I think it really depends on the party. Around here we generally do small group stuff and we just stick with stuff that has been played to death and can be tuned out and socialized over mixed with some new stuff that we are all listening to. Like for New Year's we had a lot of stuff off P!nk's new album and Fun.'s somewhat recent album but also older, well known stuff like Ride Wit Me, Country Grammar, some GnR, some AC/DC, etc.

Then again we aren't really big on cranking the music and having it drown out conversations because we mostly use the parties to catch up with our far flung friends who came into town just for the thing. Mostly our music is just for ambiance and the occasional group break into song moment.

If we are planning to do loud music we have a great gay bar that we go to and another bar where all the 20-something hipsters hang out that has free popcorn and a blue drink that comes in $5 pitchers called Fred, which is really the only reason we go there since none of us really fits in with the crowd.