Smooth Wedding Jams

Greetings Voxosphere! So I got hitched this weekend and it went great. There's a whole lot to discuss, including, but not limited to, Hotrod's awesome toast, our tremendous friends and the delicious food that was as much of a surprise to us as it was to our guests.

But all of that will have to wait. I'm still in recovery mode from a wild weekend, and for now all I really have energy to do is post the playlist(s), per M-----l's request.

This is going to be longish, so I apologize in advance if you're trying to scroll down into my deep archives.

Ceremony

Light and Day/ Reach for Sun    3:23    The Polyphonic Spree      (CarrieNation's entrance)   
We Just Won't Be Defeated    2:47    The Go Team    (our triumphant exit)

Reception

You Are Invited            4:52            The Dismemberment Plan

Pressure Drop            2:59            Toots & the Maytals           

Fight Test            4:14            The Flaming Lips           

Beautiful Child            4:17            Rufus Wainright

Here Comes Your Man            3:22            Pixies           

Don't Let's Start            2:36            They Might Be Giants Might Be Giants           

You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record)            3:19            Dead or Alive

Word Up            4:17            Cameo           

Rock With You            3:41            Michael Jackson

Let's Stay Together            3:18            Al Green

That Teenage Feeling            2:45            Neko Case

Bizarre Love Triangle            6:42            New Order           

Our Lips Are Sealed            2:50            The Go-Gos                                                

Hand in Glove            3:14            The Smiths                       

Lean on Me            4:21            Bill Withers           

Paper Planes            3:27            M.I.A.            

Little Red Corvette            4:57            Prince            1999                                               

I Want You Back            2:58            The Jackson 5

The Way You Look Tonight            3:22            Frank Sinatra           

Tenderness            3:38            General Public           

Our House            3:22            Madness                                               

Golden Lady            5:00            Stevie Wonder           

Let's Get It On (Single Version)            4:01            Marvin Gaye                                   

Atomic            4:42            Blondie           

Oh L'Amour            3:07            Erasure

Let's Dance            4:12            David Bowie                                               

Sir Duke             3:54            Stevie Wonder                                   

Punk Rock Girl            2:38            The Dead Milkmen           

Ladyflash            4:18            The Go Team                                               

Poker Face            3:57            Lady GaGa           

The Rubberband Man            3:37            The Spinners           

O-o-h Child            3:15            The Five Stairsteps           

Pass the Dutchie            3:20            Musical Youth           

White Lines            4:29            Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five           

Beyond the Sea            2:54            Bobby Darin           

It's A Shame            3:11            The Spinners           

Ballad Of A Comeback Kid            3:51            The New Pornographers           

Hoover Dam            5:28            Sugar           

Blue Monday            7:26            New Order           

Lay All Your Love On Me            4:36            Abba                                               

September            3:35            Earth, Wind & Fire           

Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe            3:50            Barry White           

Think            2:19            Aretha Franklin           

Come on Eileen            4:13            Dexy's Midnight Runners           

Girlfriend            3:40            Matthew Sweet           

Take Your Mama            4:32            Scissor Sisters           

Oh Girl            3:36            The Chi-Lites                       

If You Don't Know Me By Now            3:26            Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes           

Bang a Gong (Get It On)            4:28            T. Rex            Electric Warrior

Surrender            4:12            Cheap Trick           

Under Pressure            3:58            David Bowie & Queen           

My Girls            5:45            Animal Collective

Peek-a-Boo            3:11            Siouxsie and the Banshees                       

(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais    4:01    The Clash    (Big Finish)

These were on the list, but didn't make it on in time.

Soldier Girl [UK Single Version]            2:23            The Polyphonic Spree           

Blister in the Sun            2:26            Violent Femmes            Vilolent Femmes                        

Letter From An Occupant            3:46            The New Pornographers           

She Bangs The Drum            3:45            The Stone Roses           

Sheila Take a Bow            2:42            The Smiths            Louder Than Bombs            Rock/Pop

Genius of Love            5:34            Tom Tom Club                                   

Grandma's Hands            2:02            Bill Withers

Tired of Being Alone            2:43            Al Green

Hold It Now, Hit It            3:26            The Beastie Boys

Me Myself and I             3:44            De La Soul            Three Feet High and Rising                        She Moves In Her Own Way            2:50            The Kooks

Lovefool             3:16            The Cardigans                                                           

 

Comments

[M-----l]

[this is good] If your marriage is even half as good as your wedding mix, then you've got years of happiness and bliss and mushy stuff to look forward to.

Congratulations and thanks for the post.

[crankypants]

[this is good]

First of all, many congratulations and here's to many years of happiness and all that crap. ;-)

Great mix.  Did you have someone you knew doing the DJing or was it a paid professional?  because I didn't think paid professionals would play this much cool stuff and not sneak in the chicken dance or the hokey pokey or the macarena. or all of the above.

[Dabysan]

Awe shucks. The list was all us, courtesy of iTunes and this very laptop. We decided pretty early on to not hire a DJ, in order to maintain complete snooty artistic control. The biggest dance hit of the night was Rubber Band Man.

[crankypants]

Good for you!!

Rubberband man is awesome.

[hotrod]

It was a good mix, for sure. Although I hear that there were a few songs you couldn't dance to. I wouldn't know anything about that, myself.

[Dabysan]

In retrospect, Hoover Dam and Ballad of a Comeback Kid were both a) a little long and b) a little hard to dance to. But I figured that Dan Bejar deserved a featured spot on the list, and I forgot how long Hoover Dam was when I put it on there.

Also you danced the night away.

[hotrod]

I did no such thing.

[Cloudy J]

Congrats on getting married!

I don't think I've ever been to a wedding with music that good, so props to you and your new spouse for making something so awesome.

[homebody]

[this is good]