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wedding music suggestions
Dissociater
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Hey all,
So I'm getting married on Saturday, and we decided to run our own music through a laptop instead of hiring a DJ (we're over budget as it is). It's going to be a smaller wedding with only about 40 people, and we're looking at trying to get about 5 hours of music. We're up to that 5 hours, but I still feel like it's missing a few (about 10) danceable songs.
Just to give an idea of the kind of music we're using so far, we're having a mix between some older (80s) stuff, and some more recent stuff but not much that could be considered a current hit. For the older stuff as an example we've got stuff like:
We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel
She drives me crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
The Safety Dance - Men without hats
For more current danceable stuff we have things like :
Hey Ya - Outkast
Crucial - K-Os
The Way I are - Timbaland (I've never heard of this one before)
We also have a lot of stuff that I would put as old and danceable, but mostly funny, like:
Baby got back - Sir Mixalot
Jump on it - Apache
Jump Around - house of pain
I feel we have too much of the old stuff, and the old/danceable/funny, but not enough of the current hits that are danceable. I just don't listen to that kind of music, but I recognize that we need more of it.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I figure I need about 10 current (since 2000 qualifies to me) danceable hits. Recognizable songs would be good, but not mandatory.
I'm drawing a blank on this, and I've looked up a lot of wedding music lists, but I find them mostly lame, or full of songs I've never heard of.
Can anyone help with this?
Edit: Oh and before you ask, yes, I plan on rickrolling my own wedding.
So I'm getting married on Saturday, and we decided to run our own music through a laptop instead of hiring a DJ (we're over budget as it is). It's going to be a smaller wedding with only about 40 people, and we're looking at trying to get about 5 hours of music. We're up to that 5 hours, but I still feel like it's missing a few (about 10) danceable songs.
Just to give an idea of the kind of music we're using so far, we're having a mix between some older (80s) stuff, and some more recent stuff but not much that could be considered a current hit. For the older stuff as an example we've got stuff like:
We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel
She drives me crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
The Safety Dance - Men without hats
For more current danceable stuff we have things like :
Hey Ya - Outkast
Crucial - K-Os
The Way I are - Timbaland (I've never heard of this one before)
We also have a lot of stuff that I would put as old and danceable, but mostly funny, like:
Baby got back - Sir Mixalot
Jump on it - Apache
Jump Around - house of pain
I feel we have too much of the old stuff, and the old/danceable/funny, but not enough of the current hits that are danceable. I just don't listen to that kind of music, but I recognize that we need more of it.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I figure I need about 10 current (since 2000 qualifies to me) danceable hits. Recognizable songs would be good, but not mandatory.
I'm drawing a blank on this, and I've looked up a lot of wedding music lists, but I find them mostly lame, or full of songs I've never heard of.
Can anyone help with this?
Edit: Oh and before you ask, yes, I plan on rickrolling my own wedding.
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Daft Punk - "One More Time"
Junior Senior - "Move Your Feet"
Franz Ferdinand - "Take me Out"
Arctic Monkeys - "I bet that you would look good on the dance floor"
Electric Six - "High Voltage"
The Streets - "Fit But You know it" (gonna need to track down the radio edit on this one)
MIA - "Sunshowers"
The Zutons - "Pressure Point"
Jet - "Are you gonna be my girl"
Gnarls Barkley - "Gone Daddy Gone"
Yeah, off of Discovery I would recommend Crescendolls or Face to Face possibly even more than this.
EDIT: But anyway, dissociater, that list is sort of a smattering from various recent trends that I consider "danceable" Tell me what out of there that you/she like and I'll recommend you some more stuff along that vein.
Other than that she liked Junior Senior, Gnarls Barkley (but only crazy) and the electric six song (but we know it from that hilarious sumo wrestling commercial).
If not, congratulations anyway!
The Sounds - Living in America
Aquabats - Super Rad!
Basement Jaxx - Where's your head at?
Beck - Mixed Bizznes (or anything off midnite vultures)
Dropkick Murphys- Kiss me i'm shitfaced
Boys on the docks
an some flogging molly could work to!
Also - and this is the cheesiest thing ever, and keep in mind that I'm possibly a little bit older than you - it is not a wedding to me without Peter Cetera's "Glory of Love". Oh, there may be a priest or rabbi or whatever, and people wearing white and flowers and cake, but it's not a wedding till that is played.
That's not really going to leave the dance floor broken and bruised or anything, but it does make a very nice slow song to dance to.