Choose our music!
If music be the food of love, we’d better have some at the wedding, really.
Now, we’re not about to hire a cheesy disco DJ with huge speakers and flashing lights to ensure that any attempts to converse with our friends and relatives are made significantly more difficult because our ears are saturated with the pumping sounds of popular dance music rather than each other’s voices.
Instead, we plan to hook up the shiny new home-built laptop on which I am writing this - from the comfort of an armchair while watching 44 dwarves competing with an African elephant in an aeroplane-pulling competition on ITV2 - to the background music sound system in the wedding reception venue, in order to pipe an eclectic mixture of fine tunes around the room at an enjoyable yet unobtrusive level.
(Keep reading: at some point, I might write a paragraph containing more than one sentence.)
Now, here’s where you come in: we’d like as many of our guests as can be bothered to use the Comments feature at the end of this post to send us a message in which you suggest one or more tracks you would like to hear at the wedding - either in the ceremony itself or at the reception. Feel free to explain your choice(s), although this is not compulsory.
We can’t promise to accommodate all suggestions, but we will at least consider every one. We may also be able to stretch to some kind of prize for the best suggestion (explanations may help your chances of winning of course!).
So, please get the suggestions coming in, so we can start planning our playlists!
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May 18th, 2005 at 08:20
Is Eternal Flame (Bangles version, natch) too cheesy?
And there ought to be something on a certain Magnetic Fields album, which is fantastic, although I don’t know the individual songs well enough to suggest one.
Also, Raffi’s Going to the Zoo. (You can come too, too, too, we’re going to the zoo-oo-oo ..)
May 18th, 2005 at 09:34
*grins* We’ve already picked a Mag Fields song from a different album, but I’m sure Paul will be gleeful at the excuse to have some more :) I don’t know the album very well, either, but I’m sure either Martin or Paul will come up with summat appropriate.
I think Going to the Zoo may have to be done. I reckon Eternal Flame is a possible, but will need to consult with the other half (and get hold of a copy, for that matter).
Thanks for your suggestions!
May 18th, 2005 at 10:04
Time Enough for Rocking When We’re Old? Kiss Me Like You Mean It? Zebra? (can’t remember how that goes, though) …. ? On the other hand, I don’t think that Underwear would be apropriate ;)
May 18th, 2005 at 20:11
I’ve been enjoying The Wannadies - ‘Skin’ lately.
As for anything topical, my mind is blank!
May 21st, 2005 at 09:27
Hi Edith and Paul!
Yes I’m back from Iraq! Hoorah back in blighty at last! They’ve given me- wait for it- 2 days leave before going straight back to sea again! Anyway.. since my first day in britain has been rainy (tch!) i think i will choose here comes the sun by the beatles. Optimism is good we don’t want it to rain on the big day! Looking forward to september, ian
May 21st, 2005 at 09:52
Ian! You’ve been to Iraq?! No wonder you had to keep schtum :) I take it if you’ve only got two days, you don’t have time to meet up? If you do, by some miracle, give me a call/text (usual number) and we’ll sort summat out. If not, I will email you soon, I promise!
May 24th, 2005 at 10:49
not sure about suggestions for music however i do remember P&E’s facination with colombo so maybe the themetune might be an idealic background track to the first dance? Please give us some more news about Jon Snow’s ties and how we can go about getting hold of one for the wedding!
May 24th, 2005 at 22:57
We’ve always liked “Last Date”. Floyd Cramer has the original Les Megatomes has another version. (You need some old fart music, right?)
May 25th, 2005 at 17:15
Goldfrapp and I don’t care which track.. :D
June 3rd, 2005 at 10:29
Well you know what a pop tart I am, haha! So anything unbearably cheesy or commercial will do fine for me! Any kind of female diva, ie Madonna, Kylie is great, or some fun, fab and groovy songs like “Hey Ya” or at the moment I’m loving Will Smith’s “Switch” and no that’s not a double entendre!! ;) Classic cheesy party tunes, ie the Jacksons, Wham, ABBA etc are all most welcome here too! I suspect my taste will seem cringeworthy to everyone else and I have absolutely no witty explanation to why I would like them or the fact they don’t relate to you two at all. They’re just my dodgy taste I’m afraid and will get my toes tapping! :D
June 9th, 2005 at 16:51
Well, you know how it is. It’s just not cricket without some ska : )