60th birthday party and 'modern' music

I went to an 18th Birthday party on Saturday and they were playing ABBA!

Drum and bass hip hop Rap Techno

Right on BlueBelle… *Artaylar just get Stormzy in to spin the decks, you’ll be fine. Happy Birthday ? ??.

Artaylar

Happy birthday (which big one?) ???

As for the play list - choose your favourites, it's your celebration.
Or you could go through the decades since you were born, a favourite couple of songs from each decade, then your favourites.

As someone shortly to turn 60 I would not welcome modern music on the play list. Anymore than I would have expected my parents, at that age, to have been playing the BeeGees, or David Essex or Fleetwood Mac at their parties.

Very happy birthday Artaylar.
Don’t get down with the kids… you might struggle to get up again, knees, back, etc.
Good dance music with a great beat crosses the generations.
Bop the night away, have fun ?

I’m over 70 and whilst I wouldn’t be playing rap, techno or hip hop I would most certainly be playing upbeat favourites from the last 5 years or so.

Happy birthday (which big one?)

I just read the thread title - 60th

Duh!! ?

Happy Birthday Artaylar. I can just about remember my 60th - only a small party, as I had just moved into this house and things were pretty chaotic, not that 21 years have made much difference! I'm sure you will resolve the issue of the music - to your own liking!

I ve never had a birthday party since I was about 9

WhT month is you birthday BlueBelle, any excuse for a party on Gransnet ?

60th birthday. It’s got to be 60s music. Beatles, Stones, Marvin Gaye, Bee Gees, Bowie, Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors.
It’s 1966 and I’m 16 and was so into soul music. One of my DGD loves it.
Have a great party Artaylar

I will soon be 60 as well! late 60's, 70's and early 80's music for me! Of course we were teens in the 70's, and out at clubs in early 80's. Disco is not dead at my house!

I was at a wedding a few years ago when Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline came on. All of the younger generation knew all the words and started a circle dance holding hands. It was fun to see the 'kids' singing along to their parent's music.

Happy birthday and have fun.

A lot of 60s music makes me cringe. Besides many of them being mysogenistic or downright sleazy. If you are 60 (lucky you!) you will have left school in the late 70s/early 80s. That is the time we look back to for Songs connected to happy memories.

Then there are the years when we were at home with small children, with the radio on all day - many great classics from that period.

If there are songs from recent years that you like, add them by all means, especially if you have younger guests. Have a lovely party!

Haha pollytickle I m sure I m not the only one

muse

60th birthday. It’s got to be 60s music. Beatles, Stones, Marvin Gaye, Bee Gees, Bowie, Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors.
It’s 1966 and I’m 16 and was so into soul music. One of my DGD loves it.
Have a great party Artaylar

But that music would have been popular when OP was very small. The music of her 'era' would be the seventies and early eighties - ABBA, Donna Summer, Adam and the Ants, Wham, Boy George, The Police etc

CanadianGran

I will soon be 60 as well! late 60's, 70's and early 80's music for me! Of course we were teens in the 70's, and out at clubs in early 80's. Disco is not dead at my house!

I was at a wedding a few years ago when Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline came on. All of the younger generation knew all the words and started a circle dance holding hands. It was fun to see the 'kids' singing along to their parent's music.

Happy birthday and have fun.

Pleased to hear that CanadianGran disco is not dead at my house ??

At 69, my husband is a DJ. He asks before the night for peoples taste in music, looks at the age of the crowd when it comes in and takes requests. He gives people what they want, not what he likes, a problem with some DJs

Blossoming

I went to an 18th Birthday party on Saturday and they were playing ABBA!

Never understood the enthusiasm for Abba. Found myself driving a mini-bus of teenagers from one side of Scotland to the other in the early 21st century. They insisted in playing ABBA all the way there...and all the way back....!

Got to have some Ed Sheeran - he's great! Also like Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga etc.

I went to a 21st about 10 years ago and recognised very few tunes. I mean I keep reasonably up to date but these were really weird and obscure. Youngsters were enjoying and someone was trying to persuade me to dance. I foolishly said if they had Oops Upside Your Head I’d be down on the floor never dreaming for one minute …????

I have a playlist that has tracks from the 50's right up to current time (the 1975, 5 seconds of summer, Avici, MNEK etc). I love dance music and spent a lot of time in Discos in the late 70's/early 80's and still enjoy some current chart music. I'm waiting for Pink to your in the UK and will be getting tickets. I have a very varied taste in music but suppose if had to choose would be mid 70's to mid 80's for me.

Mid 70s to Mid 80s for me too, with classic Stones, Fleetwood Mac mixed in. I am just starting to sort out a mix on Spotify, keep hearing tracks I like and think 'Oh, I must add that!'. Some music crosses generations, some doesn't. My go to is the sound track from Saturday Night Fever.......makes the vacuum move faster in this house.

DH and I were watching and playing along with The Hit List (?) on TV last weekend. We both agreed that any band name that contained the words "feat" or "vs" were way too modern for us!!