Rock music for reception

bride2be2012

We're meeting our DJ next weekend, and he's asked for us to take suggestions along so he gets an idea of what kind of music we like. I'm a big music fan, from 50s up to modern stuff, but OH is much more picky lol, and is struggling to come up with anything. He likes AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Guns'n'Roses, Queen etc, but apart from the obvious big hits, what else is there in that general theme?? That's wedding appropriate lol! At the moment, our suggestions list is full of cheese that will have OH heading for the bar!

neneromanova

OH and I sat down the other week for a few evenings and came up with this list:

MGMT - Kids
Placebo - Running Up That Hill
The Killers - Human

Rocky Horror Picture show – Time Warp
Semisonic – Closing time
ELO – Mr Blue Sky
LMFAO – Rock Party Anthem
Ah Ha – Take on me
Billy Idol – White Wedding
Journey – Don’t Stop Believing
Elvis Presley – Hound Dog
Goldfrapp – Oh La La
Simple Minds – Don’t you forget about me
Oasis – Wonderwall
B-52[FONT=&quot]′[/FONT]s – Love Shack
Black eyed peas – Pump it
KC and the Sunshine Band – Get Down Tonight
John Travolta & Olivia Newton – You’re the One That I Want
Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On
Hot Chocolate – You Sexy Thing
Frank Sinatra – I Get A Kick Out Of You
Van Morrison – Moondance
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
Stereo MC’s – Connected
The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
Jamiroquai - black capricorn day
Jamiroquai – Canned Heat
Jamiroquai – Rock Dust Light Star
FatBoy slim – Weapon of Choice
Groove Armada – I see you baby (Fat boy slim remix)
Cornershop – Brimful of asha
FREEMASONS feat Sophie Ellis Bextor -Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer)
Blink 182 – The Rock Show
The Cult – She sells Sanctuary
Kings of Leon – My sex is on fire
The Stranglers – no more heroes
Duran Duran – Girls on Film
Ultravox – Vienna
The Jam – Town Called Malice
Creedance clear water revival – Fortunate son
Offspring – one fine day
John Mayer – waiting on the word to change
Manic street preachers – motorcycle emptiness
Daft Punk – Digital Love
Paul Simon – You can call me Al
Foo Fighters – Best of you
Basement Jaxx – Red Alert
Electric six – radio ga ga
David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
Stevie Wonder – Superstition
Commadores – Brick house
The who – My Generation
T Rex – I love to boogie
The Sweet – Blockbuster
The Sweet – Teenage Rampage
Grease Movie intro (to be played as last song)
Dee Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
Pink Floyd – Comfortably numb (pulse live version)
Commitments - Mustang Sally
Boogie Pimps – Somebody to love
Mason Feat Princess Superstar – Perfect
Corona - Rhythm Of The Night
Bryan Adams - Run To You
Velvet Revolver – Contraband
AC/DC – If you want blood
ZZ Top – La Grange
Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar
Led Zepplin – Whole lotta love
Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
Edwin Starr – War
Village People – YMCA
Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch (play later on in the night)
Ray Parker Jnr – Ghostbusters
Faithless – Insomnia
Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
Alice Cooper - Schools Out
Blur - Song 2
Bryan Adams - The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me is you
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink - Lady Marmalade
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Elvis and JXL - A Little Less Conversation
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
Run DMC ft Aerosmith - walk this way
Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Michael Gray - The Weekend
Aerosmith - Dude Looks Like A Lady
Queen – Don’t stop me now
Fat Les – Vindaloo
Gina G – Ohh Ahh (Just a little bit)

Maybe there will be a few ideas in there for you? Also, youtube was a big help remembering what some of the songs are

bride2be2012

thanks, we have a lot of similar songs!

Idiophreak

We had a similar issue, I'm a lot rockier than dw, so we broke our play list down into sets:

4-6 (start - speeches) - summery vibe, a little jazzy, a bit of country etc
6:30-8 (speeches til first band set) - mellow pop, getting a little rockier by the end
8:45-9:30 (between band sets) - Up beat pop/rock
10:15-11 (between band sets) - Cheesy pop, sing alongs
11:45-1 (after band) - Dance
1-2: Rock
2-4: Anything goes, bit of hip hop, some more rock, then generic chill-out.

The band also did rockier pop, so I felt like there was a fair amount of music with "integrity" to balance out the stuff that actually got people dancing

In the end, we wound down around 2:30 anyway, so didn't need all of the music.

I'd not worry too much about "what's suitable for a wedding", certainly later on when the kids have gone to beds - I went to a wedding last year where the band played "killing in the name of" as a request - everyone had a great jump around.

Hollie84

Me and OH chose about 10 songs,i dont want our songs being played all night,a bit of variety with the ones we chose thrown in along the way

PetuliaGristle

We're working on our playlist and haven't been able to get this out of my head since finding it on youtube jagged edge lets get married remix