I volunteered to make the year-end slide show for my department's banquet. I actually enjoy this kind of thing, and it's an easy way for me to give something to the department and actually enjoy it. I especially enjoy the humor aspect of the job. One year I diagnosed all of the faculty with various inane but funny disorders. This year, I am mulling over the ideas of how to poke appropriate fun at our facult. But, I'm struggling with what songs to put with the pictures. The struggle is that the songs need to be publicly acceptable...probably meaning no cursing. An unusually high number of my songs that I feel fit all say some combination of "Fuck," "Fuck the president," or "Fuck the war." Um, that's probably not very nice to a group of diverse adults who may or may not agree with me.
Although we are a Christian school, I do think that my psychologist classmates could handle the rare damn, hell, or shit. Any ideas? The slide show is usually about 15-20 minutes, so I have some leeway with a broad range of songs. I typically go from a funny, upbeat feel to a more serious, saying goodbye tone. What suggestions do you have?
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I have used Patty Griffin's "Big Love" in those kinds of settings, or at least part of the tune. Great chord progression and upbeat tune. In fact, I think you can find many songs from her catalog that might fit with a great slide show.
Iron & Wine, "Boy with a Coin" is a wonderfully upbeat tune. Several songs off the last New Pornographers album. My personal favorite is "All the old Showstoppers," and "Adventures in Solitude" is very sad sounding. Spoon's "The Underdog" is one of those songs that has been described as "crack you can clap to." The Glen Hansard/Marketa Irglova stuff is wonderful.
Not sure if that fits with what you are looking for or not.
There's one I've used before from Invention, by Keaggy, King, Dente. It's called "Watch My Back"... first track on the disc.
Thanks, guys! I'll check these out and see what I think. I (being behind the times..) just figured out itunes. :) Yay!
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