Guaranteed Dancefloor Emptiers

[ianwild16]

Which covers tunes have you played that totally emptied a packed dance floor?

[stingrayfan]

Rock N Roll Star - Oasis.

On paper, it should work fine: well known song, glam rock feel but people don't go for it. They're at the bar before the vocals start. Maybe it's how we do it. It's on the subs bench these days. Only for emergencies.

[niceguyhomer]

James Brown's Sex Machine.

[Phaedrus]

Any slow song, no matter how well played.

We've dropped When A Blind Man Cries, When September Ends & Behind Blue Eyes.

Lots of folk liked listening & some young bucks would sometimes say Blind Man was our best song, but no-one else seemed to give a rat's shoe.

Mark

[birdy]

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='90670' date='Nov 19 2007, 09:22 AM']James Brown's Sex Machine.[/quote]

Really???? This is a floor filler whenever we play it... strange!

[niceguyhomer]

No idea why Steve and if I say so myself, we do a good rendition too - beats me.

[stewblack]

"Hey Bulldog" The Beatles.
I told 'em, but would they listen?
"Oh but it's so cool to pick a Beatles track most people don't know"
Yes it is and a great bassline and I love playing it but not at a bluddy wedding.

[Weird War]

Atrocity Exhibition by Joy Division?

I'll go now...

[simon1964]

Scar Tissue - Chilis. I love the song, we play it ok, but it never seem to go down well.

[BOD2]

We tended not to play real "floor emptiers" more than twice as someone in the band would more or less refuse to play it again as it had gone down so badly at the previous gig ! So couldn't say for sure if there were any consistent ones or just ones that didn't appeal to particular audiences.

Like Phaedrus, we found that anything slow would empty the floor unless played at the very end of the night.

And to get our own back I would alway put a CD of "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" (Monty Python) once we'd finished and the lights were about to come back home That way everyone would go home whistling....

[bremen]

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='90663' date='Nov 19 2007, 08:53 AM']Rock N Roll Star - Oasis.

On paper, it should work fine: well known song, glam rock feel but people don't go for it. They're at the bar before the vocals start. Maybe it's how we do it. It's on the subs bench these days. Only for emergencies.[/quote]

When you absolutely, positively gotta make every motherflippa leave the room...

[Deep Thought]

We found Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy' cleared the dancefloor like a dose of salts.

[charic]

Not tried it and alot of you guys probs aint heard of em but what about stormtroopers of death with the likes of:

pre-menstrual princess blues

and

speak english or die

[ARGH]

Generally ANYTHING suggested by Pissed tart thats had to much to drink.....(last seen screaming at our singer "Play sum Fuggin OWAYSIZ"...)

[Count Bassy]

Never tried it, but I imagine anything by Leonard Cohen?

Clive

[MB1]

[quote name='ianwild16' date='Nov 19 2007, 08:44 AM' post='90659']
Which covers tunes have you played that totally emptied a packed dance floor?

MB1.

Anything by Gary Glitter!.... should do the trick!

[E_MaN]

Blood and Thunder at an Indie gig A band dropped out so my band who were there to support mates and were slightly drunk came on stage and bashed out this tune...We played it amazingly, however the guys in skinny jeans were as a member of the audience said later a bit 'scared'

Edited November 20, 2007 by E_MaN

[dudewheresmybass]

anyhting by Napalm Death....
although we found that "Corpse grinder" ( a touching love story about necrophilia) usually did the trick!

[tauzero]

"Dolly Parton's Tits" by Roy 'Chubby' Brown. At some benefit gig for Lichfield feminists. Funnily enough, the only heckler was a bloke.

[Ou7shined]

We've never cleared a floor before, we usually start off with a stand-off-ish crowd (que singers joke about the space on the floor in front of us) and by the end of the set we have folk all over us - that's just the way we work the set list I think. But at practice if I get bored and do a bit of Sunn O))) I usually get a few WTF looks and the offended have been know to leave the room.

[stingrayfan]

[quote name='ARGH' post='91120' date='Nov 19 2007, 09:34 PM']Generally ANYTHING suggested by Pissed tart thats had to much to drink.....(last seen screaming at our singer "Play sum Fuggin OWAYSIZ"...)[/quote]
She comes to a few of our gigs.

[ARGH]

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='92207' date='Nov 21 2007, 04:17 PM']She comes to a few of our gigs.[/quote]

yeah I met her in Farnham a few times....

She has a close cousin in Otley

[ARGH]

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='92195' date='Nov 21 2007, 04:02 PM']We've never cleared a floor before, we usually start off with a stand-off-ish crowd (que singers joke about the space on the floor in front of us) and by the end of the set we have folk all over us - that's just the way we work the set list I think. But at practice if I get bored and do a bit of Sunn O))) I usually get a few WTF looks and the offended have been know to leave the room. [/quote]

Bu if you did it in front of me I would sit floorcenter and smile all evening!

[hogman]

[quote name='ARGH' post='92293' date='Nov 21 2007, 07:05 PM']yeah I met her in Farnham a few times....

She has a close cousin in Otley[/quote]


and rest of her family live in teesside. love the thought mind.


Dance floor killers been along while I feel I can read a crowd quite well so kinda steer away from this might be a bad Idea. but daaddy brother mister big was a real emptier ironically when we finished a big party arrived asking for mister big tunes argh and where were you lot earlier. Twas in Pickering if memorory serves me right

[tauzero]

Breathing life into an ancient thread that perhaps should have been left alone...

Played at a wedding on Saturday. Most of the audience was 30ish and stuff from Ziggy Stardust to Comfortably Numb [1] via She Sells Sanctuary and Use Somebody all went down well, but at some point we played Underdog by Kasabian and the dance floor was clear by the time the guitarist played the intro riff the second time.

[1] The guitarist kept saying it wasn't a wedding song and wouldn't play it, then right at the end they wanted another song and I persuaded him to do it. Went down a storm.