Cover bands, let's see your set lists!

[leanne]

We just got a new drummer (maybe) and we're still fleshing out our song list, but here's what we've got so far, not including the (few) originals...

(female lead: )
allman brothers - melissa
johnny cash - hurt
beatles - help!
beatles - she came in through the bathroom window
beatles - across the universe
neil young - helpless
neil young - needle & the damage done
butthole surfers - the wooden song
hendrix - little wing
hendrix - all along the watchtower
modest mouse - bankrupt on selling
led zeppelin - tangerine
pink floyd - wish you were here
blind melon - change
guess who - undun

(male lead: )
the who - behind blue eyes
bob dylan - like a rolling stone
ween - what deaner was talking about
red hot chili peppers - under the bridge
beatles - ballad of john & yoko
rolling stones - sympathy for the devil
rolling stones - mother's little helper
descendents - hope

that's all i can think of, other than a few that either i or the female singer haven't learned yet.

 

[DaftCat]

How many people recognize the Ween tune? Especially Deaner!
Way to go, btw.

In the rock band, I'd love to do Take Me Away.
In the celtic band, I've suggested The Blarney Stone.

Ours: Link Removed

 

[Peter Squire]

I've asked the mods to make a board about this so we can all post. Until then, I guess we make a mega-thread like this.

Jazzbo, your set sounds great, love to see it live.

ours? from memory, can't remember the order of the 1st set, and it changes depending on the crowd.

2nd set:

Somewhere Only We Know: Keane
Losing My Religion: REM
To Her Door: Paul Kelly
Alone With You: Sunnyboys
These Days: Powderfinger
Yellow: Coldplay
Laid: James
Bubble Toes: Jack Johnson
Steal My Kisses: Ben Harper
Last Night: The Strokes
Rocky Racoon: The Beatles
Mrs Robinson: Simon & Garfunkel
Saw Her Standing There: The Beatles
The Real Thing: Russell Morris

Its a killer set, it always gets em up an going.

Third Set:

Take Your Mama Out: Scissor Sisters
Khe Sanh: Cold Chisel
Wonderwall: Oasis
Better Man: Pearl Jam
Taylor/No Woman, No Cry medley: Jack Johnson/Bob Marley
Last Kiss: Pearl Jam
Breaking the Girl: RHCP
Karma Police: Radiohead
Hide Your Love Away: The Beatles
I Will Survive: Gloria Gaynor
American Pie: Don McClean
Don't Look Back In Anger: Oasis
Better Be Home Soon: Crowded House
Piece of My Heart: Janis Joplin
Whats My Scene: Hoodoo Gurus
Hey Jude: The Beatles

It changes from show to show, but we usually get through unharmed...

Last three songs usually change depending on crowd/encore etc...

I love playing most of these tunes, some are getting stale and boring now, but just playing is such a rush

 

[abhishek]

well my band LiQuid Groove hardly plays any covers..we normally play our own stuff which we thoroughly enjoy playin.but sometomes this gets to me n thts wt set me off to sttart a side project band called Maximum Pudding.

some of the overs Liquid Groove has covered in the past:

*Heavy Fuel-Dire Straits
*Sultans of swing-dire straits
*everything bout you-ugly kid joe
*govinda-kula shaker
*peace frog-the doors
*run to you-bryan adams
*dont stand so close to me-the police
*message in a bottle-the police

Maximum Pudding covers:
*greeting song-red hot chili peppers
*oh my god-the police
*cant stand losing you-the police
*are you gonna be my girl-jet
*harder to breathe-maroon5
*back in black-ac/dc
*start me up-rolling stones
*i will follow-u2

 

[jazzbo]

Jazzbo, your set sounds great, love to see it live.

Thank you kindly, sir.

 

[Broach_insound]

Ba Ba Boom Boom Boom........another one bites the dust!!

 

[Justin V]

My band is pretty much an all original band, but when we DO finally start playing gigs (this summer) the songs that I want to cover during shows (maybe quickie in the studio) are:

Green Day - She, American Idiot, Letterbomb, 2000 Light Years Away
Dropkick Murphys - Forever (if we play my girlfriend's town or something like that)
The Who - Substitute, Pinball Wizard
Our Lady Peace - Naveed
Counting Crows - Round Here (prolly sped up a bit on this one)

Man, I really need to get a cover/party band going up here while I'm at school....

 

[andysvec]

This isn't my main band but a 80s metal band some of my aging rocker friends and myself started recently, we play once a week. Here's our setlist from last week.

 

[andysvec]

this is the songlist from my main band (sorry it's long, we've been together for years and have even thrown out another 50-100 songs we never play):

FALL TO PIECES - VELVET REVOLVER
FLOAT ON - MODEST MOUSE
ROLLING SLY STONE - RHCP
PRISONER - 311
FIRST STRAW - 311
TALK SHOW ON MUTE - INCUBUS
SEVEN NATION ARMY - THE WHITE STRIPES
DARLING NIKKI - PRINCE/ FOO FIGHTERS
LOVE SONG - THE CURE/ 311
NO ONE - COLD
EVERLONG - FOO FIGHTERS
LIKE A STONE - AUDIOSLAVE
CAN'T STOP - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
WHEN I'M GONE - 3 DOORS DOWN
ZEPHYR SONG - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
SHE HATES ME - PUDDLE OF MUD
WHATEVA - SIFL & OLLY
BY THE WAY - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
SEEIN RED - UNWRITTEN LAW
AERIALS - SYSTEM OF A DOWN
FOR YOU - STAIND
THE MIDDLE - JIMMY EAT WORLD
LAST NIGHT - THE STROKES
HEY MISTER - CUSTOM
BAD DAY - FUEL
NICE TO KNOW YOU - INCUBUS
BLURRY - PUDDLE OF MUD
BOB - NOFX
FADE - STAIND
IT'S BEEN A WHILE - STAIND
OUTSIDE - STAIND
HANGIN BY A MOMENT - LIFEHOUSE
DRIVE - INCUBUS
ALL THE SMALL THINGS – BLINK 182
WHATS MY AGE AGAIN – BLINK 182
MUTT - BLINK 182
CUMBERSOME - SEVEN MARY THREE
RUBY SOHO - RANCID
TIME BOMB - RANCID
WHATEVER - GODSMACK
LOSER - THREE DOORS DOWN
KRYPTONITE - THREE DOORS DOWN
MISERABLE - LIT
HERO - FOO FIGHTERS
MY SACRIFICE - CREED
WITH ARMS WIDE OPEN - CREED
HIGHER - CREED
JUST LIKE HEAVEN - THE CURE
I'LL STOP THE WORLD - PUNK VERSION
UNDER THE BRIDGE - RHCP
SOUL TO SQUEEZE - RHCP
AEROPLANE - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
OTHERSIDE – RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
AROUND THE WORLD – RHCP
SONG 2 - BLUR
AMBER - 311
I'LL BE HERE A WHILE - 311
FLOWING - 311
DOWN – 311
COME ORIGINAL – 311
ALL MIXED UP – 311
ALIVE - PEARL JAM
BETTERMAN – PEARL JAM
YELLOW LEDBETTER – PEARL JAM
BLACK – PEARL JAM
CREEP - RADIOHEAD
KILLING IN THE NAME OF – RAGE
SATELLITE – DAVE MATHEWS
MINORITY - GREEN DAY
SHE – GREEN DAY
LONGVIEW – GREEN DAY
BASKET CASE – GREEN DAY
PLUSH – STP
INTERSTATE LOVE SONG – STP
CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA – OASIS
BADFISH - SUBLIME
CARESS ME DOWN - SUBLIME
WHAT I GOT - SUBLIME
SMOKE 2 JOINTS - SUBLIME
SANTERIA – SUBLIME
WRONG WAY – SUBLIME
SEMI CHARMED – THIRD EYE BLIND
BLISTER – VIOLENT FEMMES
MACHINEHEAD – BUSH
COME DOWN – BUSH
ISLAND IN THE SUN - WEEZER
SAY IT AINT SO – WEEZER
SWEATER SONG – WEEZER
GOT U WHERE I WANT U – THE FLYS
FAITH – LIMP BIZKIT
BREAK STUFF - LIMP BIZKIT
JUMP AROUND - HOUSE OF PAIN/LIMP BIZKIT
ROLLIN - LIMP BIZKIT
SLIDE – GOO GOO DOLLS
SEX AND CANDY – MARCY PLAYGROUND
SURFER GIRL – HOMEGROWN
IN BLOOM – NIRVANA
SEDATED – RAMONES
I WILL SURVIVE – CAKE
OVERKILL - MEN AT WORK
EVERY ROSE HAS ITS THORN – JRIDE VERSION
DO RIGHT - JIMMIES CHICKEN SHACK
LUMP - PRESIDENTS OF THE USA

 

[Hobbes]

We're a 4 piece band (singer, guitar, bass, drums), our usual set will be chosen from the following:

I Saw Her Standing There
Get Back
A Hard Day’s Night
You Really Got Me
All Day & All of the Night
Brown Sugar
Jumping Jack Flash
Wild Horses
Gimme Shelter
Nutbush City Limits
Shake Your Tail Feather
Proud Mary
A Fool in Love
Son of a Preacher Man
Think
Respect
Mustang Sally
Midnight Hour
It Takes Two
Get Ready
My Sharona
Jailhouse Rock
Long Tall Sally
Johnny B Goode
Gimme Some Lovin
Superstition
Play That Funky Music
I Got You (I Feel Good)
Disco Inferno
White Wedding
Turning Japanese
Teenage Kicks
Does Your Mother Know
One Vision
Down Down
Sweet Home Alabama
Gimme All Your Loving
Sharp Dressed Man
Whole Lotta Love
Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Blitzkrieg Bop
I Wanna Be Sedated
You Shook Me All Night Long
Back in Black
Highway to Hell
Hoochie Coochie Man
Rock Me Baby

New tunes we're learning:

Thunderstruck
Another One Bites The Dust
Baggy Trousers
Paradise City

Older tunes that we don't really play anymore:

Back in the USSR
Crossroads
River Deep, Mountain High
Something
Turn Your Lights Down Low
Angel
(last 3 wedding ones, just in case we need to throw in a couple of slowies)

We're always trying to add to the list, so any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

 

[mwm70]

Not in setlist form, but here are the songs so far (band formed 10/04):

Lynyrd Skynyrd- Simple Man
Van Halen -Ain't Talkin Bout Love
The Guess Who -American Woman
Cream -White Room
Pat Benatar -Best Shot
Sheryl Crowe -First Cut
No Doubt -It's My Life
The Romantics -What I Like About You
The Donnas -Take It Off
Michelle Branch -Everywhere
Modern English -Melt with You
The Ramones -Sedated
Nirvana -Teen Spirit
Journey -Any Way You Want It
Outfield -Your Love
Gin Blossoms -Hey Jealousy
Linda Ronstadt -How Do I Make You
Allanah Myles -Black Velvet
Bowling For Soup -1985
Hoobastank -The Reason
Rush -Limelight
Chuck Berry -Johnny B. Goode
Allanis Morrisette -Ironic
Jet -Cold Hard Bitch
The Troggs/ The Kingsmen- Wild Thing/Louie, Louie
The Doors -Roadhouse Blues
Motley Crue -Smokin In The Boy's Room
Bryan Adams -Summer of 69
AC-DC -Dirty Deeds
Green Day -Basket Case

 

[Judge2003]

8 Days a Week
Day Tripper
All My Loving
Ride
Just What I Needed
One Way or Another
She's Not There
Centerfold
Are you gunna be my Girl?
Piece of Mind
My Sharona
Hit me with your best shot

... I need a new band...

 

[the_vza1]

-hendrix
fire
-chili peppers songs
love rollercoaster
jungle man
otherside
californication
under the bridge
-rage songs
bulls on parade
killing in the name of
how i could just kill a man (the rage version of the ch song)
guerrilla radio
-sublime songs
what i got
caress me down
dont stop
boss dj
santera
-green day
american idiot
welcome to paradise
brain stew
jesus of suburbia
-rancid
radio
roots radical
-nofx
kill all the white men
radio
franco unamerican
-gorillaz
clint eastwood
gabage version of Feel Good Inc
-marley
stir it up
Get up Stand up
Africa Unite
redemption song
-rx badits
overcome
-toots and the maytals
pressure drop
-blur
song number 2
crazy beat
-skindred
pressur (reggae version)



well mix and match, not a cover band, just me and my friends and what we play for the rest of our friends

lots of reggae lots of rock, how god intended

 

[Roundwound]

SET 1
1 HOUSE IS ROCKIN
2 KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF
3 HOLD ON LOOSELY
4 HURT SO GOOD
5 MARY JANE
6 PRETTY WOMAN
7 TUSH
8 GEL
9 FLY ME
10 THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANY REASON

SET 2
1 SHINE ON
2 BASKET CASE
3 MY OWN WORST ENEMY
4 KRYPTONITE
5 LOSER
6 SWEET EMOTION
7 STAY AWHILE
8 MUSTANG SALLY
9 JET AIRLINER
10 INTERSTATE LOVE SONG
11 DESERT MOON
12 VERTIGO

SET 3
1 HIGH ENOUGH
2 NO MATTER WHAT
3 TOO MUCH TIME
4 SAW HER STANDING THERE
5 EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
6 DANCE WITH ME (GC after)
7 WONDERFUL TONIGHT
8 LOVE WILL KEEP US ALIVE (GC)
9 TAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS
10 LEARN TO FLY
11 WHEN I’M GONE
12 ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE
13 BACK ON THE ROAD AGAIN

SET 4
1 NOTHING MORE
2 R@ROLL DAMNATION
3 JUMP
4 YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG
5 WHAT'S YOUR NAME
6 CANT GET ENOUGH
7 OLD TIME R@ROLL
8 PARANOID
9 ROCK @ ROLL FANTASY
10 TIMES LIKE THESE

 

[Vorago]

We're not a coverband, but we enjoy occasionally playing one; have been covered so far;

Led Zeppelin; Black Dog
Led Zeppelin; Kashmir
Tool; Sober
Tool; Stinkfist
The Beatles; Revolution 4
Queen; Crazy little thing called love
Pearl Jam; Alive
Soundgarden; Black Hole Sun

and a whole lot more, but those have never been played live.

 

[andruca]

I have a band with my wife (she sings) a drummer and a guitarist and we make what we call "sub-versions". It's covers arranged in a very different way than the originals. Here's our set list...

Billie Jean (M. Jackson, slow motion funk)
Strange Love (Depeche Mode, half dance, half ballad)
While my guitar... (J. Harrison, roots reggae)
Hot stuff (Donna Summer, punky/rocky)
If you love somebody (Sting, Santana style)
Let's stay together (A. Greene, closer to the Tina Turner funkier version)
Is this love? (Whitesnake, bluesy)
Human nature (M.Jackson, bossa)
The evil that men do (Iron Maiden, tumbao/flamenco fusion)
Sledgehammer (P.Gabriel, fast Aretha funk)
Synchronicity I (The Police, bossa with freaky Message in a bottle outro)
We will rock you (Queen, swing jazz)
Feel like making love (G.Benson, slow motion funk)
Baixo Rio (Ed Motta, pure soul, not that far from the original)
Don't be cruel (Blackwell/Presley, soulier of them all, with bass solo!)
From out of nowhere (Faith no more, 6/8 blues with "malambo" chorus)
Glamour boys (Living Colour, based on a funky guitar&bass riff all the time)
Light my fire (The Doors, super insane drum&bass punk)
Money (Pink Floyd, 4/4 Sade style hypnotic bass version)
Hunter (Björk, grunge)
Venus as a boy (Björk, reggae)
Made for loving you (Kiss, freaky drum&bass)
I can't dance/Need you tonight potpourri (Genesis/INXS, fast funk)

ANDRUCA

 

[Kraken]

Stupid Girl--Cold

Away from the COLD website forum you may be the only other person I have ever come across that knows of them!

 

[BluesMan845]

Great thread ! I copied 32 set lists. Hopefully, I can find the time to go through them all and try to come up with a nice "master list" of songs a cover band should do.

Here is what my band, RadioFlyer, plays currently:
1 Walk This Way Aerosmith
2 Hard to Handle Black Crows
3 Dead or Alive Bon Jovi
4 Crash Dave Matthews
5 Takin' it to the Streets Doobie Brothers
6 China Grove Doobie Brothers
7 Two Tickets to Paradise Eddie Money
8 Blue Suede Shoes Fifties 1 - Carl Perkins
9 Jailhouse Rock Fifties 2 - Elvis
10 Johnny B. Goode Fifties 3 - Chuck Berry
11 100 Years Five For Fighting
12 American Band Grand Funk
13 Sea Of Love Honeydrippers
14 Drive Incubus
15 Lights Go Down on the City Journey
16 Any Way You Want It Journey
17 Faithfully Journey B 18 Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' Journey
19 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin
20 Heartbreaker/Livin' Lovin' Maid Led Zeppelin
21 Heaven Los Lonely Boys
22 She Will Be Loved Maroon 5
23 This Love Maroon 5
24 Get Ready Motown1 - The Temptations
25 Midnight hour Motown2 - Wilson Pickett
26 Knock on Wood Motown3 - Eddie Floyd
27 Gimme Some Lovin' Motown4 - Spencer Davis Group
28 Signed, Sealed, Delivered Motown5 - Stevie Wonder
29 Mustang Sally Motown6 - Wilson Pickett
30 Reelin' In the Years Steely Dan
31 Josie Steely Dan
32 Black Friday Steely Dan
33 Born to be Wild Steppenwolf
34 Magic Carpet Ride Steppenwolf
35 Jungle Love Steve Miller
36 Da Doo Doo Doo The Police
37 Message in a Bottle The Police
38 Roxanne The Police
39 Walkin' On the Moon The Police
40 Every Step I Take The Police
41 Ain't Too Proud to Beg The Temptations
42 Talk to Ya Later The Tubes
43 Semi-Charmed Life Third Eye Blind
44 American Girl Tom Petty
45 Hold the Line Toto
46 Desire U2
47 Moondance Van Morrison
48 Into the Mystic Van Morrison
49 Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison
50 Owner of a Lonely Heart Yes
51 Under the Boardwalk Drifters
52 Margaritaville Jimmy Buffet
53 Addicted to Love Robert Palmer
54 Livin' on a Prayer Bon Jovi
55. RambleOn LedZep
56.Immigrant Song LedZep

 

[Legacyband]

Here is a partial listing:
AMANDA
AMARILO BY MORNING
ARE YOU SINCERE
BACK WHEN
BEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS
BLUE EYES CRYING IN THE RAIN
BLUE HAWAII
BLUE SUEDE SHOES
BOBBY MCGEE – ONLY WITH CHRISTY
BOOT SCOOTIN BOOGIE
BORN TO BOOGIE
BURNING LOVE
BURNING MEMORIES
CAN`T HELP FALLING IN LOVE
CHATAHOOCHIE
COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER
CRAZY OVER YOU
CRY TO ME
DEVIL WOMEN
DIXIE
DON`TAKE HER SHES ALL I GOT
DREAM LOVER
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
FAST AS YOU
FEELS SO RIGHT
FLIP FLOP FLY
FOLSUM PRISON BLUES
FOR THE GOOD TIMES
FROM A JACK TO A KING
GOD BLESS THE USA
GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY
GOOD HEARTED WOMAN
GOOD NIGHT SWEETHEART
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE
GREEN RIVER
GUITARS AND CADILACS
GUTAR POLKA
HANG ON SLOOPY
HE`LL HAVE TO GO
HOUND DOG
HUSBANS AND WIVES
I FEEL FINE
I SAW HER STANDING THERE
IT ONLY HURTS WHEN I CRY
IT'S NOW OR NEVER
IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE
IT'S SO EASY
JAILHOUSE ROCK
JOHNNY B GOOD
JUST CALL ME LONESOME
KANSAS CITY
KEEPER OF THE STARS
LAST KISS
LITTLE SISTER
LIVIN` ON LOVE
LOOK HEART NO HANDS
LOUIE LOUIE
LUCILLE
LUKENBACH TEXAS
MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY
MAMA DON'T DANCE
MARGARITAVILLE
MONEY (THAT’S ALL I WANT)
MONY MONY
MUSTANG SALLY
NEON MOON
OH DONNA
OH WHAT A THRILL
OLE COUNTRY
ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL/ TRUCK DRIVIN’ MAN
PEGGY SUE
POLK SALAD ANNIE
POOR SIDE OF TOWN
POUR ME – ONLY WITH CHRISTY
PRETTY WOMAN
PROUD MARY
RING OF FIRE
RUNAWAY
SECRET AGENT MAN
SEVEN YEAR ACHE –ONLY WITH CHRISTY
SILVER WINGS
SINGING THE BLUES
SOME GAVE ALL
STAND BY ME
SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN
SUSPICION
SWEET HOME ALABAMA
SWEET HOME CHICAGO
TEENAGER IN LOVE
TENNESSEE WALTZ
THERE GOES MY HEART
T.R.O.U.B.L.E
TULSA TIME
TUTTI FRUITI
TWIST AND SHOUT
UNDER THE BOARDWALK
WALK ON BY
WHERE AM I GOING TO LIVE
WILD SIDE OF LIFE
WIPE OUT
WONDERFUL TONIGHT
WORKING MAN BLUES
YOU GAVE ME A MOUNTAIN
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
YOU`VE LOST THAT LOVING- FEELING
YOU'RE CHEATING HEART

 

[::::BASSIST::::]

wow. that's alot of songs!

here is mine:

1. BREAK ON THROUGH
2. BACK IN THE USSR
3. PURPLE HAZE
4. MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
5. GREEN RIVER
6. INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS
7. TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
8. DRIVEN TO DRINK
9. SUFFRAGETTE CITY
10. i want to be sedated
11. I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND
12. sultans of swing
13. SYMPHONY IN C
14. TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN
15. lay down sally
16. DON'T STOP
17. I feel free
18. one
19. fortunate son
20. sweet home alabama
21. LIGHT MY FIRE

22. no sugar tonight
23. sunshine of your love
24. MOTHER'S LITTLE HELPER
25. GET BACK
26. MIKE IN THE BOX
27. brown eyed girl
28. SECOND-HAND NEWS
29. BAD MOON RISING
30. DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA
31. CALL ME
32. under the bridge
33. soak up the sun
34. NEW YEAR'S DAY
35. fire
36. ITS THE END OF THE WORLD
37. JUSTICE SLEEPS
38. I FEEL FINE
39. ROADHOUSE BLUES
40. HIGHWAY STAR

comments?