so unfortunately it has gotten around my place of employment that i am a person who enjoys music an above-average amount, and i am being asked to create a playlist for a series of meeting we're having.
background: i work in a technology organization that is part of a large, fairly conservative, east coast financial company. our cio is holding a series of meetings at our u.s. sites where he will do one of his semi-annual business update things. following that, a series of speakers are being asked to give talks on interesting technology projects we have going on. as we attempt to drag ourselves kicking and screaming into modernity, these will be 6-8 minute ted-style talks with fun visuals and stuff.
i've been helping do some of the speaker coaching for this for some reason, and just got asked if i could put together 30 minutes of music for when people are filing into the auditoriums. being that i only listen to steely dan nowadays, i could use some help coming up with some upbeat, non-romantic, possibly-but-not-necessarily well known songs for this. joke requests also welcome.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
march of the wooden soldiers
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Touch and Go--Emerson Lake and Powell
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
these are all probably super boring suggestions but
Happy - PharrellShake it Off - Taylor SwiftMy Songs Know What You Did In The Dark - Fall Out Boy
etc
joke suggestion: 30 minutes of Idina Menzel 'Let It Go'
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
"Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate - Kadi Kadi"
but really you should just play steely dan songs
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
Napalm Death - You SufferJohn Cage - 4'33"
― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
Daughter by pearl jam 8 times
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
your cio should then say 'check your iphones, everyone' and everyone will have Daughter by pearl jam on their phones
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
'when will they shoot?' by ice cube
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Kraftwerk, the tech dept will dig it......
― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
yeah and then 'money' by pink floyd for the other guys
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
maybe do a mashup
is one of the u.s. sites memphis? if so, maybe 'walking in memphis'.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
oh but 'talking in memphis' would work better
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Boston, Aerosmith, Cars - hometown pride
― sleeve, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
When I worked in banking I got a lot of mileage out of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUb450Alpps
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyeWRd7ZEBs
for similar events.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
I've been using a Grooveshark playlist I put together for my art classes this year, and one song I notice the kids react positively to is Todd Terje's "Inspector Norse." I always spot four or five of them just kind of spontaneously bouncing in their seats. Are fairly conservative, east coast financial people at all similar to 11-year-old kids? (I'm even setting you up for a joke there.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
BRING IN THE KATZ
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
maybe pull up 'QT - Hey QT' on youtube
― Bitterer than Bitter (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
AC/DC - Back In BlackJefferson Starship - JaneSly & The Family Stone - I Want To Take You HigherParliament - Bop GunParliament - Flashlight
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
also:
The Knife - "Heartbeats"Haim - "The Wire"Vampire Weekend - "Giving Up The Gun"The Pixies - "Here Comes Your Man"REM - "Driver 8"The Breeders - "Last Splash"Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue"Kanye West - "Champion" <--- screen this for cursingJay-Z - "Izzo (H.O.V.A)"Fabolous - "Young'n (Holla Back)"Nico & Vinz - "Am I Wrong"
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
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lol i really should have headed these two off in the opening post
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 18 September 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
Imperial march
― Moka, Thursday, 18 September 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
Primitive Radio Gods - "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand"
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 18 September 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juqm94sUV_E
― maura, Thursday, 18 September 2014 04:43 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHGPmb-VfQ
― maura, Thursday, 18 September 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMt4DVmyuw4
― maura, Thursday, 18 September 2014 04:45 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DFarI9747U
― maura, Thursday, 18 September 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
lol
― fruit ← ⟨“apple”, “banana”, “orange”⟩ (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 September 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
The vengabus is coming.
― Moka, Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
gotta hire the six flags guy then
― fruit ← ⟨“apple”, “banana”, “orange”⟩ (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
Maura beat me to the WWE entrances.
Or "Let It Go" in 42 languages! You'd only need to play it twice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCtL0nK3TSg
― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Serious suggestion: Stereolab's "Ping Pong."
― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
sincere thanks for the real suggestions and lol suggestions, you guys have def helped me get a start on this thing
― call all destroyer, Friday, 19 September 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
are you going to post the final list?
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 September 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
just the noise outro on loop
― dyl, Friday, 19 September 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/user/callalldestroyer/playlist/6rp1LexjJMfMDBgdie2zYG
this is what i sent to my co-worker for a screening/second set of ears. ultimately i just didn't want to do anything that scanned only as middle-aged white guy music, so it's a combination of recent pop and 70s soul/r&b.
"champion" by kanye was the hardest thing to cut because i think it's perfect in a lot of ways, but he says shit twice and i didn't want to risk someone failing to get the clean version.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 19 September 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
http://ask.metafilter.com/81152/Clean-upbeat-nonlove-songs
like the thought of using anything on this was extremely depressing.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 19 September 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
haha i love how "happy" is first on the list, i remember someone here (lex) aptly describing it as a song for corporate meetings/conferences/team-building exercises
― dyl, Friday, 19 September 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
haha yeah it's a safe open because it's totally unfuckwithable for the situation
― call all destroyer, Friday, 19 September 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
i was asked to come up with another 20 minutes or so....can't believe i forgot about "roar," duh
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
we had a party at work here on saturday --- party went for 5 hours or more, I swear they had maybe a 30 minute playlist on repeat the whole night
even the barstaff were commenting about how many times they'd heard certain songs
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 September 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
yeah i'm trying to pad this thing out a little bit because there's nothing worse than repeats
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
bastille - pompeiiimagine dragons - monsterimagine dragons - radioactiveonerepublic - counting stars
― Mordy, Monday, 22 September 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
otm, those terrible songs are very good for my purposes. i did wind up using counting stars and radioactive.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 September 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Grass Roots - Sooner or Later
^ maybe fails the "non-romantic" test
― example (crüt), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
gdammit all my hard work is getting ruined bcz ppl want to use the songs on like their workout playlists
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
Y'ALL READY FOR THIS
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
New Face in Hell -- The Fall
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link