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Ultimate DVDs for Parties?
Adore333 asks: "I'm hosting a party on new year's eve and was thinking of playing some DVDs in the background (party music over the original soundtrack). I've chosen Trinity and Beyond and Microcosmos as the movies. Even though its likely a bit too late for New Year's Eve, I'd like to hear what media other Slashdot readers would suggest. The films should have great emphasis on visual expression and it would be nice if they were enjoyable as movies as well (like Trinity and Microcosmos). So, what's your ultimate party DVD?"
Evidently, any of the Qatsi trilogy films are beyond comparison as background visuals.
For DVDs with music:
Talking Heads Stop Making Sense
DJ Q-Bert Wave Twisters
For movies in general, dvd or not.
#1 all-time best party movie:
Pippi in the South Seas (no foolin!)
Voltron (goes with any music)
Kiss Meets the Phantom - Need I say more?
And then, calm it all down with Bjork's Volumen.
d. Taylor Singletary,
reality technician techra.el
This is a fantastic live CD, and it has a second angle which is basically trippy visuals to go along with the music - they look perfectly good with any decent uptempo music. Not so geeky though.
Being a DJ I'm working on making a Demo video to complement my usual demo CD's - early days yet - maybe I'll have something one day....
The buzz was to start the CD at the second roar of the MGM lion, but that depends on how long it takes for your player to get going. A jukebox or cd-rom generally take longer to get up to speed than a stand-alone single-disk player.
Now-a-days, the word is to pause the CD at 0:00 and start with the third roar.
Pink Floyd's The Wall
The Way Things Go is a half hour recording of the performance of a rube goldberg machine. All sorts of physical and chemical reactions happening in a row. You may have seen the Honda "Cog" advertisement that ripped it off.
If you have the right mindset, it's riveting from beginning to end.
For grown-up parties, try to track down "The Operation," a porn flick filmed in IR (so you only see body heat) on an operating table in one of those medical ampitheater things. It's pretty insane.