# Recommend some wedding reception music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-wedding-reception-music/409511 "2007-06-26T19:16:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-wedding-reception-music/409511/1 "2007-06-26T19:16:07Z")
A buddy of mine is getting married in September, and he’s asked me to help him out with the music. I’m looking for a few hours worth of fun / happy songs. We lean toward rock, but there’s no cast-in-stone genre requirements. We were all teens in the 90s, so that was the music of our youth. I just want to avoid anything angsty. Thanks as always! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-wedding-reception-music/409511/2 "2007-06-26T19:35:13Z")
I’ll be watching the replies as I’m responsible for a 7/7/07 one myself. NPR had a fella talking about just such a thing the other day, but I only managed to catch a brief bit. His requirements were low key and positive message and suggested, for one, Neil Young’s _Harvest Moon_. Did anyone catch that show and additional titles? Good luck , **EJ**. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-wedding-reception-music/409511/3 "2007-06-26T20:12:07Z")
Music for dancing or just to listen to during dinner? ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-wedding-reception-music/409511/4 "2007-06-26T20:16:23Z")
A couple of my favorite wedding songs: “When I’m Sixty-Four” and “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” (because it is, but in a _good_ way). Both are popular and happy. I don’t know what kind of crowd will be at the reception, but “Baby Got Back” got folks out on the dance floor like nothing I’ve ever seen at one of my cousin’s weddings. (You may want to play it after the grandmas have left for the evening.) ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-wedding-reception-music/409511/5 "2007-06-26T20:34:10Z")
The selected works of Slipknot 😛 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-wedding-reception-music/409511/6 "2007-06-26T22:14:10Z")
My wife and I burned four CD’s for the reception at our recent wedding. It was a big hit 🙂 Here are a few of the songs, in no particular order: Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder What’d I Say - Ray Charles Voodoo Lady - Ween Float On - Modest Mouse Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes Superstition - Stevie Wonder West Texas Teardrops - Old 97’s Blitzkreig Bop - The Ramones Rock This Town - Stray Cats Down - 311 Don’t Slander Me - 13th Floor Elevators Guitars and Cadillacs - Dwight Yoakum Just a Kid (Everybody Has to Do Something They Don’t Want to Do) - Wilco Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker Rocky - Butthole Surfers Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder Sin Wagon - Dixie Chicks Hey Ya - OutKast Gangster of Love - Johnny “Guitar” Watson Fergalicious - Fergie (this was my wife’s) Pump It - Black Eyed Peas (also my wife’s) Hey, Hey Mama, Can Your Daddy Come Home? - Dwight Yoakum 100% - Sonic Youth Debaser - The Pixies Starry Eyes - Roky Erikson You’re Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators There were more, but I can’t remember them all right this second. Play the more rockin’ stuff later, and the really crazy stuff _really_ late. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-wedding-reception-music/409511/7 "2007-06-27T01:22:20Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Music for dancing or just to listen to during dinner? [/QUOTE] How 'bout “All of the above”? I want to include some dancin tunes - I had Outkasts “Hey Ya” on the list becaues it’s fun, I like Baby Got Back. But I guess I’m looking for a good mix that’ll make everyone happy at some point or other during the reception 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-wedding-reception-music/409511/8 "2007-06-27T04:31:31Z")
Well, for happy music, go to some '60’s Mowtown. You can’t hurry love The Happening Be My Little Baby Let’s Get it On My First My Last My Everything Can’t Get Enough of Your Love I love the song Mr. Blue Sky. Not a dance tune but very happy. Sweet Caroline You’re just too good to be true - Frankie Vallie Who is’nt instantly happy hearing ‘Ooga Ooga Oogachaka!’ Ob La Di Ob La Da Good Vibrations Here Comes the Sun Danke Schoen followed by Twist and Shout and of course you have to play Shout! Isley Brothers Try these Billie Holiday numbers The Very Thought of You Body and Soul Now or Never L.O.V.E. Nat King Cole Ok none of these are '90s but they are timeless. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-wedding-reception-music/409511/9 "2007-06-27T06:05:25Z")
Think – Aretha Your Love is Lifting Me Higher – Jackie Wilson (greatest song ever!) My Girl – The Jackson Five (more fun than the Temptations version) Little Willy – The Sweet Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees Jive Talkin – Bee Gees I Wanna Grow Old With You – Adam Sandler Man, I Feel Like a Woman – Shania Twain I Want You to Want Me – Cheap Trick Surrender – Cheap Trick Born to Be Alive – Patrick Hernandez A Little Less Conversation – Elvis Burning Love – Elvis I Feel Fine – Beatles Shake it Up – Beatles I Wanna Hold Your Hand – Beatles Praise You – Fat Boy Slim Would I Lie to You – Eurythmics (On second thought, maybe not) Surfin Safari – Beach Boys Surfin’ USA – Beach Boys