Wedding music is (still) boring

Last year, Hummer posted his wedding soundtrack here on Bawley: An attempt to dispense with the overpaid, undertalented wedding music DJ and produce something a bit more personal, and altogether better than your standard wedding fare.

Another year, and another Bawley wedding and this time it was my turn to put together a playlist that attempted to capture something of the bride and groom and keep the crowd happy.

In addition to our own choices, we also invited suggestions from the guests as to the songs that would get them on the dancefloor. The runaway most requested song was that wedding favourite, 'Groove Is In The Heart' by Deee-Lite.

With the wedding running well over an hour late, the list had to be chopped short (thanks Hummer for ably manning the decks) but here's the full list as was intended - a mix of tried and trusted floor fillers and a few leftfield choices:

Entrance Song:

I'll Be Your Mirror (string quartet version of the Velvet Underground song)

Signing the register songs:

Until Death Do Them Part - Paul Kelly

My Soul Sings - Delirious?

Exit song:

William Tell Overture

Reception entrance song:

One Day Like This - Elbow

First dance song:

The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf

Dancing songs:

Lets Stay Together - Al Green

All I Want Is You - Barry Louis Polisar

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis Presley

Hotel Yorba - The White Stripes

Dancing In The Street - David Bowie & Mick Jagger

I Don't Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters

Dancing Machine - Jackson 5

Dancing Choose - TV On The Radio

Crazy In Love - Beyonce Feat. Jay-Z

I Like It I Love It - Lyrics Born

That's The Way I Like It - K.C. & The Sunshine Band

Lady Madonna - The Beatles

You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry

Dancing Queen - Abba

Jump Around - House Of Pain

Reach - S Club 7

No Sex for Ben - The Rapture

Groove Is In The Heart - Deee-Lite

All Night Disco Party - Brakes

Darts Of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand

Mr Brightside - The Killers

A Stroke Of Genie-Us - The Strokes vs Christina Aguilera

Airbag - Radiohead cover by Easy All Stars

Live It Up - Mental As Anything

Common People - Pulp

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen

Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants

Blister In The Sun - The Violent Femmes

Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis

Mrs Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel cover by The Lemonheads

Poison - Alice Cooper

Everyone Says You're So Fragile - Idlewild

Music Is My Hot Sex - CSS
Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Banquet - Bloc Party

Hey Ya! - Outkast

Call Me - Blondie

Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush cover by The Futureheads

Standing In The Way Of Control - Gossip

I Bet that You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys

Let's Dance To Joy Division - Wombats

Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head - New Order vs Kylie

Smack Me Baby One More Time - Britney Spears vs Prodigy

Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook remix) - Cornershop

Down Under - Men At Work

It Must Be Love - Madness

Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck

Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room) - Flight Of The Conchords
Lucky Man - The Verve

So Long, Farewell - from The Sound Of Music soundtrack

I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash

No Cars Go (reprise) - Arcade Fire