Student Night Classics

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Let's go back - way back - or possibly even stay in the present for some of you! What are the all time student night classics? I'm not talking cheese (well maybe a bit), but all those kind of soul, funk and hip hop, rock and roll, indie and disco kind of nights?

― Debord (Debord), Thursday, 26 August 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

war - low rider

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 26 August 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

groove is in the heart

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 26 August 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Fools Gold. Thread ends.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 26 August 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Superstition
1999
Humpty Dance
Jump around
I feel good
Blue Monday

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 26 August 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Tricky - Black Steel
Sm.Pumpkins - Bullet w/Butterfly wings

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Thursday, 26 August 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Rapper's Delight
One Nation Under A Groove
Take On Me

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Last Nite
Hotel Yorba
Last Resort

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Boy with the Arab Strap

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

kennedy by the wedding present. a thrashing frenzy of uncoordinated bodies in imperfect harmony. and a great excuse to elbow ppl in the ribs REALLY HARD. plus: an immense, IMMENSE tune. guitars so intense your head explodes.

happy days!

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Weird this thread should come up, I've been having mad nostalgia trips (to the point of unhealthy excess, methinks) about this very subject...

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Black Grape - Rev Black grape
Pulp - Common People

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Loaded

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Billie Jean and Rapture, def.

also, 'Play That Funky Music White Boy'

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Cure - Love Cats.
ended up really hating that record

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

in canada this thread ends with this really lame song by Spirit of the West and i have no idea what it's called but the gist of the lyrics is: "You'll have to excuse me/ i'm not at my best/ i've been drunk for a month/ i've been drunk since i left..."

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Ouch - I remember that one, Ken. Thankfully, the title escapes me.

Just been watching the Frosh activities from the library up on high here at McGill. Besides the big blow up toy slides, etc., there was this bizarre dry humping game they were all doing. The MC would call out the position and the couples would assume it and then proceed to "fuck" one another. I'm assuming they were all couples in "real life." I'm surprised no one called them on this, as many of the girls were down to bikini tops and bras. I used to be thankful that frat culture had waned dramatically here (when I was an undergrad in the 80s it really polarized the campus). Now it seems the whole campus has been "fraternized." And the place is lousy with Aston Kutcher look-a-likes.

Add It Up is a big student hit. As is Go by Tones on Tail.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Forgive me, Guymauve, but i had to google the lyrics as the song title was really eating at me. Anyhow, it's called "Home For A Rest". And regarding Violent Femmes, i still hold a special place in my heart for "Add it Up" and the entire S/T album

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

On the Canadian tip, Tragically Hip to thread!

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no. I've been subjected to the Hip for too many years. Living in Montreal, you've got the Kingston types blowing into town and just going on and on about the Hip's greatness and singing along a bit too fervently (usually arm in arm). It wears you out after 17 years of it. And sure enough I heard some song or other of theirs today ("He was 38 years old, never kissed a girl). Yikes, I'm old and cranky. I'll be glad to be leaving this place.

And you're a bastard for giving me the title of the SOW song. Right back at ya: Political (as in "so political").

Plus, the Femmes' first one is fine. It's just the reaction the crowd gives it that worries me. It's that nether region where frat and "alternative" meet that makes me nervous.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Killing In The Name Of", Rage Against The Machine.

Seeing a bunch of hopelessly white middle-class students* jump up and down to this back in 1993 cured me of the need to go to pub night forever after that.

*Note that I, too, was a hopelessly white middle-class student at the time. I just found the irony of a roomful of future real estate agents, insurance sales staff, telemarketers, and tech support workers screaming "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!" to be a bit much.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 27 August 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The Tragically Hip get my vote for Most Overrated Band In Any Musical Genre, Ever. I would have namechecked them in that "Kick One Thing Out Of The Canon" thread, but I don't know if enough non-Canadians have heard of them.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 27 August 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

if you leave
don't you forget about me

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

what, OMD's if you leave? (christ, why does every post i make end up being about OMD?) i was at a club the other week and they played that. it cleared the floor.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 27 August 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man, that song PACKS the floor at the local retro establishments here in melb.

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 27 August 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(it's apparently a good picking-up song)

― purple patch (electricsound), Friday, 27 August 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The Hip are indeed the most overrated Canadian band ever. But the fact that you couldn't ask for them to be removed from the canon because no one outside of Canada could have ever heard of them is smacks of poetic justice. BUT (and that is a big but), their failure in other countries just seems to bolster their success in Canada. I'd put them up there with Moist and the Tea Party as my most despised Canuck bands, but I think these last two won't outlast the Hip in terms of "cultural value." Ugh.

I could never figure out how you dance to If You Leave.

And I can add the Chili Peppers' Give it Away to the list (ah, frat funk).

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Friday, 27 August 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd put them up there with Moist and the Tea Party as my most despised Canuck bands, but I think these last two won't outlast the Hip in terms of "cultural value." Ugh.

Whenever I hear Moist or The Tea Party I think: "Money changes hands for these CDs - who buys them? Does anyone actually LIKE this music?" Conversely, I actually like a couple of Hip tunes, but having the band foisted on me for my entire post-secondary career means I could happily live the rest of my days without ever hearing a note of their music.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, Smells Like Teen Spirit anyone?

Also: Touch Me I'm Sick, Freakscene, Cannonball, Hard to Handle, Walk This Way.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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