― 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
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 20 April 2006 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 20 April 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Wedding planners strike me as people in the business of convincing you to spend money you don't have on things you don't want, though they should know a thing or two about potential logistical problems that you don't know.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 20 April 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link
On a self-made wedding mix (ok, a playlist) how many Prince songs is too many?
― G00blar, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Should I include "slow songs"?
Will people dance to "How Deep is Your Love"?
― G00blar, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I included one slow song for about every five uptempo songs. This worked out well early in the evening, but it seemed like after an hour or two, people just wanted to dance dance dance. So if you're programming your playlist in order, maybe keep the slow songs to the first half of your playlist?
I think we only had one Prince song, but it was near the end of our playlist and people kept asking "Why aren't you playing any Prince?" and eventually I skipped ahead to the Prince song so people would shut up about it.
― n/a, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link
haha ok.
That seems smart re: slow songs early in the evening.
― G00blar, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link
if you're programming a list in order here's my never-fail slow-dance one-two punch:
Unchained Medley >>> Wonderful Tonite
Those are basically the only two slow songs you need in the last two or three hours of dancing; play them back to back.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I am DJing a friend's wedding this weekend and have spent much more time on it than I expected. Some of the songs they wanted me to play I had to search out and download, and now they're having me make two back-ups: a second iPod and then all of the songs on audio CDs.
I am a little torn as to whether I want to actually "play DJ" -- i.e., pick and choose on the fly among the 150 or so songs I have in a playlist on my iPod -- or just sequence a mix beforehand. The former would be more fun, I think, but the couple is so particular about what they want played that it's not like I'm going to be suddenly wowing the crowd with something unexpectedly awesome. Plus, my girlfriend wants to dance with me without me having to rush over to the stereo after three minutes to cue up the next song.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, I have learned two things from having informally done this in the past: a) you can never have too many Prince songs and b) you need to have "Livin' on a Prayer" or else drunk guys will yell at you.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
are you getting paid?
― gr8080, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
No.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Processional: "Isis" -- violin, guitar, drum instrumental Recessional: hand yanked bells Cocktail hour/Dinner: ipod shuffle of 1950s rnr n lee perry tunes First Dance: "Sea of Love" -- percy vers for the heads Father Daughter Dance: "I Wonder Why" -- Dion/belmonts Bouquet Toss: "Edge of 17" Garter Toss: "Pour Some Sugar On Me" Last Dance: detroit techno banger with fireworks --we had our pals tag team Djs with equpiment borrow from all over the country, but then again our pals are all superhuman .... NOTE: All above worked like gangBUSTERS!!!, (except 50s music alienated no-kids baby boomer contingent to a degree)
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
then just do the playlist and dance with your GF.
XP
― gr8080, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Bouquet Toss: "Edge of 17"
Mikey/Freddie used to play that at Plant bar, once that was the only record he brough, and he played it over and over again.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
oops actually reverse that: Bouquet Toss: "Pour Some Sugar On Me" Garter Toss: "Edge of 17" ...this union thing gets confusing (sounds like she's singin who who who)
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I've dj'd 3 friends weddings in the last year, each time with a large set of CDs called "the ultimate wedding songs according to Dan" and I will be selling it soon on late night TV via Ronco.
I will say selecting songs on the fly is pretty important, less about wowing and more about adjusting to the crowd. If nobody's dancing then the mix goes into some 80s hip-hop staple or something and everyone's dancing, it'd probably be smart to play a few more songs like that and not just let the mix move onto whatever genre is next.
The most recent wedding I did was for good friends who were serious indie-rockers, so I was nervous. I know I've seen people DJ stuff like that before, but it's not my forte. But I pulled out some alternative dance classics and mixed it up with my usual stuff (disco, new wave, mostly).
Suprising and effective segways:
Violent Femmes-Blister in the Sun followed by Neil Diamond's Cherry Cherry Outkast's Hey Ya followed by Iggy Pop's Lust for Life The Humpty Dance followed by Cannonball by the Breeders.
These aren't the kinds of segways I normally would put in a set, but I was trying to please many folk. Generally I think you want to make all these groups happy...the really old people, the parents, the drunk cousins, the close friends etc etc. I found I was able to move between lots of different genres and as always rely on certain key transition songs to help move between disco and rock or whatever else.
Basically I opened with the oldies following the dance with the parents, Build Me Up Buttercup, some Motown or Stevie, then move into a more 70s old-school vibe into disco then using something like Blondie's Heart of Glass or Bowie or Queen Another One Bites the Dust to go into a some 80s and New Wave, staring with disco-y/clubby New Wave like New Order then moving into the Cure Just Like Heaven for a bit of an alternative set and so on...and from 80s stuff Madonna or Prince can take you back to more clubby/old-school stuff. Maybe later when I have my CDs out I'll list the most effective tracks. Anyway this all depends on the kind of wedding and kind of crowd, I think if I was at a wedding that expected or required Living on a Prayer, I wouldn't want to be djing.
And I still don't know what the Cha Cha Slide is.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Violent Femmes-Blister in the Sun followed by Neil Diamond's Cherry Cherry
I'll remember that. Both are on the playlist. (As are "Hey Ya" and "Cannonball" but not "Lust for Life" and "The Humpty Dance.")
― jaymc, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
And you're absolutely right about adjusting to the crowd.
which is why ipods are good for "mood music" but not so much for serious dancing.
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
this is the playlist i ended up putting together (on a laptop, with another as backup). we'd told people to suggest songs on the invitation, so some are requests. number 1 was kinda my standing-around-waiting music, number 2 was her entrance music, number 3 was the after-kiss music, the next bunch was supposed to be for cocktails, the bunch after that for dinner, number 53 was the "first dance" and then the rest was for dancing. not everything got played, if i was nearby i would sometimes bump it--i kind of wish i'd been available to actually dj, but then i was too busy having a really good time.
1. Yo La Tengo - Big Day Coming (7:05) 2. Jon Brion - Phone Call (1:03) 3. Superchunk - Throwing Things (3:26)
4. Death Cab for Cutie - A Movie Script Ending (4:19) 5. Edith Frost - Cars and Parties (3:24) 6. The Pogues - Gridlock (3:33) 7. The Black Crowes - Remedy (5:12) 8. Aimee Mann - Save Me (4:35) 9. Beastie Boys - In 3's (2:19) 10. Calexico - Sunken Waltz (2:27) 11. Afghan Whigs - 66 (3:23) 12. Elliott Smith - Thirteen (demo) (2:48) 13. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights (4:25) 14. Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde (4:42) 15. Los Lobos - Saint Behind the Glass (3:17) 16. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? (3:32) 17. Ray Charles - What'd I Say (4:30) 18. The Dismemberment Plan - A Life of Possibilities (4:34) 19. Stars - Look Up (4:18) 20. Luna - Sideshow by the Seashore (3:08) 21. The Notwist - One With the Freaks (4:02) 22. Beth Orton - Stolen Car (35:04) 23. Nico - These Days (3:33) 24. Bloc Party - So Here We Are (3:53) 25. Chavez - Unreal is Here (2:12) 26. Yo La Tengo - My Little Corner of the World (2:25) 27. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Me and Mia (3:31) 28. Low - California (3:26) 29. Matthew Sweet - I've Been Waiting (3:36) 30. Pretenders - Brass in Pocket (3:03) 31. The Karminsky Experience Inc. - Exploration (5:35) 32. James - Laid (2:38)
33. The Shins - New Slang (3:51) 34. Cannonball Adderley - Work Song (5:07) 35. The Andrews Sisters - I Can Dream, Can't I? (2:37) 36. The Beatles - Here, There and Everywhere (2:25) 37. Combustible Edison - The Millionaire's Holiday (2:15) 38. Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges e Márcio Borges - Clube da Esquina No. 2 (3:38) 39. Bebel Gilberto - Sem Contenção (3:10) 40. Damien Jurado - Never Ending Tide (4:44) 41. Bobby Timmons - Moanin' (5:08) 42. Yo La Tengo - A Worrying Thing (2:54) 43. Dusty Springfield - The Look of Love (4:08) 44. Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) (45 Version) (2:20) 45. John Coltrane - Nancy (With the Laughing Face) (3:10) 46. Cannonball Adderley - Sticks (3:54) 47. B.B. King - Sweet Little Angel (4:09) 48. Yo La Tengo - Pablo and Andrea (4:16) 49. Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey (6:56) 50. Grandaddy - The Warming Sun (5:43) 51. The Allman Brothers Band - Stormy Monday (8:48) 52. Lemon Jelly - The Staunton Lick (5:22)
53. Sarah Vaughan - Polka Dots and Moonbeams (2:36)
54. 1979 Super Steelers (2:32)
55. Prince & the Revolution - Let's Go Crazy (4:39) 56. Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours (2:48) 57. Sister Sledge - We Are Family (edit) (3:18) 58. Chic - Le Freak (3:35) 59. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (4:49) 60. Barry White - You're the First, the Last, My Everything (4:35) 61. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York (4:35) 62. The Smashing Pumpkins - Luna (3:20) 63. The Go-Go's - We Got the Beat (2:33) 64. Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf (3:25) 65. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock N' Roll (2:55) 66. Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me (3:36) 67. The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men (3:31) 68. The B-52's - Rock Lobster (4:54) 69. The Commodores - Easy (4:14) 70. Feist - Now at Last (3:15) 71. Beck - Debra (5:37) 72. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (2:29) 73. Rick James - Super Freak (3:25) 74. Greyboy - Got to Be a Love (3:27) 75. Kool & the Gang - Get Down On It (3:33) 76. Neko Case - Pretty Girls (3:25) 77. Tom Waits - Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love) (3:38) 78. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head (3:50) 79. Beastie Boys - Sabotage (2:58) 80. Archers of Loaf - Web in Front (2:04) 81. Madonna - Beautiful Stranger (4:21) 82. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun (2:24) 83. R. Kelly - Ignition (Remix) (3:03) 84. Kelis - Milkshake (3:06) 85. Outkast - Hey Ya! (3:48) 86. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (3:57) 87. Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure (3:42) 88. Prince - 1999 (edit) (3:37) 89. The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed (2:45) 90. The Knack - My Sharona (4:56) 91. Soft Cell - Tainted Love (2:41) 92. The Smiths - This Charming Man (2:42) 93. The Clash - Train in Vain (3:13) 94. New Order - Regret (4:08) 95. Blondie - Call Me (3:29) 96. Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster (4:46) 97. Wyclef Jean - Gone Till November (3:16) 98. Nellie McKay - I Wanna Get Married (4:01) 99. Peggy Lee - Bye Bye Blackbird (3:03)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
awesome!!!
― Curt1s is coming to Zwinktopia !, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
number 2 was her entrance music
Aw.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
82. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun (2:24) 83. R. Kelly - Ignition (Remix) (3:03) 84. Kelis - Milkshake (3:06) 85. Outkast - Hey Ya! (3:48) 86. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (3:57) 87. Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure (3:42) 88. Prince - 1999 (edit) (3:37)
*standing, applauding*
a) you can never have too many Prince songs and b) you need to have "Livin' on a Prayer" or else drunk guys will yell at you.
a) Thank you, this affirms what I was leaning towards (i.e., pretty much all of the greatest hits). b) Way ahead of you--I'm from New Jersey, and thus, there will be a number of NJ fellas attending who will demand this song.
― G00blar, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Our external hard drive crashed pretty soon after the wedding so I lost our playlist. ;_; I made a copy for my sister before it died but I doubt she is willing to go through and type up a list of every single song on the cd.
― n/a, Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
have her drag it into winamp and export an html file of the playlist
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 September 2007 20:22 (sixteen 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?
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
you 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
honestly need a full map wedding mix (even if it didn't precisely happen that way)
― 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
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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