Weekend Assignment #103: Music to Get the Party Started

Weekend Assignment #103: Music to Get the Party Started :

Weekend Assignment #103: List the songs you'd play to kick a party into gear. You can choose up to five. And if you want to explain why those five, that's good too. It can of course, be any kind of music from any era -- and it can be any kind of party, too. Hey, it's your party. You're in charge of the jukebox, my friend.

Extra Credit: Name the song to play to start winding down the party.

Okay, my top 5 songs would be the following:

1.  Moni, Moni, Billy Idol.  Billy has a special way of making people dance without abandon..

2.  Pour Some Sugar On Me, Def Leppard 

It's a naughty song, but it rocks!

3.  Let's Get It Started, Black Eyed Peas

This even makes my mother tap her foot.

4.  Back in Black, AC/DC

If you can resist dancing to this...you may have serious problems..

5.  Love Shack, B52's

Everyone likes fun, boppy, silly dancing.....It's one of my favorites!

I may be shocking a few people by my list.  Nope, no Abba or Culture Club--not for the start---that all gets intermingled in the middle of the party.  I couldn't pass up from playing Tumble 4 Ya or Dancing Queen... 

Extra Credit:  A song to wind down a party:  Closing Time, by Semisonic 

Closing time
- time for you to go out, go out into the world.
Closing time - turn the
lights up over every boy and every girl.
Closing time - one last call for
alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer.
Closing time - you don't have to go
home but you canÂ’t stay here.

I know who I want to take me home.
I
know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
Take
me home...

Closing time - time for you to go back to the places you will
be from.
Closing time - this room won't be open Â’til your brothers or you
sisters come.
So gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits - I hope
you have found a
Friend.
Closing time - every new beginning comes from
some other beginning's end.

Yeah, I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
Take me home...

This song takes me back when I was 17 years old when my cousin, and her friend, and their boyfriends left me alone at a Portuguese nightclub.  Nice of them, huh?  The place was closing, and I was alone, barely speaking the language, but it was okay; I had a great view of the cute DJ where I was sitting.  The owner of the place ended up helping me find my cousin, her friend and the boyfriends making out in the parking lot.  We ended up re-opening the club and had a private dance party.  I shocked my cousin and her friend both, when they saw me kissing the DJ on the dance floor.  :)