Songs you would NOT want to be played at your wedding

[Rocknrule]

Whether you've already had it or look forward to it, what are songs you would never want to be played at your wedding? Here are some of mine:

Anything by Three Days Grace
"Don't Stop Believing" by Journey (I don't care if everyone loves this song, it's way too overplayed)
"Just Give Me A Reason" by Pink
And of course, the obvious suspects such as Rebecca Black, Justin Bieber, etc.

[El Supremo]

1. I'd avoid this classic one:

[Liberal Veteran]

2. "Lips of an Angel" - Hinder -nt

[Eyerish]

6. One of my friends had that song as her first dance..

I don't think she really ever listened to the lyrics....

[charlie and algernon]

3. Cherry Pie - Warrant

[frogmarch]

4. "I'll Be Watching You"

[fizzgig]

5. my reception ended this way....

a handful of drunk people dancing to the best of devo.

[uriel1972]

14. Too cool... nt

[TuxedoKat]

7. Feelings

I forgot to tell the band not to play it so wouldn't you know it at the end of the reception my sister is singing with the band and decides to sing it!

[Chan790]

8. The fantasy-lit nerd in me has to say this one:

[NobodyHere]

12. +1000

nt

[alarimer]

9. I once heard "Your Cheating Heart" at a wedding reception.

So, yeah, that's one.

[rrneck]

10. Molly Hatchet "Flirtin' with Disaster" nt

[OriginalGeek]

11. Pungent Stench

For God Your Soul...For me Your Flesh


it might give her cold feet...

on the other hand, WhyTF would I marry a woman who isn't down with the Stench?

[jmowreader]

13. Anything by GG Allin, unless you're trying to get rid of the guests

Right after you run out of beer, throw in "A Fuckup" or "Don't Talk To Me" and everyone WILL leave. Guaranteed.

[shenmue]

15. Folsom Prison Blues

[intaglio]

16. Pretty obviously these

[Heidi]

17. "Under My Thumb" by The Rolling Stones (nt)

[Scuba]

18. ...

[AnneD]

39. What a blast from my past....

I loved Harry Nilsson. I will have that ear worm for a while now.

[Scuba]

40. Sorry. Not his best work, overall.

[AnneD]

42. Nilsson Schmilsson...

and Son of Schmilsson. I swear I deepened the grooves in those LPs. I loved his irreverence. Too bad he died too young.

[femmocrat]

19. D.I.V.O.R.C.E. by Tammy Wynette n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. Songs boasting about your sexual history like "I be strokin'"

[energumen]

21. two put of three aint bad

Even if it is basically true

[energumen]

22. and obviously

Love Stink - The Cars
Whiskey Drinkin Woman - Nazareth

[sharp_stick]

23. Wrecking Ball

although I'd prefer it not be played anywhere.

[Tom Ripley]

24. "Me and Mrs. Jones"

[nolabear]

25. She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

[seabeyond]

26. Wasted days and wasted nights.... I spent luvin' you. Nt

[dawg]

27. Once Bitten, Twice Shy

[Coventina]

28. Bye Bye Love -Everly Brothers

[caraher]

29. Played at my cousin's wedding reception

I thought this an odd choice...

[gottafly]

30. "Love Stinks"

.

[rug]

31. Sylvia's Mother

or Lucille

or Suspicious Minds.

[sarge43]

32. Makin' Whoopie. nt

[azurnoir]

33. Billy Idol white wedding

&feature=kp

[BainsBane]

34. Cold Hearted and Maneater

Now for an 80s flashback.

[LeftishBrit]

35. 'Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover'

[NewJeffCT]

57. Ooop

You beat me to it. I posted that same song below - didn't see your original until after

[LadyHawkAZ]

36. Wagner's Wedding March

Really. I detest that piece.

True story: I was playing the "set your iPod to Shuffle and answer these questions with the song that comes up" game with a group of teenagers one night. The question was "What will you dance to at your wedding?". The song that came up? Suicidal Tendencies, "Institutionalized".

[cemaphonic]

43. I agree, and I like Wagner to a degree.

Of the traditional choices, Mendelssohn's is good.

We used the wedding march from The Marriage of Figaro at our wedding.

[LadyHawkAZ]

44. My traditional choice would be Canon in D Major

Paillard's performances are (imo) the loveliest pieces of music ever recorded.

Of course I am a contrarian, and not much of a fan of marriage, so I would be more likely to choose Metallica's "Orion", or in fact "Institutionalized", because why waste my favorite piece on a wedding?

[brooklynboy49]

37. We made this decision 40 years ago

While discussing our wedding arrangements, the subject came to choosing "our song", to which we would dance our first dance together as a married couple. Almost in unison,, we both said, "No 'We've Only Just Begun'". Everybody was using it, and we weren't "Carpenters People", anyway. We decided on Here, There and Everywhere. I'm happy with our choice, to this very day.

P.S I grew to like about 5 or 6 Carpenters songs. Karen had such a beautiful voice.

[GreenPartyVoter]

38. "The Lady is a Tramp" Just cause, you know, it sounds bad. LOL

[RedCloud]

41. Clarence Carter's immortal classic "Strokin"

[LiberalEsto]

45. These Boots Are Made For Walking nt

[sakabatou]

46. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of my Life)

[whistler162]

47. Probabl;y this one.....

and

http://odiesta.com/perry-como/better-luck-next-time-lyrics

[Arugula Latte]

48. If someone played "Lady In Red" at my wedding

EVERYONE would be in red because there would be a bloodbath. Mwa ha ha.

Luckily I already had my wedding years ago.

[struggle4progress]

49. Rickety Tickety Tin

[LeftishBrit]

60. I think you're right there!

[orleans]

50. here's a no-no

[woodsprite]

51. Yesterday.

All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay

[AngryOldDem]

52. "Savin' All My Love For You"

Snip:

"A few stolen moments
Are all that we have
You have your family
And they need you there..."

Idina Menzel was a wedding singer early in her career and she said this was one of the most requested songs at receptions. She says she always wanted to ask if people had actually listened to the lyrics.

[Sanity Claws]

53. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

I love the song but not appropriate for a wedding.

[SomethingFishy]

54. American Woman by the Guess Who, Sail On by the Commodors

and "I Used To Love Her" by GnR...

[Xithras]

55. "A Man Needs A Maid" - Neil Young. "Gold Digger" by Kanye would be a bad idea too.

Heck...I can think of dozens.....

[NewJeffCT]

56. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

by Paul Simon

[NewJeffCT]

58. I used to love her, but I had to kill her

Guns & Roses

[Enrique]

59. Eve of Destruction

[Submariner]

61. "You Light Up My Life" with Debbie Boone is wrist slashing music

beware of this favorite among drunk wedding guests and karaoke singers. It's just awful.

[tabbycat31]

62. Any breakup or dumping songs

[callous taoboy]

63. Haitian Divorce- Steely Dan

[NewJeffCT]

64. The Rains of Castamere

the "Red Wedding" song.

[seaglass]

69. You win! haha n/t

[NewJeffCT]

70. I'm surprised

I was the first person to think of it.

[kairos12]

65. Anything by Bread.

[Sognefjord]

66. The Marseillaise

The Internationale
Blame Canada

[Rhiannon12866]

67. "She's a Maniac" LOL!

[Shrek]

68. "My Wife" by The Who

"The Bitch is Back" by Elton John.

[Fearless]

71. Rape me, Nirvana

...I'm saving that for my funeral.