For those that don’t know, our friend and long-time contributer of the blog Pablo (Paul M.) is getting married over the weekend! I’m happy for the guy even though I didn’t receive an invitation (!). I’ve wanted to make a mix in honor of this occasion since I first heard the news of his engagement a few months ago, but I had no clue where to go with that at all. This seemed like the next best thing I could do, even though I have no idea what kind of songs would work for something like this. I’m sure it would be easy to just post a list of love songs, but there’s clear difference between a simple love song and a song with a little more meaning involved.
To be honest, the only songs I could think of would be anything off The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs. It’s almost essential in my opinion, at least if I had a choice for my own wedding (yes, i’ve thought about it). I did sit around for the majority of the past few nights mulling over what I wanted this mix to comprise, until I realized that I had a different idea of how I wanted to choose songs. That is where all of you come in. Different songs have different meanings to everyone, but ever wondered what songs you would want to be played at your wedding? Better yet, if you’re already married, what songs were played during it? If you have a song idea, feel free to comment or email me with anything and I will add it to this list along with your credit.
I’ve made a small list already, mostly of songs that first came to mind based on my own personal taste. I’m already starting to second guess myself, so i’m going to go ahead and post these and wait for any suggestions that any of you have. Pablo if you’re reading, hope your wedding was great and have fun on your honeymoon! haha
A Wedding Mix
- “Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing” | The Magnetic Fields
- “It’s Only Time” | “The Magnetic Fields
- “Magic in the Air” | Badly Drawn Boy
- “Flowers in the Window” | Travis
- “You Make It Easy” | Air
- “All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun” | Jeff Buckley and Elizabeth Fraser
- “In Pursuit Of Happiness” | The Divine Comedy
- “The Luckiest” | Ben Folds
- “Somebody” | Depeche Mode
- “Big Day Coming” | Yo La Tengo
- “Look For Me As You Go By” | The Innocence Mission
- “Come To Me” | Bjork
- “You Are The Light (By Which I Travel Into This And That)” | Jens Lekman
- “Golden” | My Morning Jacket
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Okay, so here are my suggestions so far…
“I Never” by Rilo Kiley
“More Than Us” by Travis
Oh! And “Your Hand in Mine” by Explosions in the Sky
Whoa…just as read this (and the Flowers in the Window entry), that exact song started playing on iTunes (had it on shuffle). Also watched Knocked Up last night and took note of and loved the Loudon Wainright supervised soundtrack. Yellow Stereo is my soulmate.
“Like You Do,” Bill Janovitz (of Buffalo Tom) from his solo disc “Up Here.” If I remember it correctly it was actually written for a friend’s wedding.
Others;
“The Apartment,” Marah
“I’ll Be Here In The Morning,” Townes Van Zandt
“Somebody Is Waiting For Me,” Juliana Hatfield
“When You Come Back Down,” Nickel Creek
“Life Is Beautiful,” Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
“Shining Light,” Ash
“A Song For You,” Gram Parsons
Why didn’t he give you any invitation? He must have missed it or he must have thought that you don’t need any invitation anyway you will still attend this very special moment in his life. Is this picture in your post a sample of his wedding cake décor? It’s cool although it might mean that he was forced into something. But I don’t think so. Your friend is a strong willed man and no one can ever force him into doing something that he does not like.
By the way, I like your wedding mix. It inspires me to make my own too especially that my own wedding day is fast approaching.
I hope what I said about not receiving a wedding invitation didn’t come off as spiteful or anything of the sort. I don’t think it would’ve been possible for me to attend considering Pablo lives in Utah and myself in Alabama haha, so i was just joking around with it.
I found the image randomly on google
Lots of great tunes listed and lots more that could be listed, but here are the ones that hit the top of my head immediately:
Fidelity, Regina Spektor (too soon?)
It Must Be Love, Rickie Lee Jones
Painting By Chagall, The Weepies
Three by Springsteen – all of which have been covered by several artists:
If I Should Fall Behind
All that Heaven Will Allow (My personal favorite Springsteen song)
Valentine’s Day (My favorite cover of this one is the one by Hem on the EP, “I’m Talking with My Mouth”)
And one last favorite:
Passionate Kisses, Mary Chapin Carpenter (also covered by Lucinda Williams)
Thanks for the tunes and good luck!
Oh, and I forgot the tune played at MY wedding!
It’s pretty cliche now, but I was married right after Rattle and Hum was released (and Reality Bites wasn’t even a blip on the radar screen), so at the time, “All I Want is You” by U2 was pretty cutting edge. (Ooops, pun not intended.)
Oooh a chance to dream about my future wedding’s mixtape. I feel like I’m in fourth grade again! I love your mixtape, btw. It’s a refreshing mix to the normal love songs that are played. How many times can one listen to Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ at a wedding? Ugh.
My personal pick would be something old school and danceable, like GQ’s ‘I Do Love You’ and Al Green’s ‘Let Stay Together’. And I love swing and the standards, so something upbeat and romantic like Harry Connick Jr’s ‘Save The Last Dance’ or Louis Armstrong’s ‘La Vie En Rose’. One thing – I would never play Eric Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight’ though, cos I’ve seen enough wedding receptions where people would just bawl on the dance floor when it played.
But I haven’t just got old songs to recommend. What about an oldies-sounding ‘I Love You’ by the Bees? It’s sweet and chill, perfect for ‘alone’ time. Thanks and good luck!
Wow – I just listened to those tracks, most of which I had never heard before – and I’m sitting here bawling my eyes out. Great choices alright….