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Fraser McAlpine | 17:46 UK time, Thursday, 1 May 2008

Lord Kitchener - Your ChartBlog Needs YouTime for another wallow around the backwaters of your music collections, people, and this time we're going for a specific song to suit a very specific occasion.

I want you to imagine you're directing a film in which you've got a handsome hero-type man, and a beautiful lady and they've been through all sorts of crazy capers (these can either be funny capers or terrifically exciting and dramatic ones), only to come out the other side unscathed and very much in love.

The next scene in the film is the wedding scene, you know the kind of thing - white dress, dad, a slow walk up an aisle of some sort... It's a scene which has been played out in films many, many times, and frankly, by now, that 'Here Comes The Bride' thing is getting more than a little bit tired (for use within films, that is. In real weddings it's still lovely.).

So, what we need to do is come up with a super-romantic, super-swoony, super-epic sort of a song which will have young women up and down the country nudging their boyfriends and going "I'm SO having that when we get married", while the blushing boys act all hard, like it wouldn't matter to them either way, and rub their eyes and mutter about the amount of dust in the cinema.

Here's mine, and I make no apologies for putting up the We Are Scientists cover rather than the Sigur Ros original (thanks to killaexzbit for making the mashup video).

Either one will do!

We Are Scientists - 'Hoppipolla'

Over to you, playlisters!

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Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    Perhaps not traditionally romantic but I love it so..

    My Juvenile
    Bjork
    Volta

  • Comment number 2.

    That 'Hoppipolla' song is lovely - as is Simply Red's 'For Your Babies,' so that can also go on the playlist, I think.

  • Comment number 3.

    Not perhaps 'epic' but very romantic;
    Divine Idylle
    Vanessa Paradis
    Divine Idylle



    Horribly rough translation of the lyrics by me:
    In hopeless longing,
    on two fragile wings,
    I found you
    divine idyll*
    the love that began
    on an ethereal breath
    my madness, my desire, my obsession, my divine idyll

    I stole you a quill
    to write out a poem,
    by the light of the moon**
    my ideal companion
    My ideal man
    like a fatal wound
    my madness, my desire, my obsession, my divine idyll

    My heart rides upon the waves
    and madness stalks my dreams
    my heart's on fire,
    sparks igniting me from your eyes
    my madness, my desire, my obsession, my divine idyll

    My French isn't what it used to be.

    *I don't really know how to translate this word, I assume she means like 'idyllic' rather than 'ideal' so that's the way I've done it.
    **The original lyric is 'au clair de la lune' which I assume is a play on the nursery rhyme

  • Comment number 4.

    Westlife- "Flying without Wings"
    This is a little obvious, but come on...I think I'll play it at my wedding. There's a bunch of WL songs you could choose, "My Love" or a slightly lesser known one "Written in the Stars"

    Busted-"Crashed the Wedding"!!!!!
    This song is only allowed if the bride and the groom have a sense of humor.

    Diamond Rio- "That's How Your Love Makes Me Feel"
    This is country, so I know people won't like it, but it's really cute and bouncy and talks about ice cream.

    Looking at these, they're not so normal...less of the slow dance songs than the ones you play after that!

  • Comment number 5.

    well the one i reli want for my dance is Shania Twain - From This Moment.
    But i think a good movie one would be Faith Hill-There You'll Be, and it was used in Pearl Harbor lol

  • Comment number 6.

    Although I have spent most of my movie going career avoiding such films (give me Takeshi Miike anyday!) may I suggest 'The One' (I think that's the title) by Elton John.

    Or perhaps 'Bedshaped' (the Vittorio Grigolo version preferably!) or 'Groovey Kind Of Love' by Phil Collins.

    Personally, if I was to ever get married (providing that I can actually find someone daft enough to actually take me on!) I want 'Wonderboy' by Tenacious D for my wedding march! ;-)

  • Comment number 7.

    I prefer the Sigur Ros one, sorry - that version takes away all the epicness (if thats a word) from the song. go and stand in the middle of nowhere in iceland... you'll see which works best!

    before i was cruelly heartbroken - I wanted 'gravity' by embrace played at my wedding, either that or i wanted to walk into the room to diana ross' 'im coming out' - dont think i was entirely serious about that one..

    i would def (altho its unlikey that i'd get married) want something that is not 'expected'. I like the song 'everything under the sun' by a band called common rotation, but i'd be in two minds to use it as no one would know it bar about 1 person i know.

    Actually, altho no one really seemed to like Melanie C's second album, I always loved the title track 'Reason' - simple piano track that was honest and beautful.

    can we have a topic on funeral music too :P i've got loads for that!

  • Comment number 8.

    I always come off as a 'serious' music fan on these.

    Radiohead - 'True Love Waits'

    Or mebbe 'Such Great Heights' by The Postal Service.

    'Mon participation and swoony music.

  • Comment number 9.

    I am married. I am a Scotsman who married an English lady and she walked down the aisle to "English Rose" by The Jam.

    Made perfect sense to us as I used to be in the Army and she sent me this song while I was away on tour.

    The lyrics were just perfect for us.

  • Comment number 10.

    Mine and my partners first dance is going to be
    Leona Lewis
    A moment like this
    This is our song and we had our first dance to it on our first newyear together

  • Comment number 11.

    well i like a good melody and even tho marriage is a far thought from my mind but i would like to play Eva cassidys feilds of gold.

  • Comment number 12.

    We had two wedding songs...At Last - Etta James and The Best is Yet to Come - Frank Sinatra.

    Both were perfectly fitting for a fantastic day and would be great in a movie.

  • Comment number 13.

    Me and my Husband had our first dance to westlife's unbreakable, the words are sooooo perfect for any couple,




  • Comment number 14.

    My wedding song would be:

    Stay with You- John Legend
    God Only Knows- Beach Boys

    but most probably

    Such Great Heights- but by Iron and Wine not Postal Service....if you havent heard it its worth a listen.

  • Comment number 15.

    It would definately be always by blink.
    The song talks about a couple in love but it also talks about their arguements and adventures.

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