[wedding stuff] Music Fail

Ever since before the engagement became public, I've been mainlining wedding blogs like nobody's business. I've learned some interesting tips and tricks, and even learned things to back away from slowly. It's been an education. I've found communties to join and other like minded people I can squee with or learn from.

Or in some cases, look at askance.

Now, anyone who's watched a countdown show on Vh1 has seen a musician talking about people who use songs for the first dance at their wedding that are inappropriate. Not strange or quirky (I knew a couple who's wedding song was "Jailhouse Rock", and I thought that was awesome), but couples who dance to Sting's greatest stalker song ("Every Breath You Take" is NOT a love song, people!!) or U2's "With or Without You." (written during a rocky period of Bono's marriage, the lyric is:" I can't live: WITH OR without you." As in, I can't stand you right now. Edge said in an interview that when people who share that this was their first dance at their wedding, they wish them luck).

So, imagine my surprise when Offbeatbride.com, often a beacon of sanity in a very scary bridal world (trust me) posted their list of First-Dance Songs That Haven't Been Done to Death, they included "No Children" by the Mountain Goats.

No, I couldn't believe it either.

For the unfamiliar, "No Children" comes from a concept album called Tallahasse that Mountain Goats leader/frontman/solo force behind created about two characters he calls the Alphas. The Alphas are a disfunctional couple who, after some life problems erupt, decide to buy a house in Tallahasse, Florida and drink themselves to death. The songs are about events that lead up to this, events after they buy the house, and conversations/fights they have in it. "No Children" is one such songs. I've included a link to a neat fanvid of the song, but I feel these lyrics need to be highlighted to be properly appreciated:

I hope that our few remaining friends
Give up on trying to save us
I hope they come up with a failsafe plot
to piss off the dumb few that forgave us

I hope the fences we mended
fall down beneath their own weight
and I hope we go on past the last exit
I hope it's already too late

That's a sweet sentiment, no? Totally what you want your loved ones to hear after you allegedly make a lifelong commitment to one another and are now swaying to the music in front of all assembled, right? Who wouldn't love lyrics like these!

And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here
someday burns down
and I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away,
And I never come back to this town again
In my life
I hope I lie
And tell everyone you were a good wife
And I hope you DIE.
I hope we both die!

Really? Does anyone bother listening to the lyrics? I mean, this really states love and commitment to some people? I guess so.

I have no idea what our first song will be. But it will be better than this!!

[wedding stuff] Music Fail

Ever since before the engagement became public, I've been mainlining wedding blogs like nobody's business. I've learned some interesting tips and tricks, and even learned things to back away from slowly. It's been an education. I've found communties to join and other like minded people I can squee with or learn from.

Or in some cases, look at askance.

Now, anyone who's watched a countdown show on Vh1 has seen a musician talking about people who use songs for the first dance at their wedding that are inappropriate. Not strange or quirky (I knew a couple who's wedding song was "Jailhouse Rock", and I thought that was awesome), but couples who dance to Sting's greatest stalker song ("Every Breath You Take" is NOT a love song, people!!) or U2's "With or Without You." (written during a rocky period of Bono's marriage, the lyric is:" I can't live: WITH OR without you." As in, I can't stand you right now. Edge said in an interview that when people who share that this was their first dance at their wedding, they wish them luck).

So, imagine my surprise when Offbeatbride.com, often a beacon of sanity in a very scary bridal world (trust me) posted their list of First-Dance Songs That Haven't Been Done to Death, they included "No Children" by the Mountain Goats.

No, I couldn't believe it either.

For the unfamiliar, "No Children" comes from a concept album called Tallahasse that Mountain Goats leader/frontman/solo force behind created about two characters he calls the Alphas. The Alphas are a disfunctional couple who, after some life problems erupt, decide to buy a house in Tallahasse, Florida and drink themselves to death. The songs are about events that lead up to this, events after they buy the house, and conversations/fights they have in it. "No Children" is one such songs. I've included a link to a neat fanvid of the song, but I feel these lyrics need to be highlighted to be properly appreciated:

I hope that our few remaining friends
Give up on trying to save us
I hope they come up with a failsafe plot
to piss off the dumb few that forgave us

I hope the fences we mended
fall down beneath their own weight
and I hope we go on past the last exit
I hope it's already too late

That's a sweet sentiment, no? Totally what you want your loved ones to hear after you allegedly make a lifelong commitment to one another and are now swaying to the music in front of all assembled, right? Who wouldn't love lyrics like these!

And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here
someday burns down
and I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away,
And I never come back to this town again
In my life
I hope I lie
And tell everyone you were a good wife
And I hope you DIE.
I hope we both die!

Really? Does anyone bother listening to the lyrics? I mean, this really states love and commitment to some people? I guess so.

I have no idea what our first song will be. But it will be better than this!!