djsherz
Top 40 things DJs hate to hear... well 44 actually, I added a few more.
(Not my own work, robbed most of it it off another website, but it made me laugh so I thought I'd share it with you lot.) I think we've all heard most of these at some point in our careers! Feel free to add any of your own...
1. Play some real music.
2. Play something that somebody actually wants to hear.
3. Play something faster,more upbeat.
4. Play something we can dance to.
5. Play something that has a beat.
6. Don't play any crap.
7. Shut this off! (so what if the dance floor is full!)
8. Nobody likes this; it sucks ,you suck.
9. I need a song,but I don't know what it is.
10. Throw on some Zeppelin, it'll get them rockin!
11. Thanks,now play the whole CD.
12. So it skips,play it anyway!
13. Play it! Or I'll knock you into next week!
14. Don't play it, cause my friend is here and she'll cry.
15. It's the only song my boyfriend knows how to dance to.
16. Play it and I'll love you forever.
17. There's fifty quid in it for you (yea...right)
18. Next,next,next,next! Play it next! It's gotta be next!
19. Don't play it next, wait 'till I come back.
20. You didn't just play it! I've been here all night and I haven't heard it.
21. Play it again, no one will notice.
22. Don't play that, everybody's sick of it.
23. Nobody cares what you play, they just wanna drink.
24. Everybody'll dance. Everybody wants to hear it.
25. Play it next 'cause we're gonna leave right away.
26. Play it now or I'll leave.
27. It's a request...you have to play it.
28. Play it or I'll have you fired.
29. Hey! Remember who's paying you!
30. We can't hear it in the back. Turn it up!
31. It's too loud up front, turn it down.
32. What songs you got? Let me look through your stuff. Don't worry I know what I'm doing,I have CD's at home.
33. I think it's the third or fourth song....just play the whole CD.
34. You know the song....it goes like this "Da Dun Da Da De Da...."
35. There's some guy singing and maybe a guitar....oh... and drums.
36. Your're the DJ , you should know it.
37. What do you mean you don't have it, sure you have it.
38. Just listen to me and I'll get them dancing. Trust me.
39. Yeah I'm a DJ, me. Oh yeah, I play some really big clubs, I'm very well known in *insert name of somewhere far away* and I get paid s#!tloads, etc. (Funny how you encounter these popular and busy DJs on friday and saturday nights, you'd think they'd be out gigging instead...)
40. Can you play this tape for me? Don't worry, it sounds fine, I held the microphone really close to the radio.
41. You've got time for one more. Come on! I know the owner.
42. Just one more and we'll leave. Really we will.
Oh, and just for us VDJ people....
43. Where's your turntables? You're not a proper DJ unless you got decks.
44. A computer? You're not a proper DJ, that's cheating.
(Not my own work, robbed most of it it off another website, but it made me laugh so I thought I'd share it with you lot.) I think we've all heard most of these at some point in our careers! Feel free to add any of your own...
1. Play some real music.
2. Play something that somebody actually wants to hear.
3. Play something faster,more upbeat.
4. Play something we can dance to.
5. Play something that has a beat.
6. Don't play any crap.
7. Shut this off! (so what if the dance floor is full!)
8. Nobody likes this; it sucks ,you suck.
9. I need a song,but I don't know what it is.
10. Throw on some Zeppelin, it'll get them rockin!
11. Thanks,now play the whole CD.
12. So it skips,play it anyway!
13. Play it! Or I'll knock you into next week!
14. Don't play it, cause my friend is here and she'll cry.
15. It's the only song my boyfriend knows how to dance to.
16. Play it and I'll love you forever.
17. There's fifty quid in it for you (yea...right)
18. Next,next,next,next! Play it next! It's gotta be next!
19. Don't play it next, wait 'till I come back.
20. You didn't just play it! I've been here all night and I haven't heard it.
21. Play it again, no one will notice.
22. Don't play that, everybody's sick of it.
23. Nobody cares what you play, they just wanna drink.
24. Everybody'll dance. Everybody wants to hear it.
25. Play it next 'cause we're gonna leave right away.
26. Play it now or I'll leave.
27. It's a request...you have to play it.
28. Play it or I'll have you fired.
29. Hey! Remember who's paying you!
30. We can't hear it in the back. Turn it up!
31. It's too loud up front, turn it down.
32. What songs you got? Let me look through your stuff. Don't worry I know what I'm doing,I have CD's at home.
33. I think it's the third or fourth song....just play the whole CD.
34. You know the song....it goes like this "Da Dun Da Da De Da...."
35. There's some guy singing and maybe a guitar....oh... and drums.
36. Your're the DJ , you should know it.
37. What do you mean you don't have it, sure you have it.
38. Just listen to me and I'll get them dancing. Trust me.
39. Yeah I'm a DJ, me. Oh yeah, I play some really big clubs, I'm very well known in *insert name of somewhere far away* and I get paid s#!tloads, etc. (Funny how you encounter these popular and busy DJs on friday and saturday nights, you'd think they'd be out gigging instead...)
40. Can you play this tape for me? Don't worry, it sounds fine, I held the microphone really close to the radio.
41. You've got time for one more. Come on! I know the owner.
42. Just one more and we'll leave. Really we will.
Oh, and just for us VDJ people....
43. Where's your turntables? You're not a proper DJ unless you got decks.
44. A computer? You're not a proper DJ, that's cheating.
Mensajes Sun 02 Jul 06 @ 7:45 am
Mantahoe
Yeah man. I've heard most of them but some are just too funny lol.
Mensajes Sun 02 Jul 06 @ 8:21 am
joetmen
perfectly agree!!
but, when someone says something like this, by this time, I laugh 'cause, as mantahoe says, some are just too funny!!
it's fanciful...
cheers!!
but, when someone says something like this, by this time, I laugh 'cause, as mantahoe says, some are just too funny!!
it's fanciful...
cheers!!
Mensajes Sun 02 Jul 06 @ 9:08 am
low-fat-al
my response to this one:
25. Play it next 'cause we're gonna leave right away.
buh bye then...
25. Play it next 'cause we're gonna leave right away.
buh bye then...
Mensajes Sun 02 Jul 06 @ 10:14 am
joetmen
I hate so much who says: what songs you got?let me look through your stuff.don't worry I know what I'm doing, I have cd's at home. (number 32)
Mensajes Sun 02 Jul 06 @ 10:17 am
Matt0218
i'm getting this almost everytime, i play these days
"it's my friends birthday ... blah blah blah ... "
if i had more time during my sets i wish i could go and see her/him to do some id checks, but ...
i'm a highly respected person in my club
the staff and on top the owner supports me 100%
they know i don't get angry easily
anyway ...
a couple months ago a lady approached me and told me to stop playing this crap music
the club was pretty packed and i looked around ... everybody was having fun ...
i told her, "if you don't like my music, leave (i wasn't "that" pumped up to tell her to "piss off")
and good luck at other places ... "
she stared at me and was whining around how i could say something like that to a customer
i was ready to take my last shot
i told her, "do you need somebody to escort you out ?
i call the bouncer or if you can wait, i put another song on and i do it myself"
she walked away and my friends told me she stayed another 3 hours "dancing" with her friends
some people aren't "smart" enough to figure out what kind of genres the club plays
i like, listen and play all kind of genres,
but our club plays hip hop & house (both old & new skool)
some people just don't get it and wonder "how can you not play rock, rock is great"
i know rock is great, i like rock too ... whew ...
only a few people really pay some respect to the djs
not to forget, on the other hand, some think it's the coolest thing to do :-)
most think it's the easiest job in the world without any stress at all
they think what could be so difficult to "play" "some" music
well well well ...
good to have a place to share your feelings :-)
feel much better now
keep it up everybody
to the day djs "with VDJ" rule the world ;-)
CHEERS
"it's my friends birthday ... blah blah blah ... "
if i had more time during my sets i wish i could go and see her/him to do some id checks, but ...
i'm a highly respected person in my club
the staff and on top the owner supports me 100%
they know i don't get angry easily
anyway ...
a couple months ago a lady approached me and told me to stop playing this crap music
the club was pretty packed and i looked around ... everybody was having fun ...
i told her, "if you don't like my music, leave (i wasn't "that" pumped up to tell her to "piss off")
and good luck at other places ... "
she stared at me and was whining around how i could say something like that to a customer
i was ready to take my last shot
i told her, "do you need somebody to escort you out ?
i call the bouncer or if you can wait, i put another song on and i do it myself"
she walked away and my friends told me she stayed another 3 hours "dancing" with her friends
some people aren't "smart" enough to figure out what kind of genres the club plays
i like, listen and play all kind of genres,
but our club plays hip hop & house (both old & new skool)
some people just don't get it and wonder "how can you not play rock, rock is great"
i know rock is great, i like rock too ... whew ...
only a few people really pay some respect to the djs
not to forget, on the other hand, some think it's the coolest thing to do :-)
most think it's the easiest job in the world without any stress at all
they think what could be so difficult to "play" "some" music
well well well ...
good to have a place to share your feelings :-)
feel much better now
keep it up everybody
to the day djs "with VDJ" rule the world ;-)
CHEERS
Mensajes Sun 02 Jul 06 @ 12:17 pm
arthurvasey
How about the following:
(Hosting a decade night, not 2000) "Got any (insert name of current chart act here)?";
"We want MODERN MUSIC", at a non-2000 decade theme night;
"Got any Beatles/Stones" at a modern music gig;
At a wedding or birthday party, having been requested to play something cheesy by someone, somebody else comes along and says "Turn this tap off" (well, it sounds like "tap", anyway);
Requests for inappropriate music (a song with obscene lyrics left in for a child or prudish aunt, somebody wanting hymns or classical music or trad jazz, songs that don't tie in with the theme, assuming there is one).
It happens!
(Hosting a decade night, not 2000) "Got any (insert name of current chart act here)?";
"We want MODERN MUSIC", at a non-2000 decade theme night;
"Got any Beatles/Stones" at a modern music gig;
At a wedding or birthday party, having been requested to play something cheesy by someone, somebody else comes along and says "Turn this tap off" (well, it sounds like "tap", anyway);
Requests for inappropriate music (a song with obscene lyrics left in for a child or prudish aunt, somebody wanting hymns or classical music or trad jazz, songs that don't tie in with the theme, assuming there is one).
It happens!
Mensajes Sun 02 Jul 06 @ 3:35 pm
sunsetbowling
Try this your doing a wedding...the floor is packed because you are interacting with the crowd, doing some games and teaching then some new dances. Then the mother of the bride who hired you comes over and says stop playing games and interacting we just want to dance and hands you a list of songs she wants played. Went from 200 people on the floor to 5 for the next 1/2 hour. Kept going over to the mom and asking if we could do something to get the crowd going her comment. "No!!! Everyone is dancing and having a great time, just keep playing the list I gave you." Well for the next two hours we played what she want because she was the one cutting the check and we never played to more than 10 people on the floor the rest of the night.
The good news was people there knew what was going on and felt bad for us having our hands tied. They at least for a short time saw what we could do to get the crowd going. We have booked three shows from that one with all of them saying they want us to be interactive no matter what!!!
Sometimes I wish I was in a club that play one style of music and people were coming to dance to hear that style. The money in the private market is much than what clubs play, but sometimes you ask your self is it worth having to hold back at anyshow.
Mike
P.S. I always love the one guy who comes up and says he used to DJ and I should play this song. When ever I ask him why he stop it is always...you can't make a living at it. In which I respond really well tell that to my account who has to put me in a higher tax bracket at the end of the year. If fact, I love there face when I tell them I make between $150 to $250 per hour. How would you say "PRICELESS!!!!".
The good news was people there knew what was going on and felt bad for us having our hands tied. They at least for a short time saw what we could do to get the crowd going. We have booked three shows from that one with all of them saying they want us to be interactive no matter what!!!
Sometimes I wish I was in a club that play one style of music and people were coming to dance to hear that style. The money in the private market is much than what clubs play, but sometimes you ask your self is it worth having to hold back at anyshow.
Mike
P.S. I always love the one guy who comes up and says he used to DJ and I should play this song. When ever I ask him why he stop it is always...you can't make a living at it. In which I respond really well tell that to my account who has to put me in a higher tax bracket at the end of the year. If fact, I love there face when I tell them I make between $150 to $250 per hour. How would you say "PRICELESS!!!!".
Mensajes Sun 02 Jul 06 @ 6:39 pm
A Man and His Music
Those are all bad, but the one I hate the most; Rick, I think I'm pregnant. Damn, I can't even remember her name. That can really mess up my next mix.
Mensajes Mon 03 Jul 06 @ 1:46 am
Rune (DJ-In-Norway)
loooooooooool ;)
Mensajes Mon 03 Jul 06 @ 1:49 am
A Man and His Music
I don't have to worry about that anymore. I got a Vasectomy quite a few years ago.
Mensajes Mon 03 Jul 06 @ 2:18 am
steve_djdawson
heard most of them, and mostly hate the last two, but the look on their faces when I tall them I use TCV @ home, and what it does.. excellent.. :D
however.. the "you got anything recent" is a local fave.. I mean, a DJ.. something recent... playing a trendy bar.. REALLY... and "can I look thru yer list?" really annoys me... but hey ho, all part of the job.
Theres a group of asian lads come in quite often, canny bunch, but REGARDLESS of what I'm playing, within 5 minutes, there up asking for some R'n'B.. which is funny, cause thats what I was playing when you asked... "no, no real R'n'B 50 Cent etc etc" sorry 50 Cent? Real? he sold out to a video game for money!
/rant end
however.. the "you got anything recent" is a local fave.. I mean, a DJ.. something recent... playing a trendy bar.. REALLY... and "can I look thru yer list?" really annoys me... but hey ho, all part of the job.
Theres a group of asian lads come in quite often, canny bunch, but REGARDLESS of what I'm playing, within 5 minutes, there up asking for some R'n'B.. which is funny, cause thats what I was playing when you asked... "no, no real R'n'B 50 Cent etc etc" sorry 50 Cent? Real? he sold out to a video game for money!
/rant end
Mensajes Mon 03 Jul 06 @ 4:51 am
kramer101
what about when you actually play the stupid song they requested and two seconds later they run up to the booth and scream....how could you have played the song when i wasn't here - i was in the bathroom - you have to play it again !!
but actually, the number one thing a dj hates to hear...
the party is over and the client says...
i forgot my check book
ouch
but actually, the number one thing a dj hates to hear...
the party is over and the client says...
i forgot my check book
ouch
Mensajes Mon 03 Jul 06 @ 5:47 am
djsherz
What, you'd accept a cheque??? Had a bad experience with one before, I'll only take a cheque if it's paid (and cleared) before the gig, otherwise it's cash on the night...
(edit: love your rig by the way, I really want some pin spots like that!)
(edit: love your rig by the way, I really want some pin spots like that!)
Mensajes Mon 03 Jul 06 @ 6:10 am
frd1963
How about this one:
"You have to play my song soon because we're leaving soon"
To which I generally reply:
"So if I play it you will leave?"
I hate the "you have to play it again because I was in the bathrrom" one too.
The other night I ended up playing "Hips Don't Lie" 3 times because the first 2 times I played it, there was someone of the group of girls that requested it either in the bathroom, outside smoking or whatever. It was OK though because it was late night/early morning and they were the only ones left int he club, and frankly, I don't mind watching a group of drunk girls trying to immitate Shakira.
How about "are you going to play anything good tonight?"
my reply: "Sorry, the manager specifically requested that I only play crap tonight."
or "Don't worry about them, they're drunk and they'll dance to anything... just put my song on and watch"
"You have to play my song soon because we're leaving soon"
To which I generally reply:
"So if I play it you will leave?"
I hate the "you have to play it again because I was in the bathrrom" one too.
The other night I ended up playing "Hips Don't Lie" 3 times because the first 2 times I played it, there was someone of the group of girls that requested it either in the bathroom, outside smoking or whatever. It was OK though because it was late night/early morning and they were the only ones left int he club, and frankly, I don't mind watching a group of drunk girls trying to immitate Shakira.
How about "are you going to play anything good tonight?"
my reply: "Sorry, the manager specifically requested that I only play crap tonight."
or "Don't worry about them, they're drunk and they'll dance to anything... just put my song on and watch"
Mensajes Mon 03 Jul 06 @ 5:23 pm
MUSIKGUATE
I agree with all of you...........some time ago I was browsing thorugh the stanton webpage and I found out this article by Alberts Lineses III that goes like this.....
http://www.stantondj.com/v2/mobile_al3_08_05.asp
This is so true.........if you have time read it....it does helps a lot.
Peace !!!
http://www.stantondj.com/v2/mobile_al3_08_05.asp
This is so true.........if you have time read it....it does helps a lot.
Peace !!!
Mensajes Mon 03 Jul 06 @ 7:54 pm
pdnmusic
Good read Musikguate
Mensajes Tue 04 Jul 06 @ 11:02 am
DJ Marcel_1
The one i always get is :
"when are you going to play it - cause I don;t have time to wait all night"
I usually reply with :
The more you annoy me the longer you wait.
or
Where do you work? - That way i can show up monday and tell you how and when to do your job.
I get the usual - Play it again.
I just say no not going to play it again - I have 5000 tracks up in this dj booth - pick another.
or my personal favorite lately :
NO GANSTA RAP. Pick a song that isn't going to get my doormen shived.
DJ Marcel
Purple Onion Nightclub
"when are you going to play it - cause I don;t have time to wait all night"
I usually reply with :
The more you annoy me the longer you wait.
or
Where do you work? - That way i can show up monday and tell you how and when to do your job.
I get the usual - Play it again.
I just say no not going to play it again - I have 5000 tracks up in this dj booth - pick another.
or my personal favorite lately :
NO GANSTA RAP. Pick a song that isn't going to get my doormen shived.
DJ Marcel
Purple Onion Nightclub
Mensajes Fri 07 Jul 06 @ 2:02 am
pdnmusic
"What do you do after mixing?"
Oh, sorry. This POST was about "DJs hate to hear", and not about "DJs really want to hear".
LOL :)
Oh, sorry. This POST was about "DJs hate to hear", and not about "DJs really want to hear".
LOL :)
Mensajes Fri 07 Jul 06 @ 9:49 am
asymptote
For years wannabees would comment on equipment.
for example, if not using Technics 1210s they would say. 'You're not a real DJ, you're not using Technics.'
I'm just waiting for the first guy to say. 'You're not a real DJ, you're not using a Mac'. >.)
for example, if not using Technics 1210s they would say. 'You're not a real DJ, you're not using Technics.'
I'm just waiting for the first guy to say. 'You're not a real DJ, you're not using a Mac'. >.)
Mensajes Fri 07 Jul 06 @ 1:18 pm
