WTF Did That JUST happen?
WTF Did That JUST happen? Posted on: 02.01.2012 by Sarai Suchman Okay So for new years i agreed to spin at my buddies house party. So i spent a day cobbling up my collection of Club music, the cheesy stuff that the girls like cuz i figure...hell if i keep them happy then the guys will start dancing in hopes to get laid...you know the usual routine.The evening was going pretty decent...then in the evening i got some of the STRANGEST request i have ever heard. Rammstein, Du Hast Landslide by stevie nicks I honestly did not know what to say.... What are some of the strangest requests u guys have heard. | |
| Random X 31.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by sarasin
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| Cira Ditz 31.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by Vermilion
Middle aged lady + Speedcore woulda been immense |
| Rolanda Clodfelder 30.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by Lineypirate
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| Yevette Matatall 30.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by Towner
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| Lilliana Perris 30.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by tekki
Problem shared...is a problem halved! LOL But yes....it was the first and last time...I will EVER play Nickleback..... |
| Rosenda Gossage 03.01.2012 |
Originally Posted by JesC
srs. WTF? |
| Random X 31.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by sarasin
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| Cira Ditz 31.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by Vermilion
Middle aged lady + Speedcore woulda been immense |
| Cira Ditz 31.10.2012 | I love it when I get out the blue requests (especially if you can accomadate them and still keep the party going) such as a few weeks back I was playing a hard indsutrial/goth/alt evening and a guy came up and asked for Beyonce I played this straight after and not only did he love it but so did the crowd I used to play a fetish evening in my home town and that was so much fun as I'd got it to there point where I was not only playing extreme things, I could make extreme jumps too - I could go from Rammstein to Kylie and still keep the dance floor going |
| Lang Abriel 30.10.2012 | I've gotten the request for an artist while it is playing over the PA...Played a lesser known SHM song that I thought was good and got a request for SHM song while it was playing. Ironically the guy making the request was doing windmills on stage. I usually start off open format evening s with top40 or top40 remixes and ppl make request...don't mind at that point in the evening . Always funny when you have the persons request cued up and about to mix it in and someone is trying to yell at you while you are cueing, then they hear the song come in and go crazy and walk away. |
| Jenna Skeem 30.10.2012 | Playing your bog standard top40/house , then someone asks for ABBA. My response to any old song requests is, im 19 years old playing house do you honestly expect me to have an ABBA album, Also being asked for a song while the song they requested is playing. has happened too many times. |
| Rolanda Clodfelder 30.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by Lineypirate
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| Desire Piedmont 30.10.2012 | Playing some hip-hop, funk and breaks in a club at about 3.30am and some fella walks up and says, "I'll give you 100 bucks to play The Message by Grandmaster Flash." I would have played it for free, as it fit the evening
perfectly, but this guy clearly had more cash than he needed. Back then I used to play back to back with my partner and the $100 guy came up when I was back in the office and asked for his money back. He got told to piss off. I'm not sure we always treated our punters as we should. |
| Rana Rigling 30.10.2012 | Had a moment a few weeks ago at a commercial-ish evening
at a local bar, just after the first drop in Skrillex's 'Cinema' remix had some girl come up and ask "Can you play some Skrillex?!". Yep. Same evening , once I'd moved up to DnB, had some middle aged lady who was clearly rolling come up asking "Can you play something with a bit more energy?!". She was having it large, was tempted to break out the speedcore just for her. |
| Ashanti Andreacchio 30.10.2012 | on a typical club evening
at a club playing top40 mixed with some house a young guy came up to me asking for a norwegan band called Gluntan THis most be the most crazy request to ever get asked |
| Yevette Matatall 30.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by Towner
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| Tesha Freudenstein 30.10.2012 | i was hanging in the DJ booth at a local club once and witnessed this request while hop-hop and R&B was being played: i just lost it |
| Lilliana Perris 30.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by tekki
Problem shared...is a problem halved! LOL But yes....it was the first and last time...I will EVER play Nickleback..... |
| Latricia Saucillo 30.10.2012 | I will slap you if you ask for , gnam style!! |
| Random X 30.10.2012 | Go hit the showers, dammit! |
| Lilliana Perris 30.10.2012 | Shit...I agreed to do a private party over the weekend, for a 40 year old womans birthday. I am friends with her younger sister etc. It was supposed to be 80's. But I was CONSTANTLY asked to play Dance music....then more 80's....then Lenny Cravits...then Rammstein...then She Wolf.... As soon as i put someones request on, someone else came and bitched. I nicely told them to fuck off away from the DJ booth and enjoy their drinks.....LET THE BIRTHDAY GIRL DECIDE! LOL But the kicker was when this guy asked me to back him up.....to play Frank Sinatra.... yeah....so I let him go Accapella and then dropped Nickleback. I feel so fucking DIRTY right now.... |
| Jonas Hanway 30.10.2012 | No matter how many times somebody asks. I will never drop Gangnam Style.. NEVER! |
| Asuncion Yeakel 29.10.2012 | Hilarious i actually have Land down under from men at work LOLOL Didnt play it thought |
| Christel Croak 08.01.2012 | I know this thread's been kinda dead but I just had to post this because I almost died laughing. I just came back from a sweet 16, and the girl asked me to play top40, reggae, and skrillex. All went well, except for at one point a girl came up to me and threatened to sue me because my music wasn't vulgar and she wanted more swearing in the songs. All I could do was laugh |
| Rosenda Gossage 03.01.2012 |
Originally Posted by JesC
srs. WTF? |
| May Artman 03.01.2012 | Got a request to play "I'm On A Boat" last summer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyYyoSswgC0 ...while this was playing. Normally I have a pretty polite, roundabout way of denying requests but I was so caught off guard that my confused response was something along the lines of "What? No. I mean... No." |
| Cristian Carmona 03.01.2012 | someone asking me to play Depeche Mode, while I was playing But Not Toevening by DM. Go Figure |
| Tommie Siefkes 03.01.2012 |
Originally Posted by Brinx
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| Sarai Suchman 03.01.2012 | Oh one thing i that learned at this house party. Since I really hate that top 40 club music...i got togeather some remixes of club songs by DJs i like and decide to use those, instead of the originals. NO ONE in the entire house party knew the difference, i just got girls coming up to me and saying THANK YOU FOR PLAYING MY SONG......in reality...it was just the chorus of the song and a totally new beat. I really do give too much credit to the crowd believeing that they are actually listening to the music... This leads me to beleive...if i have samples of voices saying "Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle" or I got moves like Jagger and throw them into whatever song im playing...they will dance.. |
| Teodoro Woolever 03.01.2012 |
Originally Posted by jsa83
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| Lora Vandewark 04.01.2012 | When I had my residency, there used to be this one girl who would ask for the same Lily Allen song every week. For about a year. And once threatened to get me stabbed because I didn't play it! |
| Breanne Penge 03.01.2012 |
the Bride and groom were about 40 years old... so imagine how that would've gone down!
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| Sarai Suchman 03.01.2012 |
Originally Posted by truewind
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| Nedra Fresneda 03.01.2012 | Papa Roach - Last Resort at a house & tech house evening . |
| Shalon Jaranilla 03.01.2012 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5C8ccoWUUg |
| Lakeisha Allaway 03.01.2012 | One evening
when me and my buddy were doing a "live-set". (meaning we are booked as AUDIOSTALKERS playing or OWN tracks... ON STAGE..) This girl gets UP on stage, walks UP to us taps my buddy on the shoulder, saying -"what music is this?!" -"well, uhm its our music" he responds -"its not that good, could you please play something else?" she says and turns away and walks down... |
| Dione Haimes 03.01.2012 | Got asked for faithless insomnia and tiesto traffic during a deep techy house set |
| Stanley Peckman 03.01.2012 | In another thread I said a gay audience was a demanding audience......... pales into insignificance compared to a hen evening
(bachelorette party) "have you got Mandy by Barry Manilow" I got dogs abuse for not having it, same with Queen We will rock you. Trying to explain I was a house music dj got me nowhere The worst bit of that evening was being asked for Dolly Parton 9 to 5 (the worst bit being I actually found it and played it) They loved it and went on to ask for Sneaky Sound System. Go figure that one out. |
| Kesha Orde 03.01.2012 | I had a small group of south american girls in the bar once [not too common in central london] who kept asking for latino music or reggaeton. I kept telling them that I didn't have any of that kind of stuff, but I'd try and find something... So I found one reggaeton tune in my itunes that was fairly suitable and dropped it. Everyone in the bar was jumping up and down to it, except the girls who requested it. The people that ask for the tunes NEVER dance to them when you actually play them. |
| Lynell Piechocinski 03.01.2012 | I believe this will be the most epic problem for DJ's, ever, EVER. There will be always at least one person in crowd who will come and ask something, ALWAYS, and even if you will be in separate booth, they will find the way to make a request, becouse they believe that we are like a jukebox. Only problem is, jukebox alteast gets something for that And if you will not make the request 80% your dead |
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