Critique my song list?

climbingsingle · August 2014

This is what I've got so far. I wanted to have a good mix of old and new, but I also wanted to avoid cheesy and over-played songs. However, I had to throw some classics in there.

Are there any great songs I'm missing? Do I need to include a few more current songs?

Ceremony Processional: A Thousand Years – The Piano Guys

Ceremony Recessional: By Your Side – Sade

Reception Entrance: Boogie Shoes – KC & The Sunshine Band

First Dance: Come Away With Me – Norah Jones

Parent Dance: Stand By Me – John Lennon

Songs to play during dinner:

God Only Knows – The Beach Boys

All Of My Love – Led Zeppelin

At My Most Beautiful – REM

Green Eyes – Coldplay

Ho Hey – Lumineers (I know this isn't a love song, but this particular song has meaning for us)

Home – Phil Phillips

I Will Wait – Mumford & Sons

I’m Amazed – My Morning Jacket

Love You ‘Til The End – Bish

All You Need Is Love – The Beatles

Slow songs:

No One’s Gonna Love You – Band Of Horses

The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra

Lay Lady Lay – Bob Dylan

Real Love – The Beatles

When A Man Loves A Woman – Percy Sledge

Unchained Melody – Righteous Brothers

Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton

Dancing songs:

Can’t Hold Us – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Get Lucky – Daft Punk

Wouldn’t It Be Nice – The Beach Boys

Grove Is In the Heart – Deee-Lite

Hypnotize – Notorious BIG

Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love – Barry White

Beat It – Michael Jackson

Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen

Domino – Van Morrison

Run Around Sue – Dion

Poison – Bell Biv Devoe

Rather Be – Clean Bandit

This Is How We Do It – Montell Jordan

Push It – Salt N Pepa

I Saw Her Standing There – The Beatles

Superstition – Stevie Wonder

Could You Be Loved – Bob Marley

Finally – CeCe Peniston

I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Whitney Houston

Club Can’t Handle Me – Flo Rida Feat. David Guetta

Bust a Move – Young MC

Let’s Stay Together – Al Green

Live Your Life – T.I. Feat. Rhianna

Big Pimpin’ – Jay Z

Rock Your Body – Justin Timberlake

Drop It Like It’s Hot – Snoop Dog

Last song: You Make My Dreams Come True – Hall & Oates

AprilH81 · August 2014

You put more work into your list than I did mine.

I just told our DJ the special songs, a do not play list, and said play the "Rat Pack/Michael Buble" for the cocktail hour, instrumental type stuff during lunch and then whatever you want for the dancing part. We had just a few "must" play songs and told the DJ to use his best judgement. Our only request was that if someone wanted some hip hop type music to make sure he played the clean version.

mschristie123 · August 2014

Looks good! I would be boogying my ass off at your wedding! This is definitely a personal preference but one of our 'crowd pleasing' dance songs was Blurred Lines. We had the dance floor packed during that song!

Our wedding band gave us a huge list of songs they play and we just gave them a list of songs that we loved. It helped to pick songs we like/don't like from a huge list, rather than compiling our own.

climbingsingle · August 2014

I was going back and forth about adding Blurred Lines.

beachyone15 · August 2014

Kudos for adding Led Zep and the Beach Boys!!!

cafarrie · August 2014

We did our own music too!! Had different songs but the same general artists and feel - we're still getting comments about how everyone loved our music playlist (and we've had lots of requests to send it to people for events) so I think it looks AWESOME!!!!

One piece of advice is to make sure you space the slow songs really well! One of our mistakes was not playing enough slow songs later in the evening, just because we got through a lot of our playlist than we thought we would because dinner was done really quickly!

cafarrie · August 2014

Re: Blurred Lines - even the people that were complaining about hating that song were dancing to it at our wedding

definite crowd pleaser!

pinkcow13 · August 2014

I love your playlist! I would add Blurred Lines. Personally, I love that song, and I will probably add it to our list. Our crowd is a party crowd

I love Run around Sue and I Love Love LOVE Let's stay together

lurkergirl · August 2014

I love it! We have very similar tastes, and I will definitely be borrowing some of these ideas!

I have heard that "All of My Love" is about the death of Robert Plant's daughter, but I have no idea if that's true. We're playing "Ain't Wastin' Time No More" by Allman Brothers for our recessional which I'm sure is about a death, so don't let it stop you if you love it. But maybe look into it if that kind of thing would bother you.

holyguacamole79 · August 2014

I think you need some Michael Bublé. Otherwise, sounds like a blast!

michellef2014 · August 2014

Everything sounds awesome! but I think there are other crowd pleasers besides Blurred Lines. I wouldn't play a song that promotes misogyny or rape in my wedding.

ashley8918 · August 2014

cafarrie said:

Re: Blurred Lines - even the people that were complaining about hating that song were dancing to it at our wedding definite crowd pleaser!

I guess this is a know your crowd type thing? Because my crowd certainly wouldn't be pleased about a song about rape. I HATE hearing this song at weddings.

KatieinBkln · August 2014

Re: Blurred Lines, I dislike it for all the usual feminist reasons, but also...because it sucks. Laziest bass-line in pop music. It's catchy the way MSG-laden chips are tasty--yeah, you keep eating them, but not because they're actually GOOD.

ETA: I really love your playlist, however!

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