Connundrum

Not to turn this into a wedding blog (I've learned in recent weeks that there are quite enough of those on the Interwebs) but on matters musical, it seems the Voxosphere has a great deal to contribute.

As any post-ironic hispsters worth their salt would, we're making our own iPod (TM) wedding mix. This kills a lot of birds with one stone: saving money, assuring a complete moratorium on line dancing, and allowing us to foist our clearly superior musical predelictions on all of our friends and family.

But making your own list begs a very important question. To wit: how filthy/inappropriate can we make it before we start scaring off/alienating relatives?

I, for instance, am extremely keen on having Grandmaster Flash's "White Lines" on the mix. Now in its defense, White Lines is technically an anti-drug song, but it still contains many loving cocaine references, including the shouted, one-word refrain "FREEBASE!"

Things got even dicier when we started trying to wedge some Liz Phair onto the playlist, and settled on the comparatively benign "Supernova." Of course, relatively benign is, in fact, relative, as this song does contain the phrase "fuck like a volcano."

You can see the bind we're in. What should be off base? Sacrelige? Swear words? Overt drug references? Two or more of the above in the same song?

I'm sure the moral compass that is the Vox readership will help sort it out.