[Official Playlist from DJ!] Music played at regionals.
 

ok ok ok, its gone on long enuf, thread after thread about music played at regionals, so i took it upon myself to get the official playlist from a DJ (after some sweet talking) because i had a hard time finding songs for my slideshow CD last year.

so here it is, the Official FIRST Playlist, this gets emailed to every DJ at every regional, so it should definately have the song you heard (minus practice matches, which is just CD's field crew had), enjoy.
cricketsnorth.com/kevin/FIRST_Music_Schedule_2006.pdf
cricketsnorth.com/kevin/FIRST_Playoff_Music_Schedule_2006.pdf
but remember, NO ILLEGAL MUSIC DOWNLOADING :P ;)

Some past threads (with peer suggestions/discussion about what was played at competitions):
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=36560
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=45668
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=34057

and thank you to the DJ who emailed this to me, but ill leave him unamed.
-kevin (Team 1596)

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This is great! I always wonered if FIRST actually sent out a playlist. Thanks for getting this information.

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I guess that wasn't exactly what I expected. I know for a fact that I have heard far more music from the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, and Metallica. Did the DJ say how strictly they are required to stay on that list?

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FIRST has some amazing DJs. :)

I mean -- you've got to be dedicated to your craft if you're going to lug around that 7' edition of Everybody (Backstreet's Back). If that wasn't evidence enough of your dedication, surely there are but a few DJs in the country -- nay, the world -- that have the rare Blondie recording of 99 Luftballons. This edition is rare, for the most part, because the song was released by Nena after Blondie effectively disbanded and they've never covered it.

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A good list, for sure, but there are obviously songs added by the DJ's. I didn't hear it at Purdue or Cleveland, but last year in Chicago and several times in Milwaukee I heard "Stomp to my Beat" by JS17 - this is a great song to get the crowd pumping.

The list for music during the awards is standardized as well...I know I've seen it floating around here somewhere.

Thanks for getting this!

Kev

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I'm looking into it. There seems to be a huge gap between DJ's such as the one at VCU which played a bunch of terrible music vs the one at UCF who felt overly restricted by the playlist vs the one at Detroit who kicked butt, but was overly repetitive as well.

I'll let you guys know what I find out.

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At Waterloo the DJ played And Then What by Young Jeezy (not on the list) but only the "boom boom clap" and none of the actual rapping. Such a disappointment for such a great song.

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Next year We interscept this email and add the Numa Numa Dance song.

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the REAL name is "O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei (3:34)" and i heard it at waterloo but not sure which day it was.... but alas its still not on the list :S

hmm.. i thought they had to be pretty strick with the songs because they needed a liscence to play at a venue like that?? .. remember: day 1 theirs no DJ.. just random CD's

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Are you serious? I must have missed it than. Gosh darn it why didn't our DJ play it?!

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Now where is the super secret Awards music file? lol.

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yah they played it at SVR also. One thing that really suprised me was that Green Day's "Holiday" was on the list (our DJ played "American Idiot") It seems to me that FIRST should stay away from songs as politically charged as those, not to mention they don't really fit in at a robotics competition. They should just sub in DSK's "Robot Case"

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what!?
no Led Zeppelin?
Pink Floyd?
Black Sabbath (not even Iron Man)?
:(

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No Foo Fighters :/
Slipknot wins a Grammy, doesn't even get one song..


They need more variety, as far as I can tell..

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Slightly deviating from the purpose of the thread... I highly disagree. Not to mention the "free speech" issues, every song is "charged" with something. Most songs are love songs, some are political. Just because you don't happen to agree doesn't make it "inappropriate." And to present an interesting point: I believe that robotics IS political. Dean's homework is to call up all of your statesmen and get FIRST teams in every political district. If you want to go a step further, Engineering is Liberal. We try to change the world, making it better. Who wants to be a "conservative engineer?" "Oh, the design is fine as it is. It doesn't need any improvement." Next thing you'll say is that they should ban Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" because THAT's a protest song too...

Anyways,

Day one there might not be a DJ because they're paid by the hour, and music on Practice Day has never been considered that important.

Content has nothing to do with the license to DJ. Content is strictly the control of the person who hires the DJ.

But there are easier ways to restrict content than a list of 300 or so songs. Instructing the DJ to follow "FCC guidelines" or explain the meaning of "Gracious Professionalism." would be a better improvement, because the DJ is now free to play whatever he has that may be appropriate, but hasn't been heard of by FIRST yet. The DJ SHOULD know the content of all of the music he owns; it shouldn't be a surprise to him if there's inappropriate content that he obviously shouldn't play.