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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: cutout on December 22, 2008, 05:30:31 PM
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I'm getting married on Saturday and neither my fiancee or I have music picked out. It's a pretty non-traditional wedding and we're looking for something pretty and nice for the walk down the aisle, but something that's also contemporary and not deadly serious. Any suggestions?
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My friends walked out to Love Me Tender. Just saying. I don't have any great suggestions.
Congratulations!
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Iron Man.
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back in black.
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My fiancee chose the instrumental version of Hey Jude from Royal Tenenbaums, but it might be kinda long for you depending on how many people you have walking.
I also like the Wilco song "Someday some morning sometime"
Congrats!
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M for Me by Billy Bragg.
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Sitting On A Fence
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The funky version of Also Sprach Zarathustra
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Since it's almost (still) Christmas on Saturday, how about something from this (http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/12/more-christmas.html)?
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Amiina might be a good non-traditional choice for something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYIDUvAtiGc
Or, less seriously, any of these songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmodvpD-Cvs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXQ31F1A-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB88GGGYtIw
Or maybe just organ music?
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P.S. I could send you .mp3s of the Amiina album if you want. I think it would be a really nice choice.
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Love that Only Ones record, but probably too rockin'.
The Amina suggestion is great!
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A friend of mine insists he's getting married to 'Plays John Cassavetes' by Ekkehard Ehlers - http://www.last.fm/music/Ekkehard+Ehlers - which is here. It's a really beautiful piece. Maybe falls a little heavily on the serious side, but it's got that wonderful undercurrent of joy and tempestuousness and harmonic balance that any good wedding (in a film, in my mind) has.
Have a listen, it's a good song whether you're getting hitched or not.
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The Amina and Ehlers songs are fantastic, I'm trying to convince my fiancee right now.
FWIW, the wedding is in a live arts theater and we'll be getting hitched on the Sweeney Todd set. There will also be a Top Ten list segment ("10 Reasons the Bride and Groom Should Get Married") with crowd participation. Outro music will be "This Will Be Our Year" by the Zombies.
I won't know til it's too late whether any of this is a good idea.
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The Amina and Ehlers songs are fantastic, I'm trying to convince my fiancee right now.
FWIW, the wedding is in a live arts theater and we'll be getting hitched on the Sweeney Todd set. There will also be a Top Ten list segment ("10 Reasons the Bride and Groom Should Get Married") with crowd participation. Outro music will be "This Will Be Our Year" by the Zombies.
I won't know til it's too late whether any of this is a good idea.
I love this song so much. Fantastic choice!
Sounds like an amazing wedding to me.
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Whatever you pick, all the best sir.
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Congratulations! I strongly feel that MGMT's "Electric Feel" would make a fine choice to kick off the wedding. Your description of the venue and games makes it seem like a wedding anyone would be interested in attending.
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yeah, This Will Be Our Year is one of the best ever written.
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The best wedding music I've heard was "The Girl from Ipanema" which was sung by the crowd of people at the wedding, while the couple cut through them. The ceremony was in the center of the crowd.
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Seriously, "Sweetness" by Yes.
Don't judge.
Maybe that'll be for when I have my civic union ceremony with Christina The Yes Fan.
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~judging~
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A friend of mine insists he's getting married to 'Plays John Cassavetes' by Ekkehard Ehlers - http://www.last.fm/music/Ekkehard+Ehlers - which is here. It's a really beautiful piece. Maybe falls a little heavily on the serious side, but it's got that wonderful undercurrent of joy and tempestuousness and harmonic balance that any good wedding (in a film, in my mind) has.
Have a listen, it's a good song whether you're getting hitched or not.
I love that song. It's included on DJ/Rupture's Uproot mix too.
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~judging~
Fine.
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Actually, C.T.Y.F. doesn't even like that song. But I do. Actually CTYF doesn't really like Yes all that much anymore.
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We did "In My Life" by the Beatles.
Not a dry eye in the house.
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My fiancee's almost sold on the Amina song. AM Thomas, thanks for your offer, I will check the Amazon mp3 store and see what I can find, and if not, maybe PM you?
Makes me happy to know my wedding will have a little touch of Scharpling/FOT in it. Thanks again guys. This one's a W.
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this is great; i love that people are getting married. the concept of people being happy with a counterpart, whether they get married or not, makes me feel good inside.
so, who wants to get married; ive got no new year's eve plans, "i keep it loose."
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I cannot think of a good song. Stumped!
But congratulations to you, sir, and to the future Mrs. Cutout.
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The 2001, A Space Odyssey theme would be great if you could time the presentation of the ring and the kiss to fall on the crescendos.
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Mercyful Fate medley: "Evil", "Curse of the Pharaohs", "Satan's Fall", "A Corpse Without a Soul", and "Into the Coven"
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Seriously, "Sweetness" by Yes.
Don't judge.
Maybe that'll be for when I have my civic union ceremony with Christina The Yes Fan.
Good choice, preferably preceded by a field goal kicking contest and "Heart of the Sunrise."
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We almost went with Ted Nugent's Stranglehold but decided not to in deference to the grandparents present. Since we did the 20s theme (so as to avoid the whole tuxedo/poofy dress/veil route), we opted for Louis Armstrong's St. Louis Blues. It worked well with the theme.
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Seriously, "Sweetness" by Yes.
Don't judge.
Maybe that'll be for when I have my civic union ceremony with Christina The Yes Fan.
Hell, ANYTHING by Yes. The Gates of Delerium! Siberian Khatru! Circus of Heaven! Even White Car by faux-Yes!
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How about "Lets go Crazy" by Prince?
I've always wanted to recite that intro monologue in a church.
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"Wasted Years" by Iron Maiden.
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Just wanted to thank AM Thomas again for the Amiina suggestion. Last night was a smash success, lots of happy (and crying, and drunk) people and lots of dancing. Quite a few people commented on the choice of processional music. It was just beautiful. Now it's time for a very long nap.
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Congratumalations!
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FOT come through once again! Congratulations!
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Whoooo! Iceland never fails!
Congratulations!
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Does Your Mother Know
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Late to the party, but congrats.
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Thanks! It was pretty cool to have some important input from an FOT on an important day.
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I need help with this same thing.
My choices keep veering towards Brian Eno and Moondog. The Eno stuff I go to is too sombre and the Moondog stuff too bompity-bomp.
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I had some family members play This Will Be Our Year at our wedding so I give the thumbs to that.
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There are some great ideas here, and I can't think of any better musical selections. The most adorable and witty piece I ever heard at a wedding was a reading of the poem "Tin Wedding Whistle" by Ogden Nash. If there were a song that captured that poem's essence, I'd say go with that song.
Though you know it anyhow
Listen to me, darling, now,
Proving what I need not prove
How I know I love you, love.
Near and far, near and far,
I am happy where you are;
Likewise I have never larnt
How to be it where you aren't.
Far and wide, far and wide,
I can walk with you beside;
Furthermore, I tell you what,
I sit and sulk where you are not.
Visitors remark my frown
Where you're upstairs and I am down,
Yes, and I'm afraid I pout
When I'm indoors and you are out;
But how contentedly I view
Any room containing you.
In fact I care not where you be,
Just as long as it's with me.
In all your absences I glimpse
Fire and flood and trolls and imps.
Is your train a minute slothful?
I goad the stationmaster wrothful.
When with friends to bridge you drive
I never know if you're alive,
And when you linger late in shops
I long to telephone the cops.
Yet how worth the waiting for,
To see you coming through the door.
Somehow, I can be complacent
Never but with you adjacent.
Near and far, near and far,
I am happy where you are;
Likewise I have never larnt
How to be it where you aren't.
Then grudge me not my fond endeavor,
To hold you in my sight forever;
Let none, not even you, disparage
Such a valid reason for a marriage.
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Elvis Costello does a heartbreaking rendition of the very thought of you. Its almost entirely a cappella. We ALMOST used that, but it was too long for the short distance to the altar and small size of our wedding party. But I recommend it for a listen.
My other choice was Cachao's version of Rhapsody in Blue (I grew up near an airport, so it was kind of an in joke with my fam) but I forgot so we ended up traditional.
BUT, our big entrance music at the reception was the Pixies "Here Comes Your Man," and that was awesome.
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Can you film this wedding and upload the video here? Cuz it sounds really cool, and I would like to see it. :)
Congrats, btw!