Royal Headache's ultimate NewYear's Eve Playlist

Tue 27th Dec, 2011 in Features

This New Year’s Eve Royal Headache will be doing it their way at Good God in Sydney, heading up a lineup of misfits that includes The Gooch Palms, Perfect Snatch, DJ King Opp (Straight Arrows), DJ Shantan Wantan Ichiban and Flash and Crash DJs. To get us in the mood for all things December 31st we asked the Headache to share their perfect NYE Playlist.

New Order- Thieves Like Us

There’s no room for obscurity on NYE. It’s 100% dance floor bangers or nothing! This is a song I can come back to again and again, year after year. There is more than a touch of sadness in this track, however the dance-ability of this throbbing masterpiece will override any morose overtones when the volume knob is turned up to 11 at da club! A tune to try out and set a new PB with your dance moves.

Curtis Mayfield – Move on up

This is more uplifting than zapped, maybe even more uplifting than zapped again. Makes you think you’re having a good time even when you’re probably stuck in some shitty over populated party where everyone is too retarded to function. Actually this is more like the song you’d play sitting around getting pissed before you go to whatever dumb party you’re going to and you’re still optimistic this will be the best night of the entire year and you will party so hard and remember all the best times with your best friends and you’re feeling GREAT!

Jaylib, Frank n Dank – Mcnasty Filth

Something retarded to break necks, make the speakers bomp bomp bomp. I can’t give much explanation for this one… virtually everything played during the party section of New Year’s should be heavy booty jams. Grind… feel hard… drinks up… ass down. Detroit go heaps hard, I think most non hip hop fans are familiar with J Dilla and Madlib now thanks to Stonesthrow (hip hop prophet to the suburban indie white boy) but Frank n Dank seem to pass most people by. Super retarded without crossing over into based lil’ b shit, keep everything heavy.

INXS – Don’t change

The confusion jam. It’s sounds like it’s a happy party song, I guess it’s pretty optimistic, but it’s not really it just confuses you because the chorus is super anthemic (which is why it’s perfect for New Year’s). There are a few lines which you can isolate and make work really well for New Year ’s Eve (“resolution of happiness” or “don’t change for you, don’t change a thing for me” while you cry with your best friend about how you never want anything to change). Really this song is a pretty good songification of the NYE experience – it sounds like you’re having a great time, but shit is really just pretty ok, something fucked has/is gonna happen, even if it’s just your body the next day. I dunno, put your arm around someone and feel weird.