As the days to Andy’s wedding draw close, I have been spending a lot of time sorting through my music collection, picking just the right songs to play at the wedding reception. This process is two-fold; not only must good songs be included, but bad ones must be excluded. Good songs are defined as songs that people know, like, and would want to dance to. Additionally, good songs should elicit some sort of emotional response. Bad songs are generally defined as ones people don’t know, are annoying, overplayed, or are difficult to dance to. There is one additional category of bad songs, and those are songs that are inappropriate for a wedding. With each song I include or exclude, I ask myself, “what does this say about the wedding?” So far Poison is winning the inappropriate song list, as I’ve deleted four of their songs from the queue: Fallen Angel, Look What the Cat Dragged In, Nothin’ But a Good Time and Talk Dirty to Me. Van Halen is in a close second with three songs: Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love, Hot for Teacher, and Running With the Devil. <\/p>\n

Here are the songs I’ve pulled out of the playlist so far. See if you can come up with any other songs that shouldn’t be played at a wedding. (No fair picking non-radio friendly songs: I could easily list every Cannibal Corpse song here, but that would be cheating.)<\/p>\n

ACDC – You Shook Me All Night Long
\nAerosmith – Love In An Elevator
\nAtlantic Star – Secret Lovers
\nBilly Idol – White Wedding – Parts I & II (Shot Gun Mix)
\nBilly Squier – My Kinda Lover
\nBilly Squier – The Stroke
\nBulletboys – Smooth Up In Ya
\nChicago – If She Would Have Been Faithful…
\nDavid Lee Roth – Just a Gigolo & I Ain’t Got Nobody
\nElton John – The Bitch Is Back
\nForeigner – Feels Like the First Time
\nGeorge Michael – I Want Your Sex
\nGreg Kihn Band – (Our Love’s in) Jeopardy
\nHeart – All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You
\nJ.Geils Band – Centerfold
\nJody Watley – Looking For A New Love
\nKaryn White – Secret Rendezvous
\nMadonna – Like A Virgin
\nOlivia Newton John – Physical
\nPat Benatar – Love is a Battlefield
\nPaula Abdul – Cold Hearted
\nPoison – Fallen Angel
\nPoison – Look What The Cat Dragged In
\nPoison – Nothin’ But A Good Time
\nPoison – Talk Dirty To Me
\nReady for the World – Oh Sheila
\nSamantha Fox – I Wanna Have Some Fun
\nSamantha Fox – Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
\nSly Fox – Let’s Go All The Way
\nThe Police – Don’t Stand So Close To Me
\nThompson Twins – Lies
\nTina Turner – Private Dancer
\nU2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
\nVan Halen – Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love
\nVan Halen – Hot for Teacher
\nVan Halen – Running With The Devil
\nVanity 6 – Nasty Girl
\nWaitresses – I Know What Boys Like
\nWarrant – Cherry Pie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the days to Andy’s wedding draw close, I have been spending a lot of time sorting through my music collection, picking just the right songs to play at the wedding reception. This process is two-fold; not only must good songs be included, but bad ones must be excluded. Good songs are defined as songs that people know, like, and would want to dance to. Additionally, good songs should elicit some sort of emotional response. Bad songs are generally defined as ones people don’t know, are annoying, overplayed, or are difficult to dance to. There is one additional category of… (read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}