Its my 40th birthday party next week and I need help to sort out the music - what would be your top 10!

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MIne so far -

Letter from America - Proclaimers
Preacher man
Wings beneath my wings
Heart of glass
rocket man
Perfect day
... then a bit stuck.

Ooh, for parties, Soapbox? For party animals of a certain age?

How about:

Jackson Browne - Stay
Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
Prince - Little Red Corvette
Trammps - Disco Inferno
New Order - Blue Monday
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Come up and see me
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

Seeing as you've already nabbed three of mine (Preacher Man, Heart of Glass, Perfect Day)

Have a fantastic time and don't forget to come clean on which day of the week it is so we can all wish you many happy returns...

James Brown-Sex Machine
Rolling Stones-Satisfaction (or just get forty licks CD)
There she was just walkin'down the street....by that group with the lead singer who was pretty sexy then but is now too old.

Or maybe just get a load of compilation albums from 60's and 70's if that's not too much of a cop out!

Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark or Born in the USA or maybe both
Sister Sledge - we are family
Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
Rod Stewart - Do you think I'm sexy? or Baby Jane or both
Cant remember group but Funking for Jamaica
and when things slow down, Rolls Royce - I'm wishing on a star

For a party I always find that Abba Dancing Queen and a bit of Robbie Williams (Rock DJ to get everyone going and Angels for that end of party sentimentality) go down well.

congrats mine too... great thread!
in no partic order.
Rock the Casbar- the Clash
Rock Lobster. B52's
LA Woman - The Dooors
You just aint seen nothing yet (BBBbaby) bad Company.
Down in the tube station at midnight- the jam
lost in Music-Sister Sledge
Dancing Queen- Abba
First Cut is the deepest Rod Stewart
Anything from Bruce S!!!

Have a fantastic time!!!!!!!

Walking in Memphis- Cher
December '63- 4 Seasons
Teenage Kicks- Undertones
Layla -Clapton
All Right Now- Free
Psycho Killers
Honky Tonk Women- Stones (Best intro ever)
Johny-B-Good

Slow ones
Because the Night- Patty Smith
Lola - The Kinks (I know!)

Also possibly some embarrassing music of the sort to which we committed teenage snogging (OMG -am thinking of 10cc's I'm Not In Love ), Fleetwood Mac, etc?

Fleetwood mac's Albatros! OHMYGOD, Youth club discos!!!!

My first ever slow dance was to 'Ben'. Great, what memories , a song sung about a rat by a suspected child molester!!!!!!!!!!!!

My first slow dance was to Lady - Kenny Rogers, with a boy I had a huge crush on for about 2 years, but later I found out he had only asked me to dance as a bet

Soapbox - how about a few time-themed songs, since it's an "important" birthday?

If I could turn back time - Cher
Summer of 69 - errr, can't remember
1999 - Prince
Year 2000 - Pulp
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads (ooh, and Road to Nowhere)

These are all great! Thanks for all your help! Keep them coming though - I've got 3 hours or so to fill with dance music and another 3 hours or more of mingling type background stuff!

Oooh some great thoughts here
What about

Come on Eileen
yeah, agree with Blue Monday
and Tainted Love
and Dancing Queen
Baggy Trousers by Madness
Let's Groove by Earth WInd and Fire
Oliver's Army by Elvis Costello
I always loved that Smokey Robinson song Being with You (ooh, takes me back to being 18!)
Anything by Kool and the Gang
Any early Beatles (I know we're not that old, but everyone dances to She loves You)
Fashion by David Bowie (I was a biiig fan)
sorry that's more than 10, neveer mind
Can you tell i'm 40 too?

OMG these all bring back sooo many memories - the whole 11+ disco in the local community centre thing!

Keep them coming though! Still need lots more!

Thanks

White Punks on Dope
White man at the Hammersmith Palais
Alternative Ulster
Can't stand up for falling down

Gawd I am soooooooooooooooooold!

This sounds like SUCH a good party. Can we all come?

MI - maybe I could link up a webcam and we could have a virtual party

Maybe by the time I'm 50 I'll be in abig enought house with palatial grounds and you can all come too - well I can dreak can't I

Not dreak - dream!

I've got a great idea, a Mumsnet party compilation CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mums on Partytime!

We could have Oldies on one bit, and the Wheels on the Bus on the other!

anyone else????

Why have none of you got Dancing Queen (Abba) or I'm in the Mood for Dancing (Nolan Sisters) am I truely cheesy or just of another generation??

Twinkie - Clary and Unicorn both had Dancing Queen! Cheesy or not its going on the dance list

For a 40th, dare I say it????

Sugar, Sugar, by the Archies!

Sex machine by James Brown. Crazy Horses by the Osmonds.