The Lion's Share Lyric Quiz - December 2009

[mwalimu]

A week and a half ago at MFF, I watched the DJs spinning tunes for the dances, and for the hundredth time, asked myself if I could do that. Probably not. Oh, I may submit a mix to the furrydjs list one of these days, but I don't have near as much knowledge of or exposure to the kind of house, electronica, and techno remixes that their sets mostly consist

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[symphonic_rp]

DJing isn't hard, once you build up a collection of tunes and mixes. Techno? Can't imagine that being hard. Back when we needed tape loops it was pretty tricky. But these days you can just pre-program sequences into a synth and modulate the chords. I'm firmly of the opinion that any musically intelligent person would quickly get bored and add too much melody for it to be considered techno.

What's more in demand is a DJ who can spin real tunes in a way that keeps a crowd on it's feet. And I've been doing that since the 70's with just 2 turntables and a Radio Shack mixer.

Well, carting around 12 crates of LP's and 20 boxes of 45's was a bit of a pain. These days all that fits on one hard drive, along with the mixer. Doesn't look as cool though. If I was going to DJ now I'd have to work up some kind of video display in the background to show the record labels or something, just to make it seem like I was actually working.

1. Kenny Rogers - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
2. The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun King
3. Extreme - More Than Words
4. Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
6. Escape Club - Wild Wild West
10 & 11. Rod Stewart - Do You Think I'm Sexy
15. Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
16. Donovan - Mellow Yellow
17. The Bangles - Manic Monday
18. The Jaggerz - The Rapper
19. Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5
22. Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
23. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
24. Boby Lewis - Tossin' & Turnin'
26. The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You
28. Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch

[mwalimu]

#11 was a cut-and-paste error on my part and has been replaced with the lyric I had intended to put there.

The rest are correct. I could nitpick a couple of them but none are off by enough not to give you credit for them.

I suppose another reason I don't do live DJing is that I don't have any of my own audio equipment beyond my computer speakers, and the computer is a minitower unit that weighs a ton and is a pain to take anywhere. I plan to get nicer soundcard and speakers for my own listening at some point, probably not until I get moved into a house.