"Songs that would get you dancing at a wedding"
BigSpecs
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I have invested in an ipod as a gift for Mrs BigSpecs this Christmas (don't tell her, its a secret!). I have spent the last few nights putting together some playlists for her. The jewel in the crown is to be a playlist entitled:
"Songs that would get you dancing at a wedding"
It is to include anything and everything that would make you smile and swing your pants (the more retro the better) By way of a yardstick, we are both in our mid-thirties. So far I have the following...
Car Wash - Rose Royce
Blame it on the Boogie - The Jacksons
Upside Down - Diana Ross
Rocket Man - Elton John
I want you back - Jackson 5
Holiday - Madonna
We are family - Sister Sledge
Superstition - Stevie Wonder...
...so any suggestions?? Care to add to the list? anything that would get you grooving.
As a side issue, she says that one of her favourite such songs is another Stevie Wonder number but she doesn't know the name of it!? She thinks it might be something like "Superfly" but itunes searches have drawn a blank, anyone any ideas?
Cheers,
Col.
"Songs that would get you dancing at a wedding"
It is to include anything and everything that would make you smile and swing your pants (the more retro the better) By way of a yardstick, we are both in our mid-thirties. So far I have the following...
Car Wash - Rose Royce
Blame it on the Boogie - The Jacksons
Upside Down - Diana Ross
Rocket Man - Elton John
I want you back - Jackson 5
Holiday - Madonna
We are family - Sister Sledge
Superstition - Stevie Wonder...
...so any suggestions?? Care to add to the list? anything that would get you grooving.
As a side issue, she says that one of her favourite such songs is another Stevie Wonder number but she doesn't know the name of it!? She thinks it might be something like "Superfly" but itunes searches have drawn a blank, anyone any ideas?
Cheers,
Col.
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Ribbon in the Sky?0
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Reach by S-Club 7 ... a modern wedding classic!0
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Weddings are for cheesy ballads. Well mine was:
The Cars - Drive
John Waite - Missing You
Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On
Stevie Nicks - Rooms On Fire
Then again I might be a sick in the mind 80's throwback.0 -
Are you sure about 'Rocket Man'???
Abba are normally a safe bet to get your drunk auntie on the dancefloor. Waterloo, Dancing Queen or somesuch.
How about Blondie? Heart of Glass, Tide is High, ooh Denise, dooby doo...., ...
Celebrate by Kool and the Gang
Carwash by Rose Royce
Good Vibrations
Boogie Wonderland
It's raining Men
Tainted Love
Karma Chameleon
and, dare I say it, YMCA....
I'm going to have a lie down now.0 -
Van Morrison is also a good 'un - Brown Eyed Girl, Moondance, ....0
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popette wrote:just not "come on Eileen" - god, I hate that song
Bloody right, Popette, it has always made my flesh creep and ever shall it be thus. Skinny weirdos in dungarees! Yuk!
Anyway,
nobody has mentioned C'est Chic, le Fric (or what ever it's called).
apart from that:
The Gay Gordons, Dashing White Seargent, Strip the Willow, Eightsome Reel, St Bernard's Waltz and Military Two Step.
Did you know that Scottish Country Dancing is clinically proven to make you cheerful, no matter who you've gone and married!0 -
Cum on feel the Noize - Slade
Town Called Malice - The Jam
Stand And Deliver - Adam and the Ants"A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
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That's a good 'un.chrisjsmith wrote:Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On
I've been at many a cheesey club night and that has been played.
BTW, Heaven Is A Place On Earth, We Want The Same Thing and I Get Weak also seem quite popular.
]* as if by coincidence I happen to know most of the words to these
That tosser Chesney Hawks always seems to show up too.0 -
From my mobile DJ days.....
Viola Wills - Gonna get along without you now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX4SqnCLwiA
Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv6lHwWwO3w
Freda Payne - Band of gold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-tpVZUzElE
I don't know if those were songs of impending doom for the bride and groom or maybe just a product of the era and I'm showing my age
Chris0 -
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RE: Stevie Wonder, does she mean 'Superstition' ? Always gets people dancing too.0
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Lagavulin wrote:That tosser Chesney Hawks always seems to show up too.
Proof that absolute truth exists as in Chesney is a tosser.0 -
ShockedSoShocked wrote:Cum on feel the Noize - Slade
Town Called Malice - The Jam
Stand And Deliver - Adam and the Ants
yes
basically you're looking for classics that most will know and people have a soft spot for
bit of Europe or bon jovi - living on a prayer as well maybe
it's a fine line between good and bad cheesePurveyor of sonic doom
Very Hairy Roadie - FCN 4
Fixed Pista- FCN 5
Beared Bromptonite - FCN 140 -
:oops: At a friend's wedding I vaguely remember I had a great time dancing to Relight My Fire by Take That ............ :oops: and if that wasn't bad enough I was dancing with
a wheelie bin :oops: , top night though
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This thread should be renamed 'songs which deserve to be consigned to the dustbin of music'.
I have pain!0 -
For some reason my friends (or me) will always request Eye of the Tiger at weddings, sends the boys wild.0
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Disco era Bee Gees + Industrial quantities of booze = serious booty shakin'...
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Abba, Dancing Queen - I always feel obliged to dance to it but never enjoy it.
I like cheesy house music or 80s power ballads. 80s/90s nights are really appealing now. God I must be getting old.0 -
jump around...
failing that, smells like teen spirit.0 -
MRS wrote:jump around....
yes I can just see Auntie Mabel getting on down with the 'Hill singing along to
"I never eat a pig, cos a pig is a cop" before busting a move
perhaps your Auntie Mabel is different to mine and actually likes a toke or two on a bong and listens to "Insane in the membrane" of an evening?0 -
Matchstick Man wrote:MRS wrote:jump around....
yes I can just see Auntie Mabel getting on down with the 'Hill singing along to
"I never eat a pig, cos a pig is a cop" before busting a move
perhaps your Auntie Mabel is different to mine and actually likes a toke or two on a bong and listens to "Insane in the membrane" of an evening?
Jump Around was House of Pain, Insane in the Membrane was Cypress Hill
As you were......0 -
Mog Uk wrote:Jump Around was House of Pain, Insane in the Membrane was Cypress Hill
As you were......
apologies - too much toking on the herbal cigarettes has caused certain bands to morph into one another. I blame Auntie Mabel and her bong myself...............0 -
Hi All,
Thanks for the input. So far I have added:
Celebrate by Kool and the Gang
Boogie Wonderland
Thriller - had to after that video!
Glorai Gaynor - I will survuve
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
still looking for more...0 -
Bring it all back - S Club 7
Don't stop movin - S Club 7
It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls0 -
tonight has also seen the addition of...
Beat It - Wacko Jacko
Relight my fire - Take That (couldn't resist :oops: )
and
Let's get it on - Marvin Gaye (for the end of the night obviously )
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Definitely:
All Keyed Up by Floyd Cramer is an absolute winner (it's a bit like the piano music that I seem to remember accompanying Snoopy cartoons on TV.
Also:
Video Killed the Radio Star by Buggles
and obviously Bohemian Rhapsody0 -
Chubby Brown version of Living next door to alice.
The DJ at my wedding dance lost his Tip for playing that....
However...
Love Cats - The Cure
There She Goes - The La's
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Spring Field
Little Green Bag - George Baker
that would get the cool kids dancin0 -
Forgot one,
Loveshack - B52'S0
