Prog Rock for a Wedding
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Topic: Prog Rock for a Wedding
Posted By: Aaron
Subject: Prog Rock for a Wedding
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 12:22
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i feel like prog rock and wedding's have come up before BUT, my sister is actually letting me be the "DJ" at her wedding because she doesnt want to hire one. She doesn't actually like prog rock, but i have pushed the idea in letting me choose the music, and she caved, so good things right? we shall see what this thread is about is suggesting some prog rock songs for her wedding, needs to be danceable, upbeat, celabratory, accesible, you know what i mean so start suggesting, anything goes, krautrock, symphonic, jazz fusion, italian, anything and the first person that makes the joke of Supper's Ready or Gates of Delirium or any other epic gets a foot up the ass i will keep this list updated to let you know what i have playing also, if anyone has any experience with prog and wedding's, what works, what doesn't, please let me know peace, Aaron |
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Posted By: patomtz
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 12:34
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I met a couple just married at the airport, when we were about to recieve Dream Theater here in monterrey!! and they have like a papaer that said "oue wedding song was EVE", that is a good ballad song! ------------- I still can't get how Dream Theater music is created by humans Dream Theater in Monterrey, Mexico 03.03.06 Unforgettable 
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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 12:35
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In all seriousness, I don't think prog is the music for a wedding, but GG has some very danceable songs, like Playing the Game or Time to Kill would be a hit. Some later Rush and Genesis may also work. Same for Peter Gabriel, circa So. And can you think of a better slow dance than Afterglow by Genesis!?!? I can't!
No VdGG or KC!!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 12:51
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As much as I love lengthy prog epics, I don't feel they would be appropriate for a wedding. I would suggest something from "Dark Side of the Moon", like for instance "Us and Them" (I've danced to it countless times!), if it were not for the dark, disturbing lyrics. Another song (well, actually an instrumental) which was very popular to dance to when I was younger was Santana's "Samba Pa Ti". As to upbeat, uplifting songs, one of my current personal favourites is Hatfield and the North's "Share It". |
Posted By: Aaron
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 12:53
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i think there is plenty of prog that will work, the only problem is that nobody will know it, but if it's loud enough and people are intoxicated, maybe it can work what i will probably do is half prog half regular wedding music (focusing on funk) and NO BALLADS Aaron |
Posted By: Rorro
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 18:04
| deffinetly Comus, Vdgg , The mars volta and God Speed You! Black Emperor |
Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 18:08
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Sleepless (King Crimson). The best dance song ever!
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 18:12
Hatfield and the North are a good wedding band (Whatever that means! ).-------------  
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Posted By: stan the man
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 22:02
magma de futura should be appropriate. i dont know why not let her pick cause after all it is her wedding along with her future spouse. ------------- true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants. 
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Posted By: SirPsycho388
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 22:14
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I'd say... Jethro Tull - Living in the Past, Teacher Genesis - Your Own Special Way, Entangled, Squonk Pink Floyd - Money, Us and Them, Another Brick pt II Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart, Tempus Fugit, Going For The One Rush - Superconductor, Closer to the Heart, The Big Money Spock's Beard - All on a Sunday The Beatles - Drive My Car, Taxman, pretty much anything upbeat *** I'd say if you're going to play prog songs, they'll work best as slow songs. But if you want some prog as dance songs you'll probably have to get into the 80s era. I wouldn't limit myself to prog though... it IS a wedding ------------- Strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 22:25
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My girlfriend and I will need a ProgDJ to our wedding I'M NOT JOKING... We love prog and we really want to play our favourite songs during our wedding... Well, my suggestions: Maybe some songs of Porcupine Tree like Blackest Eyes or The Sound of Muzak... Pink Floyd's Us and Them, Bike and Another Brick in the Wall Part II... King Crimson Sleepless, Model Man and Thela Hun Ginjeet... Rush's Time Stand Still and Big Money... Queen (almost every album)... Yes: You have many "pop" song on 90125 and Big Generator... You can prove with Asia and GTR too... Peter Gabriel: So and Us... Genesis: almost everything of the 80's and 90's (but please NO Phil Collins solo albums)... Jethro Tull: Locomotive Breath and Fat Man... Maybe some songs of Tool and Dead Soul Tribe... ELP: Ces't la Vie, Still You Turn me On, From the Beginning... John Paul Jones with Diamanda Galas: SPort Life (full album)... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: Clepsydra
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 22:28
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For a wedding, Camel would be great! & of course - Clepsydra & Red Sand! |
Posted By: neek21
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 22:46
 Laugh if you want, but for my wedding, we had the church organist play the Yes song, 'Wonderous Stories' on piano as a 'prelude' song, while people where being seated...and for the clincher, for our '1st dance' at the reception, we had the d.j. play the King Crimson song 'Walking on Air' from the album 'Thrak'......top that, folks!!!! 
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 22:51
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I would agree that there are many songs that could work, but didn't you say
that your sister doesn't like prog? Since it's her wedding, I would suggest programing stuff that she likes. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 22:52
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Rush "Madrigal"
------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: neek21
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 22:59
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did'nt Yes do the song 'Madrigal'.....of the album Tormato
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Posted By: Zoso
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 23:10
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I'd suggest Closer to the Heart. And You and I might be nice too, though a bit long. -------------  |
Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 00:09
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mmm maybe she's gonna kill you Celebration of PFM can be work. ------------- 
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Posted By: coffeeintheface
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 01:08
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prog is not wedding music if you ask me
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Posted By: coffeeintheface
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 01:09
if you have to play something, do that one. Seriously. The live version off the Cirkus compilation is the best! ------------- OBQM: www.soundcloud.com/onebigquestionmark (solo project) nQuixote: www.soundcloud.com/n-quixote (ambient + various musical ideas) |
eddietrooper wrote:Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 01:24
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I had a band of teenager musicians play at my wedding - they played Pink Flloyd, Beatles, Hendrix, Doors, Led Zeppelin, Cream and other similar stuff. It was great.
Oh, and BTW, this topic has come up:
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Posted By: ____VdGG____
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 01:30
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I'd second De Futura
I'm sure the crazed chanting and the the terrifying bass issued by Mr. Top would really be a hit 
Seriously, though, I think Camel might work pretty well, or some PG solo, or some Gentle Giant (Reunion  )
Even though it's not prog, you can't beat Van Morrison for music for a wedding, and your sister can't not love Van Morrison Go for Crazy Love, Into The Mystic, Sweet Thing, or Autumn Song
Try to avoid the KC (Trio might be nice though  ), The Magma , and most of all,  the Van Der Graaf Generator ------------- Iron throated monsters are forcing the screams; Mind and machinery box-press our dreams |
Posted By: AngleofRepose
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 02:02
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I'll second Comus. And Supper's Ready - one of the lyrics is 'can't you feel
our souls ignite'. That's very wedding like. But seriously, prog at a wedding would likely be a downer. Carpet of the Sun and Let it Grow by Renaissance are my honest contributions if it must happen. And You and I also was a pretty good suggestion. |
Posted By: songmp3
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 02:26
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Posted By: erlenst
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 05:32
| Gryphon - Spring Song !! |
Posted By: Space Dimentia
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 06:16
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Led Zep's 'Stairway...', any Queen songs are always popular. As for Prog well you could try an slip in 'Us and Them', 'Another brick in the wall part II' (thats the one everyone knows), the Beatles but also put this one in 'Alive' by Circus Maximus a great prog-metal track thats all about love an feelings towards 'the one'. Ahh yeah plus how can you forget 'Show me the way to Amerillo' Then pack the rest with the usual stuff like 90-2006 pop, 60's & 70's pop you know the stuff Sash, Lemar,Oasis, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, james 'makes my skin crawl' blunt, blah, blah etc. ------------- Prog is music for the mind Hear your Orphaned child! Check out my bands myspace site: www.myspace.com/equinox17 |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 07:42
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As great as prog music is, most of it is totally unsuitable for a wedding. Assuming that most people are fairly well p*ssed up by the evening, would they really want to listen to "Us and them" and "And You and I", or anything by Godspeed You Black Emperor? Well, not at any of the weddings I've been to. There's only one band for a wedding, and that's the might Quo.
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Posted By: Aaron
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 08:20
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edit: what i meant to say was thank you and to the rest of you, i do believe it is possible, i'll make up a list of songs soon, i think it can work Aaron |
Posted By: DantesRing
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 15:36
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My wife and I used "The Meeting" off the Ander Bruford Wakeman Howe
album as the walkin music prior to the bride coming down the aisle. It
was perfect.
------------- I'm the shadow man, the jumping jack The man who can, but won't look back |
Posted By: page
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 18:45
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Dude.............."Bungle in the Jungle" by Tull!!! ------------- "So you live at the bottom of the sea....." |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 20:07
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Yes - "Onward" ELP - "Closer to Believing" Strawbs - "Grace Darling"
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Posted By: jeremybender34
Date Posted: April 19 2006 at 20:11
| I always thought that "A Habit Worth Forming" from Echolyn's As The World would make a nice slow song. |
Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 07:52
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For the wedding isle Pink Floyd's third part in A Saucerful of secrets (the choir voices).
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Posted By: OT Räihälä
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 07:56
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To look a bit forward, why not Gentle Giant's On Reflection... ------------- http://soundcloud.com/osmotapioraihala/sets" rel="nofollow - Composer - Click to listen to my works! |
Posted By: Grimm
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 09:04
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Don't know about the dancing part of a wedding reception, but during cocktail time, before dinner, And You And I by Yes worked very nicely; even got a nod of approval form my wifes grandmother. ------------- Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be or seem to be self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. |
Posted By: dkearns
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 09:23
Hmm, doesn't seem like very good lyrical subject matter for a wedding mate. :) ------------- “Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.” – Stirling Moss |
Posted By: Ounamahl
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 09:24
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Something really happy, like Firth of Fifth or something from The Yes Album
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 09:28
they'll want something they can get drunk and dance to like "the birdie song". alternatively the beatles always go down very well, or "brown sugar"...!!! -------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 13:01
I agree.. thats more for a funeral I think. But in some people's cases, I guess its almost the same thing... Take Tony R.'s wedding eons ago... I'm sure that song would of been just right..
------------- THIS IS ELP
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Posted By: darren
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 15:07
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As much as prog is a part of my being, I have to agree. I've DJ'd too many times and have been to too many weddings. Arron, if you must play prog, get the bride's aproval for each song first. Remember, it's their day, not yours and not a day to try to convert some friends and family to prog music, as great as that would be to pull off. Have a lot (I mean LOTS) of standard dancing tunes on standby because if what you're playing isn't bringing people on the dancefloor, you'll have to change gears fast. Dancing tunes doesn't have to mean the latest prefab diva's latest, I'm talking "Mony Mony", "La Bamba", "Dancing Queen" and "YMCA"... heck, throw in a polka for fun... but not all the way through unless the dancefloor stays full and do it only once near the end of the night. I know these will hurt to play these three chord songs (I'm cringing just thinking it) but the name of the game is to get as many people to have fun and dance to something they know. Prog can be beautiful, moving music that delivers the soul to another space and time but the sad fact is you got to play a familliar dance tune so that Aunt Ida will be inspired to grab cousin John's hand and boogie. Hate to sound like I'm raining on your parade, I'm just thinking about the bride, groom and a gathering of friends and family waiting for "one we know" while staring at an empty dance floor. (which I've seen too many times)
------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: Greg W
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 19:48
| I have been to many of weddings and I must warn you that you're playing with fire. I would say don't play any(especially if the bride and groom don't like it) , but if you must.. keep em short and VERY few.( 1 or 2, at most) |
Posted By: Rust
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 21:50
Roundabout, a great dance tune.  ------------- We got to pump the stuff to make us tough from the heart Its astart What we need is awareness we cant get careless Mental self defensive fitness Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be |
Posted By: Barla
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 22:35
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I'D SAY GENESIS "YOUR OWN SPECIAL WAY" (MY PARENTS GOT MARRIED WITH THAT ONE |
) OR LED ZEPPELIN "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN"Posted By: Gog/Magog
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 04:01
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I'd say only stick on the prog when you want people to go home
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Posted By: OT Räihälä
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 05:25
Or even better than On Reflection if you think forward: Long Distance Runaround...  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/osmotapioraihala/sets" rel="nofollow - Composer - Click to listen to my works! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 07:44
| I defy anyone to dance to Long Distance Runaround. |