Music is an important element in strip culture, it’s what the girls dance to. We talk about music every night.

“Should I dance to my regular set?”

“What kind of music should I play for this crowd?”

“Do I look good dancing to that song?”

“Is this song strippable?”

“What song is that?”

“Why the hell is she playing my song?”

Quite often talking about favorite bands or songs or music genres is the topic many girls use as a favorite device to break the ice with their customers.

Being in clubs every day is how I find new music. It’s also the reason I start liking songs I otherwise wouldn’t. After a while certain songs become associated with certain girls in my mind. Hearing one of those songs can bring back memories of good times and girls I’ve known.

There’s just no getting around music in strip-culture.

As time goes by I hear certain songs over and over. Certain songs come into vogue. Some are popular for months or years others just a flash in the pan. Many of the songs are of course new songs. The girls like new songs and we hear the strippable ones alot. So much that for every day patrons like myself it can get played out very fast. But some songs get played long past played out to the point of torture. For instance, we all like Titty Dancer, the first thousand times it was played. Two years later those of us that were here when it first entered strip culture are liable to get dizzy or vomit if some newb does play it. It’s become a torture. Some songs just never get old. They don’t get over played. They just keep showing up over and over. Some bands never really the strip culture play list. When I first worked in a strip club in the early 1990s Nine Inch Nails was a new band and got lots of play. 20 years later I still  hear NIN; original versions of classic and newer songs, re-mixes and mash-ups.

I’ve made it a habbit for the last couple of years that when I notice a song has become popular in the clubs here in Vegas I go home and add it to my Real Rhapsody playlist. At the end of each moth I save that list. In January I go back and make a new playlist for all the songs that were popular for the previous year. It’s sort of a musical look back at the year. You’ll hear songs that were very popular for a time, songs that still get played today, and songs that were resurrected.

To me this list is more than just a Top 100+ list for the year. It’s memories. It’s a walk across styles and cultures through time, all filtered through stripper lenses. I’ve shared these lists with stripper friends and they seem love them. They love talking about who or what these songs remind them of. They love rating the songs and debating if one or the other is even strippable.

Since we all enjoy this process so much I thought those of you that visit this site might like it too. If you don’t have rhapsody you can just click the link at the end of this post to listen to 25 of the songs for free. If you do have Rhapsody you can look the list up and listen to the entire thing yourself. You could also give it a good rating and see if we can get it up there on the charts. You can find the list in the Playlist Central section under Theme/Holiday Mixes, or just look for it by name, Live Nude Vegas 2010. Or if you want to listen to the music on your own ipod or another streaming service you can see the full list below.

Lastly, it should probably go without saying but this list is subjective since its based on clubs here in Vegas. But that doesn’t mean that I left off songs I didn’t like. There’s plenty of songs here I like alot and some I don’t  like at all.Also since strip culture isn’t politically correct this list isn’t either. I use the explicit versions of all songs and I didn’t leave songs off because the genre, subject or language may be offensive.

http://rhaplinks.real.com/rhaplink?rhapid=7000969&type=playlist&title=Playlist&from=roadrunner

IMNOTYOURBOYFRIENDBABY (Explicit Album Version)             3OH!3

Whatever You Like (Single Version) — Anya Marina

Like A Stone – Audioslave

Video Phone – Beyonce

Ball Out ($500)–Blak Jak

Airplanes [feat. Hayley Williams of Paramore] (Amended Album Version)–B.o.B

Budsmokers Only–Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

The Crossroads–Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Give Me A Sign–Breaking Benjamin

I Will Not Bow–Breaking Benjamin

Glycerine–Bush

Mouth [The Stingray Mix]–Bush

Teach Me How To Dougie–Cali Swag District

I Can Transform Ya–Chris Brown

This S’it Will Fcuk You Up–Combichrist

Colors–Crossfade

Ghosts N Stuff–Deadmau5

I Remember–Deadmau5

Prayer–Disturbed

All I Do Is Win (feat. T-Pain, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg & Rick Ross)–DJ Khaled

F*ck On Cocaine 2009 (DJ Yoeri Hard Mix)–DJ Yoeri

Bitch–Dope

The Next Episode–Dr. Dre

Best I Ever Had–Drake

I’m Goin In featuring Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy (Album Version (Explicit))–Drake

Love The Way You Lie featuring Rihanna–Eminem

Not Afraid–Eminem

My Mom–Eminem

I Like Girls–Gorilla Zoe

Viva La White Girl–Gym Class Heroes

Ridin’ Solo–Jason DeRulo

Baby featuring Ludacris–Justin Bieber

Up–Justin Bieber

Mamma Got Ass (Album Version (Explicit))–Juvenile

Blah Blah Blah–Ke$ha

TiK ToK–Ke$ha

Use Somebody–Kings Of Leon

Bad Romance–Lady Gaga

Telephone featuring Beyoncé–Lady Gaga

Love Me Or Hate Me–Lady Sovereign

Outta Your Mind featuring LMFAO (Album Version (Explicit))–Lil Jon

Drop The World featuring Eminem (Album Version (Explicit))–Lil Wayne

Earthquake (album version)–Little Boots

Pussy–Lords of Acid

My Chick Bad featuring Nicki Minaj (Album Version (Explicit))–Ludacris

Electric Feel–MGMT

Kids–MGMT

Party In The U.S.A.–Miley Cyrus

Get Ur Freak On–Missy Elliott

The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)–Missy Elliott

Got It Twisted–Mobb Deep

Bounce (feat. N.O.R.E. & Isis)–MSTRKRFT

Do What You Do–Mudvayne

Not Falling–Mudvayne

Clipping–Mute Math

Everybody Nose–N.E.R.D.

Cricketz [feat. Tyga] (Explicit Album Version)–New Boyz

You’re A Jerk (Explicit Album Version)–New Boyz

How You Remind Me–Nickelback

All The Right Moves–OneRepublic

Apologize–OneRepublic

Secrets–OneRepublic

Stop And Stare–OneRepublic

Little Secrets–Passion Pit

Sleepyhead–Passion Pit

I’m Throwed [Feat. Jermaine Dupri]–Paul Wall

Bust It Baby Part 2–Plies

Hypnotized (featuring Akon) (Explicit Album Version)–Plies

She Got It Made–Plies

Dance In Dark–Proxy

Rude Boy (Explicit Version)–Rihanna

ROCKSTAR 101 featuring Slash (Explicit Version)–Rihanna

True Romance–She Wants Revenge

Rebirthing–Skillet

The Last Night–Skillet

Chop Suey!–System of a Down

Break Your Heart featuring Ludacris–Taio Cruz

Imma Tell–Tech N9ne

Slacker–Tech N9ne

Warp 1.9 (feat. Steve Aoki)–The Bloody Beetroots

Falsetto–The-Dream

Let Me See The Booty Featuring Lil Jon–The-Dream

I Luv Your Girl featuring Young Jeezy (Remix (Edited))–The-Dream

Walkin’ On The Moon Featuring Kanye West–The-Dream

Dick In A Box featuring Justin Timberlake–The Lonely Island

I’m On A Boat featuring T-Pain–The Lonely Island

Jizz In My Pants–The Lonely Island

4ever–The Veronicas

Untouched–The Veronicas

The Artist In The Ambulance–Thrice

Bounce–Timbaland

Headstrong–Trapt

Does He Do It–Trey Songz

I Invented Sex [feat. Drake]–Trey Songz

Neighbors Know My Name–Trey Songz

Say Aah [feat. Fabolous]–Trey Songz

Love You To Death–Type O Negative

Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home)–Usher

Lil Freak (feat. Nicki Minaj)–Usher

OMG (feat. will.i.am)–Usher

Lil Freak (feat. Nicki Minaj)–Usher

Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home)–Usher

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Due to popular demand I’ve decided to post Episode 0. However, this was our Test / Pilot episode. This was never really meant to be heard. The sound quality is poor, due to lack of skill on my part as well as a somewhat different ensemble of recording equipment. It was really just a test to see if we could even produce an interesting podcast.

In the end what it really did for us was give me and Roxie a clear vision. We listened to this episode quite a few times and gleaned all sorts of critical information. We each individually listened to what we had recorded. Then we got together and compared notes. We tweaked the format a little, began thinking about how to be prepared without having a scripted show, critiqued our performances, and more sharply defined our individual roles. In my opinion, by Episode 3 we had all the basic ingredients. However, I still think Episode 9 is when we finally produced a show I feel was working well enough on all levels to be ready for the world. Since we settled in to our groove in Episode 9 iLapdance has continued to develop at a steady pace. Both our performance and certain technical aspects of the show continue to evolve and improve with every episode. But never has there been as big a change as there was between Episode 0 and Episode 1.

So I’m letting you know now, Episode 0 isn’t what I would consider a viable show. We lapse into pontificating and spend too much time on topics that would never make the cut now. Since we had never done an episode or even heard us talking on tape we had no idea how we would sound. We knew we thought we were interesting and funny in the club, but we hadn’t realized yet that for the sake of good entertainment we needed to define our roles and our format more clearly. We also needed to clean up the sound. Eventually it occurred to us that good editing would tighten the show up and give us space for asides, tangents, and us just good old fashioned play; which we could then use to produce Extras and Bloopers without compromising the main show.

Since Episode 0 really doesn’t work as a show and was never intended to be heard it really feels more like an Extras segment than an Episode to me now, and not a very good one at that. Even so, people still seem to want to hear it. If you’ve been following along on the site you’ll know that I also want as complete a record as possible of our work finished and available. So all things considered I decided to post Episode 0, in the Extras section. It’s there for the reasons I’ve just mentioned and one other. I only want this available to subscribers. iLapdance will be available from several different podcast sites, but never the bonus material. We leave all the bonus material for people who are interested enough to actually sign up on our site. It’s free to sign up, it just let’s us know you’re really interested.

So here it is, Episode 0, in all its inglorious infamy.