As the days to Andy's wedding draw close, I have been spending a lot of time sorting through my music collection, picking just the right songs to play at the wedding reception. This process is two-fold; not only must good songs be included, but bad ones must be excluded. Good songs are defined as songs that people know, like, and would want to dance to. Additionally, good songs should elicit some sort of emotional response. Bad songs are generally defined as ones people don't know, are annoying, overplayed, or are difficult to dance to. There is one additional category of bad songs, and those are songs that are inappropriate for a wedding. With each song I include or exclude, I ask myself, "what does this say about the wedding?" So far Poison is winning the inappropriate song list, as I've deleted four of their songs from the queue: Fallen Angel, Look What the Cat Dragged In, Nothin' But a Good Time and Talk Dirty to Me. Van Halen is in a close second with three songs: Ain't Talkin' Bout Love, Hot for Teacher, and Running With the Devil.

 

Here are the songs I've pulled out of the playlist so far. See if you can come up with any other songs that shouldn't be played at a wedding. (No fair picking non-radio friendly songs: I could easily list every Cannibal Corpse song here, but that would be cheating.)

 

ACDC - You Shook Me All Night Long

Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator

Atlantic Star - Secret Lovers

Billy Idol - White Wedding - Parts I & II (Shot Gun Mix)

Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover

Billy Squier - The Stroke

Bulletboys - Smooth Up In Ya

Chicago - If She Would Have Been Faithful...

David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo & I Ain't Got Nobody

Elton John - The Bitch Is Back

Foreigner - Feels Like the First Time

George Michael - I Want Your Sex

Greg Kihn Band - (Our Love's in) Jeopardy

Heart - All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You

J.Geils Band - Centerfold

Jody Watley - Looking For A New Love

Karyn White - Secret Rendezvous

Madonna - Like A Virgin

Olivia Newton John - Physical

Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield

Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted

Poison - Fallen Angel

Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In

Poison - Nothin' But A Good Time

Poison - Talk Dirty To Me

Ready for the World - Oh Sheila

Samantha Fox - I Wanna Have Some Fun

Samantha Fox - Touch Me (I Want Your Body)

Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way

The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me

Thompson Twins - Lies

Tina Turner - Private Dancer

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' Bout Love

Van Halen - Hot for Teacher

Van Halen - Running With The Devil

Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl

Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like

Warrant - Cherry Pie