Someone here on the BBS is intending to use their empeg at a wedding breakfast, and I was thinking how that could be risky - the chances of something obscene, offensive, or inappropriate ending up in the playlist (or some spotty teenaged relative changing playlists when no-ones looking) are too high too ignore. Anyway, to cut to the chase - what songs would you make absolutely sure *didn't* get played at a wedding?

I'll start the ball rolling:

Kevin Bloody Wilson - Do Ya [censored] on First Dates? (Kevs Courtin' Song)
Steve Vai - #?@! Yourself

Susan Bush - Scared Of The Words

I saw her live at a folk music show in Philadelphia 1998. She had an introduction saying that a friend was getting married, and this was the only song even close to appropriate, but that the friend did not want it...

At my wedding, we had rules for the DJ:

No Hustle
No YMCA
No Macerana

We had plenty of Depeche Mode, Cure, Bjork, etc etc playing.

There's got to be tens of thousands of songs that would be in appropriate for a wedding... A few that come to mind...

The Bloodhound Gang - "You're Pretty When I'm Drunk"
Led Zeppelin - "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You"
Eazy E - "I'd Rather F#@k You"
The Greg Kihn Band - "The Breakup Song"
Phil Collins - "Throwing It All Away"

Whaddya know, there's a pretty comprehensive list of breakup songs that you might not want to play at a wedding...

That damn Chicken Dance song, it should never be played anywhere, at anytime, EVER!!!

I was at a wedding last Saturday where they played it acoustically...

One song that got played a lot at weddings is the 80's is "Every Breath You Take".

Which, if you listen to the lyrics closely, is absolutely sick. The song is an obsession song about a stalker, not a love song.

And I want to slap anyone who plays Dan Fogelberg at any wedding.

Hmmmmm.....

Gompie "Alice" (esp. if bride is named Alice)
Spinal Tap "Big Bottom"
Mojo Nixon "Kylie Minogue is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child" (or just about anything by Mojo...)

HTH,

Jim

I'd say Prodigy - "Smack My Bitch Up" would be a rather controversial choice for a wedding

Anything by Prodigy isn't good wedding music material though The video for that song is bizarre enough as it is

- Trevor

Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls (esp. if your bride is the least bit overweight)
NIN - Closer

Guns N' Roses - Get in the Ring

Definitely the most swear words I've ever heard in a song.

NIN - Closer
Soundgarden - Big Dumb Sex

That's two people now who have said "Closer". But, I think frog51 would disagree with you.

Oh not THAT discussion again! I think that song gets the honors for the most well known song that includes the repeated use of the word fuck.

Ironically, I think "Closer" is a much more appropriate wedding song than "Every Breath You Take".

Presidents Of The USA - Last Girl On Earth
20 Fingers - Short Dick man
Anything by Lords Of Acid.
Anything by the 2Live Crew. (I can imagine the grandparents would love that! )

I used my Empeg at my wedding (on 02/02/02, heh) but we hand picked a wedding playlist before hand.

Still, we managed to leave Staind - It's Been a While in forgetting its got a couple of Sh**s and a few Fu**s. Don't think anybody over 40 noticed.

D.I.V.O.R.C.E - Tammy Wynette

Rollins Band - Liar
Soulfly - Jump tha [censored] up
Cradle of Filth - Born in a Burial Gown
NOFX - My Vagina

Twisted - Stewart who
I will lick your arsehole - regurgitator
Kyles Mom's a bitch - Southpark
nookie - limp bizkit
Mutha Fukka on a Motor Cycle - Machine Gun Fellatio

Sucks my nuts F**k You Bitch - Insane Clown Posse

Offspring - She's got issues (and I'm gonna pay)

Some would argue that both the bridal chorus from Lohengrin and the wedding march from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream are remarkably inappropriate.

In Lohengrin, the bride, Elsa, if she wishes to be wed to Lohengrin, must never ask his name or inquire about his life in any way. If she does (which, of course, she does), he will be forced to leave (which he does). So it implies that the bride must remain ignorant of the groom; that she is totally subservient to him.

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus captures Hippolyta to marry her without her consent and Titania's coerced drug-induced declaration of love to Bottom, a half-man, half-donkey creature. But at least the commoners in the play get married successfully.

Oh -- and in case you don't know, these two pieces of music are the ``traditional'' wedding themes for the bridal entrance and the recessional, respectively. Uplifting, huh?

I hated Elsa's Procession to the Chathedral. We played it in HS band. It was sooo freaking drawn out blah.

If I were to get married (unlikely) I would definitely want some obscene, offensive and inappropriate music to be played! I say start married life as you mean to go on.

Rob

LOL. Well in your case, what song do you think *should* be played??

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If I were to get married (unlikely) I would definitely want some obscene, offensive and inappropriate music to be played! I say start married life as you mean to go on.

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I agree with that myself. I would go for NIN Closer to be played.

I tried to get the band at my aunt's wedding to play "50 ways to leave your lover". The drummer, who had been mostly unchallenged all evening, had already started playing before the singer nixed it.

When I told my aunt later that her band wouldn't play it she was sad. "I love that song."

Who sang "Don't Marry Her (Fsck Me)"? Was it The Beautiful South? That song always seemed to me to be hand-crafted as the optimally bad wedding song.

Some friends of mine wanted James' "Sit Down" at their wedding, until I pointed out the rest of the lyrics: "Now I've come back down again, it's worse than it was before / If I hadn't seen such riches, I could live with being poor..."

Apart from that, Fatboy Slim's "Fscking In Heaven" is always a good one for outraging the maiden aunts posse (or that "They know what is what" song from the other album, whose name escapes me). Hugo's player once came up with "In Heaven" at an Empeg barbecue in the presence of several small children -- you've never seen so many people dive for the remotes in their pockets at once.

Peter

Aye - but I'm not usually considered normal, so that's okay

If it wasn't for all the foul language upsetting grannies and kids it would be fine. Only it would be something else, not Closer.