# What is the worst song you can think of to be played at a Wedding? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-song-you-can-think-of-to-be-played-at-a-wedding/240563 "2004-04-17T20:51:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-song-you-can-think-of-to-be-played-at-a-wedding/240563/121 "2004-04-26T02:47:12Z")
> [@roxx222](#): > > _My Favorite Mistake_ - Sheryl Crow > > _It’s All Been Done_ - Barenaked Ladies > > **_Roxanne_ - The Police. "You don’t have to SELL your body to de night!"** > > _End of the World As We Know It_ - Great Big Sea > > And there’s always Blink 182’s \*Blowjob \* song… :eek: My dad’s friend Ken married a woman named Roxanne when I was about 11. They played “Roxanne” as their first dance song. About four years later, when I knew what the song meant, I asked my dad about it. “Pleeeease tell me that they just used that song because it’s her first name!” It was. Thank God! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-song-you-can-think-of-to-be-played-at-a-wedding/240563/122 "2004-04-26T02:48:38Z")
Soft Cell has a better inappropriate song than Tainted Love…Sex Dwarf - which is about the child porn industry. (My friends all love Paradise by the Dashboard Lights at wedding receptions - I hate that song. My husband had to explain to the DJ that playing it would result in him not getting paid and us getting divorced.) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-song-you-can-think-of-to-be-played-at-a-wedding/240563/123 "2004-04-26T03:43:09Z")
I’ll bet no one has nominated “Swamp Snake” by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. The lyric goes “Let me be your swamp snake 'til the real one comes along…” Also, “Dress Rehearsal Rag” by Leonard Cohen would be wonderfully inappropriate. It’s a song about a suicidal person prepping to kill himself but losing his nerve, as has happened many times before. ---
**Author:** ![Purple\_Brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Purple\_Brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purple_Brain)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-song-you-can-think-of-to-be-played-at-a-wedding/240563/124 "2004-04-30T04:16:05Z")
Two friends of mine in Montana decided to be married at the 1999-2000 millennium moment. The bride, who regularly dressed in the style of Stevie Nicks, wished to walk down the aisle to “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac. Apparently, the words “mountain”, “snow”, and “love” were enough for her. In my opinion, the song is about love lost. Of course, you don’t argue with the bride. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-song-you-can-think-of-to-be-played-at-a-wedding/240563/125 "2004-04-30T04:48:32Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > _Girlfriend in a Coma_ I once ate dinner across the street from an wedding reception at a local pub. They had your typical wedding band playing, and it took me a second to recognize Billy Idol’s “White Wedding.” When I left, they were covering “Girlfriend in a Coma.” That’s my kind of wedding reception! ---
**Author:** ![Engywook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@Engywook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engywook)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-song-you-can-think-of-to-be-played-at-a-wedding/240563/126 "2004-05-02T01:17:35Z")
What, not one mention of **Stretched on Your Grave** by Dead Can Dance? _The priests and the friars behold me in dread Because I still love you, my love, and you’re dead_ ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-song-you-can-think-of-to-be-played-at-a-wedding/240563/127 "2004-05-02T10:11:34Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > [Minor nitpick]D-I-V-O-R-C-E was the work of Tammy Wynette, not Dolly, IIRC[/nitpick] No, no, no - it was the work of Billy Connolly! Joan Jett’s “I Hate Myself For Loving You” has to be on the list. “Centrefold” by the J Geils Band if the groom really wants to piss off his in-laws. “Wicked Game” by Chris Isaak would be great for that also: World was on fire, and no-one could save me but you Strange what desire will make foolish people do And from there it gets worse, as he sings about how he never wanted to love this evil woman. If it’s a gay marriage, of course, you have to go with “I Fought The Law”… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-song-you-can-think-of-to-be-played-at-a-wedding/240563.md?page=6)