Wedding Music

Timis · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:44 pm

screw that noise....i refuse to have a DJ......

i will be getting this band to play (perfect wedding band)

http://www.mega80s.com/

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Hegel-Oh's Wrote:

oh don't cry. I was only joking. And I think your tears are disingenous considering you have a man. Is he thirty, too?

Heh.
Truth is I don't realy give a sh*t about turning 30.
People still treat me like I'm a "girl"---so I'll be glad one day to get a little respect.

Admittedly, it is a little sad to know there's some kind of "thing" out there re: women who turn 30.

My man is a year younger than me. I like to tease him about being with an "older woman". Everyones assumes he's a couple of years older than me.

The Dreaded Marco · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:15 pm

I DJ'd my friend's wedding last weekend---like Loogar said, even though I think I had some great music to play, the hoardes wanted to hear cheesy 50's tunes and big band for the over-60 crowd.

I also played a lot of classic motown, and did manage to slip a couple of Pixies songs and one from Phoenix into the mix, too.

soreal · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:33 pm

i started to get wrapped up in the no-crappy-music thing, but then i realized i just want everyone to have fun. not everyone in a group of 150 people or so will agree on what's good. the wedding party entered to "power of love" by huey lewis and our entrance song at the reception was "party hard" by andrew w.k. i still laugh about that.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:42 pm

The Dreaded Marco Wrote:

I DJ'd my friend's wedding last weekend---like Loogar said, even though I think I had some great music to play, the hoardes wanted to hear cheesy 50's tunes and big band for the over-60 crowd.

I also played a lot of classic motown, and did manage to slip a couple of Pixies songs and one from Phoenix into the mix, too.

We're gonna go with a band that mainly does 60s soul type stuff. I get to talk with the lead singer and make the set list. In my mind its "Anything the Stones covered until '66."

I will have to make one concession, "Brickhouse," which is some kind of sorostitute theme song that FEMGAR and all her friends freak out to at every wedding.

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

soreal Wrote:

i started to get wrapped up in the no-crappy-music thing, but then i realized i just want everyone to have fun.

Yes, "fun" is certainly allowed.

People should most certainly bust out
James Brown
Stevie Wonder
Motown
etc...

and silly things...

it's just the intense generic-ness of most of what gets played that astounds me.

I have pretty much only been to 3 or 4 weddings in my lifetime---2 in the past 2 years and the others about 6 years ago. the music was the same at all of them.

(Oh, I guess I DJed a wedding when I was about 19yrs old---that was fun. The couple just gave me their old cds from the 80s and I improvised: whole lotta Talking Heads.

)

Hegel · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:48 pm

What about the Chicken Dance or the Electric Slide? Both are great for weddings.

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Hegel-Oh's Wrote:

What about the Chicken Dance or the Electric Slide? Both are great for weddings.

sorry dude.

Hegel · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:49 pm

pollysix Wrote:

Hegel-Oh's Wrote:

What about the Chicken Dance or the Electric Slide? Both are great for weddings.

sorry dude.

I am pretty much thinking of the worst possible songs I can to suggest them.

andyfest · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:51 pm

Hegel-Oh's Wrote:

pollysix Wrote:

Hegel-Oh's Wrote:

What about the Chicken Dance or the Electric Slide? Both are great for weddings.

sorry dude.

I am pretty much thinking of the worst possible songs I can to suggest them.

Don't forget about "Celebration" my all-time least-favorite.

Hegel · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:51 pm

andyfest Wrote:

Hegel-Oh's Wrote:

pollysix Wrote:

Hegel-Oh's Wrote:

What about the Chicken Dance or the Electric Slide? Both are great for weddings.

sorry dude.

I am pretty much thinking of the worst possible songs I can to suggest them.

Don't forget about "Celebration" my all-time least-favorite.

AWESOME SUGGESTION.

Polly. How about Celebration?

I mean, it's the perfect suggestion. Not only is it musically unfuckwithable, it is also true to the situation. I mean, HELLO!, you're AT a celeBRATION!

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Hegel-Oh's Wrote:

Not only is it musically unfuckwithable, it is also true to the situation. I mean, HELLO!, you're AT a celeBRATION!

Heh heh.

(couldn't find the "barfing" smiley)

How about...

Tonight... I celebrate my love for you...

andyfest · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:00 pm

And let's not forget...

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

andyfest Wrote:

And let's not forget...

[img][310:200]http://www.memories-dj.com/ymca-theater.jpg[/img]

Ew. "Group activities". I detest group activities.

Oh yes... and let's not forget ABBA.

MiceElf · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:06 pm

pollysix Wrote:

"Breathless" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nice one.

I think you can't go wrong with anything ABBA or ELO...but that is just me...I like happy, fun melodic sappy 70s pop.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:14 pm

soreal Wrote:

...our entrance song at the reception was "party hard" by andrew w.k. i still laugh about that.

That's pretty awesome. Consider this idea stolen.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:18 pm

andyfest Wrote:

And let's not forget...

Yeah, that;s the worst. But one of the better traditions in our crew recently has been the group sing-a-long to "Wild Horses."

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:

But one of the better traditions in our crew recently has been the group sing-a-long to "Wild Horses."

See now that might be permitted.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:41 pm

soreal · **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:00 pm

tommy two thumbs Wrote:

soreal Wrote:

...our entrance song at the reception was "party hard" by andrew w.k. i still laugh about that.

That's pretty awesome. Consider this idea stolen.

excellent. glad you like it.

FT · **Posted:** Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:33 pm

I've already had my wedding 14 years ago, so I'm focusing my attention on what should be played at my funeral.

Right now, the frontrunner is "Psalm" by M. Ward.

Black Magic Putin · **Posted:** Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:42 pm

Brown Eyed girl is, to me, a lesser transgression in the world of wedding music. we used nina simone's "feeling good" as our last dance before things really got drunk, so that was nice.

KPH · **Posted:** Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:46 pm

I went to a wedding this past weekend...(silly photo ici)

They gave away CDs to everyone with the songs from the night:

Split Screen: Saint Etienne
Don’t You Want Me: Human League
Twenty Five Miles (Single Version): Edwin Starr
It Had to Be You (1955 Version): Billie Holiday
Let’s Stay Together: Al Green
In My Life: The Beatles
I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever): Stevie Wonder
Strange Powers: The Magnetic Fields
Till There Was You: Etta James
Changes: David Bowie
Then Drink to Be Me, Babe: A.C. Newman
Heartbeat: Tahiti 80
Space Age Love Song: A Flock of Seagulls
This Charming Man: The Smiths
Deceptacon: Le Tigre

Awesome night.

Hegel · **Posted:** Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:19 pm

Had a dose of poetic justice this weekend. At my firend's wedding EVERY song I mentioned in jest to be "funny" was played and every time one of them came on all the bridesmaids were begging me to join them on stage. It was hellacious.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:22 pm

This is kinda funny that this got brought back up, cause my fiancee and I just set our date of Sept. 2nd of this year...coming up.

I already got the talk about no "weird" music.

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