what are your cover band's "secret gems?"

[Twiggy Jr.]

i mean all cover bands throw in metalllica, or hey man nice shot, cumbersome, the beautiful people, santeria

but what songs does your band do that you really haven't heard other bands perform that people love

i shall start

anything, anything by dramarama
it's tricky by run dmc (it's freaking sweet if you distort it and heavy it up)
america, fVck yeah from the team america soundtrack (hey, i live in norman, okla, a huge college town, and we all love that movie)
love stinks by J. Geils Band
heavy version of phil collins "you know i love you"

and, as i have seen many times before, PLEASE don't put "hit me baby one more time" by brit spears....that was cool when i first heard of that band back in like 2000 on mtv or vh1 do a cover on it

[Dave Muscato]

We throw some Dream Theater or Tool in sometimes to mess with people (we are a jam/funk band). Not whole songs; just quotes... it's a nice inside joke for people who recognize it.

[BillMason]

We're an all guy band and cover the Dixie Chick's Goodbye Earl, a song about an abused wife and her best friend whacking the abusive husband and dumping the body. We make it a bit heavier than the original, but it's kinda cool having a guy sing it.

[namraj]

Well my covers band was made to play weddings and parties so we play songs that people want, so its normally the same old stuff, but we did let our first wedding have some requests, and from those requests we kept a couple, including "more life in a tramps vest" by stereophonics, which its a really nice lively number

[JackANSI]

God I love throwing in this kind of stuff into a setlist


Earache My Eye - Alice Bowie (Cheech & Chong)
Regulate - Warren G, Nothing but a "G" thang - Dr. Dre, Who am I? - Snoop Dogg (Medley in E)
Hungry like the Wolf - Duran Duran
There goes the neighborhood, KKK Bitch - Body Count (Medley in Eb)

[tmart937]

Billie Jean is not my lover

[Phalex]

OK. On the subject of Michael Jackson...... We do a rousing rendition of Smooth Criminal ala Alien Antfarm.

[tom5string]

Madonna - Music

without a girl in the band :-)

[vinny]

Storyville - Good Day For the Blues
Robert Cray - Right Next Door & I Shiver
We love to play them but the crowd can go either way. Some know them & like 'em. Some aren't familiar with 'em.

[Jared Lash]

Originally Posted by Twiggy Jr.

it's tricky by run dmc (it's freaking sweet if you distort it and heavy it up)

Nice.

Originally Posted by JackANSI

Earache My Eye - Alice Bowie (Cheech & Chong)
Regulate - Warren G, Nothing but a "G" thang - Dr. Dre, Who am I? - Snoop Dogg (Medley in E)

and

My old cover band has since morphed into a RHCP tribute band (We do cover "Special Secret Song Inside"), but prior to that we did a wide range of covers.

Some of the more interesting ones:

Dead Souls - Joy Division/NIN
Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin
Primus - To Defy the Laws of Tradition
Bob Marley - Easy Skankin'

[Phantopeth]

Originally Posted by BillMason

We're an all guy band and cover the Dixie Chick's Goodbye Earl, a song about an abused wife and her best friend whacking the abusive husband and dumping the body. We make it a bit heavier than the original, but it's kinda cool having a guy sing it.

Nice choice!

In my former group, we used to cover Ween's "Roses Are Free," as well as a Phish' "Mike's Song" that had a brief jam that made its way into MJ's "Billie Jean," and it never failed to get people on their feet.

[lomo]

Psycho Killer

[Depth_Charge]

We play Heartbreaker by Pat Benetar. Not many people know that tune.

[5andFretless]

We are a female fronted cover band, and we try to do cutting edge, just released music. It helps that 2 of us can play piano, 2 of us can play guitar, 2 of us can play bass, and 4 of us can sing. Sometime we are covering stuff that has not even hit yet. For instance, we were playing "Last Name" by Carrie Underwood in a bar the day after she sang it on Idol. We also were doing, and we still play, "Love Song" by Sara Bariellas, long before it was on the radio. We actually played a set at a bar one night and was told we were "really good, but we were supposed to be a cover band." That set was all covers starting with "I'm In Love with a Girl." It has become a game with us to try to predict what will be a hit and then cover it before it happens.

[JackANSI]

Originally Posted by TheBigO

Dead Souls - Joy Division/NIN
...
Primus - To Defy the Laws of Tradition
Bob Marley - Easy Skankin'

[rappa29]

The last rock cover band I was in did Softcell's "Tainted Love".

But we covered the cover of it. Not sure what the name of the band is that covered it but it's not so soft!

[artiej]

Rio-Duran Duran

Footloose-Kenny Loggins( ironically our lead guitarist plays in a band
with Jessie Blaze Snyder for anyone who watched Rock the Cradle)

+1 on Anything, Anything from Dramarama

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen (we are from Jersey so we have to)

[Just J]

Rearranged version of Livin on a Prayer, only bits that are like the original are the lyrics, and I play a funked up version of the subhook (the song's is a different key as well).

Kinda funny how we came to play it. Messing around at practice the singer and I started beatboxing into the mic, the guitarist started playing a little jazz progression she knows, I started playing along, drummer jumped in, singer started singing the lyrics of Livin on a Prayer. Refined a little, I tweaked the bassline and viola, new song for the set.

[Dr Stankface]

We do Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight & The Pips.

Of course we are from Alabama/Georgia so it makes sense.

[bassman1185]

My band is a fairly aggressive all-original post-hardcore/indie band, but we like to poke fun at Nu-metal acts. At our last show we covered "Boom" by POD, and we wrote a song where we break into "Bawitabaw" by Kid Rock. It's a lot of fun to play stuff that we all thought was cool 7 or 8 years ago.