Folks in cover bands doing party rock

[busdriver]

This is the repertoire of the coverband I play in.
This is probably not the music to which the JCF people listen to, but each time the girls start to dance. And this is what we want, isn't it?

3 a.m. (Matchbox 20)
Alive (Pearl Jam)
Anything But Down (Sheryl Crow)
Barely Breathing (Duncan Sheik)
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Green Day)
Bound Around (Paddy Goes To Holyhead)
Breakfast At Tiffany's (Deep Blue Something)
Breaking The Law (Judas Priest)
Come On (Fury In The Slaughterhouse)
Cuts You Up (Peter Murphy)
Down Under (Men At Work)
Fairytale Gone Bad (Sunrise Avenue)
Far Away (Paddy Goes To Holyhead)
Fingertips (Roxette)
Follow You Down (Gin Blossoms)
Friday I'm In Love (The Cure)
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) (Green Day)
Hate Everything About You (Steve Lukather)
I'll Be There For You (The Rembrandts)
I'm With You (Avril Lavigne)
Imitation Of Life (R.E.M.)
Into the Night (Santana feat. Chad Kroeger)
Johnny B (The Hooters)
Leaving New York (R.E.M.)
Lonesome Day (Bruce Springsteen)
Losing My Religion (R.E.M.)
Luka (Suzanne Vega)
Lullaby (Shawn Mullins)
Mmm mmm mmm mmm (Crash Test Dummies)
One (Johnny Cash / U2)
Perfect Ten (The Beautiful South)
Purple Rain (Prince)
Push (Matchbox 20)
Save Tonight (Eagly Eye Cherry)
Selling The Drama (Live)
She's so high (Tal Bachman)
Slide (Goo Goo Dolls)
Small Town (John Mellencamp)
Still (Vivid)
Strong (Reamonn)
Suddenly I See (KT Tunstall)
Summer Wine (Lee Hazlewood)
Supergirl (Reamonn)
The Boys of Summer (Don Henley)
The One I Love (R.E.M.)
The Rising (Bruce Springsteen)
The Way (Fastball)
Tonight (Reamonn)
Until I Fall Away (Gin Blossoms)
Unwell (Matchbox 20)
Wake Me Up When September Ends (Green Day)
Walk On The Ocean (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
What About Now (Lone Star)
What It's Like (Everlast)
When You're Gone (Bryan Adams & Mel C)
Wherever You Will Go (The Calling)
Wild Days (Fools Garden)
Wonderful Life (Black)
Wonderwall (Oasis)
Won't Forget These Days (Fury In The Slaughterhouse)
Wouldn't It Be Good (Nik Kershaw)

[Vass]

In the northeastern United States, if you don't have Livin' on a Prayer available & on tap at all times for when the crowd is running out of gas, you are ignoring a potent weapon indeed. Chicks love that shit, and guys love screaming "WHOAAAAAAAA!!! WE'RE HALFWAY THERE!" with chicks that love that shit.

You can't understimate the strength of power-pop on the 20's-30's crowd.

Vass

[BenoA]

Good feedback from everyone. I never tought I would get so much answers.

Rock on everyone!

[bombtek]

How about "Kiss me I'm shitfaced" by the Dropkick Murphys? Granted you'll never get it to sound right without the bagpipes, but if you do.....no better song to get the crowd up and going LOL!!!

[VitaminG]

We find that these also go over particularly well:

Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
You Really Got Me - VH
No Secrets - The Angels (or Angel City as I believe they were known in the US)
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
500 Miles - The Proclaimers (replete with Scottish accents - simple song that gets the room pogo-ing)

[Robert Burns]

Play that funky music white boy...
Tighten Up..
Born to be wild..
Bark at the moon..
I cant drive...55

[QuantumRider]

Rock'n'Roll All Nite by KISS is a crowd pleaser, even in the land of the rising sun

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=nWyZ_ISPf2w

[phill_up]

Damn, I was too late, now I'm as blank as a Fart...

I have been lernin' some power ballads though.
#1 Luv ya' so much you make me wanna shit'
#2 You broke my heart, but I broke yer' jaw.
#3 My wife ran off with my best friend and I sure do miss him

Did anyone mention Steve Miller-Keep on rockin' me baby?

[Robert Hendrix]

We've had a TON of requests for Pat Travers, Snortin' Whiskey, so I'm in the process of learning that one to add to our set list. Pat Travers fuggin ROCKS anyway!

[GinSonic]

Most peeps, especially chicks, will get up and dance to songs they know. That's probably why ACDC gets 'em up on the dance floor. Most peeps know their tunes.

Any good rock tunes will do. Can't go wrong with classics from Aerosmith, Bad Company, Foreigner, Led Zeppelin, George Thorogood, ZZ Top etc.

Basically anything that has a consistent rhythm. Don't bother with epic progressive stuff like 2112 or XYZ. Sure they'd be fun to play and might impress the music lovers in the audience, but for the dancer/party peeps, They could give a rats ass.

Simplicity sells, unfortunately, but if you want to keep the bar owners happy, then ya' gotta play the tunes to get their patrons on the dance floor and to drink lots!
G.

[FlyingSkull]

Sorry... the 2112 suggestion was a joke.

[GinSonic]

FlyingSkull.
I knew that. Just wanted to put the point across, so I used 2112 as an example of what not to play. That's all.
That's so Canadian of you to apologize!

Might I also suggest some 80's era hair metal a la, Poison, Motley Crue, and similar good time rockers.
G.

[m2pmd70]

Anything with blast beats and cookie monster growls. lol

[Rsmacker]

"Turning Japanese" by the Vapors

"Hurry Up Harry" by Sham 69

"Wishing Well" by Free.


I have always sworn that I would never consider playing in a covers band like this, no, not me. Alas, I now have no hair and am getting old, I'm not going to be "the next big thing", Metallica aren't likely to ring me to join.

Not only that, I did the sound at a little festival not so long back and the bands doing the originals went down so-so, but the covers bands went down a storm. Every single old boiler and Milf got up and danced, and from the glazed looks on their faces, would have been putty in the hands of the old farts up on stage playing, they were fucking fizzing. Old trout being my favourite kind (well, it's a lot easier to catch than young totty, and grateful too), I've decided to look for a covers band. Lock up yer grannies!!