May 13, 2009

My best friend’s wedding

My best friend is getting married next month.  I am the maid of honor, which means among other duties, planning a trip out to Colorado for one last hurrah for Melissa.  She has also asked Scott and I to put together a list of music to be played between the ceremony and reception.  Here is what we came up with:

1. Badly Drawn Boy: The Shining

2. Blitzen Trapper: Furr

3. American Analog Set: Come Home Baby Julie, Come Home

4. Alexi Murdoch: Orange Sky

5. Billy Bragg/Wilco: California Stars

6. Bon Iver: Blood Bank

7. Bright Eyes: Lua

8. Califone: Bottles and Bones

9. Cloud Cult: Transistor Radio

10. Damien Rice: Delicate

11. Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism

12. Fleet Foxes: Mykonos

13. Glen Hansaard/Marketa Irglova: Falling Slowly

14. Kid Dakota: Ten Thousand Lakes

15. Lali Puna: Faking the Books

16. M. Ward: Post-War

17. Radiohead: Fake Plastic Trees

18. Jeff Hanson: This Time It Will

19. Jolie Holland: Mexico City

20. Mojave 3: Starlight No. 1

21. Shins: New Slang

22. Sia: Breathe Me

23. Stars: Ageless Beauty

24. Yo La Tengo: Autumn Sweater

25. Zero 7: In the Waiting Line

26. Mason Jennings: The Light (Part 2)

27. Iron and Wine: Nakes as We Came

28. Nick Drake: Pink Moon

29. Nada Surf: Blonde on Blonde

30. Modest Mouse: Little Motel

31. Wilco: Jesus, Etc.

32. Bob Dylan: Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright

33. Elliot Smith: Angeles

34. Air: La Femme D’Argent

35. Album Leaf: Over the Pond 

36. Andrew Bird: Armcharis

37. Beirut: Postcards from Italy

38. Azure Ray: Rise

39. Explosions in the Sky: Your Hand in Mine

40. Calexico/Iron and Wine: 16, Maybe Less

41. Cinematic Orchestra: To Build a Home

42. Feist: The Park

43. Jose Gonzalez: Heartbeats

44. The National: About Today

45. Neutral Milk Hotel: In an Aeroplane over the Sea

46. Rocky Votolato: White Daisy Passing

47. Loney, Dear: Sinister in a Shade of Hope

48. Sea Wolf: I Made a Resolution

49. Sigur Ros: Glosoli

I realize we went a little overboard, there are four hours of music here.  Maybe drinking beers while compiling the list wasn’t such a good idea.