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This is the list we gave to our DJ, King Raffi for what to play (and not to play) during the reception. We really wanted romantic, upbeat music that our friends could dance to, plus some classic rock for the baby boomers. Probably 75% of our guests were early 30s or under, with the rest boomer age, and about six senior citizens. So this music mix pleased most everybody!
What Not to Play:
nothing negative, no downers (no "Tainted Love")
no disco, rap, R&B, soul, hip hop, or country
no cheese (such as "YMCA," "Love Shack," etc.)
Music During the Meal:
classical
ambient stuff like Dead Can Dance & Cocteau Twins
maybe a little jazz/swing/standards
Absolutely Must Play:
First Dance Song --
off our CD
Raving Sane - "Forever Angel"
Dedications --
Natalie Merchant - "Kind and Generous" (a thank you for our parents)
Cure - "Love Cats" (for Melusine, Trystan and Thomas' cat)
David Bowie - "China Girl" (for Trystan in honor of her Chinese heritage)
Big Country - "In a Big Country" (for Thomas in honor of his Scottish heritage)
Beatles - "Birthday" (for Thomas' dad, Robert Dowrie, who's birthday is our wedding day)
Songs Off Our CD to Play --
Raving Sane - "Phoenix Angel"
Others --
When in Rome "The Promise"
Modern English - "Melt With You"
Depeche Mode - "Somebody"
Jesus Jones - "Right Here, Right Now"
Peter Gabriel - "Solsbury Hill"
Random Really Cool Songs to Play:
A-ha - "Take On Me"
ABC - "Be Near Me"
Alphaville - "Forever Young"
Beatles - "Eight Days a Week"
Beatles - "Here Comes the Sun"
Beatles - "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
Beatles - "With a Little Help From My Friends"
Beatles - "Something"
Beatles - "Twist & Shout"
Cranberries - "Dreams"
Cure - "Close to Me"
Cure - "Friday I'm in Love"
Cure - "Just Like Heaven"
Cyndi Lauper - "Time After Time"
David Bowie - "Heroes"
Dead or Alive - "You Spin Me Round Like a Record"
Depeche Mode - "Enjoy the Silence"
Depeche Mode - "One Caress"
Depeche Mode - "World in My Eyes"
Doors - "Light My Fire"
Doors - "Love Her Madly"
Doors - "Love Me Two Times"
Dream Academy - "The Edge of Forever"
Duran Duran - "Girls on Film"
Duran Duran - "Rio"
Duran Duran - "The Reflex"
Echo & the Bunnymen - "Lips Like Sugar"
Erasure - "Chains of Love"
Erasure - "Oh L'Amour"
Erasure - "Sometimes"
Eurythmics - "There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart)"
General Public - "Tenderness"
Icicle Works - "Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)"
INXS - "Don't Change"
INXS - "It's the One Thing"
INXS - "Need You Tonight"
INXS - "Never Tear Us Apart"
INXS - "What You Need"
Jesus Jones - "International Bright Young Thing"
Jesus Jones - "Real Real Real"
Jesus Jones - "Top of the World"
Love & Rockets - "If There's a Heaven Above"
Love & Rockets - "Lazy"
Love & Rockets - "Love Me"
Madness - "It Must Be Love"
Madness - "Our House"
Men Without Hats - "Safety Dance"
Natalie Merchant - "Wonder"
New Order - "Bizarre Love Triangle"
New Order - "Everything's Gone Green"
OMD - "If You Leave"
Peter Gabriel - "In Your Eyes"
Peter Murphy - "The Sweetest Drop"
Police - "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
Prince - "Let's Go Crazy"
Proclaimers, The - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
Psychedelic Furs - "Pretty in Pink"
Queen - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
REM - "Fall on Me"
REM - "It's the End of the World as We Know It"
Sarah MacLaughlin - "Building a Mystery"
Simple Minds - "Don't You Forget About Me"
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Dazzle"
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Dear Prudence"
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Kiss Them for Me"
Smiths - "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"
Smiths - "This Charming Man"
Spandau Ballet - "True"
Tal Bachman - "She's So High"
Talking Heads - "Road to Nowhere"
Thompson Twins - "Hold Me Now"
Thompson Twins - "Lay Your Hands on Me"
Thompson Twins - "If You Were Here"
Tonic - "If You Could Only See"
U2 - "I Will Follow"
U2 - "Mysterious Ways"
U2 - "One"
U2 - "Sweetest Thing"
US - "Two Hearts Beat as One"
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