Posted on 31 May 2008 by Reggie Solomon
Make Sure We Play Your Jam at Reunion!
We’ve got an iPod and a DJ.
Let us know what jams you want to hear, and we’ll do our best to make sure you hear them!
Tunes can be those made popular during our time at Yale or some of your current favorites.
Just press “comments” below and share your suggestions.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 am
Timbaland: The Way I Are
The Dream: I Luv Your Girl
Notorious B.I.G.: Big Poppa
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 am
Here are the top songs from our year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_100_number-one_hits_of_1998_(USA)
I want to add “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It”
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:54 am
Sounds good, Ty.
I’d like almost anything by Prince (When Doves Cry, Kiss…) or Janet Jackson (Miss you Much, If…)
Real McCoy: Another Night
Beyonce: Crazy in Love
Mariah Carey: Honey
Just to name a few…
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba
Yellow No. 5 by Soul Coughing
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Preacher’s Son from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack always reminds me of freshman year
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Anything indigo girls or the safety dance song reminds me of my yale experience.
I also love the new song “Sweet Escape”
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
My absolute favorite Yale party song:
Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order
Other college dance classics…
Vogue
Come on Eileen
Oh what a night
Love Shack
Kiss (Prince)
Barbie Girl
Missing (everything but the girl)
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Romantic Call- Patra (This was THE song freshman year for all of the parties at The House)
Passing me by- The Pharcyde
Electric Relaxation- A Tribe Called Quest
Nika- Little Vicious
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Anything by Buju Banton
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:26 pm
please, no spice girls!
but some toad’s faves:
shaggy mr. bombastic (?)
i like to move it move it (prolly not the name tho)
ghetto superstar (puff daddy/diddy whatever)
June 4th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Mo Money Mo Problems (Diddy and friends), a Toad’s classic!
Now, I had to look up the words to this song and do extensive google searching to get the name:
DJ KOOL FEAT BIZ MARKIE AND DOUG E FRESH: “LET ME CLEAR MY THROAT”(OLD SCHOOL) Another Toad’s classic!
“Jump Around” House of Pain
Non-1998 era good dance tunes:
50 Cent: “Birthday”
Kanye West: “goldigger” or Stronger”
Nelly: “Hot in Here”
June 4th, 2008 at 8:33 am
How about some Dave Matthews - he packed Toad’s freshman year…
And TMBGiants - Birdhouse in Your Soul - they performed at spring fling
June 4th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Here are some more (mainly from freshman year):
Tubthumping (a.k.a. I Get Knocked Down, but I Get Up Again) by Chumbawumba
The Sign by Ace of Base
Anything by Alanis Morisette (unfortunately)
Do you remember that part of one of the speeches during graduation featured songs from our time at Yale? I forgot who gave the speech, but any of those songs would be good too…
June 4th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
OK, so I had to break out some of the old mix tapes (that’s right, *tapes*) for this one, and man was it hard to find something to play them on, but…
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping (seems to be a consensus here)
Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize and Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems
2Pac - California Love
OMC - How Bizarre
Blackstreet - No Diggity
Smash Mouth - Walking on the Sun
Cardigans - Lovefool
Fugees - Killing Me Softly
James - Laid
Sugar Ray - Fly
Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
White Town - Your Woman
Marvin Gaye feat. Shaggy - Sexual Healing
Four Seasons - December 1963 (Oh What a Night) - remix
Quad City DJ’s - C’mon Ride the Train
Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It
Republica - Ready to Go
Oasis - Wonderwall
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression I Get
Sublime - Santeria and What I Got
N-Trance - Stayin’ Alive
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
No Doubt - Spiderwebs
Anyone getting nostalgic…
June 5th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Low, low, low
And any and all great dance music beyond that!
Think Tenjune in NY…