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In a different life, I could honestly see myself being a wedding DJ. When I’m at a party and nobody knows what they want to listen to, they pass me the aux cord. I have a preternatural instinct when it comes to knowing what the masses want to listen to. I understand that everyone has different opinions and preferences in music. Some people hate top 40 hitmakers like Pitbull and Flo Rida. I call those people idiots. But FiveThirtyEight recently comprised a playlist that they are claiming is the end all be all of wedding set lists.
They polled their readers and received 163 playlists with 9,281 unique songs. They took the top 20 most referenced of those songs and made the “ultimate playlist.” Of course, I’ve got some issues with it, and you can take a look at what they consider good wedding music over at FiveThirtyEight. Their Top 20 included “Hey Ya!,” “Uptown Funk,” “We Found Love,” “Shut Up And Dance,” and “Happy.” In my humble opinion, a wedding playlist should only have songs that are considered to be timeless classics. My ears start to bleed every time someone puts “Uptown Funk” on. If it wasn’t for “Happy,” the Pharell smash, I’d say that “Uptown Funk” is the most overplayed song of all time.
For my money, it doesn’t get any better than the classics. “Your Love (Taking Me Higher)” by Jackie Wilson is going to get asses (old and young) on the dance floor. “Anything” by Earth, Wind, and Fire is good by me, and if there isn’t some Ace of Base and at least one song by Van Morrison (“Brown Eyed Girl” or “Someone Like You” will both do), I’m going to be judging the DJ or live band very hard. I’ve compiled my own top 20 list on Spotify, and although I’ve undoubtedly left off some of your favorites, I think this is a fairly decent stab at it. If it wasn’t for Prince’s insane legal team barring any of his music from the world wide web, I’d also like to let everyone know that “Kiss” and “I Wanna Be Your Lover” would both be included. You can jam out to it here:
Tell me what I’m missing..
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A glaring and obvious omission
I like most of your list (and some of Five38’s top 20 too) but how you gonna call anything by Drake and co. a “timeless classic”?
Much less a brand new drake song. Also Gold Digger should be on that list. Why? Because the look on the Bride’s mother’s face would be priceless.
Return on the Mack
walk of life by dire straits
or psycho killer by the talking heads if you really want to send a message
“Your Love” by The Outfield is a timeless classic
“With or Without You” – U2; confusing lyrics but totally romantic
Also completely explains what a marriage is actually like
I cannot tell you how annoyed I would be with any wedding DJ who played “With or Without You” at a reception. What is this, a wedding reception or someone sitting in their room alone moping over an unrequited sixth grade crush? Ain’t nobody want to dance to that.
Lenny Kravitz – It ain’t over Til’ it’s over
and tainted love might be a touch aggressive, otherwise straight firemoji
You Make My Dreams by Hall & Oates
You could play You Make My Dreams Come True at a funeral and everyone including the deceased would dance.
I always joked to the wife our first dance was going to be “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
There are a couple things that are wrong with having “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” on this list. First is the fact that it apparently goes on for five minutes. It’s just one of those songs that you put on as a joke on the jukebox, and regret playing after about two minutes. Nobody wants to listen to you and your bros scream along to that song for five minutes, no matter how hilarious it was when you did it back in college. Second, you can’t really dance to it, unless you do the middle school dance slow song swaying thing. If I’m a single person at your wedding, I want to be busting out some moves in hopes of catching the eye of a bridesmaid. This is going to kill my mojo really quickly.