need some suggestions -- a way to reduce bad wedding music

[superEGO72]

alright, in planning a wedding reception, we've both noted that its important for us to have the "dj" play stuff that isnt as lame as most other weddings weve been to. in addition to scrapping certain songs deemed 'too lame', we were thinking it would be cool to find some remixes of various 80s/90s/etc../weddings songs.

not just prog house remixes either.. any genre.

an example might be:
solar twins - rock the casbah
justin timberlake - rock your body (sanders vocal mix)

they dont necessarily have to be undjfriendly (meaning.. if they have huge intros and what not, its not an issue for me to effectively trim them down)

any suggestions?

[sono]

wedding music is meant to be cheesy!

[qwerty2222]

well, i attended some weddings and mostly its the clasic played there, tango, walz, and tunes that people sing along.
i never heard progressive at a wedding, and i understand,because there are some old people there, the family, u know, grandpas, unkles an so wich dont really get electronic music and may think its you know *satanic music*
so, its mostly soft music and nothing that may sound a bit agressive
i dont really dig into this knida music but its a common thing to hear this kinda music at a wedding
do what you like but if you have some older people there, they may be a little shocked when they will hear some progressive beats
might be interesting, but i'm not sure they will enjoy it

[Lrn]

smokin' bert cooper - gettin' warm

[superEGO72]

smokin' bert cooper - gettin' warm

as my grandmother has a heart attack.

[thesightless]

yeah, unfortunetly you should have cheesy music so all the 40+ crowd can do slides across the floor to meatloaf..

i went to a wedding for my friend Jen and she did the whole house routine for it and it did NOT go down well with the guests outside of the few who actually liked it......

[qwerty2222]

this is wht i was talking about!but if its your wedding, and you want to feel great, go for it!host it in 2 rooms, one for the old ones, and one for the ones you're age who like the electronic music

[krelm]

Just elope - makes the music thing a whole lot easier. :wink:

Seriously...

We had a friend who was a progressive/breakbeat/downtempo DJ do the music for our wedding & reception. He kept it to more asian underground, atmospheric breaks, & tribal downtempo type stuff, but it went over extremely well with the guests - even the more traditional ones. There might have been a bit of Sinatra thrown in for good measure, but absolutely none of the typical cheesy wedding crap.

'Course we had a lot of freaks there too - our processional music was Shpongle.

[Lrn]

as my grandmother has a heart attack.

hehe

[superEGO72]

yea.. wed like to keep things mixed up... definitly not go all out housey etc..

mainly looking for remixes to spice things up.. not necessarily "here is the house version of ____"...

like junkie xl's elvis remix or fatboy slim's beatie remixes..

if we didnt do any extra music hunting, wed be doing a combo of 80s/90s pop with pop-slow-romantic songs..... just that thats what every wedding weve been to recently has been playing.. so if we do that style -- might as well spice it up a bit.

[Jibgolly]

if you hire a dj from the phonebook, you'll end up with top 40 trash.
hire a friend to do it and pick out your own tracks for him to play.
this is the safest bet imo.

[e808]

Re: need some suggestions -- a way to reduce bad wedding mus

Sounds like a fun wedding... can i go?

[superEGO72]

yea, thats what im looking for... top40 from the last 20 years.

except remixed.

DOESNT HAVE TO BE PROG... just... desuckified.

[Thuz]

i dunno man, you have to understand that your probably one of very few is any at that wedding who will be seriously into house music. don't be selfish and let the cheesy dj play his hits for the greater good, everyone will enjoy themselves more.

Just get bevvied up and have a boogie to the cheedar cheese the dj plays, you wont give a monkeys when ure pissed up on lager

[audiotherapy]

how about you hire an indie rock band instead?