What record would you like played first at your wedding reception?

As for me, I don't know... For the first song I would like "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys, but I don't know how danceable that actually is.

We used this as our "walking down the aisle together" song - only as an instrumental (played live by a fellow band member who worked it out on electric guitar). After the "ladies and gentlemen, may we present Mr. & Mrs..." the Beach Boys' version kicked in. We didn't do a first dance or anything like that, but the first song on for us was Spiritualized's "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" (the full "Elvis ending" version)

I can tell you what I *won't* be playing. "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang for a start.

love love love this ^

I always thought Nick Cave's "Into My Arms" would be nice for a wedding. not necessarily the reception, but some part of the actual ceremony.

"Two worlds collide, rival nations
It's a primitive clash, venting years of frustrations
Bravely we hope against all hope, there is so much at stake
Seems our freedom's up against the ropes
Does the crowd understand?
Is it a East vs. West, or man against man
Can any nation stand alone?"

Too Drunk to Fuck by the Dead Kennedys.

i am gonna try and get me and wifey to slow dance with me to "you're a fish and i'm a water sign"

just wondering, u Australian, Popture?

Also everyone I know who has been recently (last few years) married has played God Only Knows at their wedding.

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Teddy Pendergrass - "When somebody loves you back"

Easy.

Hey, my wife really did walk down the aisle to "Welcome". We weren't married when I posted that. First dance was to something by Veloso.

My bff did Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" and man it was so perfect I might actually have to steal it for when/if mine happens.

we got married halfway up the stairs. so, coming down the stairs was superchunk, 'throwing things'.

first dance was sarah vaughan, 'polka dots and moonbeams'.

also, congrats elvis!

I don't quite know why anyone would choose "God Only Knows" as their first dance. I mean, "I may not always love you"? Not exactly 'til death do us part, is it?

That's exactly the reason my wife refused to have it played.

Our recep had a DJ thrown in as part of the package, but I'd found a band that I felt would go down a storm with everyone (think Geordie Pogues. OK, DJP, your office, etc)..

So anyroad, we didn't fuss too much about the wedding DJ, gave him a free hand although asked him not to play "Come on Eileen", not because I know any Eileens, just because of over-playing.

So, anyroad, he decides that a great choice of final dance song for the bride and groom was the latest fab "Soldier Soldier" spinoff he'd just got as a promo. "You don't have to say you love me" by Denise Welsh.

We laughed. We danced. And we cursed his stylii to forever fall out from now on.

OK, so it was all CDs.

(DJP = DK, as any fule kno (soz))

Yeah, I don't use DJP here to avoid confusion with DJM.

"I don't quite know why anyone would choose "God Only Knows" as their first dance. I mean, "I may not always love you"? Not exactly 'til death do us part, is it?"

But the next line is "long as there are stars above you" so it IS forever - the first line's a red herring. But yeah, it would sound jarring regardless. We went for Dennis Wilson's Forever as the aisle tune, Let's Stay Together for the registry-signing and Love Unlimited's Under the Influence of Love for first dance. I agree Into My Arms would be a great choice.

young hot rod/tila tequila - i like to fuck

trick daddy/trina - nann nigga

Lex you are never going to get married.

i was actually gonna say, i have a serious actual romantic choice, but thinking about it i would really not object to dirty ho-rap comprising the bulk of the reception.

actually i did dj a wedding reception earlier this year and played 'how many licks?' by lil' kim, there were still old people and children in the room :/

Let's hope some of the old people were retired dirty hos

I think anyone who wouldn't have "Don't Stop Believin'" as the first song at their wedding is a fucking Communist and should be treated as such

Roky Erickson - "Don't Slander Me"

-- Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:02 (5 years ago) Link

lol was just thinking this as I clicked on this thread and wondering why I thought it was so funny, and sure enough someone posted it five years ago.

Congratulations Elvis!

I walked up the aisle to "Beyond the Sea" by Bobby Darin.
We walked down the aisle together to "Happy Together" by The Turtles
I honestly can't remember what the first song at the reception was and neither of us saved the playlist. :-(

I walked up the aisle to "Beyond the Sea" by Bobby Darin.

Nutty, I was thinking about this very song earlier as being a good choice.

It's one of favorite songs ever and since L and I had an ocean between us for much of our relationship it seemed appropriate. I also didn't really want to walk by myself to anything really slow for some reason.

Aw, very nice. (Not that this is a wedding song by any stretch lyrically but a-ha's "The Swing of Things" plays around with the separation-by-ocean idea extremely well.)

first song at my reception was Willie Hutch's "I Choose You"

^ now thats gangsta

I've only ever been to one wedding (my cousin's) and they had Amazed by Lonestar. Which was a bit 'ugh', but fair play to them.

I honestly don't know what I would have.

"I Concentrate On You" - Sinatra/Jobim

We had "The Wonder of You" by Elvis, me having nixed his choice of "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS on grounds of "urgh, not INXS" and he having dismissed all of my choices as schmindie bollocks. And when I say "by Elvis", I mean "the Elvis song as interpreted by the band playing at the reception", who were actually pretty good.

A couple friends had the live band play "Cocaine" as their bride-and-groom-first-dance song. I've thought about the Melodians' "You Have Caught Me" as our embarrassing-dancing-in-front-of-everybody song. Hoping the Owls will play the ceremony.

'You Look Divorced' ANAL CUNT

Herbie Hancock - Stars In Your Eyes

My girl bought a CD of "The Disco-Tech Of... Julien Jabre" while we were in NYC on our first trip together after we'd been... DATING for a couple of weeks. So basically we fell in love with the song as we were falling in love.

Ironically we were @ Francois K's Deep Space night a couple of days later and he played it... but I was outside having a cigarette.

Apache's "Gangsta Bitch"

Cryptopsy's "Slit Yer Guts"

Gays can't get married, so I guess Mariah Carey's "Fantasy."

"Smell Yo Dick"

just wondering, u Australian, Popture?
-- wilter, Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:23 PM (Yesterday)

Yes, yes I am.
Anyway my real answer would probably be "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Frankie Valli. It expresses the right sentiment and you can dance to the 'I love you baby'.

Damn it Elvis, I always thought that would be my song! I love Spiritualized...

I also have vaguely fantasized about Takk by Sigur Ros: 'Glosoli' as the song all the bridesmaids/groomsmen walk down, then 'Hoppipolla' as the song I walk down the isle to... I don't know why.. probably some stupid estrogen thing.

Ew. Why am I even thinking about this?

Spiritualized's "Anyway That You Want Me" would work well, I think?

Any Way oops

me and my wife danced to "This Will Be Our Year" by the zombies
weird, was just talking to a friend at work today who wants this to be her wedding song. good choice!

did you dance to the recording, or was someone playing it?

i intend to hire a hip-hop choreographer prior to my wedding and get some fucking banging moves in there - there will be no awkward shuffling in my first dance!

^^^yes. but instead of hip-hop, it'd be nice to do a super-formal eighteenth century waltz to a john fahey piece or something.

the flamingos - "i only have eyes for you"

In a jokey sense, I was listening to Notorious B.I.G. feat R Kelly - "I'm F@xking You Tonight" and thought that it would be a very amusing start. With the lyrics reminiscing on the early days of the couple's lovemaking (and the involvement of her sister!) coupled with R Kelly continuously crooning the line "and I'm f@!king you tonight.." Fairly childish but amused me nonetheless.

we got married a couple of weeks ago... for the ceremony itself we used mogwai's 'helicon 1, yma sumac's 'babalu' and eyvind kang's 'marriage of days'.

didn't do the first dance thing as such. I wanted to choreograph some salsa moves to something really inappropriate, but my wife was not comfortable with everyone watching her dance. to be fair, it's awkward enough being the centre of attention anyway. ah well. maybe next time. however, the first tune we ended up on the together on the floor to was secret chiefs 3's 'horsemen of the invisible'.

we had no DJ...I programmed the playlist and it seemed to keep people going. everything from britney, shakira and dizzee through del shannon and sam'n'dave to black flag and QOTSA.

the final run of drunken crowd-pleasers was incredibly uplifting and communal, if pretty obvious: 'I want you back', 'crazy horses', 'superstition', 'hey ya', 'my sharona', '500 miles', 'wuthering heights', 'don't stop believing'.

it was beautiful, man.

*sniff*

I'm surprised at how many of these first dance/general wedding floor-filler tunes/artists I've never heard of!

Yma Sumac? Eyvind Kang? Secret Chiefs 3? The Flamingos? 'You Make Me Feel so Young'? 'New Partner@? 'Sleepwalking'? 'Sophisticated Boom Boom'?

Not a clue, bub. I feel so lame, worrying about whether to choose The Beatles or Nina bloody Simone in the face of such richness...

I've not even (knowingly) heard 'This Will Be Our Year', although I now realise it's on Odessey and Oracle, which I bought on eMusic a couple of weeks ago so I guess I now own it!

[NB Spotify is helping me out re: all the above bands/songs so no need to explain!]

SC3 was our first dance, but not The First Dance, to be fair. it was quite late in the evening by the time it came on and we hit the floor.

the ceremony music wasn't that well known, I guess, but rather than have the usual tasteful (but equally anonymous) classical stuff, we wanted some sounds that were meaningful to us. it wasn't exactly a traditional wedding anyway...

it is mighty difficult trying to make a playlist that will suit toddlers, grannies, wire readers, old punks, ravers and children of the '80s alike.

me and my wife danced to "This Will Be Our Year" by the zombies
weird, was just talking to a friend at work today who wants this to be her wedding song. good choice!

― tylerw, Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha my sister and her boyfriend (now husband) played this song at our wedding

it's all about whitehouse - 'my cock's on fire'

"underneath it all" by no doubt

trying to make a playlist that will suit toddlers, grannies, wire readers, old punks, ravers and children of the '80s alike.

this is basically exactly what i have to do for the pre-"disco" playlist. am i going to try? nope! i'm going to fill it with songs we want to hear because this isn't dancing time...

I had to do that too. the pre-disco "dinner" playlist was six hours of martin denny, les baxter, art blakey, mingus, brubeck, tinariwen and iranian classical stuff.

Southall to thread!

idk if 'world at your feet' is for everyone :/