Essential songs for New Years party

[JGatz]

Now that Prince can no longer party like its 1999 what will satisfy the masses?  Any suggestions.

[mankie]

Auld Lang syne - Robert Burns    
 
 Seriously though...does it really matter? If the party is worthwhile everyone should be so shitfaced it doesn't matter what music is playing.

[JGatz]

True.  But there is a window of an hour or so that everyone needs to get shitfaced.  So I guess you'd only need enough good tunes to fill an hour and the rest of the night it might as well the the chipmunks.

[mankie]

Case in point....Burns had to be off his skull when he wrote this pile of bollocks!
 
 Should auld acquaintance be forgot
 And never brought to mind?
 Should auld acquaintance be forgot
 And days o' lang syne?
 
 Chorus
 For auld lang syne, my Dear
 For auld lang syne
 We'll tak a cup o kindness yet
 For auld lang syne
 
 And surely ye'11 be your pint-stowp
 And surely I'll be mine
 And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet
 For auld lang syne
 For auld lang etc
 
 We twa hae run about the braes
 And pu'd the gowans fine
 But we've wandered mony a weary foot
 Sin auld lang syne
 For auld lang etc
 
 We twa hae paidlet i' the burn
 Frae morning sun sill dine
 But seas between us braid hae roar'd
 Sin auld lang syne
 For auld lang etc
 
 And there's a hand, my trusty feire
 And gie's a hand o' thine
 And we'll tak a right gude-willie waught
 For auld lang syne
 For auld lang etc

[JGatz]

Those Scots sure know how to pen a tune.  What the hell does any of that song mean.

[mankie]

Not much better in a civilized language!
 
 Should old friends be forgotten
 and never remembered
 Should old friends be forgotten
 and the days they shared together
 
 Chorus
 For days now in the past, my dear
 For days now in the past
 We'll drink a toast of kind remembrance
 For days now in the past
 
 You can pay for your pint tankard
 and I will pay for mine
 We'll drink a toast of kind remembrance
 For days now in the past
 
 We two have run about the hillsides
 and pulled wild daisies
 but now we are far apart in distance
 From those days now in the past
 
 We two have paddled in the stream
 from morning untill noon
 but oceans now lie between us
 since those days now in the past
 
 So take my hand, my trusty friend
 and give me your hand
 and we will take a hearty drink together
 In memory of those days now in the past

[ggw]

Slickee Boys -- This Party Sucks

[mankie]

That's why you'll always find me in the kitchen at parties - Jona Louie

[ggw]

U2 -- New Years Day

[slappy]

Its The End of The World As We Know It - REM

[Driveway]

death cab for cutie - the new year

[eltee]

It's My Party - Lesley Gore

[Sir HC]

Andrew W.K.'s first album

[JGatz]

So far I've found on Kazaa the following people who have covered Auld Lang Syne: Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra, Barenaked Ladies, The Pogues, The Glen Miller band, Prince, Elvis, Dan Fogleberg, Lou Rawls, The Drifters, Kenny G, Phish, Gloria Estefan, Guy Lombardo, Marc Anthony, Duke Ellington, and The Coors.  
 
 The Frank Sinatra and Glen Miller band are pretty good.

[eros]

For the 99-00 New Years I heard Disco 2000 by Pulp several times.