIME
I hate it when annoying bitches try too tell me what too play. My favorite quote from these idiots are “Play some dance music!”. But their version of dance music is like ‘Brickhouse’ or something along those lines.
This usually just happens when I dj little hole in the wall bars for some xtra $$.
Once had some guy keeping on requesting some stupid dutch farmer old school rock song. I was in the middle of a house set so I was like “Whatever you’re gonna do, I’m not going to play it.” He replied “I’ll keep on standing here right in front of you and I’ll only go away after you’ve played it.” I replied “ok” and just went on DJing.
It took him 25 minutes to get so bored (or he actually forgot why he was standing there) and go away. Damn, drunk people are persistent
I once made something up, completely off the top of my head just to fit in!
It was AWESOME!
And that’s how you get shot! Someone should of slapped him with his shitty mixing.
Yeaaa but it’s just drunk people in general isn’t it, annoying in the extreme (i’m assuming you’re sober when you play). Being asked to play a tune doesn’t bother me - I just don’t play it if I don’t want to or it doesn’t fit in with what I’m doing…
It just gets annoying when the same person comes up repeatedly after being told to go away.
i say, come over and i’ll play that song all night long