[Closed] Music for the first dance ... suggestions ?

Bit of u2

Still haven't found what I'm looking for.....

{Now where did I put that packet of biscuits....}

On a more helpful note what's the general theme of the music for the wedding. e.g I had a Ceilidh so that dictated the choice to some extent....

open to any slow dance suggestions .. theme ? two mid fifties getting wed .

Ours was Africa by Toto, which was meaningful for us.

Got anything like that?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/most-popular-wedding-first-dance-songs_us_5783f9c5e4b0344d51508125

If none of those appeal, just do the birdie song.

Every rose has its thorn.

What sort of style? for a confident woman and an audience that likes a laugh:

if me an t'missus had ever got married it would have been

but it would have been a somewhat x rated first dance - now there is a thought you need mind bleach for

Jungle boogie

One of my friends chose the them from Minder "I Could Be So Good for You" which I thought was a great idea. His **** of FiL thought otherwise and got the DJ to play something he preferred.

Make sure it's short.

"Make sure it's short. "
ha ha good point..

Have I told you Lately That I love You by Van Morrison never fails.
Unless you haven't.

Lick my love pump by spinal tap

Have I told you Lately That I love You by Van Morrison

Good choice

You could even see if he could pop along to sing it live for you. He's been pretty quiet of late so would probably appreciate the work..

The man appears to release about a thousand albums per year. I’d opt for In To The Mystic or pretty much any other track off Moondance

Ray LaMontagne has some great slow songs.

Go left field with Chic or some Bony M!

Cheek to Cheek or some else by Ginger and Fred from the playlist

Oooo… Coz is a strong recommendation!

Let's get married or sunshine in leith by the proclaimers? (Unless you're a Jambo in which case the latter might not be such a good choice)

Now I've had the time of my liife and i've never felt this way before.

Make sure the camera is rolling forthe inevitable lift attempt 250 quid in the bank.

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for a bit of humour

But good luck working a dance out.

Sensible ish suggestions:
Jack Johnson, Better Together.
The Twang, Either Way
Michael Jackson, Rock with You.
Jay-Z, 99 Problems

Friends of ours had "Ballbreaker" by AC/DC.

Which was a surprise.....

This is the one by the roses

I like big butts. By sir mixalot

Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter.
Gold Digger, Kanye West.
******* hell it's Fred Titmus, Half Man Half biscuit, (just for the language)
You're the one for me Fatty, Morrisey.

You're welcome. My invite hasn't arrived yet BTW.

Congrats BTW

Oooh, that's a strong contender. Didn't think of that!

Rico Rodrigues- Love
Played by a band from Nottingham at our wedding and they were amazing
Link below to live version on jools
Rico -RIP

Two mates had Call Me Al, which seemed like genius.

Smack my bitch up

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask, by Frank Zappa, would be my suggestion.

or plenty of cannibal corpse songs with "left field" titles

Much as I like Drac's suggestion how about True Companion by Marc Cohn? Meaningful lyrics though perhaps a bit old...

First dance?

Or

Linger by the Cranberries..

This was ours.

"I've got a bike you can ride it if you like"

You know more about music than most people I know Paul, surely you can come up with something.
How about not having a first dance at all as its tediously bourgeois. You can invite friends to come up and join you and you can all dance together.

We didn't have a 'first dance' as such. After a ceilidh to get everyone moving and enough drink to help remove everyone's inhibitions, we just had a favourite track that we decided we would meet for on the dance floor, to be put in randomly. Was great to find each other for the dance, considering how much time is spent with other people on the day.

The Crimea - Lottery Winners on Acid, BTW.

zippykona - Member
Make sure it's short.

Napalm Death, You Suffer?

That would be mine. Dancing can go piss up a rope...

We had Hendrix, little wing. This was immediately followed by smack my bitch up! It got everyone else on the dancefloor pretty quick.

I like big butt's.

Always a good ice breaker.

Bet not many have this

So I’d go with originality

wife and I started going out by chance - I had 2 tickets for the wonderstuff for me and a mate, he did his back in, i now had a spare, she was a girl at work with a wonderstuff logo on her webbing bag...... and the rest is history

So our obvious choice was....... Something Changed by Pulp, about the random nature of love (another band we both love)

But then being music snobs we went from that into 'Love is all Around' - REM unplugged version - and then into a great floor filler

and then into the full version of Tainted Love

Self indulgent - maybe, but it was our day.

Ours would’ve been this if we hadn’t eloped. https://g.co/kgs/xTGuLV

I always thought “smack my bitch up” would be a laugh.

We done a waltz so had to go for something in 3 time, or whatever it is. We had this.

Sensible suggestion: "At last" Nina Simone

Other suggestion: You shook me all night long, ACDC

mattyfez reminded me of this - worth watching for a bit. go for it

Paul Weller You do something to me

There She Goes

I was at a wedding where they opened the floor with Lay Lady Lay, I just wanted to climb under the table with my curled teeth.

Just do a gay gordons, get everyone up immediately and get over yourselves. Everyone can celidh. even englishers. Everything else is.....aaaawkward. or the time warp.

MrsV wouldn’t agree to Tiger Feet by Mud (with actions), so I’m having it at my funeral instead.

Jonv - nice! Didn't fancy 'Size of a Cow' then?

We had 'That Old Devil Called Love' played by a brilliant little swing band.

Other suggestions - If I should fall Behind by Springsteen.

marvellous

Jonv - nice! Didn't fancy 'Size of a Cow' then?

There may have been a few stuffies songs over the course of the evening but that may have been pushing it a bit far 😉

I'm with theotherjonv - indulge yourself.

We went with (mixed reasonably well to keep the duration down)

Something - Beatles (my choice)
Are you the one I've been waiting for - Nick Cave (Her choice)
Fell in love with a girl - White Stripes (Both and kicked off the 'dancing')

But I do regret not insisting on Sir Mixalot.

OP

Can you dance?
We started with a waltz to Etta James..At Last (we did have some lessons so I didn't stamp all over her toes).My Mum and Dad were excellent dancers, as were the inlaws, so they quickly joined us on the floor to show everyone how it should be done.After that it was a mix of ceilidh tunes followed by a DJ.
One of the best days of my life,etc,etc. 🙂

To be fair, Tom Lehrer has this pretty much nailed. Options are:
She's My Girl

Or possibly if you're brave enough for a tango as the first dance:

The list goes on, but those two are arguable his best love songs.

that's why we wanted the Ramones, apart from obviously being a cool as **** band it was a perfect song to couple dance to and not do that awkward sidey sidey shuffle.

The wife used to dance ceroc / rock and roll stuff and with a bit of basic tuition I managed a couple of twirls.... but then when the evening guests, several of who were also dancers arrived I vacated the floor and left the experts to it. The oldies loved it!