― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Ick.
― andy --, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― andy --, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Surprise of the night was when The Darkness came on, and my grandmother (aged 88) lit up and said "ooh I like this one!"
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway we're probably ditching the DJ ourselves and going for iPod/decks + ourselves and trusted friend or two to do the work. Fuck hiring a stranger to pretend he's friends with everyone.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
class it up by having Comic Book Guy play the chicken dance? in a minute i'm gonna call you BRO
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
That's either the best or absolute worst idea I've ever come up with.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― andy --, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
At any rate the thing with the DJ is that too many weddings I've known about with DJs, EVERY SINGLE TIME they've been all like, "Yo homeslice do not play the Macarena" they've played the Macarena. And who wants that?
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Otis Redding: "Fa, Fa.."Desmond Dekker: The IsraelitesHouse of Pain: Jump Around (a universal wedding crowd pleaza!)
― andy --, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
i'll fit a superchunk song in somewhere, though.
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
We spent most of our reception having 7,000 pictures taken of us. The music was mostly for our friends and family. Some people do it differently with a lot more ceremony, but for us, homemade CDs were just fine.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
001 - Against the Wind main theme, computerifically slowed down by 30% to make stately bridal waltz002 - Righteous Bros - Unchained Melody003 - Barry White - You're the First, the Last, My Everything004 - The Mamas and the Papas - Dream a Little Dream005 - (?)006 - Madness - It Must Be Love007 - Proclaimers - Let's Get Married008 - Elvis Costello - She009 - Billy Idol - White Wedding010 - Robbie Williams & N Kidman - Something Stupid011 - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile012 - Erasure - Oh L'Amour013 - Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights014 - Sonny and Cher - I Got You Babe015 - Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You016 - Janet Jackson - Together Again017 - Tom Jones & Art of Noise - Kiss018 - Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender019 - Ten Sharp - You020 - Goo Goo Dolls - Iris021 - Wannadies - You and Me Song022 - Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U023 - Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)024 - Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love025 - Wham! - Freedom026 - Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper027 - Britney Spears - Baby One More Time028 - Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again029 - All Saints - Never Ever030 - Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song031 - Cornershop - Brimful of Asha032 - Gloria Gaynor - I Am What I Am033 - Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation034 - Men at Work - Down Under035 - Nina Hagen - African Reggae036 - Natalie Imbruglia - Torn037 - The Pogues - A Rainy Night in Soho038 - Pulp - Disco 2000039 - OutKast - Hey Ya040 - Las Ketchup - Asereje041 - Donna Summer - Hot Stuff042 - Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill043 - Chumbawamba - Tubthumping044 - Christina Aguilera - Beautiful045 - Ennio Morricone - The Godfather Waltz046 - The Cure - Lovecats047 - Los Del Rio - Macarena048 - Die Doraus und die Marinas - Fred vom Jupiter049 - B-52's - Love Shack050 - ABBA - Rock Me051 - John Coltrane - My Favorite Things052 - Jokke og Valentinerne - Aftenbønn053 - Madonna - Ray of Light054 - Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River055 - Macy Gray - I Try056 - Kim Larsen & Gasolin' - Spillemand057 - Snap - I Got the Power058 - Sir Mix-a-Lot - Baby Got Back059 - Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life060 - Stacie Orrico - Stuck061 - Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring062 - Holly Valance - Kiss Kiss063 - Imperiet - Du ska va president064 - Jimmy Cliff - You Can Get It If You Really Want065 - KLF ft Tammy Wynette - Justified and Ancient066 - Kraftwerk - Das Modell067 - David Bowie - Heroes068 - Curiosity Killed the Cat - Down to Earth069 - Althea and Donna - Uptown Top Ranking070 - Beyonce ft Jay-Z - Crazy in Love071 - Dum Dum Boys - Slave072 - Jokke og Valentinerne - Sola skinner073 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll074 - Suede - She075 - Sugababes - Freak Like Me076 - Sophie Ellis Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor077 - Soul II Soul - Back to Life078 - Prince - Alphabet Street079 - Destiny's Child - Independent Women080 - Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet081 - Jon English - Six Ribbons
It looks a bit ragtag random (even to me now), but made sense at the time. Plus, who'd complain about the music at a wedding? "Your union seems less solid due to lack of R.E.M./Sousa/Furtwängler"? Everyone will (or should) be content to go with your idea of fun.
multi multi xpost: Pleasant Plains's idea is actually wonderful, as long as you make sure to enforce play of the songs one or both of you feel should be present before jukebox is turned on.
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
No, no, you misunderstand... have a friend do it, tell them what you want, and let them do the work... it's more.. well, human than a dumb iPod.
― andy -, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
(xp!)
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Idea: Jukebox not accepting actual $$$s but tokens, of which every guest has been supplied a limited number? In dark corners, black market may evolve.
Oh and and and congratulations mookieproof!!! Marriedness is exactly as before, except more so, at least if it was good before!
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah. I had 30-40 minute conversation with my DJ about the music to be played, but at the time of the wedding he played whatever corny crap I had asked not to be played (except for the Chicken Dance, so I guess it could have been much worse). So either get a friend who you know isn't going to fuck things up or go with the ipod/mix idea.
― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
AWESOME. Are Tom and I really this charming or do you just wanna get drunk catering style twice? ;) I offer the same to you (though if you ever heard my radio show maybe you don't trust me to push buttons correctly)
We are going to have to play pretty much 18 tons of Clash and Billy Idol records to appease our crowd, I think.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Ahem.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link
If i ever get married (god forbid) i will play diamanda galas and miles davis's fusion years if I want to.
― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Duh, duh, duh. I sat there four hours ago trying to figure out how to circumvent putting a bowl of actual quarters on every table, and that is exactly how to do it.
You can't have it be "free" or some people would enter in their favorite song over and over. But you can't have it actually cost something. The token idea is akin to my company's Christmas party where we get drink tickets for the open bar.
(And the drunks descend onto the sober ones to scanvege their tickets, but that's another thread.)
Anyway. Here are the songs that were played at our reception:
Wild Night ... Van MorrisonOld Fashioned Love Song ... Three Dog Night Just the Two of Us ... Bill Withers & Grover Washington, Jr.Roseanna ... Toto Could It Be I'm Falling in Love ... The Spinners I Can't Tell You Why ... EaglesTrue ... Spandau BalletA Girl Like You ... The SmithereensBlack and Brown Blues ... Silver JewsNo One Like You ... The ScorpionsMagnet and Steel ... Matthew SweetI Can't Help Falling In Love ... Elvis PresleyReminiscing ... Little River BandCruel To Be Kind ... Letters To CleoFor Once In My Life ... Stevie WonderPlateau ... Meat Puppets More Than This ... Roxy MusicYou Make My Dreams Come True ... Hall & OatesYou Are the Woman ... FirefallLookin' Out My Back Door ... Creedence Clearwater Revival Thing For You ... Alex Chilton___________________________________________________________
The One Thing ... INXSFade Into You ... Mazzy StarHeavy Heart ... You Am IYou're My Best Friend ... QueenBeyond The Sea ... Bobby Darin I Was Made to Love Her ... Stevie WonderLa La Love You ... PixiesTake Me Out ... Franz FerdinandShe's A Lady ... Tom Jones Love And Happiness ... Al GreenShe's Got A Wa ... Billy JoelMy Wife ... The WhoI Saw The Light ... Todd RundgrenPassionate Kisses ... Mary Chapin CarpenterThe Killing Moon ... The QuakeLiving on a Prayer ... Pastel VespaAnother Night ... The Tremors Save Tonight ... Eagle Eye CherryYou Are The Sunshine Of My Life ... Stevie WonderI Can Dream About You ... Dan HartmanSend in the Clouds ... Silver Jews
Pretty pedestrian, but like I said, we weren't kicking up a lot of dirt at the actual reception anyway. It was more or less background music as the guests drank champagne and milled about on a cold and happy January night.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link
She phoned the band and told them that she didn't care what else was played - this was the most important.
So, the band came on and fucking sang Angels by Robbie Williams! Not wanting to make a fuss, they danced to it anyway, but it really took the shine off their day.
― Rumpie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link
I have a feeling mookie is a good dancer...I just SENSE it somehow
:)
― God Body, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
This was the principle we applied. We had about 5 mix CDs in the end and the two of us loved every single track. Didn't care overly much about anyone else, because it was our wedding and if nobody but us was dancing then so be it. We were total control freaks about the whole day I guess but why when you spend so much time planning every other detail would you let the music be decided by someone else?
As it happened everyone else liked our choices too (or was drunk enough not to care).
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
i have djed weddings before from cd-rs. it is a really good time! and no one has to wear a foam hat. THAT'S A GUARANTEE.
(so, if anyone needs a dj ...)
― maura (maura), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Can't complain too much cos he did it for free (son of a friend of my mum's) and drove us to the hotel afterwards, but still, I know which one I'd go for with hindsight.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― ianinportland (ianinportland), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Any reason not to just get a friend or some local hipster bar DJ instead?
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 20 April 2006 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link
when i made our playlist we had added a song request to our RSVP so i had a bunch of stuff i knew at least someone wanted to hear. after that i did blocks of a couple tracks that were somewhat linked and targeted at a certain demo--one for like, my aunts, one for our college friends, etc. the hope was that there were no floor-clearers. you do need a couple corny bangers strategically placed. i wanna dance with somebody gets everybody going. that shut up and dance w/me song is punishingly good at its job.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 14 April 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link
i was sensitive to lyrical content like you, i agree most people don't notice but it bugs me personally so i avoided some stuff because of that.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 14 April 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
matttkkkk otm throughout.
I've DJd a ton of wedding receptions. Very few became "off the hook."
Play a bunch of the "standard corny junk" (if that's your perception of Abba/Queen) plus some groom/bride requests. They very often spend so much time conversing with friends and family they won't much know/care. Wedding receptions are not an ideal place to showcase your musical erudition.
And don't forget a slow song or three. I've been to so many weddings that just keep spinning bangers one after the other. You'd be amazed what fitting in something like "At Last" by Etta James will do.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 14 April 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
lol@"cred picks". otm post. but you can have your cred picks if enough of the crowd is into them and you space em outour wedding song was a sentimental thing no one else really knew at all... right into Pretty Woman
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 14 April 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
i made 2 playlists for my wedding last summer & it was very useful & convenient to be able to switch between bangers & midtempo "we all just wanna chat now" grooves
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 14 April 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
Hahaha thanks everyone. I just needed a perspective adjustment and you all gave it to me. The groom is wanting 2.5 hours of "reception off the hook" and I was wondering how the hell I would pull that off. Answer = I can't. Nobody can! I have been to, and DJed, some pretty off-the-hook wedding receptions though, with the bulk of the people dancing wildly. But not sustained for 2.5 hours. That's unrealistic.
Also he wants it to be a playlist that I DJ off of as I deem necessary, so like a hybrid playlist / live DJ. I guess in case shit needs to shift. Nobody's dancing? Macarena time! Here's Mambo No. 5! Just messin' with ya.
"Standard corny shit" means what people were talking about upthread about hired DJs playing the Macarena even though they told the DJ not to play it, because they can't break from their standard wedding template. Everyone's been to those weddings. I have zero problem playing Whitney Houston or Prince or Madonna or ABBA or Queen and I will at this wedding if the other DJs haven't already done so. In my experience I've found the real magic happens when you pull out a song that the bulk of people love but had forgotten about. Then sprinkle in some they don't know at all but sound great in the moment.
That said, it can be a gamble. I like music a lot more than most people. All of us here do. So sometimes I think a song is known by everyone and it's... not at all. Cyndi Lauper and Madonna? Safe. Nu Shooz and Taylor Dayne? Maybe not??? But then again Nu Shooz could be that "OH SHIT I LOVE THIS SONG!" magic moment.
I do have to throw the groom some bones though. Robyn's gonna happen even if most people won't know it.
― SA, Thursday, 14 April 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
i sustain. when's this going down?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:40 (two years ago) link
this may be an oddball piece of advice but i would just go with the people getting married want. imagine making them feel really happy at that time, and then trust that all the other people that you don't know, whose music taste you're trying to guess at, also share a connection to the couple getting married, and that if they see them dancing and having a wonderful time, they'll want to join in on the fun
and if all else fails just play daft punk
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:43 (two years ago) link
philosophical question: if the couple getting married loves some categorically awful stuff, and the cool hip attendees of the wedding like cool hip music, which one do you play while they're all dancing?
for me, i'm playing the worst shit of all time that the people getting hitched love, trusting that the cool hip people will also be willing to sacrifice one night of music exploration for a night of hanging with the friends getting married instead
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
then again, i'm probably playing computer love and just enjoying it by myself. it depends on the night, depends on the crowd!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link
karl is more of a rehearsal party dj
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:47 (two years ago) link
It stings because it’s true! Haha
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
"worst shit of all time" means the standard wedding stuff that they are ok with, i think? that's otmI've been to more than one wedding with no dance. anyone else? can you believe that shit?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
i have as well
it's a time of great reflection among all attendees
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link
probably play gasolina. that's my only advice.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:53 (two years ago) link
xp what culture(s)i still would prefer to believe there was an afterparty we didn't make the cut for
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 14 April 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link
probably play 'bring in the katz'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 April 2022 23:01 (two years ago) link
We had neither drinking nor dancing at our wedding.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 14 April 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY_1RdxXNt4
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 14 April 2022 23:11 (two years ago) link
i got married in january in a hotel room with 4 other people present besides us. no one drank. we all danced to 'love at first sight' by kylie minogue on my bluetooth speaker and then got dinner downstairs.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 14 April 2022 23:11 (two years ago) link
congratulations!i meant crowd situations.. though i neglected to say
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 14 April 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link
congrats map! (didn't know you got married!)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 April 2022 23:14 (two years ago) link
crowd and dinner situationslike when do we pull these tables asideandnope:/
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 14 April 2022 23:14 (two years ago) link
Thanks everyone. I think I am good now. Karl raises some good notions. My priorities are 1) groom/bride wheelhouse (they will add a few crucials to my playlist) 2) bulk of the wedding attendees that I know nothing about 3) our friends 4) cred picks (I will grant myself a few and get some cred)
Check out the rehearsal dinner i.e. "welcome party": groom and myself and another groomsman and the groom's bandmate that the groomsman and I have never met are forming a cover band (groom wanted this at his wedding but we talked him out of playing drums during his own wedding reception, so we're playing the night before and things got a lot looser and more carefree). We're are practicing once together up where they live on the street outside of his building, with a power cord lowered out of his 2nd story window. What could go wrong with any of this?!?
Stoked. Playing some Mary Chain, Cure, Springsteen, INXS, New Order, more tba. It's gonna be a blinder.
― SA, Friday, 15 April 2022 01:50 (two years ago) link
groom wanted this at his wedding but we talked him out of playing drums during his own wedding reception
you did a good thing
― call all destroyer, Friday, 15 April 2022 01:52 (two years ago) link
honestly need a full map wedding mix (even if it didn't precisely happen that way)
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 April 2022 01:55 (two years ago) link
i mean, to me, i'm attending and i'm extremely happy :D
― Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 02:36 (two years ago) link
the couple getting married, dumbass.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 15 April 2022 08:42 (two years ago) link
sorry, that last part wasn’t cool.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 15 April 2022 08:50 (two years ago) link
weddings bring out a lot of emotions
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 15 April 2022 10:05 (two years ago) link
groom wanted this at his wedding but we talked him out of playing drums during his own wedding receptionyou did a good thing
This was a big philosophical question for us. He was so stuck on this vision of a live band at his wedding, but there was no available drummer aside from him. So we were faced with a quandary: do we just do what the groom wants? Or talk him out of it?
The cover band playing at the "welcome party" the night before is the compromise. Can't tell how bummed he is about it all but we pretty much refused to let it happen at the wedding. Hopefully he'll think it was the right choice after everything's said and done.
― SA, Friday, 15 April 2022 13:44 (two years ago) link
i think someday, with the benefit of perspective, he will look back and be thankful that he spent his reception with his new bride instead of playing drums with his pals.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 15 April 2022 14:22 (two years ago) link
for our wedding we had extensive convos with our DJ about what we wanted him to play during the dancing portion, and what we wanted him to *not* play (equally crucial imho). we made sure to include in the former category stuff that we remembered dancing to w/ our friends who were attending, stuff we both personally liked and wanted to dance to, and a couple of “classic” songs for the scant number of boomer-aged ppl in attendance. ironically, after all was said and done i can name maybe four or five songs that i remember dancing to that night because it was all such a blur (and not even a drunken one! i had maybe three drinks that whole day).
― donna rouge, Friday, 15 April 2022 14:23 (two years ago) link
last wedding i DJed the couple gave me a curated playlist to work off of which was like 75% 2000s NY hipster dance stuff that the couple was obviously nostalgic for and 25% 21st century stuff like Miley & Kelly Clarkson which arent ABBA but certainly still feel like standard meat & potatoes type wedding jams. i tried my best to split the difference but pretty quickly found myself caught in the "who do i please" conundrum as aunts & uncles were vocally annoyed with anything from the hipster column & dgaf about the fact that these were the couples favorite songs that they asked to hear. i deferred to the couple bc they were having the time of their lives & it was worth it for the moment near the end of the night when the bride dragged her grandma out onto the dancefloor and asked me to play Lightning Bolt and they both headbanged together
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 15 April 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, April 15, 2022 2:55 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
honey child every mix i do is a wedding mix
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 15 April 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
i'm going to be that guy for a second on this thread and say weddings are weird and overblown and maybe not entirely congruent with the spirit of love. but my baby has good health insurance now which was tbqfh the most important part of doing it.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 15 April 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
i was such a dumbass during my wedding that i ended up djing my own wedding because the guy who was going to do it was too wasted. prince had just died so i played a bunch of that in a row, with extensive outros that left people shuffling around while making fun of me. it was a great time
― Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
please tell me you dropped “Automatic”
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 15 April 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link
i still have my playlists in itunes! this is how things kicked off
https://i.imgur.com/gnUQlAB.png
― Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link
honestly i would have been happiest with a complete purple rain LP listen party, but compromises were made.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link
anyway, going back to the thread, sorta, i think most of my friends were happy to dance to a bunch of prince songs in a row. not because we used to do that together - i'm not much of a dancer and hadn't really danced with friends on a regular basis since my early 20s - and not because prince is awesome - although obviously that - but because it was me and my partner's night, and we were very happy to be dancing to prince and hoped that they would be too. i don't know. maybe i'm alone in that, but if i go to a friend's wedding and he's super into ben folds five, then for that night i am going to channel my BFF fan days and hope that they play a deep cut from whatever and ever amen
― Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
I'm currently planning on doing this for my own wedding (DIY DJing from my own playlist(s)) so this thread has been useful food for thought. Unfortunately, I lost the argument that our first dance should be to "Feel U Up" by Prince and we are instead opting for the more palatable "I Only Have Eyes for You" by the Flamingos so I will definitely goose the playlist with loads of Prince, including "Feel U Up" somewhere deeper in the mix.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 15 April 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link
My husband and I made our own playlists and got my cousin to be in charge of switching as needed. We had time period playlists ie before dinner, during, first few hours after, “people are drunk now” and for the most part the decades went in line as well- 40s and 50s stuff before, 60s during dinner, start dancing with the 70sish. We kicked the dancing time off with Rockin’ Robin and made sure to have Crazy in Love. Around midnight, I sequenced a rick roll to cut off California Love. Ben Folds loving husband had our first dance be to The Luckiest. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We did have song requests on our invites so everyone had a small say. Even our friend who always requested NIN’s Closer. Best laugh to me was us using Then He Kissed Me/Then I Kissed Her back to back for garter and bouquet toss. Whichever was second, someone rushed up to me concerned that the song was starting again.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 15 April 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
Ben Folds loving husband had our first dance be to The Luckiest. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i would be crying my eyes out in the audience. i'm such a sucker for stuff like that <3
― Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
It was kinda sweet, except for the bit where the old man watches the kid bike past! Heh
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 15 April 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
lol
What if I'd been born 50 years before youIn a house on a street where you lived?Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bikeWould I know?
yeah, that is a very odd sentiment from mr folds there! because at first you think, well this could be a grown person riding on a bike, there's nothing inherently - and then you remember "50 years before you", so the best case scenario is that you're born 50 years before a...40 year old, so you're 90, and you're watching her bike and thinking "could that have been the one for me?"
― Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
was Howard Marshall II the luckiest?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
Re: the weddings are weird comments - yeah I think weddings are pretty weird, especially at my age. Maybe everybody goes through this, but a ton of my friends, including myself, got married within a span of three or four years. It started with "whoa you're getting MARRIED? That seems so SERIOUS!" to "I've been to so many fucking weddings and I'm spending all of my money on plane flights from California to the East Coast" that I kind of never got into them on an sentimental level. Even my own was almost more of an excuse to throw a super elaborate party. Like, it felt great to get married, but it wasn't overly emotional. Probably because it smack in the middle of the Great Wedding Onslaught. People flew to that shit from overseas. I feel guilty about it now if I think about it.
Anyway, this wedding I'm involved in next week... I love the bride and groom so much so I'm mainly just so happy that they are so happy. They do seem pretty lovey-dovey about all of it and it's pretty wonderful. I wish I could feel that way!
Karl I Wanna Be Your Lover is one of the first tracks on my "off the hook" list! We'll see what happens.
Holy crap, Lightning Bolt at a wedding!? I was just concerned about playing Buffalo Stance.
― SA, Friday, 15 April 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
xposts methanietanner
one piece of advice i got and was too lazy to heed was to give the playlist a quick check to see if there are any with extended outros, silence, strange codas, etc. it didn't end up being too big of a deal at my own - there were definitely a couple times where there was an awkward extended song, and i'd just walk over to the computer/mixer and say whoops! and hit fast forward. but if i would have listened to that ahead of time i probably would have been more prepared, and probably gone to the trouble of doing quick edits of certain tracks to fade them out early or cut at a certain length
― Karl Malone, Friday, 15 April 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link