Oh, and Led Zeppelin’s Babe I’m Gonna Leave You.
Gilbert O’Sullivan’s Alone Again Naturally
Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw by Jimmy Buffett
Jason Boland: Rich Young Dumb Nymphomaniac
I was at a wedding where the bride demanded that the groom enter to Pearl Jam’s Better Man - he felt it was easier to go along with it than to explain. The first song played at the reception was also Meat Loaf’s Paradise by the Dashboard Light. I’d also point out that their waltz was to the only-marginally-less-inappropriate Enter Sandman
My best friend and I were huge Guns 'N Roses fans, so we wanted November Rain played at our weddings.
Mr Mercury has selected Ben Folds’s The Luckiest, though if I had my way, it’d be Pig’s Sweet Child.
Gorsnak, my first thought was “I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You” as well.
My brother-in-law was our wedding DJ and at my request, he played “It’s the End of the World As We Know It.” He did not, however, play “Tainted Love,” even though I asked.
Okay, now I really want to add that to our wedding songlist:D.
Our first dance song, in context, probably isn’t really the best choice. But it’s a beautiful song - As Long As You’re Mine from Wicked. It’s a gorgeous love song between the Wicked Witch of the West and her lover Fiyero (who also happens to be Glinda the Good Witch’s fiance - not in the book, if anyone’s wondering), but when their lovemaking session is over, Fiyero gets caught and killed by angry Oz-ians, and Elphaba gets killed by Dorothy (a little later).
But luckily, no one at the wedding will have any idea of the backstory aside from several other musical theatre friends - and I’m not going to tell anyone.
Ava
There’s not much that’s worse at a wedding than Swans’ Raping a Slave. Or any other Swans song, for that matter.
Foreigner’s Cold as Ice would be nice.
Add RZA’s Domestic Violence to the playlist, and you’ve got yourself some entertainment.
Separate Ways by Journey.
Chopin’s Funeral March.
I win.
Failing that…
Too sad:
•The Highland Widow’s Lament. (Beautiful song, though.)
•He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones.
•I Will Wait for You performed by Connie Francis. (Futurama fans…you know this’in.)
•Un Bel Di Vedremo from Madama Butterfly
•If I Didn’t Care by The Ink Spots. (Movie buffs will know this one.)
•Hylas’ Song from Les Troyens. (About three people will get this one. “Good” for when the Groom enters.)
•Gravedigger by Dave Matthews.
Too mad:
•The Fight Song by Marilyn Manson. (Try this at a big, old-fashioned, Catholic wedding)
•Anything by Black Sabbath.
•Almost anything by Nick Cave. (e.g. Where the Wild Roses Grow)
Misc.
•The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald or Sink the Bismark. (Not sad, just…completely non-wedding related.
•The theme song to any Sid & Marty Kroft show. (I don’t know if I spelled their names right. And I don’t care.)
Amateurs.
Lessee:
Cunt Sucking Cannibal by GG Allin. Matter of fact, anything by GG Allin.
A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying, Three Point One Four, and Shut Up by Bloodhound Gang
Did You Ever Wonder by Pig Vomit
Cemetery Girls by Barnes and Barnes
Nocturnal by Edgard Varese (lyrics for this piece were taken from House of Incest by Anais Nin)
Piss Up A Rope by Ween
Tainted Love by Soft Cell (although Marilyn Manson’s version would work well)
Toccata and Fugue by Bach
Anything from any of David Allan Coe’s x-rated albums, although Little Susie Shallow Throat stands out
Du Hast by Rammstein
One More Minute by Weird Al Yankovic
My Friend had Limp Bizkits “I did it all for the nookie” played at his reception.
Well, there’s a song by Wayne/Jayne County & The Electric Chairs that I heard once in passing, that goes:
“If you don’t want to **** me, baby, baby **** off…”
I think that’d empty a reception hall in seconds.
OK… let’s see if anyone’s heard of:
Other optimistic candidates:
Camarillo Brillo by FZ
Last Kiss (I forget who did it)
Honey by Bobby Goldsboro
Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks and the Poppy Family
Richard Thompson’s Cold Kisses
“Alone in your room
Going through your stuff
Said you’d be gone five minutes
That’s time enough.”
Four little diamonds, by ELO.
Eddie Vedder, by Wierd Al Yankovic
One More Minute with You - Weird Al
We’re actually playing this at the wedding:). We both love Weird Al (saw him in concert a couple of weeks ago), and at the concert, we realized that we HAD to have this song to dance to:). And our friends will enjoy it - they know we have black senses of humor.
My grandparents and parents are going to sh*t at the reception - I have a feeling the song list will put them all in therapy.
I told my wife that our reception dance would be to She’s my Cherry Pie by Warrant, but she wouldn’t have it.