ASSHURT RECORD STORE DUDE vs ASSHURT DJ
JLR
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who would win in an asshurtiness contest? Asshurt DJ.Peace...JLR 
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before you post - you tend to leave 3 or 4
words out of every sentence. It's like playing
fucking Wheel of Fortune trying to read your shit.
on quite quickly....
The record store guy has all day to stew about shit, all he
has to do occasionally change the CD.
He just listened to Gang Gang Dance and Devendra Barnhart so
he just a big downer in general.
I say record store guy, hands down.
Saying "no homo" is way past the expiration date.
Should we also be trying to "catch wreck" too?
Dope
Back to the question at hand, being a DJ who does his best to avoid the pitfalls of asshurtedness (ayo,) and being that I know a shitload (ayo) of DJs who are full-on-asshurt (ayoayoayo,) I gotta go with the record store dudes.
"Oh, that's not obvious enough Rob. How about the Beatles? Or fucking... fucking Beethoven? Side one, Track one of the Fifth Symphony... How can someone with no interest in music own a record store?"
Everyone, from the DJ to the record shop clerk, has to compromise some of themselves to succeed. But you know what, even that compromise is a whole lot less than going to work for some company you don't care about, doing some shit you don't love, making money you don't give a shit about.
I have off days at the shop no question. And I just got handed two FULL dvds of music to play at this wedding this weekend, some of which is awful. BUT, as I am putting together my playlists I am peppering in Leroy Hutson, Money Jungle, Turner Brothers, Curtis Mayfield, The Zombies, Le Cop, and so on. I am really stoked to throw down... even though it means playing "Waiting For The World To Change". That is 4 minutes of pain that I can live with.
you're lucky your shop is a raer boutique...have ya ever had to deal with douchetards who want a fucking discount on a 25 cent Van Halen LP because it "has some scratches" That shit makes ya wanna go all Jack Black on someone.....
Seriously mang - I was at a wedding this weekend (wifey's cousin) and the DJ's playlist (I'm assuming he was the venue's pick, not the wedding couple's) was so straight-up "wedding music" that it was almost a parody of itself. We're talking..."Kokomo," "Don't Worry Be Happy" and "Caribbean Queen." I kept waiting for Ritchie's "Hello" or maybe Stevie's "I Just Called To Say I Love You."
When "Celebration" finally came on, I grabbed wifey and daughter and said, "that's our cue: time to go." Something like Curtis or the Zombies would have blown my mind.
why do people with tastes like this even have music at their wedding? They obviously dont really like music.
There is NO way they like those songs...oh wait, were they in a coma?
Ha - well, not to turn this into a wedding thread but the wedding was just the kind of paint-by-numbers affair that makes me exasperated with the whole wedding industrial complex to begin with. I understand the desire for ceremony and tradition and, even from an anthropological point of view, *ritual* but this wedding - which was not small...maybe 200 people? - just seemed so by-the-book that there was very little in the way of creativity, spontaneity and individuality. The fact that they let the venue's DJ run the show was indicative of that. You don't need to hire your own DJ but at least hit dude off with a list of songs you want. I'm assuming the Bride/Groom first dance song was their own choice, but while I don't know my wife's cousin very well, I just can't believe her or her husband actually sit around and listen to "Schlock Hits of the '80s" all day long.
That said, my daughter had a great time. Huge parquet + 2-3 year olds = mega hit.
It's not always the fault of the people getting married, though; sometimes the wedding "DJ" takes it upon himself to play that schitt.
My parents and sister worked really hard on the playlist for her wedding last year--you should have seen my dad's face when the DJ went ahead and started playing schitt like "Celebration" and "Play that Funky Music," despite being given an extremely detailed playlist. And that's definitely not the only wedding I've heard of where the "DJ" has insisted on foisting that crap on the attendees, despite being specifically instructed not to.
You could just edit your first sentence, making it EVERYONE has to compromise. Not just records slangers and spinners.
i have yet to see a good wedding dj and i've been to quite a few weddings over the past couple of years.
a few weeks ago, i was at a wedding where the couple chose "lets stay together" for their first dance. the dj, in full-on cheesy radio voice, introduced the couple and before pushing play on the cd, he said with complete seriousness, "ladies and gentlmen, Mr. Al Green".
A freind of mine accidently dropped Eric Clapton "Cocaine" during the Father/Bride dance. whoooops!
"this ones for the father of the bride who just got out of jail."
I was at a wedding a couple of weeks ago and the dj played muzak versions of all the hits like play that funky music and celebrate. It was just plain horrible.
I think a lot of couples just don't know what to do so they just call some random wedding DJ service and they are fucked right off the bat. If someone says, "I have been playing weddings for 30+ years they are probably shit."
Record store dude asshurt no question, especially if he's short too. Those little-man-syndrome dudes hold on to shit like a rottweiler.
You should not dj weddings.
ORLY
I know. It's not like I'm rude or doing anything wrong and I still do the job properly. But these people do call me and say we want a proper DJ not a 'wedding DJ' and they know exactly what I play because they heard me and then called so they know what they are getting. I don't do them for less than about $1500 so i can handle the pain for a few hours. But I think they may permanently harming my soul
I fucking love weddings. The money is good, contracts are usually signed without so much as a question, and for every Sinatra or MJ or (gag) Slightly Stoopid tune I've had to play I can drop stuff like Duke Pearson, First Choice, The Charmels, and classics like Otis Redding or whatever.
If you're doing your job, you won't have a bunch of people nagging at you because everyone will be too busy enjoying themselves. If you're the kind of selfish ass that only wants to hear themselves play tunes they like and nobody else even knows then you shouldn't be doing weddings because you are fucking with people's lives behind that shit.
This, beyond all of the other stuff, is why manchild should not dj weddings.
no, no, don't get me wrong. love prince and michael jackson - i mean this is the ONLY thing of mine they like. no otis redding, no motown, nothing. i try and bring more accessible funk and soul stuff, not the raers and they usually still can't get down