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Really?? No one!? Is everyone dancing to At Last by Etta James? ;)
Our first dance was "By and By" by Brett Dennen and we cut the cake to "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
I would have loved to include more indie music, but our families wouldn't have "gotten" it :)
New songs I'm obsessed with: We Are Young by Fun and Sweet Darlin' by She & Him
Here's a few from our list so far:
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love (I think we're walking out to this one)
Love you till the End - The Pogues
Go Do - Jonsi
Human - The Killers
All the Small Things - Blink182
Electric Feel - MGMT
Midnight City - M83
Cant Hardly Wait - The Replacements
Going Out in Style - Dropkick Murphys
If I weren't so out of it right now I could be better help. All I have in my head right now is "Plastic Stars" from Freezepop. Not really indie, but it's certainly different. I always figured I'd have it at my wedding. Also "Question" from the Old 97's is super sweet. The Avett Brothers have some good songs, too.
When I wake up a little I could probably think clearer and throw out some more suggestions.
Not sure if you consider KT Tunstall indie or not, but I love her music. She has this song "The universe and you" which I find beautiful.
Go give them a listen and let me know what you think!!
I'll keep thinking of more! Do you want upbeat happy ones, or things you can dance to?
Sincerely, Severly by Morningbell
Dog Days Are Over by Florence and the Machine
A Girl Like You by Pete Yorn
We really wanted to play this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o&ob=av3e
.... but my mom said NO. :)
HAHAHA we almost played that too! It would have been worth it to see the look on my MIL's face.
Our prelude - In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel
Processional = Nothing Else Matter as performed by Apocalyptica
Recessional = Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
@shambley: Was thinking more like slower ones, actually. I love My Morning Jacket!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OctDVly5SCc and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_XdNn5a9dY are two of my favorites
Can't help falling in love-Ingrid Michaelson
Raindrops-Regina Spektor
The Girl-Color in City
First day of my Life-Bright Eyes
Do you Realize-The Flaming Lips
The Sore Feet Song - Ally Kerr
Home-Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros
We're using these during the time the guests wait for the ceremony to start:
Toothpaste Kisses -- The Maccabees
We all Know -- Devendra Benhart
Our Way to Fall -- Yo La Tengo
Built for This -- Ben Sollee
Love and Some Verse -- Iron and Wine
Some songs we have during the reception:
Your Happiness -- The Compulsive Gamblers
Wreck My Car -- Scott H. Biram
Sophisticated Honky -- Orgone
Here Comes the Sun Again -- M. Ward
We made a decided effort to tone down our "indieness" during the reception, and to use a wide variety of music. We were able to do this without resorting to anything underwhelming or overplayed. (Our goal is to get a diverse group of people of different ages, tastes and backgrounds to dance, and much of the music we really love would have had most people shuffling around uncomfortably...)
Good Luck!
We're definitely using Home by edward sharp probably some muse (starlight) and pull out some oldies like the postal service
Here are some we've decided on:
Cocktail hour/dinner:
Dark Dark Dark--Daydreaming
Beach Fossils--Youth
Arcade Fire--Neighborhood #1
Air--Playground Love
The National--So far around the bend
Wild Nothing--My angel lonely
Wild Nothing--Gemini
Micah P. Hinson's cover of Yard of Blonde Girls
Regina Spektor--Us
Cat Power's cover of Sea of Love
Bon Iver--Blood Bank, Flume, Holocene
Rogue Wave's cover of Everyday
Rostam Batmanglij--Wood
Real Estate--It's real
The Cure--Lovesong, Just like Heaven
The XX--Islands, Heart skipped a beat
M83--We own the sky
Beach House--Master of None, Lover of Mine, 10 Mile Stereo
Reception:
Justice--D.A.N.C.E.
MGMT--Kids, Electric Feel
Passion Pit--The Reeling
Cut Copy--Lights and Music, Hearts on Fire
Fools Fold--Wild Window
All of our prelude/processional songs were by Vitamin String Quartet. My bridal party walked down to the VSQ's version of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven". My processional music was VSQ's version of Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". (My mom was a huge Queen fan and she died in 2005, so that was in her memory.) Our first dance was to "I Will Hold On" by Moxy Fruvous.
I didn't read through everything but how about some Teagan and Sara?
It's not indie alternative, but as a surprise I'm going to walk down the aisle to SOs favorite Phish song
It's a really great modern touch to use rock tunes for ceremony music, whether it be the recording or an alternate arrangement with live musicians. I recently sang at a wedding - 'Everlasting Light' by the Black Keys for the processional (done in an acoustic guitar arrangement), and 'You And I' by Ingrid Michaelson for the recessional. It was a ton of fun, and lyrically, they were absolutely the perfect choice for the bridal couple.
Our first dance song is going to be "If I ever leave this world alive" by Flogging Molly... Haven't put the playlist together for the ceremony yet... It will probably be a mix of contemperary stuff and traditional stuff though..
My bridal party walked down aisle to Clem Snide's Find Love
I walked to Iron & Wine cover of Such Great Heights
Processional was Home by Edward Sharpe....
Some other songs we played:
Hysteric (acoustic)- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Ben Kweller cover of God only Knows
Cat Power - I Found a Reason
I have a ton more but can't remember them off the top of my head.
Processional:
We're having "Concerning Hobbits" play during seating.
FI has to pick his yet
My ladies are walking down to Adele-Crazy For You
I'm walking down to this version of Storybook Love from The Princess Bride http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4njxT5idas&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL42C5B617B0DB122E
During the jar sealing part of the ceremony we will be playing either Red Hot Chili Peppers- Hard to Concentrate or Incubus- Stellar (acoustic). I am a RHCP fanatic and the jive on HtC is so awesome, soooo probably that one :)
We have a few walk out choices atm: Queen-Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Cake- Love You Madly
Our first dance is going to be Travis Tritt- Love of a Woman but we're also thinking of taking some lessons to learn an easy foxtrot or swing to Brian Setzer's- My Baby Only Cares For Me.
And our reception music is all over the place lol!
Yay! Indie/Alternative!
Here's what my dream would be:
Processional-Sigur Ros song... haven't picked one yet. But I'm thinking "Starálfur" since it's played in one of my favorite movies ("Life Aquatic")
Song sung during ceremony- "Book of Love" Magnetic Fields or Peter Gabriel
Recessional- "Do You Realize" Flaming Lips (probably doing string version since it is about death and all...)
Introduction of bridal party- "Daylight" Matt and Kim
First Dance- "Real Love" Regina Spektor cover of John Lennon
Father/Daughter Dance- "Run to Me" Matthew Sweet cover
Last song- "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" (We're going to sing this to guests) Bob Dylan
@Bride2BeeVA28: Aah! Somebody besides me is using The xx! I'm using it as my recessional, actually, because it's the closest thing there is to an "our song," and it's just so great. (We've seen them live several times, big fans here, LOL.)
Our entire wedding is filled with indie, goofy top 40, hip-hop, and 80s music. I'm walking to "Tighten Up" by the Black Keys and playing "I Know I Know I Know" by Tegan and Sara on acoustic guitar at the reception. There will be lots of Matt & Kim, Naked & Famous, MGMT, Ghostland Observatory, etc. on our dance playlist! I'm considering using "The Geeks Were Right" by The Faint as our entrance song, but who knows. Love some of the choices here!
We used Hold You in My Arms as our first dance!
We also considered:
First Day of My Life- Bright Eyes
No One's Gonna Love You- Band of Horses
By The Way That They Dance- Jump Little Children
Sweet Disposition- Temper Trap
Such Great Heights (we like the Iron and Wine version)
And... I can;t remember any of the others. It was too long ago. lol
We used a lot of VSQ for our ceremony. Everyone else walked to Waltz No 2 by Elliott Smith and I did Imagine by John Lennon.
I know I got a lot of ideas from the Indie Bride forums. I'd check that out. http://www.indiebride.com/kvetch/
We're having:
Processional - First day of my life - by Bright Eyes (but played acoustic by a close friend) we almost picked Real Love - the Regina Spektor cover
Recessional - Prizefighter - by Eels (but played acoustic by another friend)
First Dance - Beginner's Luck - by Eels
Need to sort out the rest of the playlist at some point!!
Yay for Indie music!
I'm also trying to keep my requests for indie music under control. It's going to be hard though! :)
Songs I love:
Matt Costa - Sunshine
Iron & Wine - Love and Some Verses
Alexi Murdoch - All My Days
Jon Troast - The Most (seriously cute song, if you've never heard it, check it out!)
Matt Nathanson - Come On Get Higher
I am so in love with the Iron & Wine version of Such Great Heights I can barely stand it. I would totally use this for our first dance song - we don't really have a song that's "our song", but if we did it would be this one. I just think it's too slow and too long for me in that setting.
We haven't figured out the song order yet, but here's some of our playlist:
Peter Gabriel - Book of Love (First Song)
City and Colour – The Girl
Talking Heads – Road to Nowhere
Ray LaMontagne – Can I stay
Ray LaMontagne – I Still Care for You
Of Monsters & Men – Little Talks
Bon Iver – For Emma
Iron & Wine – Resurrection Fern
ELO – Jungle
Neil Young – Heart of Gold
Neil Young – Harvest Moon
Joshua Radin – Only You
Band of Horses – Part One
Band of Horses – I Go to the Barn Because I Like the
Mazzy Star – Fade into You
Coldplay – Fix You
Beatles – In my Life
Zebra – Beach House
GreatLakeSwimmers– Rocky Spine
Old 97’s – Question
Blind Pilot – One Red Thread
Blind Pilot – 3 Rounds & a Sound
Michael & Jeff Danna – The Winner Is
Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream
David Gray – Sail Away
David Gray – This Years Love
Avett Brothers – At the Beach
Angus & Julia Stone – Just a Day
Fleetwood Mac – Songbird
Fleetwood Mac – Never Going Back Again
Band of Horses – No one’s Gonna Love you
Dawes – When My Time Comes
Simon & Garfunkle – The Only Living Boy inNew York
Temper Trap – Love Lost
She & Him – I was made for you
Flaming Lips – Do you realize?
The Smiths – Please, Please, Please Let me Get What I Want
Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
The Weepies – Gotta Have You
Jose Gonzales – Heartbeats
Florence& the Machine – Cosmic Love
Jonsi – Go Do
Hope this helps!
three possibilities for us:
Green Eyes: Coldplay
Love Song - The Cure covered by Adele
Ingrid Michaelson - Can't Help Falling in Love (cover)
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Title pretty much says it all! I'm looking for more suggestions on alt/indie songs that are approrpriate for a wedding. For example, I'm walking down the aisle to Radiohead's Paranoid Android (covered by our string quartet) and our first dance is probably either Ray LaMontagne's Hold You in My Arms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSLQMNFdEf0) or Band of Horse's No One's Gonna Love You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBiuQlW9tR4).
But I'm looking for MORE! I like Indie over Alternative, but I'd love to hear your suggestions! I wouldn't consider myself an offbeat bride but I definitely don't want to hear any Michael Bolton unless it's played ironically. Because I'm hipster like that. Not really, but you catch my drift.
So, any help? Did you play Indie music? Thanks :)