Ideal party band

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So, like, pretend you're throwing a huge house party ("just like Kid & Play!" you're all saying to yourselves). What group/artist is out back beside the pool providing the soundtrack?

― Dan I., Monday, 9 December 2002 09:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Beastie Boys, maybe?

They're a band that can seem to unite people into hip-hop / rock / dance / just about anything.

― Mil, Monday, 9 December 2002 09:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, forgot to say, ANYONE living or dead is fair game.

I think mine would be Fela Kuti or the Incredible Bongo Band.

― Dan I., Monday, 9 December 2002 09:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Liars or Jesus Lizard - I wish I threw that type of party.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 9 December 2002 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

andrew wk!!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 9 December 2002 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

also: cheap trick, billy idol, scorpions, GNR in their prime, ziggy-era bowie, devo

and journey (for the afterparty)

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 9 December 2002 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

The local slew of DJs who spin at the parties I seem to end up at. Very worthy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 December 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

The Avalanches, 2 Many DJs, De La Soul (but - and here's the twist! - only performing recent stuff).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 9 December 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

The Roots

Anyone who's seen them in concert might concur. Their party-band applicability is increased exponentially by their diverse array of cover songs (I've seen them play, among other things, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Woo Ha! (Got You All In Check)", "Sex Machine", and even the theme song from "WKRP in Cincinnati" [guess what city they played THAT song in...].

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 December 2002 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Seriously, people, could the answer really be anything else but.....

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 December 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

My dream party =
The Beastie Boys
The Liars
The Apes
Lightning Bolt

with no pauses between them

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 9 December 2002 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

James Brown
Funkadelic
The Meters
Sly

What's better for parties than funk?

― rev. Felix, Monday, 9 December 2002 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Just like in PCU:
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 9 December 2002 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, a rare, post-death appearance by this band would be, as they say uptown, the shizz-it:

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 December 2002 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Swans

Just so I can request "Macarena".

― Curt (cgould), Monday, 9 December 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

JSBX, Olneyville Sound System (circa. Efforts In Freedumb, and later (when everyone's baked or tripping) I'd try to make people listen to Zaireeka and The Olivia Tremor Control's second album.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Enon
Kashmere Stage Band
VHS or Beta
Kruder & Dorfmeister to wind it down

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Flipper
Albert Ayler Trio
Magazine
Coltrane ('61 lineup w/ Dolphy and the oud guy)
Minutemen

― dan (dan), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

the dandy warhols promised to play a party in my living room for YEARS and they NEVER DID. bastards!

― kate, Monday, 9 December 2002 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Fraggle Rock!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 December 2002 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Salteens

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll second that Misfits call.

― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:27 (twenty-three years ago)

The Cramps? The Fleshtones?

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:32 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.bluemanlibrary.com/photos/picturegallery/000121-Twinkie_Feast.jpg

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

V/VM

Obviously.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimmy Castor, preferably with his Bunch.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 03:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The Cramps? The Fleshtones?

I'll drink to that. Or the B-52s, Pogues or Specials.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 04:49 (twenty-three years ago)

the sonics, the mummies, nice n smooth, 2 live crew, rufus thomas

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 16 December 2002 06:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The Meters.

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 16 December 2002 06:34 (twenty-three years ago)

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