So far, Ben has suggested:
- The award ceremony music from A New Hope
- The cantina song
- The holophoner song that Fry plays for Leela
- Various Final Fantasy themes
- The Numa Numa song
- The Harry Potter soundtrack (i.e. the Yule Ball song or Bill and Fleur's wedding)
- The "Wedding of River Song" music from Doctor Who
- The Star Trek theme (ideally without the narration, but it is somewhat appropriate - we're boldly going where we've never gone before, it's a new frontier, etc...)
I actually played the award ceremony music from A New Hope as the processional music at an MIT wedding in 2008. Ben, you so two thousand and late!
ReplyDeleteCaroline, if you want me to play at your wedding, I'm willing to steal a mellophone for The Final Countdown.
also, you should probably play the Final Fantasy VI victory theme right after saying "I do"
ReplyDeletenyan cat, clearly.
ReplyDeleteooh, then I could have a rainbow train...
ReplyDeleteYou could look to http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic for many many other ideas.
ReplyDeleteThere is Louis Armstrong singing "We Have All The Time In The World" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMxRDTfzgpU , which despite its irony, seems to be a popular wedding tune. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4421219.stm (Ironic because the it was composed for a James Bond movie where he gets married, only to have his wife shot and killed minutes after the wedding.)
For only slightly less irony, there's "The Emperor Arrives" from Star Wars.
MIT Dancetroupe once used "Dragostea din tei (Numa Numa)" as its curtain call/bows music; I think it worked well.
I LOVE NUMA NUMA!! I'll check out the others too - thanks Ken!
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