Laidback acoustic songs - ideal for an intimate party/reception:

Adele - Make You Feel My Love

Al Green - Take Me To The River

Al Green – Lets Stay Together

Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game

The Animals – House Of The Rising Sun

Beatles - Blackbird

Beatles - Here Comes The Sun

Beatles - Norwegian Wood

Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Beatles - You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

Beatles - 'Till There was You

Billy Bragg - New England

Bob Dylan - Tambourine Man

Bob Dylan - It’s All Over Now Baby Blue

Bob Marley - Redemption Song

Bert Jansch – Anji

Bruce Springsteen - The River

Bruce Springsteen - I’m On Fire

Burt Bacharach - Message To Martha

Burt Bacharach - I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself

Carol King - You’ve Got A Friend

Cat Stevens - Moonshadow

Cat Stevens - Father & Son

Cat Stevens - Wild World

Cat Stevens - Into White

Creedence Clearwater Revival -Proud Mary

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising

Crowded House - Don’t Dream It’s Over

Crowded House - Weather With You

Crowded House - You Better Be Home Soon

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

The Cure - Friday I’m In Love

David Byrne (Talking Heads) Everyone’s In Love With You

David Gray - Babylon

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffanys

The Doors - Come On Baby Light My Fire

Ed Sheeran - The A Team

Ed Sheeran - Give Me Love

Elvis Costello – Alison

Eric Clapton - Layla

Eric Clapton - Crossroads

Foo Fighters – The Best Of You

Foo Fighters - Everlong

George Ezra - Budapest

Jack Johnson – Better Together

James Taylor – Carolina On My Mind

James Taylor – You’ve Got A Friend

James Taylor – Fire & Rain

James Taylor – Sweet Baby James

Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle

Jim Croce - Operator

Jim Croce - You Don’t Mess Around With Jim

Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues

Johnny Cash – I Won’t Back Down

John Lennon - Oh, My love

John Martyn - May You Never

José Feliciano - Come On Baby Light My Fire

The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon

Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven

Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side

Lou Reed - Perfect Day

The Lumineers - Ho Hey

Mumford & Sons- Little Lion Man

Neil Young - Harvest Moon

Neil Young - Old Man

Neil Young - Heart Of Gold

Nick Cave - Red Right Hand

Nick Cave - Into Your Arms

Otis Reading - Sitting At The Dock Of The Bay

Oasis – Wonderwall

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

The Police –Roxanne

The Police - Message In A Bottle

The Police -Walking On The Moon

Rod Stewart - You’re In My Heart

Rolling Stones – Time Is On My Side

Rolling Stones – The Last Time

Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Woman

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel – Anji

Steelers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You

Tim Barton - Something in the Water

Tim Barton – Bliss

Tim Barton – Faded Love

Tom Petty – Freefallin’

Tom Petty – I Won’t Back Down

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

U2 - One

Van Morrison – Moondance

Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately That I Love You

Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl

The Verve - The Drugs Don’t Work

Jazz & Blues Standards - background music, receptions, garden parties:

All Of Me - Billie Holiday

Ain’t Misbehaving – Fats Waller

Alice’s Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

Anji - Bert Jansch

Blue Moon - The Marvels

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Andy Williams

Crossroads - Robert Johnson

Dream A Little Dream Of Me – Mamas and Papas

Everything - Michael Bublé

Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra

The Girl From Ipanema – Antonio Jobim

Honeysuckle Rose - Fats Waller

Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel

Just a Gigolo - Dave Lee Roth

I’ve Got You Under My Skin – Frank Sinatra

It Had To Be You - Frank Sinatra

Let There Be Love – Nat King Cole

Masquerade – George Benson

Moon River – Andy Williams

Night & Day - Billie Holiday

Romancia - Classical Guitar standard

Route 66 - Bobby Troup

Satin Doll - Duke Ellington

Summertime - Ella fitzgerald

The Way You Look Tonight – Steve Tyrell

What A Wonderful World - Sam Cooke

What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

We Have All The Time In The World – Louis Armstrong

More up-tempo party songs to dance to:

Aerosmith – Walk This Way

Amy Winehouse – Rehab

Amy Winehouse - Valerie

The Animals – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down

Arctic Monkeys - Mandy Bum

AC/DC – Highway To Hell

Ace – How Long Has This Been Going On

Beatles – Back In The USSR

Beatles – I Saw Her Standing There

Beatles – Ticket To Ride

Blur - There's No Other Way

Blur – Song Too

Blues Brothers – Sweet Home Chicago

Blues Bothers – I Got Everything I Need (Almost)

The Commitments - Treat Her Right

The Commitments – Mustang Sally

The Commitments – The Midnight Hour

Crowed House – Weather With You

Chuck Berry – Johnny B Goode

Chuck Berry – Reelin’ & A Rockin’

The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go

Cold Chisel – Khe Sahn

Daft Punk – Get Lucky

David Bowie – Rebel Rebel

Dandy Warholes – Bohemian Like You

Del Shannon – Runaway

Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus

Don McLean – American Pie

The Doors – Roadhouse Blues

Dr. Feelgood – Back In The Night

Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon

Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds

Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock

Gary Moore – Walking By Myself

George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch And One Beer

Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl

John Denver – Country Roads

The Las – There She Goes

Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

Men At Work – Down Under

Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning

Nick Cave – Red Right Hand

Nivana - Lithium

Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline

Oasis – Roll With It

Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger

Oasis – Wonderwall

OMC - How Bizarre

The Police – Message In A Bottle

Prince - Kiss

The Proclaimers - I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

Radiohead – Creep

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge

REM – Man On The Moon

REM – Losing My Religion

Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar

Roy Orbison – Pretty Woman

Rory Gallagher – I Take What I Want

Santana - Smooth

The Strokes – Last Night

Split Enz – I Got You

Stevie Wonder - Signed Sealed Delivered, I'm Yours

Steppen Wolf – Born To be Wild

Status Quo - Caroline

Talking Heads – Psycho Killer

Thin Lizzy – Whiskey In The Jar

The Troggs – Wild Thing

The Undertones – Teenage Kicks

U2 – With Or Without YYou

Van Morrison – Jackie Wilson Says

Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl

Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun

Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun

Whetus – Teenage Dirtbag

White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

Wild Cherry – Funky Music