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

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

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

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"

[Wolf103FM]

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

[devicenull]

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


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

[Swan217]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

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"

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,

Originally Posted by the_short1

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

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.

[Jeremytice]

Thanks for the list!

[mtaman02]

Originally Posted by dubious elise

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?

From what I heard they are to stay as close to that list as possible but allowed some lee way if needed but they must preview the songs into their headphones to insure no profanity is audible. And of course Special Requests are allowed (at least at those regionals where the DJ was in reach of the teams - Majority of which are posted at or by the scoring table) =)

[cbale2000]

Personally I like the music better last year, I think it was timed better too, either that or the DJs were better last year.

[Jay W.]

Different DJs, different styles.

At UCF, they DJ was very limited. He ended up playing the same songs (some that really shouldn't be played more than once) over and over, and it just got old. However, at Palmetto, the music was excellent. There was a mix of everything, not just a variation on one genre. I like it when you can go from played Mix-A-Lots "Baby Got Back" one minute, to Tim McGraws "I like it, I love it."

[cbale2000]

At Toronto they played the "Numa" song twice..... but only the first 30 seconds of it...... I don't know about you but it's like... criminal, to only play the first 30 seconds of the "numa" song!

[Spammy Badame]

Originally Posted by Jay W.

Different DJs, different styles.

At UCF, they DJ was very limited. He ended up playing the same songs (some that really shouldn't be played more than once) over and over, and it just got old. However, at Palmetto, the music was excellent. There was a mix of everything, not just a variation on one genre. I like it when you can go from played Mix-A-Lots "Baby Got Back" one minute, to Tim McGraws "I like it, I love it."

I agree, at UCF I counted him playing Queen's We Will Rock You I think 14 times in the same day. Eventually I started getting annoyed and covering my ears. It was so hard to tune it out tho. And I liked Palmetto's DJ too!

[Kakashi]

I love how I find this list 2 days after our team hosts an FLL event.

[SamC]

Where do DJ's get the actual music files without spending a fortune and without illegally downloading them?

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by SamSofa330

Where do DJ's get the actual music files without spending a fortune and without illegally downloading them?

Your first option was correct, they spend fortunes to buy the CDs of the music. Most will not download music, as the quality of the compressed audio (such as AAC or MP3) on such services as iTunes is no where near the quality of of CDs. On iPods and other similar consumer devices the difference in quality may not be noticible, but at high volumes and on nice audio equipment, the difference between downloaded music and CDs is like night and day.

[Dan Petrovic]

What they need is some good ol' fashion Liquid Tension Experiment.

How can you NOT like 100% Instrumental Prog rock?