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There are certainly tracks that really work in a club stuffed full of people and are a bit boring on your hi-fi, but when they work they work incredibly well. There are also tracks that work better in big rooms than small rooms and vice versa, tracks that work better in brightly lit rooms than darker ones and so on.
That said, remembering a time when you had it large to a particular tune can make you suddenly love listening to it at home when maybe you didn't like before.
"DJ use only" used to be written on a lot of promos (i.e. saying "you should really only have this if you're using it to promote the record"), or on bootleg mashups/remixes (i.e. saying "I just made this for a bit of fun in the club, don't tell too many people and don't shop me for it!")
But I think generally when people write tracks specifically for clubs, they just say "I wrote it for clubs" rather than "it's for DJ use ONLY!"
As a side note, you could probably argue that just about all 12" versions are "for DJ use"...
It might be a bit more common in some circles than others, but either way slap your mate with a trout and tell him he's a tosser.
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