These last few pages have added so much to the variety that I'd much prefer to analyze than the base drafters. A lot of songs I'd choose have just been mentioned.

There are obviously some early round picks that transcend "pop" and are legendary, so this might not have the top end of some other drafters.

Whether or not you hate the draft or have significant disagreements it's w/e., but at least there's something to analyze versus the vanillaness of most others.

A couple older songs.





Some EDM





70's club banger!



This one may have gotten picked



Maybe this one as well; foreign flavor







one of my favorite all time songs to listen to in a car and the actual best wale song along with nike boots



Some songs what most people are actually considering club bangers

May have been drafted, not gonna sort through entire thread again.

more of a base defintion of banger









and one of my fav songs

Good post (even though I disagree with a lot of your selections); part of this is indeed a USA (and millennial) cultural thing. Even Pitbull admits that despite all of his international travels, Miami is still where it's at.

Someone earlier made the good point that BOB is a good late-first pick for this draft, but for all of the international play it gets, it should be an early 1st.

Gangnam Style is a good one to deconstruct: it's got most of the ingredients you list, except that for whatever reason(s) it doesn't get people on the dance floor (at least in USA#1). Pretty sure Psy was a recent HQTrivia question ("most Youtube hits in 2015" or something) that tons of folks missed. USA is still in that uncomfortable melting pot phase of "we'll get down to a lot of the Latin-sounding hits, but anything Asian-sounding is still weird."

Also, for as awesome as this draft was, one element that was significantly NOT BANGER is the tons of VEVO videos that start with 45-60 seconds of background exposition before the music starts.

Here's one that absolutely crushed in the clubs, and it's a pure pop banger that is better than most drafted.

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another that crushed the clubs that is pure pop



and since it's been established that we've already been pandering to the "average" person you might as well post the most popular music in America





go wayyyy back. the first tv banger? look at those white girls dance!



like I said I just wish there was more variety in this draft. 8bus had the best reactions though.

"Stay Fly" was what I wanted our last round pick to be

Had some 90s bangers I didn't think would get picked but are among my favorites-- "Return of the Mack," "No Diggity," "Poison."

Thought about Aaliyah - "Are You That Somebody?" and T.I. - "What You Know" at some point.

This one is a Houston jam from a while back that I don't think many people outside the city know about, but that beat dropping will definitely get the party started



My other favorite longshot:



These two are not traditional bangers but they fit my category of "Needing to get hyped up to run through a brick wall"

I definitely had to skip posting the actual videos from some of mine for this reason. There's nothing banging about a minute of backstory before the actual song starts.

This. Womanizer still great though obv

I like this version better...



I'm super late to this BANGER party, so I'll try to keep this concise.

Best value picks include Tik Tok, All of the Lights, Bodak Yellow, We Are Who We Are, Soul Survivor, Raise Up & Dark Horse. Best undrafted picks already mentioned were Blow & Dirt Off Your Shoulder.

Disappointed about how hard almost all of you fell off at the end. Too old to BANG for an extended period of time apparently.

Here are a few undrafteds I would have had to seriously consider:

One I can’t believe we left out:

Chamillionaire - Ridin’

The KM dancing videos are awesome

Good life also great song but no BANGER

If Goldigger is a banger, Good Life definitely is. Agree I wouldn't really consider it a banger, but I feel that way about a lot of the drafted songs.

fo sho

Power is probably the top Kanye BANGER. Then Jesus Walks and All of the Lights in some order.

This is just off of his solo albums, Watch the Throne and some of the Good Music Mixtapes have some BANGERS too.

Where do we rank "Monster" as a BANGER? I don't think it's as good as "POWER" or "All of the Lights" but it has that certain aggressive quality that BANGS.

must be an error in the spreadsheet cause i cant find this song

Quick recap:

1.01 Party in the USA
1.02 Get Low
1.03 Usher - Yeah!
1.04 Give Me Everything

And then there were no additional Usher jams selected. Just want to make sure to not forget this absolutely slammin' BANGER:

Who is creating the offficial SE BANGERS DRAFT Spotify list?

Need some Swedish House Mafia.

we're all gonna look silly for not having BILLY in this draft

To honour his memory given the recent passing, I'll add one of my favourites to the list (don't THINK it's been posted yet but maybe I missed?) Maybe not exactly what I think of when I think "Banger", but it's close eonugh, and great. RIP Avicii.

Is throw it in the bag a banger? I'm pretty sure it is.

levels, wake me up, hey brother, i could be the one all BANGERS in my book

I had Levels and Wake Me Up as BANGERS. Wake Me Up had insane staying power through '13-'14

Fade Into Darkness crushed it as well. Sad.