What my 18 -25 yr dj patrons know of music past...

[nomis]

at my weekend dj gigs in Auckland New Zealand the crowd is mostly 18 - to 25 yr olds im forever trying to take them away from their Ipod playlists and include in my sets as much of the rich musical heritage i know..i find it very interesting what they react to..heres my list of what has thru whatever means of technology or culture been passed onto the next generation in the pacific region....
Fleetwood Mac - everything..they scream at the opening bars of anything from the 1976 Nicks/Buckingham era
Abba - same any Abba track goes off
Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack
Diana Ross - Chain Reaction
Aha - Take On me
Jean paul young - Love Is In the Air
Bob Marley Could You be loved
Statler Brothers Flowers On The Wall - i was taking chances last nite and nobody left the dancefloor
Michael Jackson - Dont Stop Til You get or The Way You make me feel
Madonna - Vogue or Like A prayer
Prince - Kiss or when doves cry -anything else they dont seem to know !
David Bowie - Lets Dance [[just men seem to hit the dancefloor for this)
Frank Sinatra - New York New York..the last song of every dj set i do..always a winner
Whitney houston - hex hector remix of "I Will Always Love You" & original LP mix of "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
90s dance remix cover of Bonnie Tylers "Total Eclipse of The heart"
Eurythmics Sweet Dreams
Aretha franklin "Respect"
Ronettes "Be My Baby"
Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive" [[dancefloor GOLD)
Dion "Run Around Sue"
..and now heres some artists my patrons just DONT get at all -
Grace Jones
Janet Jackson
Luther Vandross
Run DMC [[Walk this Way nearly cleared the dancefloor !)
Marvin Gaye
Doobie Brothers
Donna Summer
Bill Withers
Curtis Mayfield
Bobby Darin
Randy Crawford
The Drifters
....i know it makes depressing reading..next weekend im trying -
Shalamar
Dolly Parton
Led Zepplin
Dusty Springfield
Stephanie Mills
Richie Havens
..wish me luck !!

[destruction]

Were you playing these artists at a Dance event?

"..and now heres some artists my patrons just DONT get at all -
Grace Jones
Janet Jackson
Luther Vandross
Run DMC [[Walk this Way nearly cleared the dancefloor !)
Marvin Gaye
Doobie Brothers
Donna Summer
Bill Withers
Curtis Mayfield
Bobby Darin
Randy Crawford
The Drifters"

At least half of them would have made me leave the floor too.

For the most part I've forced kids/teens to listen to my tapes/usb music in my transpo and ask them to comment. If you don't mind I can share some of those experiences in your thread [[don't want to contaminate)

A big part of that was the 4 years I transported kids from the Baltimore School for The Arts, to and from school and subjected them to my choons [[for you Mel).

[nomis]

please share.....

[luke]

I asked an 18 year old young lady about music today. She had never heard of Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, the Temptations or Diana Ross. She could identify Baby Love, Stop in name of Love and My Girl. I asked her to talk to her parents about the singers

[soulster]

Nomis, your patrons seem to know a lot more than the average twentysomething knows up here. Up here, it seems most just know a few Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, or Doors songs. They might know some early rap. But, overall, their knowledge of old-guy music is limited.