Our processional music was Pachelbel’s Canon, but the Trans-Siberian Orchestra version with some cool choral parts. Of course I had to edit out the Christmas lyrics, but it was still long enough.
Todd’s set was chosen all by me (he asked). The only one he wouldn’t do by himself was “Broken Oar”, so I made that the first song on the first CD played. Todd’s still playing with emmet swimming, and has a new band Quitter UK.
One night, about a month ago, Jill and I went through all the CDs picking out songs. Slowly I ripped about half the songs, and last week decided to see how much I had. It was 6 and a half hours worth of music. I got a little more selective with the music after that, but when I was done, still had 10 hours of music. First we chose the songs from that list for the wedding favor CD, and burned 64 copies. Then I winnowed the list down to 4 hours (3 80 minute CDs), tossing out some of the songs that were on the wedding favor CD. Disc 1 was for dinner, so I put music that would be unfamiliar to most people on there. I got it down to 81 minutes, then trimmed the songs to make them all fit. Discs 2&3 were the dances, then a selection of popular songs. We ran out of time, so we didn’t get to them all, but here’s the list.
Processional
01. Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons:Autumn I: Allegro
02. Pachelbel’s Canon (TSO version)
Todd Watts
01. Listen To The River
02. Waiting In Vain
03. South Bristol, ME
04. Lose Yourself
05. Boones Farm Wine
06. Angel Of The Morning
07. Stealing From The Joneses
08. Guru
09. Wish You Were Here
10. Off Key Choir
11. Coming Home
12. Arlington
13. Sunblock
Reception Disc 1
01. emmet swimming – Broken Oar
02. Tori Amos – A Sorta Fairytale
03. Corrs – Breathless
04. Extreme – Hole Hearted
05. Darkness – I Believe In A Thing Called Love
06. eddie from ohio – Woman Of Faith
07. Four Way Street – Several Thousand
08. John Mayer – Comfortable
09. Pat McGee Band – Beautiful Ways
10. Jayhawks – Blue
11. Girlyman – Postcards From Mexico
12. Matt Nathanson – Answering Machine
13. Dar Williams – Are You Out There
14. Fountains Of Wayne – Stacy’s Mom
15. Angie Aparo – Hush
16. Getaway Car – All Time Low
17. Carbon Leaf – Boxer
18. Counting Crows – Murder Of One
19. Da Vinci’s Notebook – Another Irish Drinking Song
20. Drivin N Cryin – Straight To Hell
Reception Disc 2
01. Mary Chapin Carpenter – Grow Old With Me
02. Matt Munroe – Sunrise, Sunset
03. Beatles – In My Life
04. Brian Setzer – Jump Jive An’ Wail
05. Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
06. Aretha Franklin – Respect
07. Blues Traveler – Run-around
08. Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion
09. Don McLean – American Pie
10. Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
11. Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes
12. Harry Belafonte – Jump In Line
13. Dave Matthews Band – Two Step
14. Grateful Dead – Ripple
15. Queen – Somebody To Love
16. Beatles – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
17. AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
18. Bon Jovi – Livin On A Prayer
19. Cars – You Might Think
Reception Disc 3
01. Billy Joel – Piano Man
02. 10,000 Maniacs – Because The Night
03. Barenaked Ladies – Old Apartment
04. Celine Dion – Because You Loved Me
05. Dave Matthews Band – Space Between
06. Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
07. Fleetwood Mac – Never Going Back Again
08. Shania Twain – Forever And For Always
09. Indigo Girls – Closer To Fine
10. Jay-Z – Izzo
11. Sir Mix-A-Lot – Baby Got Back
12. “Weird Al” Yankovic – All About The Pentiums
13. Village People – Y.M.C.A.
14. Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
15. Sarah McLachlan – Sweet Surrender
16. Traveling Wilburys – Handle With Care
17. Alanis Morissette – Everything
18. Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
19. Queen – Love Of My Life