DAY 13 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

Hard to top yesterday’s, but then you and your partner done get hitched!!! What alternative song MUST be played at the wedding???

Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

  • ren (a they/them)OPM
    4•10 months ago

    This one is pretty easy for me.

    When we got married, I DJ’d our own wedding with a series of playlists for each part of the night. Then we gave out a mixtape that represented tracks from the night.

    From there, every year on our anniversary, we make another playlist. We’ve been married 15 years, so that’s 16 mixtapes of music. The whole thing is right here, all 16 - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sXokGoRzMdrT7CykXmfx2?si=f8c05f8ea7004f3d

    If I had to pick 1 song, it would be the lead off song, Decemberists “The Crane Wife 1 & 2”. https://songwhip.com/the-decemberists/the-crane-wife-1-and-2

    The Crane Wife story and then album were part of our relationship while we were dating, then the night the Decemberists came to town touring the Crane Wife, that was the night I proposed, then we went to go see them. We still have the concert posters from that night up in our bedroom.

    So yeah.

    • @CmndrShrm
      2•10 months ago

      That’s pretty awesome. I like that you’ve kept the tradition up for your anniversaries too.

      I am a music obsessive. But to be honest my choices might make my wife’s ears bleed. At least she is cool with me blaring music through the house every chance I get.

      • ren (a they/them)OPM
        2•10 months ago

        haha! We each definitely have music that’s not each other’s fave (you’ll notice Yes has yet to show up on the playlist lol). But we love music and love listening to music together at home and in the car, so when songs connect with us we jot it down! We also have fun with themes some years. Like for our 15th anni, we did 15 songs that had a number in them that went in order one to fifteen! It’s fun to build the playlists together and share with family and friends. <3

    • ren (a they/them)OPM
      2•10 months ago

      oh lord, if I start finding more Yes fans in here, I may really start neglecting other social networks lol

    • ren (a they/them)OPM
      1•10 months ago

      nice! our first dance was “Sugar In My Bowl” by Nina Simone. It’s a sweet song that’s also subversively sexual.

      • krzschlss
        1•10 months ago

        Yea, but that’s one of the best songs in genre, I posted one of the worst… Coincidentally the opener on this Bloodhound Gang album is called ‘I hope you die’ (as is the verse in the Goats song) and is a fun (still shitty) song on a otherwise unfun(ny) crap album.

          • krzschlss
            1•10 months ago

            Oh man… my english becomes quite bad when I’m high. What I tried to say is: In the “No Children” song by ‘The Mountain Goats’ there is a verse that goes: “I hope you die”. On the ‘Bloodhoung Gang’ album the opener is called “I hope you die”.

            That’s all the connection there is… hopefully, since I like the Mountain Goats.

      • krzschlss
        2•10 months ago

        oh, I have those (most of the time)… it’s just the ceremony that I don’t want to go through…

        • ren (a they/them)OPM
          2•10 months ago

          we kept ours very low key, small group, a little underground winery place.

          a friend of ours is just doing a courthouse wedding, then throwing a party at their house a couple weeks later.