wedding dance floor fillers

bobblehat

Have been asked to play 30-40 mins at my brothers wedding in November and I'm looking for some song recommendations.

Need to make a bit of an effort with this one and not just roll out our usual set of  rock and indy covers.

If you got any guaranteed dance floor fillers please let me know.

We are a three piece (guitar,bass and drums) .

Any help much appreciated.

not_the_dj

Sex on Fire, Mustang Sally, 500 Miles, Summer of '69 and all that stuff everyone on here in a covers band loves to play ;-)

bobblehat

not_the_dj said:

Sex on Fire, Mustang Sally, 500 Miles, Summer of '69 and all that stuff everyone on here in a covers band loves to play ;-)

Its a sad state of affairs when the only song on that list that I don't hate is Summer of '69!

not_the_dj

They're the biggest dance floor fillers in our "party set". I actually love playing them all, it's not about playing "cool" stuff, it's about getting people up and dancing, and they all work.

Town Called Mallice goes down great as well, and Monkey Man (Specials not Stones) is great round here (near Coventry so it's the water)

mudslide73

We did a 50th a few weeks ago - I asked the DJ (40+ year career) what his best floor filler ever was. I went behind the decks later and he said "watch this"... he played "Young hearts run free" by Candi Staton and 80% of the punters came to dance. Like a magic wand for women it was. 

EricTheWeary

I went to a wedding recently but I have tried to erase the music from my memory. Oh yes, Brown Eyed Girl, Fill Me Up Buttercup ( have I got that right?)  - not a song I would choose all night. TBH we didn't have any music at my wedding and it was better that way! But if we did then anything by Seth Lakeman for MrsTheWeary and SIlver Machine five times in a row for me.

I'm no help am I ... 
:o3

stickyfiddle

EricTheWeary said:

I went to a wedding recently but I have tried to erase the music from my memory. Oh yes, Brown Eyed Girl, Fill Me Up Buttercup ( have I got that right?)  - not a song I would choose all night. TBH we didn't have any music at my wedding and it was better that way! But if we did then anything by Seth Lakeman for MrsTheWeary and SIlver Machine five times in a row for me.

I'm no help am I ... 
:o3

I think it's "Build" but either way it's the worst song in the entire world. The only thing I'd ever veto for personal taste reasons.

I am another who highly enjoys all the obvious ones (don't forget Mr Brightside...!) The point when you play the first "big" song in the set is brilliant - I've never seen a room you can't turn around with Chelsea Dagger, provided drinks are flowing at least!!

bobblehat

EricTheWeary said:

I'm no help am I ... 
:o3

No 

bobblehat

Chelsea Dagger has been on my to do list for a while.

chrisj1602

Jet - Are you gonna be my girl?

EricTheWeary

stickyfiddle said:

EricTheWeary said:

I went to a wedding recently but I have tried to erase the music from my memory. Oh yes, Brown Eyed Girl, Fill Me Up Buttercup ( have I got that right?)  - not a song I would choose all night. TBH we didn't have any music at my wedding and it was better that way! But if we did then anything by Seth Lakeman for MrsTheWeary and SIlver Machine five times in a row for me.

I'm no help am I ... 
:o3

I think it's "Build" but either way it's the worst song in the entire world. The only thing I'd ever veto for personal taste reasons.

I am another who highly enjoys all the obvious ones (don't forget Mr Brightside...!) The point when you play the first "big" song in the set is brilliant - I've never seen a room you can't turn around with Chelsea Dagger, provided drinks are flowing at least!!

ahh, Build, that's right. Makes more sense. It was the one song almost every one got up for though ( including me...the shame...). My youngest son's class went to a recording studio and I have a cd somewhere with that song sung by 9 year olds on it.

ESBlonde

Long train running,
Superstition

All the corny stuff, you're not there to get your rocks off you're there for them!
It's just another gig to you but the Brides special day her dad has spent his savings on.

Danny1969

Here's some are tried and tested dancey \ good wedding \ corporate material, as in played em for years and always go down well

Superstition - Stevie

Long Train Running - Doobies

Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis

Mr Brightside - Killers

Parklife - Blur

Love Shack - B52's

Sex on Fire -KOL

Love Man - Otis Reading

Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry

Saw her standing there - Beatles

Moves like Jagger  - Maroon 5

Locked out of Heaven - Bruno Mars

Do you think I'm sexy - Rod Stewart

Dekota - Stereophonics

No Diggity - Backstreet

Kiss - Tom Jones - Art of Noise

Place your hands  -  Reef

Jump  - Van Halen

spacecadet

Here's my shortlist for ya.

Get Lucky - Daft Punk
Shackles - Mary Mary
Happy - Pharrell Williams
Treasure - Bruno Mars
Runaway Baby - Bruno Mars
Play That Funky Music - Whoever did that one!

All of em really easy and only 3 or 4 chords each.

Danny1969

Forget you - Ceelo Green, that's a good un 

EdGrip

Nobody's mentioned "I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor"? Fair enough.

+1 for Parklife; that even gets ME dancing. 

Seems to me that if I were doing this, I would find out what scene and musical generation the bride and groom hail from... maybe even find out favourite bands on the sly... just so I could have one or two knockout tracks for them that aren't the usual suspects that I could bring out like BOOM! Didn't see that coming!

bobblehat

EdGrip said:

Seems to me that if I were doing this, I would find out what scene and musical generation the bride and groom hail from... maybe even find out favourite bands on the sly... just so I could have one or two knockout tracks for them that aren't the usual suspects that I could bring out like BOOM! Didn't see that coming!

The Grooms my Brother and our bass player , although not on this occasion! Will be getting some info on my future sister in-law to see what she likes. 

Some great selections , just need to see which ones we can play after a few pints!

dilbert

Well, I'm mighty surprised there are no votes for "Smack my bitch up" by the Prodigy. :-\"

equalsql

The Mavericks - Dance The Night Away  always used to go down well
Simply the best - Tina Tuner.
The Time Of Life - from Dirty Dancing.

I used to play a lot of big-money weddings and these in particular always used to go down well... although I hated playing them.

Fusionista

ESBlonde said:

Long train running,
Superstition

All the corny stuff, you're not there to get your rocks off you're there for them!
It's just another gig to you but the Brides special day her dad has spent his savings on.

I'm with Eric, wedding bands (and gigs) are a total turn off.  The taste of the general public has ever been a conundrum for me.  Sometimes wonder why mine is so different, but "It's a Mystewy"

The good news is my wife is paying for my daughter's wedding...

EricTheWeary

Fusionista said:

ESBlonde said:

Long train running,
Superstition

All the corny stuff, you're not there to get your rocks off you're there for them!
It's just another gig to you but the Brides special day her dad has spent his savings on.

I'm with Eric, wedding bands (and gigs) are a total turn off.  The taste of the general public has ever been a conundrum for me.  Sometimes wonder why mine is so different, but "It's a Mystewy"

I wouldn't consider myself a musical snob at all and I have no objection to a bit of trashy pop but its the relentlesness of it.