Playlists, Playlists Part 2

My last post gave you a preliminary look at our wedding playlist--from cocktail hour, to dinner, to breaks between band sets, and to our dance party. I combed through the suggestions all of you mentioned and surfed the 'net a little more and definitely came across a few winners. By my drive home from work, I had to turn the radio off, I'd listened to so many songs on YouTube by then.

In case you were wondering which of your suggestions made the cut (or just wanting some inspiration for your own playlist), here are our additions to the music of the night (yes, that's a Phantom of the Opera reference)...

Cocktail Hour

Ocean Breathes Salty - Iron Horse (Modest Mouse bluegrass cover)

Breakdown - Jack Johnson and Handsome Boy Modeling School

Sky - Joshua Radin featuring Ingrid Michaelson

We Are Going to be Friends - White Stripes

Brighter Than Sunshine - Aqualung

Quiet Town - Josh Rouse

5 Years Time - Noah and the Whale

Valerie - Amy Winehouse

You Don't Know Me - Ben Folds featuring Regina Spektor

In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry

Love You Madly - Cake

The Underdog - Spoon

It Ain't Me Babe - Johnny Cash and June Carter

Dinner

If Everything Fell Quiet - The Reindeer Section

Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab for Cutie

Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

Trailer Trash - Iron Horse

Fidelity - Regina Spektor

All I Want Is You - Juno

Be Be Your Love - Rachael Yamagata

Make You Feel My Love - Adele

Love That Girl - Raphael Saadiq

Say - John Mayer

Let It Be Me - Ray Lamontagne

Precious Love - James Morrison

My Baby Just Cares for Me - Nina Simone

Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight

Arms of a Woman - Amos Less

Band Breaks

Think of Me - Rosi Golan

I'd Rather Be With You - Joshua Radin

All Over Again - Johnny Cash

Sweet Pea - Amos Lee

Float On - Iron Horse

Dance Party

Bruises - Chairlift

Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz

Say Hey (I Love You) - Michael Franti and Spearhead

Beggin' - Madcon

Mercy (Remix) - Duffy featuring The Game

Rehab (Remix) - Amy Winehouse featuring Jay-Z

Please Mr. Postman - The Marvalettes

Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder

We're still short in our dinner playlist as well as our dance party. And we want to groove for that last hour of our reception. Give us your suggestions!

Playlists, Playlists

While we've hired a bluegrass band to play for three hours of our reception (more on that soon) and we also have a friend who's going to strum his guitar during our cocktail hour, there are a few interim hours during which we'll need to keep our guests musically entertained. For instance, if our friend gets tired, we'll need a cocktail hour playlist. We need a dinner playlist, a playlist for when the brand takes their 10-minute breaks, and some dance music for post-band antics.

I've also padded either end of our playlists with more music than we need just in case our ceremony is shorter than we think or some other party-foul occurs.

Here's what we've come up with so far:

Cocktail Hour (1.5 hours of music)

Little Red Corvette - Mike Zito (3:53)

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol (4:07)

Resurrection Fern - Iron & Wine (4:50)

Over the Rainbow - Brotha Iz (3:38)

Jackson - Johnny Cash and June Carter (2:46)

Such Great Heights - Postal Service (4:29)

Chocolate - Snow Patrol (3:43)

Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson (3:06)

Call Me Papa - Donavon Frankenreiter (3:45)

Ocean Breathes Salty - Modest Mouse (3:55)

You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder (2:57)

Good to Be In Love - Frou Frou (3:33)

Stickshifts and Safety Belts - Cake (2:08)

Simple Man - Lynard Skynard (5:58)

Strawberry Swing - Coldplay (4:15)

Total Time: 57:03

Dinner (2 hours of music)

At Last - Etta James (2:53)

Come Away With Me - Norah Jones (3:20)

Tamacun - Rodrigo y Gabriela (3:23)

Danke Schoen - Wayne Newton (2:34)

First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes (3:02)

Volare - Gypsy Kings (3:39)

Brown-Eyed Girl - Van Morrison (3:03)

Turn Me On - Norah Jones (2:36)

Georgia on my Mind - Ray Charles (4:41)

Pink Moon - Nick Drake (1:59)

Green Eyes - Coldplay (3:48)

Hearbeats - Jose Gonzalez (2:48)

Homeward Bound - Greensky Bluegrass (5:09)

Something Good This Way Comes - Jakob Dylan (3:37)

Love of My Life - Carlos Santana and Dave Matthews (6:29)

Total: 53:01

Band Breaks (45 minutes of music)

Lucky One - Alison Krauss (3:06)

More Love - Dixie Chicks (5:04)

You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon (4:34)

Send Me On My Way - Rusted Root (4:04)

Wildflower - Kasey Chambers (4:08)

House That Never Was - Kasey Chambers (4:00)

Reverend - Greensky Bluegrass (5:01)

Old Barns - Greensky Bluegrass (4:29)

Fork In The Road - Infamous Stringdusters (3:52)

When You Feel It - Brett Dennen

Total: 38:42

Dance Party (1.5 minutes of music)

You Are The Best Thing - Ray Lamontagne (3:30)

City of Angels - Ozomatli (3:16)

Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield (2:25)

99 Luftballoons - Nena (4:06)

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley (3:03)

Just Like Music - Eric Sermon (4:20)

The Seed (2.0) - The Roots (4:21)

Gold Digger - Kanye West (3:46)

I Want You Back - Jackson 5 (2:55)

Ghetto Superstar - Mya and Ol' Dirty Bastard (4:11)

Can't Help Falling in Love With You - Elvis Presley (1:56)

Maggie May - Rod Stewart (5:47)

Kids - MGMT (4:35)

Poker Face - Lady Gaga (3:52)

Say My Name - Destiny's Child (4:03)

Breath - Blu Cantrell (3:47)

Crazy in Love - Beyonce Knowles (3:55)

I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

Total: 1:03:42

As you can see, I'm short on music in quite a few places. Our cocktail hour is quite the smattering of music right now and could use a little pick-me-up if you ask me. What type of music do you think should be played at a cocktail hour? Song requests?

Dinner feels pretty smooth, but we could use a few more oldies but goodies.

While the band takes breaks, I'd like to keep the music in the bluegrass/country genre just so we don't go from a bluegrass band to Jay-Z. Any suggestions for easy-listening, maybe some dancing country or bluegrass?

Our dance party could also use some stellar tunes. What makes you move?