All You Need Is Love (Songs)

[trinityofone]

Here is something very cool: nenar has asked me to make a couple of mixes for her wedding in September! I love making mixes, and I'm honored to be asked to do one for such an important occasion. However, I started playing around with it last night, and I'm beginning to worry that I don't have the world's most wedding-appropriate music collection.

For example, some things I have discovered:

1. Just because I happen to think that Half-Gifts is the most romantic song ever does not mean that it, nor any song that contains the lyric, "This relationship cannot sustain itself," is appropriate for a wedding.

2. Neither is Beast of Burden, you weirdo.

3. The Cher version of Walking in Memphis is probably NOT sexy and romantic to anyone who wasn't a huge fan of The X-Files, and a big Mulder/Scully 'shipper to boot.

4. Has The Flamingos' I Only Have Eyes For You ever been anything other than creepy? Is it bad that I still want to use it?

5. At Last is not about dead people. This makes it more appropriate for use, not less.

6. I can totally get away with including Temptation, but yes, I will be the only one giggling to myself and picturing Joe's dork!dance.

And the big one:

7. MY MUSIC MAY BE GOOD, BUT YOU CAN'T DANCE TO IT.

So I need your help with that. What are some good wedding songs--that you can dance to? If you can YSI or sendspace or megaupload them, that would be great, but if not, even just names would be helpful. I want this mix to be good. ('Cause poor nenar--if she's reading this, she's probably really nervous now.)

Tangentially: if anyone has Kate Bush's Aerial that they want to upload for me, that'd be totally awesome. In exchange I have...well, a lot of music totally inappropriate for weddings. *guilty grin*

ETA: DAMN YOU, spazatron! Now I can't stop listening to Wuthering Heights! I want to put it on nenar's mix! The whole wedding party can do THE DANCE.

This is in no way related to the above.

Comments

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I have Swimming In Your Oceans and The Ghosts that Haunt Me by The Crash Test Dummies; Two-Step (though it's long and changes beat a few times), Angel and Dreamgirl by The Dave Matthews Band, Modern Dance by Lou Reed and, if you want a cheesy end-of-the-evening-and-everyone's-kinda-drunk-anyway song, Over You by Roxy Music.

If any of that is remotely useful, I can send it to you. Also, it turns out that my favourite band in the world, The Barenaked Ladies, use their poppy alt-rock sound to mask the fact that all of their clever, clever lyrics are horrendously cynical and depressing. All their albums, and not one single wedding-appropriate song! Canada, why do you fail me?

[cynicatlantis.livejournal.com]

You are so very, very right about BNL - I went through all of their albums too, and couldn't find a single appropriate song - even their most "romantic" tracks are about unrequited love, or failing relationships
(take Call and Answer, for example: I only think about you when we're both in the same room. I'm only here to witness the remains of loving you. You think we're here to play a game of who loves more than who. 0_o).

The rest of their catalogue covers everything from stalkers with a primate fixation, to shopaholics, alcoholics, suicide, window washers, manslaughter, high school geekdom, pollution and insomnia. And oh, how I love them for it *hugs BNL*

*friends you, on discovery of a fellow ex-Qld filmo* solidarity! Oooh, and icon love.

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

*friends right back* Beanie!Shep! Barenaked Ladies! Wraith!mouse! Hah, I thought I recognised your name. :D

[cynicatlantis.livejournal.com]

w00t! *does the Happy Dance of mild-internet-fame-within-one-fandom*