Day #14 of the 30 Day Music Meme
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shadowkatDay #14 of the 30 Day Music Meme is "A Song You'd Like to Be Played a Your Wedding."
This is my favorite by far and if I ever had a wedding song...which is highly unlikely, since I'm not really a fan of weddings.
And, I can't resist posting Billy Idol's irreverent and subversive punk rock hit White Wedding. Note, some may find this offensive - which is why I am posting a link to it and not the actual video to my page. (It takes a lot to offend me.)
This a post punk new wave hit. Very subversive and probably offensive. But I love it. I had a friend in college who adored Billy Idol and introduced me to his songs. She love post punk, punk and new wave.
More information Billy Idol's White Wedding on Wiki.
The music video, featuring Idol attending a goth wedding, is one of his best-known. The bride is played by Perri Lister, Idol's real-life girlfriend at the time. She is also one of the three dancers clad in black leather, who slap their buttocks in time with the clap track in the song as they shimmy downwards near the end. "That's the kind of thing they love in England", says Idol.[3]
In one scene, Idol forces a wedding ring made of barbed wire onto Lister's finger and cuts her knuckle. Lister insisted that her knuckle actually be cut in order for the scene to appear more realistic.[3] MTV initially removed this scene from the video.[4] Also controversial were the apparent Nazi salutes made by the crowd toward the couple. Director David Mallet says he was merely "playing with the power of crowd imagery" when he had the extras reach toward the bride and did not realize how it looked until after it was filmed.[3]
This is my favorite by far and if I ever had a wedding song...which is highly unlikely, since I'm not really a fan of weddings.
And, I can't resist posting Billy Idol's irreverent and subversive punk rock hit White Wedding. Note, some may find this offensive - which is why I am posting a link to it and not the actual video to my page. (It takes a lot to offend me.)
This a post punk new wave hit. Very subversive and probably offensive. But I love it. I had a friend in college who adored Billy Idol and introduced me to his songs. She love post punk, punk and new wave.
More information Billy Idol's White Wedding on Wiki.
The music video, featuring Idol attending a goth wedding, is one of his best-known. The bride is played by Perri Lister, Idol's real-life girlfriend at the time. She is also one of the three dancers clad in black leather, who slap their buttocks in time with the clap track in the song as they shimmy downwards near the end. "That's the kind of thing they love in England", says Idol.[3]
In one scene, Idol forces a wedding ring made of barbed wire onto Lister's finger and cuts her knuckle. Lister insisted that her knuckle actually be cut in order for the scene to appear more realistic.[3] MTV initially removed this scene from the video.[4] Also controversial were the apparent Nazi salutes made by the crowd toward the couple. Director David Mallet says he was merely "playing with the power of crowd imagery" when he had the extras reach toward the bride and did not realize how it looked until after it was filmed.[3]
God Only Knows
Date: 2020-08-17 10:29 pm (UTC)Maybe that was for the best. If we'd tried to do a BIG wedding, I might have fired the DJ halfway through and taken over the music myself. This song would have been at or near the top of my list:
https://youtu.be/AOMyS78o5YI
Re: God Only Knows
Date: 2020-08-17 10:48 pm (UTC)Agreed the songs at weddings tend to be atrocious. What I liked about my brothers is his got rid of all of the hoopla. It was just about them. And the gifts went to the kid.
I decided upon re-reading my post that it might offend a few folks so edited it out. Just because I'm not a fan of the whole wedding thing, doesn't mean others aren't.
It is admittedly hard to beat Billy Idol's White Wedding for subversive songs. I'd have that one play. You can dance to that song.
And wendahl is right - you're fast. I was still editing it when you posted. Thought I had time.
The Worst that Could Happen
Date: 2020-08-17 11:15 pm (UTC)https://youtu.be/1Wn04VG_D3g
A tune designed to piss off the entire wedding party.....
Re: The Worst that Could Happen
Date: 2020-08-18 02:25 am (UTC)Re: God Only Knows
Date: 2020-08-18 12:07 am (UTC)