Wedding Playlists 10: The Love & Rock mix

And here we are, at the final post about wed­ding music. 10 of 10. This is the end of the line, though I will def­i­nitely be post­ing indi­vid­ual Song of the Day blog entries about many of the songs fea­tured in these playlists in the near future. This is part 2 of the Rock Music mix I gave all of our male guests at the wed­ding, and is the mix that com­bines love lyrics by some of the great­est poets of rock with slam­ming melodies and instru­men­tal­iza­tion. Yes I made that word up. This playlist deserves a new word because it really rocks hard!

1. “Fools in Love” by Joe Jack­son (4:23) — A very early hit (1979) from this her­alded and still active British new wave and pop star. You may think this song doesn’t belong on a love mix, but wait until the last line of lyrics.

2. “Let My Love Open The Door” by Pete Townsend (2:47) — A 1980 Top 10 hit on the Bill­board Chart, and a track we fre­quently turn to (in 2005 we find it dur­ing the Kairos we attend together, and in 2008 it becomes an anthem dur­ing our Cal­i­for­nia roadtrip).

3. “Jun­gle Drum” by Emil­iana Tor­rini (2:14) — One of our new favorites, and a road­trip essen­tial dur­ing our 2010 wed­ding shower season.

4. “My Door­bell” by The White Stripes (3:58) — One of Todd’s favorite bands is inci­den­tally a band from Detroit! And we almost saw them live at Austin City Lim­its, but that was the year Meg White sud­denly refused to travel and con­se­quently broke our hearts.

5. “Magic Man” by Heart (5:28) — Favorite song’ of ours since our early years (2004). The song has last­ing power, and still fre­quently recieves air­time on the Stoltman-Swatling roadtrips.

6. “Radar Love” by Golden Ear­ring (6:30) — How could you be on the road and think­ing about love (as this mix assumes you are doing right now) and not have this 1973 clas­sic rock mas­ter­work?! Its a love anthem!

7. “Glyc­er­ine” by Bush (4:27) — A favorite track from the first mix CD Todd ever gave Joan (circa sum­mer 2004).

8. “I Think I See The Light” by Cat Stevens (3:56) — This song plays sound­track to one of the fun­ni­est moments (in our opin­ion!) dur­ing the cult clas­sic (and one of our favorite films) Harold and Maude.

9. “Turn To Stone” by E.L.O. (Elec­tric Light Orches­tra) (3:50) — One of Joan’s favorite bands, she began singing this song to Todd dur­ing their first sum­mer apart, sum­mer 2004. “When you are gone, I turn to stone.

10. “Lions” by The Fea­tures (3:37) — This band should be more famous than they are. This was orig­i­nally a self-released song from an entirely unpub­li­cized, self-released album, though since open­ing for the U.S. Kings of Leon tour, they did finally get a label. Joan dis­cov­ered it watch­ing NBC’s Mercy.

11. “You’re My Best Friend” by Queen (2:52) — Off the band’s 1976 Album A Night At The Opera (home to Bohemian Rhap­sody), this is one of our favorite Queen songs. And that’s say­ing some­thing because we may just be our generation’s biggest Queen fans to date. We’ own their music video DVDs, we’ve seen them live in con­cert with Paul Rodgers, and we dare any­one our age to know the lyrics to as many Queen songs as we do. We are mega-fans.

12. “Mod­ern Love” by David Bowie (3:59) — Another one of our favorite artists, though Joan is enam­ored with Bowie more thor­oughly than Todd.

13. “Fol­low You Down” by The Gin Blos­soms (4:30) — We lived through the 1990s dur­ing a crit­i­cal part of our devel­op­ment : mid­dle school.

14. “Feel Like Mak­ing Love” by Bad Com­pany (5:13) — Bad Com­pany is def­i­nitely one of our top 10 bands, and this 1975 song is a gem.

15. “Long Train Run­ning” by Doo­bie Broth­ers (3:39) — With­out love, where would you be right now?

16. “My Girl” by Weezer (3:05) — Todd’s favorite band! When Joan met Todd, he wore weezer tee-shirts and a blue weezer hat daily. Though he now dresses like a grown-up in polos and khakis, Weezer still holds a place in his heart.

17. “Can’t Get Enough by Bad Com­pany (4:17) — It’ is hard to imag­ine a  debut album con­tain­ing a track with such total rock force and stay­ing power, but their debut album was also the 46th best­selling album of the entire 1970s! Kind of amazing…

18. “Only The Begin­ning” by Chicago (7:56) — Joan was raised on Chicago, and this song’s lyrics are prac­ti­cally writ­ten for nup­tial celebration!

19. “Squeeze Box” by The Who (2:46) — We like the play­ful­ness of The Who (A Quick One, While He’s Away) and this track about an accor­dian is one of their most fun. If I had one, I would play it all night too!