A list.....
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mangosteenA list of songs that would never be played at weddings, if people actually knew the lyrics:
Memories - from the show "Cats": Pretty, but redefines maudlin.
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor: Do I really have to explain this one?
Macarena - Los Del Rio: Get someone to translate it for you. Have oxygen ready.
This is the Time - Billy Joel: "This is the time to remember / 'cause it will not last forever"
Every Breath You Take - The Police: Um, guys? It's a stalker.
Any others? Cite key lyrics. I'm curious.
Memories - from the show "Cats": Pretty, but redefines maudlin.
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor: Do I really have to explain this one?
Macarena - Los Del Rio: Get someone to translate it for you. Have oxygen ready.
This is the Time - Billy Joel: "This is the time to remember / 'cause it will not last forever"
Every Breath You Take - The Police: Um, guys? It's a stalker.
Any others? Cite key lyrics. I'm curious.
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Date: 2003-09-04 08:06 am (UTC)They're still married, so that's something...
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Date: 2003-09-04 08:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-04 08:52 am (UTC)People are weird.
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Date: 2003-09-04 08:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-04 09:17 am (UTC)The earliest known lyrics appear to be:
Alas, my love you do me wrong
To cast me off discourteously
And I have loved you so long
Delighting in your company
Chorus
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my Lady Greensleeves.
I have been ready at your hand
to grant whatever you would crave;
I have both wagered life and land
Your love and good will for to have
Chorus
I bought the kerchers to thy head
That were wrought fine and gallantly
I kept thee both at board and bed
Which cost my purse well favouredly.
Chorus
Greensleeves, now farewell! adieu!
God I pray to prosper thee;
For I am still thy lover true
Come once again and love me.
Chorus
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Date: 2003-09-04 09:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-04 10:58 am (UTC)The extended lyrics read like:
"I gave you all the royal bling-bling, but all I got was 'talk to the hand!'"
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Date: 2003-09-04 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-04 05:38 pm (UTC)inquiring minds...
Date: 2003-09-04 09:23 am (UTC)So....? :)
and, that was a great list. If I think of any, I'll be sure to post them!
ooh! thought of one....
Date: 2003-09-04 09:32 am (UTC)*smirk*
"Young men, there's a place you can go
I said Young men
when you're short on the dough
there's a place there
and I'm sure you will find
many ways
to
have
a
good
time
and 1, 2, 3, 4,... jazz hands!
Y!
M!
C!
A!
It's fun to stay at the
Y!
M!
C!
A!
You can get yourself clean[1]
You can have a good meal
You can do whatever you feel.........[3]
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[1] go ahead and argue, but really, doesnt anyone remember Filipe, the gay indian? (or the rest of them, for that matter...
[2] heh. and promoting drug use, if you think about it. :)
[3] it sort of scares me that I knew all these lyrics from memory. I'll blame it on (Rio! No!) having been _in_ 15 weddings, and attending a great number more.... yeah, that's it...
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Date: 2003-09-04 10:19 am (UTC)"A fine romance, with no kisses.
A fine romance, my friend, this is.
We should be like a couple of hot tomatos,
But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatos..."
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Date: 2003-09-04 06:01 pm (UTC)Donna Summer's "Last Dance"
Date: 2003-09-04 10:34 am (UTC)I'll assume that this thread is really about "songs that get played at the end of wedding receptions that really shouldn't be played at the end of wedding receptions."
There's nothing like the one-two punch of a woman saying "I don't know you after this whole evening of food and alcohol, but you could be Mr. Right... maybe..." and being a wishy-washy wimp needing a Strong Manly Type to set her right.
Thank you, Donna Summer, for "The Last Dance"
"""
Yeah, will you be my Mr. Right?
Can you fill my appetite
I can't be sure that you're the one for me
But all that I ask is that you dance with me
Dance with me, Dance with me, yeah
Oh I need you, by me,
Beside me, to guide me,
to hold me, to scold me,
'Cause when I'm bad
I'm so, so bad
"""
Donna Summer's "Bad Girls"
Date: 2003-09-04 10:48 am (UTC)This may be a bit obscure for the general public, but a goth girl I know had Wolfsheim's "Once In A Lifetime" played at her wedding. The song, by the way, is sung from the perspective of a man whose wife and child die from drowning railing at God.
For more mainstream wrongness, how about "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell? Or White Wedding by Billy Idol?
Re: Donna Summer's "Bad Girls"
Date: 2003-09-04 11:13 am (UTC)"Bad Girls" gets played because it's a Righteous Disco Track, not for the lyrics... it's also usually not played as a last song, at least not at any wedding that I've attended or worked at.
Re: Donna Summer's "Bad Girls"
Date: 2003-09-04 11:35 am (UTC)It just goes to show that i don't think people often listen to lyrics.
I mean, i know sooooo many couples whose "songs" are these industrial anger anthems
And come on, if people really listened to the lyrics of "Dead Stars", i think they would get sick of it quicker
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Date: 2003-09-04 11:09 am (UTC)Luckily(?), cooler heads prevailed.
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Date: 2003-09-04 12:23 pm (UTC)Whitney Houston . . .
Date: 2003-09-04 11:16 am (UTC)There was a wedding rehersal happening in the courtyard right outside our hotel room. Apparently the bride was insisting on processing to the song "Saving All My Love For You". Amusingly this is yet another tune about adultery.
"A few stolen moments is all that we share
You've got your family and they need you there
Though I've tried to resist being last on your list
But no other man's gonna do
So I've saving all my love for you."
Or maybe this was appropriate because it might have been how they met? Who knows.
And another thing...
Date: 2003-09-04 11:35 am (UTC)Re: And another thing...
Date: 2003-09-04 12:32 pm (UTC)You know, I still have the tape somewhere lying around that has that song when I copied it from your "Best of Sesame Street" album.
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Date: 2003-09-04 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-04 12:41 pm (UTC)Have you -read- the lyrics?
Memory. All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days,
I was beautiful then.
I remember the time I knew what happiness was,
Let the memory live again.
I'm not sure that 'mauldin' really covers it. Depressing works ;>
Beyond that, weddings are a hotbed of inappropriate... The bride that clearly thinks that the best man is the Best Man (in one case she ran off with the Best Man 6 months later) ... the fertility jokes... the "embarassing momments"...
It sometimes makes me wonder why we have weddings at all...
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Date: 2003-09-04 12:44 pm (UTC)Berlin - Take my breath away
Through the hourglass I saw you
In time you slipped away
When the mirror crashed I called you
And turned to hear you say
If only for today
I am unafraid
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Date: 2003-09-04 12:42 pm (UTC)I'm not kidding.
George was traumatized for days. (He fully admits he comes from Ohio white trash - amusing considering his dad is European.)
I should add that said brother-in-law is on his second marriage, and he didn't have a wedding reception this time.
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Date: 2003-09-04 01:37 pm (UTC)as follow-ups, so I can't post this myself, but I have indeed heard
these (or heard of these from a reliable source) at wedding receptions:
"Sister Rose" 10,000 Maniacs
Natalie Merchant whines about how her sister Rose is now sacrificing her
entire identity to become somebody's wife.
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"Brick" Ben Folds Five
(slow song, first dance) ...but it's about how a couple's relationship
disintegrates when he takes her to an abortion clinic.
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"With You" "Pippin" Soundtrack
Actually, the lyrics are perfect, but the scene on the stage at the time
is a major orgy, and the "you" in the lyrics is directed at a different
woman each time.
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"Riding on the Metro" Berlin
"I started hating you for loving me..."
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"The Power of Gold" Dan Fogleberg & Tim Weisberg
"The women are lovely,
The wine is superb,
But there's something about
The song that disturbs you..."
(Hey, it could have been worse; they could have played "Tell Me To My
Face" off the same album, which is possibly the bitterest song ever
written.)
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"Seasons in the Sun" Terry Jacks
Oh, c'MON people, this song is a friggin' suicide note!
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"Young Hearts Run Free" Kym Mazelle
"Young Hearts, run free
And never get hung up
Hung up like my man and me
Young Hearts, run true
And don't be a fool when
Love really don't love you..."
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"The One I Love" R.E.M.
"This one goes out to The One I Love
This one goes out to the one I left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to The One I Love
Fire!"
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The only song played at my own wedding which I objected to was the
Shriekback song "Nemesis", but only because it was orthogonal to the
overall theme of the music. Fortunately, I _was_ able to stop the
Sisters of Mercy song "This Corrosion".
And we used the Muppet Show theme as our recessional. "It's time to get
things started!"
--
Mark Amidon <mamidon@aac-robot.com>
Automated Assemblies Corporation
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Date: 2003-09-04 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-04 01:53 pm (UTC)You shall cross the barren desert and you shall not die of thirst
You shall wander far in safety though you do not know the way
You shall speak your words to foreign men and they will understand
You shall see the face of God and live
Be not afraid, I go before you always
Come follow me, and I will give you rest
(and on in the same vein)
It's intended by the authors as a funeral song.
At MY first wedding, during the reception, we played "Spend One More Minute With You" by Weird Al. That was just to be funny though. The only REALLY tacky thing I did was to sing the theme from Fame to live accompaniment, but it was by request, so I can be excused.
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Date: 2003-09-05 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-05 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-04 04:43 pm (UTC)"If you're down, and confused
And you don't remember, who you're talkin' to
Concentration slips away
'Cause your baby is so far away
Well there's a rose, in a fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can't be with the one you love, honey
Love the one you're with"
Huh?? Sure it's sounds pretty but I don't think your wife would appreciate it on the wedding night...
Maybe Stephen Stills was poly? Or just a lech?
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Date: 2003-09-04 10:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-05 01:19 pm (UTC)Satisfaction - Rolling Stones "I can't get no satisfaction."
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Date: 2003-09-05 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-07 12:26 am (UTC)A musical about being stalked by a talented but deformed artist, and electing to become the mistress of a member of the aristocracy instead isn't exactly what I'd consider a good source for wedding music...
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Date: 2003-10-24 06:09 am (UTC)" I will always love you", that one by Dolly Parton, later a hit as sung by Whitney Houston: and aaaaa---eeee---eye-eee-eye- will always love you ...
It's a break up song!
part of the Lyrics:
If I should stay
I would only be in your way
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you ev'ry step of the way
And I will always love you
I will always love you
You
My darling, ooh
Bittersweet memories
That is all I'm taking with me
So goodbye--please don't cry
We both know I'm not what you, you need
And I will always love you
I will always love you
and so on.