For months I have been using the free version of Spotify and love it. If you don’t know what Spotify is then you should just check it out yourself, but more or less the free version gives you access to over 15 million songs while you have wifi access. They also offer accounts you can pay for at $5 and $10 per month that allow you to use the music when you don’t have wifi, or are offline (I have not used this paid service). It all ties in with Facebook and this and that and whatever and I’m sure it will morph over the months and years to come.
One of the great features is you can share playlists. Maybe some of you have already done this but I am going to share three playlists with you. One is a set of background music to use in club. This might be during a game or mixer, that kind of thing. The other playlist includes songs you can sing in club, all you need to do is learn how to play them. The goal will be to keep the lists somewhat short (I have hundreds of club songs in my files so I won’t be adding all of these), as clean as possible (but I’ve learned never to guarantee this and undoubtedly someone will send me a nasty-gram email about a song on the list I somehow overlooked), and mostly current. Songs and style vary so much that it will certainly be influenced by what works in my club. So consider this a starting point. Maybe you can suggest songs, or your own playlists too. I also added a “collaborative” playlist that anyone and everyone can edit themselves (no guarantee on the content of that one since anyone can add or delete songs), but it could be fun to see your suggestions. So without any further delay, just click on these to get started…
1) YLHelp – Club Background Music
2) YLHelp – Club Songs to Sing
3) YLHelp – Club Collaborative Mix
If these gain some traction I’ll add them to the side of the YLHelp website for more people to see.
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5 thoughts on “Club Songs and Background Music on Spotify”
This is great! Thanks for sharing your playlists! Have you had any trouble with advertisements on Spotify?
It seems like they have been going up in frequency. I’ve also heard there will be changes in about 6 months… I guess we will see. So far we haven’t had any advertisements in club but I have them when I just listen to music when I work.
I will be a work crew boss in a dining hall this summer. We created a spotify playlist to use to play music there. Feel free to add any appropriate music to play all day long while setting and clearing. We appreciate any new additions! Here’s the link.
http://open.spotify.com/user/1217787005/playlist/7eYfVdzPKbPwaQJB56VnGE
I’m disappointed that you recommend a song with F**k in the title and a song with the lyric “Find a real nice girl and have some real nice sex”
Keith, thanks for your comment. The song by Pink is one used in YL and at camps all the time, especially on sin or need talk night. The F word is not a part of the song, it just happens to be just as you say “F**k” in the title only… I don’t like it either but it is the only way to access the song on Spotify. Can you let me know where the song is with the lyric you mention? I’ll take a look at it right away.