You know, the problem with DJ'ing wedding receptions...

[acroyear]

Is the grand selection of tunes you just can't do 'cause they're all breakup songs. A great selection of hits, many hitting number one, that just say "well, this marriage has a great future ahead of it..."

Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' (Journey), Do you really want to hurt me (culture club), Pictures of You (the Cure...I love how its being used as a postive thing in that commercial, considering its one of Smith's most depressing lyrics ever), about half of Billy Joel's repotoire, Harden my Heart, Always something there to remind me AND promises promises (makes you wonder if the reason Naked Eyes didn't have another hit was 'cause they committed suicide soon after writing the damn songs), Seagull's I Ran (why did that end up included in the wedding singer?), Men at Work's Its a Mistake (lyrically unrelated to romance at all, but still...).

Or things that just say, maybe a little too much about what kinda marriage it is? (This Woman's Work, Kate Bush...or on the other side, Madness's Our House and House of Fun...'cept i'll play those anyways 'cause they're just great songs)

And hell, I'm not even talking about the great music that goes with lyrics that just go "what are these doing together like that?" (Suzanne Vega's Luka?)

of course, then there's groups' secondary songs that you just wanna play to piss people off...if i actually didn't like either my mom or my future mother-in-law, you can guarentee that The Police's "Mother" would be in the set list...

Comments

[magdalene-1024.livejournal.com]

I went to a wedding once where they played "Strokin'" by Clarence Carter. The only way you could NOT understand what the song's about would be if you are completely and totally deaf.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

You forgot Depeche Mode's Bow Down Before the One You Serve as yet another popular please don't play at the wedding tune.

The bride at the last wedding I went to was a disco afficionado. The girls dance was I Will Survive. Hrm.

(The wedding before that the bride and groom chose I Would Walk 500 Miles for their first dance. It was wonderfully cute.)

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

The closest to disco I have is Abba (Gold 1 and 2), and I won't play that if there's anything remotely approaching a veto from the wedding party. I only keep the cd's around 'cause there's plenty of non-disco stuff on them. Disco is evil. It was 25 years ago, it still is now.

Actually, I'm thinking of grabbing some halloween-ish classical music along...or something really obnoxious like the clockwork orange soundtrack. still, for someone who's rather strongly goth, i'm surprised at the degree to which this is NOT a goth wedding...

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

Your post reminds me of when a girl broke up with me in high school--First song I heard on the radio afterwards was "Cold as Ice"

Hmmm...a Goth/Disco wedding would be, um, interesting. Creatures of the night line dancing like a Michael Jackson video, but with John Travolta's hips. Eeeewwwww!

[rttgirl.livejournal.com]

You did a brilliant job. ;) I very much appreciated the Madness, I must say.

There - I've made my obligatory comment so you can find *my* journal, now...

[dawntreader]

Bow Down Before the One You Serve

it's trivial, but i think that was Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole" :)

sorry, i'm a DIE-hard DM fan :)

on the NIN note, we went to a wedding where they actually played (at the groom's request) Closer... as in ... i wanna F*** you like an animal. we couldn't BELIEVE it. there are just some songs that i wouldn't want my grandmother to know existed.