DocMcCoy"Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
I used to play Kool & The Gang's version of "Wichita Lineman" quite regularly. Roberta Flack's "Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye" is another favourite. I did a Saturday night at a North London bar a couple of weeks back, and closed out with "Thru & Thru" by the Stones. Sopranos heads know what's up with that one.
my last gig always asked me to play "More than Words"---the drunks would sing along while everyone else headed for the door---ill admit it helped to ease tensions at teh end of the night cause no fights would break out...
Sunshower / Dr. Buzzard Moondance / Van Morrison Between the Sheets / Isley Bros. For The Love of You / Isley Bros. Sexual Healing / Marvin Gaye See Ya / Paula and Carole in The Magic Garden
At last Saturday's Soul Strut DJ gig at Bar Vertigo (w/DJ Comatoast, Luck, DCastillo and others), I spun the Romeos'"Precious Memories" towards the end of the night, and it sounded really proper for the moment. Just laid-back enough for last call, but still semi-danceable.
Jaques Palminger & Viktor Marek - T??deldub (Pudel Produkte)
capricorn - cannonball adderley pavanne - soulful strings (thanks jens) mr. johnny walker - tiombe lockhart machs gut ich muss gehen - manfred krug (sooo necessary german version of baby its cold outside) dat dere - oscar brown jr.
Specials Ghost Town might seem a bit obvious but a nice one to wrap things up with. Co-signage on Spottieottie... Fela Kuti Water. I have a 10" dubplate instrumental thing I'll keep under my hat for now, but I also used Fudge Fingas Situation Diminished for quite a while too: ...sometimes if I've already played my last tune I might also try and sneak a little mournful interlude type track that appear on numerous hip-hop beats albums or just fade something in and back out.
I think you could end any event anywhere in the world with that song and the point would get across, on some universal-language shit. Play it at the end of your soul night here, your house night there, your gabber night in Amsterdam, your bris in Barstow, your NASCAR rally in Huntsville, and/or your cricket match in New fucking Dehli, and just watch 'em start floating toward the exits. Real All heads know.
Yes also to the "SpottieOttie" instrumental. Other Outkast-adjacent evening-enders: Brick's "Fun," or--if you're really gotta get outta there in a hurry--Willie Hutch's "The Shortest Distance."
And that instrumental edit of Archie Whitewater's "Cross Country" from a few years back, while a moral failure, might succeed in this particular regard.
claudja barry - love for the sake of love affinity - don't go away (dub version) the salsoul orchestra - take some time out rude movements - sun palace tout sweet - another man is twice as nice (dub version) bardeux - when we kiss
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Hahaha, classic!
Paul when you spinnin next?
Naive Melody
robert johnson - they're red hot
Spottiedopalicious as well
I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash clears the fuck out of hip hop heads, hatters!!!!
capricorn - cannonball adderley
pavanne - soulful strings (thanks jens)
mr. johnny walker - tiombe lockhart
machs gut ich muss gehen - manfred krug (sooo necessary german version of baby its cold outside)
dat dere - oscar brown jr.
A-MEN!Never leave home without it
bloodstone- natural high
santos and jonny- sleepwalk
Specials Ghost Town might seem a bit obvious but a nice one to wrap things up with. Co-signage on Spottieottie...
Fela Kuti Water.
I have a 10" dubplate instrumental thing I'll keep under my hat for now, but I also used Fudge Fingas Situation Diminished for quite a while too:
...sometimes if I've already played my last tune I might also try and sneak a little mournful interlude type track that appear on numerous hip-hop beats albums or just fade something in and back out.
Happy Trails
I think you could end any event anywhere in the world with that song and the point would get across, on some universal-language shit. Play it at the end of your soul night here, your house night there, your gabber night in Amsterdam, your bris in Barstow, your NASCAR rally in Huntsville, and/or your cricket match in New fucking Dehli, and just watch 'em start floating toward the exits.
RealAll heads know.Yes also to the "SpottieOttie" instrumental. Other Outkast-adjacent evening-enders: Brick's "Fun," or--if you're really gotta get outta there in a hurry--Willie Hutch's "The Shortest Distance."
And that instrumental edit of Archie Whitewater's "Cross Country" from a few years back, while a moral failure, might succeed in this particular regard.
It really doesn't get better than that.
Full disclosure: I take my closing (and opening!) game seriously and always try to end on something different every time out.
Here are a few that I've used recently:
affinity - don't go away (dub version)
the salsoul orchestra - take some time out
rude movements - sun palace
tout sweet - another man is twice as nice (dub version)
bardeux - when we kiss
"let the sunshine in"
peace, stein...
b-dum tish...