It may have been done before this way, but all I could find by searching was "post your setlist" threads. For all the bassists here who play covers, what are your top five covers that really get the crowd going or are called often? I'm trying to expand my repertoire outside of standards, and thought it would be wise to tap into the wealth of knowledge that is TalkBass.

My band usually gets great responses from RATM Killing In The Name Of, Tools Sober, Foo Fighters Everlong, Smashing Pumpkins Cherub Rock, and with the harder rock crowd Tools Cold and Ugly. We are a hard Rock band and most of our shows have had a harder edge crowd, it all depends on your bands style of music.

this will span a few different bands i play with throughout each week:

Greatest Hits - Sublime

Raining Glass - Suicide Machines

Let's Stay Together - Rev. Al Green

Hinges - can't remember who, some alt.country hoo-ha

Somebody To Love
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane, which i believe was some sort of hover-craft

Freebird:rollno:- Yeah we do it just so the crowd will shut up!

Hotel California-The Eagles

Independence Day-Martina McBride

Behind These Hazel Eyes-Kelly Clarkson

Welcome to the Jungle-Guns n' Roses



Yeah I know these aren't metal, but if the singer ain't happy ain't nobody happy.:rollno:;):p

What Would You Say - DMB
Pur Some Sugar On Me - Def Lepard
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
What I like About You/Dancing With Myself/I Wanna Be sedated (We combine the 3)
What I Got - Sublime

I second Blister in the Sun...
Sweet Child of Mine
Don't Stop Believin'
Sweet Caroline
Big Butts
For an encore(when everyone is blitzed)
something heavier:
Enter Sandman
Crazy Train

Texas Flood-SRV

Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
(we hate playing it but it gets asked for a lot and gets the audience dancing)

Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Stones

One Way Out - Allman Bros

Tulsa Time - Eric Clapton (lots of country fans around here and this is about as close to it as we'll get)

Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Lithium - Nirvana
Limelight - Rush
Back In Black - AC/DC
Stone Free - Jimi Hendrix

Covers most bases, something in there for everyone.

Killing In The Name Of - RATM
I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister (You'd be surprised at the response we get for this song)
Bang Your Head - Quiet Riot
Balls To The Wall - Accept
Shout At The Devil - Motley Crue
Ace Of Spades - Motorhead
Highway to Hell - AC/DC


I know... this is more than five.

It's tough to chose just 5...

Mustang Sally
You Shook Me All Night Long
Sweet Home Alabama
I Want You To Want Me
Brown Eyed Girl

I have to add...

Play That Funky Music
Funky Cold Medina
Born To Be Wild
Brick House
Unchained Melody

Stayin Alive Bee Gees,
Dancing Queen-Abba
Mustang SAlly- Wilson Pickett
Brown Eyed Girl -VM
Khe Sahn- Cold Chisel

We don't Do ANY!!! ;-)

Help the Poor - Robben Ford
Breakdown Ahead - Boz Scaggs
Hump De Bump - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Amnesia - The Thunderbirds

Ken

Crazy Bitch - Buck Cherry
So Hott - Kidd Rock
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Paralyzed - Finger 11
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry


Not necessarily in that order.

Rapper's Delight - SugarHill Gang
Movin On Up - The Jefferson's Theme Song
Angel/Joker - Shaggy & Steve Miller
What I Got - Sublime
Faith / Hard to Handle - George Michael/Otis Redding (Black Crowes)

Great thread!

Touch Me - Doors
Light My Fire - Doors
Mr. Charlie (the Dead??)
American Band
Sympathy for the Devil

That usually gets our crowd up & wigglin'.

imp.

Love Song - Sara Bariellas
Who Knew - Pink
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Here For the Party - Gretchen Wilson
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites

Happy - Mudvayne
Dig - Mudvayne
Aeroplane - RHCP
Shinobi Vs Dragon Ninja - Lost Prophets

5th one is tough it alternates between
Killing in the name of - RATM
Guerrilla Radio - RATM
Certain Shades of Green - Incubus
some LimpBizkit numbers :hide:

I am so glad that my band does all originals unless we feel like goofing around and playing something ironic.

I don't mean to act superior to the cover bands, I just much prefer to play something that I can put my own heart and soul into.

We do about 50/50 covers and originals.

The audience always responds well to these:

The Weight - the Band
Cocaine Blues - Cash
Layla - Derek & the Dominoes
Let's Get it On - Marvin Gaye
Hard Times - Ray Charles

Some of the covers we used to do in my old band:

Seperate Ways- Journey

Cum on, feel the noise- Slade/Quiet Riot

Cherub Rock- Smashing Pumpkins

The Spirit of Radio- Rush

Another One Bites the Dust- Queen

I am so glad that my band does all originals unless we feel like goofing around and playing something ironic.

I don't mean to act superior to the cover bands, I just much prefer to play something that I can put my own heart and soul into.

If your impression of cover bands is of people not putting their own heart and soul into it, maybe you just haven't seen a good cover band. :)

Hmmm...5 songs that always get people dancing in no order at all:

Shakedown Street
Martyr
RESPECT
Son of a Preacher Man
American Girl

It seems to me that the songs that people like the best are always the songs my band likes the least. THe top 5 for me are:

Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
Lightning Crashes - Live
Killing in the Name of - RATM
Fade to Black - Metallica
Higher - Creed.

Duel of the Fates - John Williams. Great to open with and seque into a song in E minor, especially something heavy.

Sexyback - Justin Timberlake. Have you ever seen an entire club rush for the dance floor at the same time? Try it.

No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age. I have no idea why, but it seems like everyone loves this song. Plus, bass solo. :D

When Doves Cry - Prince. Really hard to pull off, but totally worth it when everyone starts screaming as soon as the piano kicks in.

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley. WOW. Dun. Dun. Dun. Dun. Suddenly the whole venue is bouncing.

My top five songs of interesting bass lines and people getting crazy hearing it;

1- Le freak - Chic

2- We are family - Pointer Sisters

3- Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder

4- Sledge Hammer - Peter Gabriel

5- Good Times - Chic

we all know my feelings on the violent femmes, no need to reiterate okie dokie?

:D

Van Halen - Eruption/You Really Got Me
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Ozzy - Crazy Train
KISS-Detroit RockCity
Grand Funk - American Band

1- Juanes : gotas de agua dulce
2- Soda estereo : persiana americana
3- Mana : Clavado en un bar
4- Juanes : me enamora
5- La quinta estacion : El sol no regresa

Sympathy for the Devil - Stones
Simple Man - Skynyrd
Mary Jane's Last Dance - Petty
Comfortably Numb - Floyd
Rocky Mountain Way - Walsh

For my band, the top 3:

Pipeline
Walk, Don't Run
Wipe Out

Under Pressure - Queen
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Come on Eileen - Save Ferris version
Renegade - Stix

I'm bookmarking this page, some good tips here.

Hard to Handle
Sympathy for the Devil
L A Woman
Texas Flood
Tush
Are you Gonna be my Girl?

1. Born to Run
2. You Give Love a Bad Name
3. Pour Some Sugar on Me.
4. Long Train Runnin
5. Livin la Vida Loca.

Hey I live in Jersey so the top 2 are staples in our set list.

Hmmm..Ok lets see:

1. Purple Rain - Prince
2. Gimme Shelter - Stones
3. Jesus is just alright with me - Doobies
4. Lights/don't stop believin' - Journey
5. Can't find my way back home - Blind Faith

i'm surprised noone has said it yet...

Cake - going the distance...

i can't think of any others, i am starting a cover band though, and this will definetly be handy...


ugh...violent femmes:hmm:

Give It Away- Red Hot Chili Peppers (We normally extend the hell out of it too)
Stuck In The Middle With You- Stealers Wheel (Never fails to get them up)
Tainted Love- Soft Cell( We do a rock version like The Living End and normally the place erupts)
Sunny Afternoon- The Kinks (Just a good singalong feelgood song)
Crazy- Gnarls Barkley (Complete with a reggae breakdown)

Guess I play to an older crowd than most of you cats, but here goes:

1. Mustang Sally
2. Brown Eyed Girl
3. Margaritaville
4. Proud Mary
5. Dock Of the Bay

Audioslave - Cochise
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Rage Against The Machine - Killing in The Name
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
Wolfmother - Woman
Actually the only songs my band currently plays at the moment... I'm new and am gunna try to whip them into shape :D

I will survive - Cake
Paralyzer - Finger 11
Saturday Night Fight - Kid Rock
Brick House - Rick J
Crazy Bitch - Buckcherry

Rebel Yell, Billy Idol
I want you to want me, Cheap Trick
Livin' after midnight, Judas Priest
Long way to the top AC/DC
Ballroom Blitz The Sweet........Always a great closer!

Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Long Train Running - Doobie Bros.
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
I Shot The Sheriff - Marley/Clapton
Let Me Entertain You - Robbie Williams
Angels - Robbie Williams

That was 7, but at least 2 had already been mentioned so 5 new ones to the list at least. :)

carl perkins - blue sued shoes
anything roling stones (honky tonk woman/satisfaction)
buddy holy - rock around the clock
blues brothers - everybody needs somebody
elvis - hound dog

I've really only played 2 shows but a couple songs that had great reactions were

at the first one (1st band)
Bad Moon Rising - CCR
Sink Florida Sink - Against Me! (pretty good singalong for people who know it and a lot of people there knew it)

2nd show (2nd band)
My Girl - The Temptations
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Twist and Shout - Beatles version (this is expecially great if you have a friend run up and dance on stage dressed as a gorilla like we had)

We introduced "Losing My Religion" by REM to our set a few gigs ago.

It always goes over brilliantly.

For our two shows this weekend we debuted "Alternative Ulster" by Stiff Little Fingers.
There must've been plenty of SLF fans in both venues as people went mad for it!


Other sure-fire winners are "Town called Malice" by The Jam,
"Valerie" by The Zutons
"Seven-nation Army" by The White Stripes.

Young Lust - Pink Floyd
Josie - Steely Dan
Footsteps in the Dark - Isley Brothers
Lemon Song - Led Zeppelin
Express Yourself - Charles Wright

Blister in the #$@$ing sun,
Sweet Home $#%*ing alabama
Mustang %$#@ing sally
The %$#@ing gambler
Play that #$@%ing funky #$@%ing music white &%$#ing boy.

#$%#!!!!!!

I hate them all.

P.s Lets see how long it take for the moderator to delete this one!!!

Cheers

Rusty

California Love - 2Pac & Dre
U-Mass - Pixies
Surrender - Cheap Trick
El Scorcho - Weezer
I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister

From several years of pub gigs, the tried and tested covers are (in no particular order):

Highway To Hell

Sweet Home Alabama

With or Without You

Enter Sandman

Play That Funky Music

We're a fairly new band, though we all have a lot of experience. Everybody in the band said "NO COVERS".... burned out from previous band experiences and such. Well we got an oppurtunity to play a show, and only had 5 original songs ready, so we agreed to learn some covers. And, all of us are really loving playing them, and the crowd loves them too. The thing is, pick covers that your band can actually play/sing well, and you'll enjoy them IMO.

(1)Like A Stone by Audioslave
(2)Show Me How To Live by Audioslave
(3) Plush by STP (recently dropped)
(4) Interstate Love Song by STP
(5) Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog (recently dropped)

Yes, our singer's voice is very Chris Cornell/Eddie Vedder-like.... we love it!! :)

Mustang Sally
Satisfaction
Folsom Prison Blues
Takin Care of Business
You Shook Me All NIght Long

My favorite covers list comes from Bryan316's band, JustDefy:

1) Live Wire - Motley Crue
2) Empire - Queensryche
3) Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
4) Cowboys from Hell - Pantera
5) Creeping Death - Metallica

One of the only original bands I know that can cover such a wide range of metal and make it fit right in with their original material. Good stuff!