Weddingbee Blog

I’ve mentioned before how choosing the party music has been difficult for us.

Neither Mr. S nor I are big dancers (I might get out on the floor if I’ve had enough drinks, but in seven years, I’ve never seen my beloved fiancé dance). And neither Mr. S nor I are fans of most current dance music.

But our guests like to dance, and we want them to have fun, but we don’t want to have to listen to music that we dislike at our own wedding!

So after many, many hours, we came up with a general playlist for the party. We’ll give the list to our DJ with instructions that he can deviate from the list as long as he doesn’t go too far off, and that he has to honor our Do Not Play list.

When I posted my tips for an iPod reception, I mentioned that it’s a good idea to organize songs into sets based on genre.

And so our playlist is organized by genre as well, although we expect that our DJ will break it up, instead of playing 30 Motown or Soul songs in a row.

And without further ado, the Sloth wedding songs!

Current/Top 40 Set (We mostly hate Top 40 but have agreed that our guests would enjoy it, so we selected a handful of songs that will be okay):

• Outkast - Hey Ya!
• Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it)
• The Black-Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
• Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
• Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
• Ke$ha - Tik Tok
• Cee-Lo Green - Forget You (if only we could play the unedited version. Sigh)
• Lady Gaga - Just Dance

Classic Rock Set:

• AC/DC - (You Shook Me) All Night Long
• Elton John - Crocodile Rock
• Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young
• Grand Funk Railroad - Some Kind of Wonderful
• Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’
• The Kinks - You Really Got Me
• The Beatles - Twist and Shout
• Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me
• Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
• Tom Petty - American Girl

’80s Set:

• Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
• Blondie - Call Me
• The Knack - My Sharona
• The Cars - Let’s Go
• Soft Cell - Tainted Love
• The Go-Go’s - Vacation
• The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
• The Cure - Just Like Heaven
• Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams
• New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
• Katrina & the Waves - Walking on Sunshine
• The B-52’s - Love Shack
• Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round

Actually Early ’90s but Tacked onto the ’80s Set:

• George Michael - Freedom 90
• Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart

Old-School Hip-Hop Set:

• Run DMC - You Be Illin’
• Salt-N-Pepa - Push It
• Young MC - Bust a Move
• Rob Base - It Takes Two
• Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper’s Delight
• The Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want?
• Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
• Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-a-a lota lot

MMP (Madonna/Michael Jackson/Prince) Set:

• Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
• Prince - Let’s Go Crazy
• Madonna - Borderline
• Michael Jackson - PYT (Pretty Young Thing)
• Prince - Kiss
• Madonna - Into the Groove
• Michael Jackson - Thriller
• Madonna - Holiday

• Rick James - Superfreak
• The Four Tops - Reach Out I’ll Be There
• Barry White - Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe
• The Bee-Gees - Stayin’ Alive
• The Jackson Five - I Want You Back
• Smokey Robinson - The Tears of a Clown
• Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
• The Temptations - Get Ready
• Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
• Rare Earth - Get Ready
• Martha and the Vandellas - Dancing in the Street
• The Supremes - Stop! In the Name of Love
• Marvin Gaye - I Heard it Through the Grapevine
• The Commodores - Brick House
• The Four Tops - It’s the Same Old Song
• The Jackson Five - ABC

Do Not Play List:

• Chicken Dance
• YMCA
• Hokey Pokey
• Hot Hot Hot
• Cha Cha Slide
• Cotton Eye Joe
• Who Let the Dogs Out?
• The Macarena
• Mambo No. 5
• The Limbo
• (Basically, any song that has a special choreographed dance)
• Any modern country (Shania Twain, Kenny Chesney, Garth Brooks, etc.)
• Any top 40 songs that aren’t specifically on our list

And that’s that: the party playlist. It’s got something for everyone (we hope, we hope).

What kind of music is your favorite to dance to? And what is/was on your Do Not Play list?