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Winter Conference Music Playlist

January 4, 2017 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

Bookmark this and save it for your next conference (or weekly meeting). It’s not easy to find good, upbeat, CLEAN music. Look at the top songs of 2016 – 1 out of the top 10 could be played at a weekly meeting. The rest are explicit.

I put together the playlists we play before and after meeting at our 2017 Cru Winter Conference.
And I thought it might save you all a lot of time to share those on here.
A couple notes:
  • We aim for 10 minutes of music while students come in (at night, we do 9 minutes followed by 1 minute of an epic “sit down song” – for the last couple of years we’ve used “Waking Up” off of the Oblivion soundtrack)
  • 5-6 minutes of music while students walk out
  • For the after meeting playlists, make sure to have a song that starts strong. It’s the signal for students to get up and leave, so you want it to start loud, not ease into it.
  • Pre-meeting night meetings, we aim for upbeat, danceable songs (hip hop and pop-py sing-along songs that people know)
  • Pre-meeting morning meetings, same thing, just a little more chill – Ride by Twenty One Pilots is a perfect morning pre-meeting song. Everyone knows it. Kind of upbeat. But not too obnoxiously upbeat.
Here’s all the songs we used in one playlist:
Winter Conference 2017 Songs

Here they are:
WC 17 Day 1 PM
WC 17 Day 1 PM post
WC 17 Day 2 AM
WC 17 Day 2 AM post
WC 17 Day 2 PM
WC 17 Day 2 PM post
WC 17 Day 3 AM
WC 17 Day 3 AM Post
WC 17 Day 3 PM
WC 17 Day 3 PM Post
WC 17 Day 4 AM
WC 17 Day 4 AM Post
WC 17 Day 4 PM
WC 17 Day 4 PM post 
Here’s a slew of songs to use during a refection times:
WC Reflection music
And a bunch of possible songs you could use for competition games during the meeting (like, we do a mattress surfing competition, etc). I can’t vouch for all these being clean/appropriate (like Bangarang is great til he drops an F-bomb at the end):
WC Competition music
And here’s some other good songs that we didn’t use but are appropriately clean and upbeat:
WC17 Possibilities

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