We are iPod-DJing our wedding reception. Most of our guests are in their mid-late 30s and like mostly "alternative" music (metal, punk, indie rock) but also '80s-'00s popular stuff. So we're concentrating on that, and skipping the sappy ballads and standard wedding songs you've heard 1000 times. Take a look if you're thinking of doing something similar!
COCKTAILS-thru-DINNER (this section has some songs that the older generation will like) = 1 hr 45 minutes
| Moondance | Van Morrison |
| Golden Brown | The Stranglers |
| I Saw The Light | Todd Rundgren |
| That'll Be The Day | Buddy Holly |
| My Boyfriend's Back | The Angels |
| You Never Can Tell | Chuck Berry |
| Valerie | Amy Winehouse |
| Sugarfoot | Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears |
| I Wish | Stevie Wonder |
| Pyjamarama | Roxy Music |
| Killer Queen | Queen |
| Tighten Up | The Black Keys |
| She's A Lady | Tom Jones |
| Let Me Go | Heaven 17 |
| World In My Eyes | Depeche Mode |
| Sunday Girl | Blondie |
| Take Me With U | Prince |
| And She Was | Talking Heads |
| Rebel Rebel | David Bowie |
| Messages | OMD |
| Save It For Later | The English Beat |
| Tenderness | General Public |
| Teenage Kicks | The Undertones |
| Hong Kong Garden | Siouxsie & The Banshees |
| Buddy Holly | Weezer |
| Look Sharp! | Joe Jackson |
| What Do I Get? | The Buzzcocks |
| London Calling | The Clash |
| Start! | The Jam |
| Pulling Mussels From The Shell | Squeeze |
| 20th Century Boy | T-Rex
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DANCING = 3 hours (overlong, because you never know how long people will want to dance!)
| Le Freak | Chic |
| Hot Stuff | Donna Summer |
| Me Myself & I | De La Soul |
| It's Tricky | Run-DMC |
| Brass Monkey | Beastie Boys |
| Rock The Casbah | The Clash |
| Blitzkrieg Bop | The Ramones |
| Don't You Want Me | Human League |
| Groove Is In The Heart | Deee-Lite |
| Rock Your Body | Justin Timberlake |
| The Way I Are | Timbaland |
| It Takes Two | Rob Base |
| Insane In The Brain (CLEAN) | Cypress Hill |
| Poison | Bel Biv Devoe |
| Love Roller Coaster | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| I Just Wanna Love You (CLEAN) | Jay-Z |
| A-Punk | Vampire Weekend |
| Bad Reputation | Joan Jett |
| Welcome To The Jungle | Guns 'n' Roses |
| Down In It | Nine Inch Nails |
| I Feel For You | Chaka Khan |
| Always Something There To Remind Me | Naked Eyes |
| 1999 | Prince |
| Wanna Be Starting Something | Michael Jackson |
| Jump | Kriss Kross |
| Drop | Yin Yang Twins |
| The Humpty Dance | Digital Underground |
| Girls & Boys | Blur |
| Very Ape | Nirvana |
| You Really Got Me | The Kinks |
| Dancing With Myself | Billy Idol |
| Ballroom Blitz | Sweet |
| Heart Of Glass | Blondie |
| Electric Feel | MGMT |
| Jump Around | House Of Pain |
| You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) | Dead Or Alive |
| Push It | Salt 'n' Pepa |
| Low | Flo Rida |
| Don't Go | Yaz |
| Private Idaho | The B-52s |
| Bikini Girls With Machine Guns | The Cramps |
| Night By Night | Chromeo |
| Voulez-Vous | ABBA |
| Into The Groove | Madonna |
| Macho Man | Village People |
| Lose Control | Missy Elliott |
| Give It To Me Baby | Rick James |
| The Breaks (Radio Version) | Kurtis Blow |
| Drop It Like It's Hot (CLEAN) | Snoop Dogg |
WIND-DOWN (to be transitioned to at any time we need to stop the dancing, or people are getting tired) = 1 hr 30 minutes
| Planet Earth | Duran Duran |
| Let's Go To Bed | The Cure |
| Too Shy | Kajagoogoo |
| I Could Be Happy | Altered Images |
| Young Folks | Peter Bjorn & John |
| South Side | Moby |
| Let Me Blow Ya Mind | Eve feat. Gwen Stefani |
| Dakota | Stereophonics |
| Be Near Me | ABC |
| Love My Way | Psychedelic Furs |
| Kiss Them For Me | Siouxsie & The Banshees |
| Black & White Town | Doves |
| I Got You | Split Enz |
| Disparate Youth | Santigold |
| My Moon, My Man | Feist |
| Seven Seas | Echo & The Bunnymen |
| Float On | Modest Mouse |
| Here Comes Your Man | Pixies |
| There Shere Goes | The La's |
| Kiss On My List | Hall & Oates |
| Steppin' Out | Joe Jackson |
| Head Over Heels | Tears For Fears |
| D'yer Maker | Led Zeppelin |