Playlist: Generational Guilty Pleasures

The running joke on the APW staff is that despite only a few years between us, there is a bit of a…generational gap that exists within the members of the team (let’s just say that when Meg and I are in a car together, we mostly just talk). So it doesn’t surprise me at all that the request for generational songs in the comments of Meg’s Hip Hop Meets Classics playlist yielded an awesome hodgepodge of throwback tunes mixed with current guilty pleasures that has me convinced most of APW met their partners while making out under the bleachers at a middle school dance in 1994.

Today’s playlist is the kind of music you bust out when all of your aunts and uncles have departed for the evening. But before we get into it, next week we’ll be switching things up and tackling the playlist I get asked for the most by couples: ceremony music. So if you’re using music in your ceremony (religious, secular, or otherwise), leave it in the comments. Processionals, recessionals, and mid-ceremony music are all welcome, just be sure to tell us what you used it for!

And now, the playlist that answers the question, “What’s the song on your wedding list that gives away your history in one stroke?” I’ll give a hundred monopoly dollars to the first person who guesses mine.

Generational Guilty Pleasures from practicalmaddie on 8tracks Radio.

1. “El Scorcho” by Weezer
2. “Party in the U.S.A.” by Miley Cyrus
3. “The Best of Times” by Styx
4. “Wake Up” by Arcade Fire
5. “The Littlest Birds” by The Be Good Tanyas
6. “U Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer
7. “Motownphilly” by Boyz II Men
8. “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” by Whitney Houston
9. “Always Be My Baby” by Mariah Carey
10. “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen
11. “I Love It” by Icona Pop
12. “Livin’ on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi
13. “Jump Around” by House of Pain
14. “Ignition Remix” by R. Kelly
15. “Ice, Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice
16. “Everybody Dance Now” by C+C Music Factory
17. “I Want It That Way” by The Backstreet Boys
18. “This is How We Do It” by Montell Jordan
19. “Nice and Slow” by Usher
20. “Accidentally in Love” by the Counting Crows
21. “Pony” by Ginuwine
22. “The Sign” by Ace of Base

Photo: Corey Torpie

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