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Covers you refuse to play now or ever again

#124
My new favorite "love-to-hate" song is Gimme All Your Lovin'. We recently added it to our list. Why? I don't know. But folks do dance.

And it kills me, because I love ZZ Top. But could there be a more boring bass line? Even Sharp Dressed Man is (slightly) more interesting to play.

I read that ZZ Top will have a new album out soon. I wonder if I'll be able to get my band to play anything off it...


PS I love Wilson Pickett's music, so I never mind playing Mustang Sally.
 
#131
As long as we can do "alternative" versions I'll play almost anything - if not I'll agree with 99% of the list so far.

I played for a short while with a *** singer who insisted on doing a really pukey version of "my way" and I was so traumatized I will probably never play that song ever again... I wanted to hide behind my rig!
 
#134
bassteban said:
I refused to even consider anything by Faith Hill about a year ago and severely strained relations w/my beloved drummer, and although I love no musician like I do this man, I'd do the same thing today. My issue w/her is 1- she'd be completely unknown if she weren't a picture-perfect blond, & 2- she did a cover of Take a little piece of my heart and claimed not to know Janis Joplin did it first(lying or ignorant- can't decide). :spit:
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I don't think Janis did do it first.
 
#136
More tunes added and my comments are in RED


Walk This Way
Cocaine
Free Bird
Old Time Rock and Roll
Proud Mary
Killers version of a Morrisey song called Why don't find out for yourself rockabilly-surf VERSION = fail. big time
bohemian rhapsody
Love Hurts
Little Wing / Clapton style
Take the money and run
No Journey what so ever!
Play thatfunky music white boy
Mony Mony
Brown Eyed Girl
McArthur Park
MC hammer - Cant touch this
anything by Faith Hill
Jimmy Buffet songs
Mustang Sally
Freebird
Don't stop believing
Brown Eyed Girl
Brick House
any american pop like fall out boy
should i stay or should i go
FUnk 49
Mustang Sally
jessie's girl
mustang sally


what's going on" by 4 non-blondes
Margaritaville
SWEET HOME ALABAMA!!!!!! PLEASE, GOD....NO!!!!!! (how did I miss that one in my OP?)
Radio Ga Ga
Whole Lotta Love
Start Me Up
Rock n Roll All Nite
Freebird
Smoke On The Water
Skynard
Seger
Limp Bizkit...yeah we did, for a time play Break Stuff
Mustang Sally (it seems it's hated more and more)
Man Eater
Cocaine (and yes, I played this in bands back in the day when folks did lines off of their amp-tops...) AHH the good old days. How can someone write such a boring song about that. Well at least it was easy to play when you were totally out of it. Hmm, not that I ever did that you know ;)
Sweet Home Alabama (or *anything* by Skynard)
Mustang Sally
Jumpin' Jack Flash
China Grove...
YYZ
Pink Houses
Mustang Sally
3 Steps
Old Time R&R
Long Way to the Top
Living After Midnight
You Got Another Thing Coming
R&R All Night
Sweet Home
Creedence
Day Tripper
Hard Days Night
Back in Black
Hot Blooded by Foreigner

For those of you who've played in bands where you had a female lead up front, how about these? And, yes I've played them before many times.

Goodbye to you
Walk Like An Egyptian
I love Rock N Roll (ARGHHHHH.... I HATE THAT ONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!)

A few more additions to keep the list up to date.

hotel california
sweet home alabama (again)
Any Journey (+1)
Nirvana (shotgun please)
Pearl Jam (some of Eddie's stuff I like now - hated it then though)
Taking Care of Business
Cocaine
Jumping Jack Flash
Amarillo by Morning, Red Red Wine, The Chicken Dance & Anything By The Eagles and anything by the king Parrot Head Iimmy Buffet (Moe says these will cost you big bucks if you want to hear them)
Keep Your Hands to Yourself
Jumpin Jack Flash
Mony Mony
Old Time Rock and Roll
Sweet Home Alabama
Margaritaville
Hotel California
Don't Take The Girl (Low Tone - it's OK to cry we understand)
Anything by AC/DC and Lynard Skynard
New Orleans Lady
Wooly Bully (I'm going to tell Hatty and Matty you said that)
Funky Broadway
Crazy Train (I like the bass line in that one myself)
Enter Sandman
You Shook me all night long
I fall to pieces
Land Of 1000 Dances. (May I have more than one chord, please?) (Oh no, more Wilson Pickett hate)
Gimme All Your Lovin
Wonderful Tonight or anything by Clapton (post Cream)
Rockin in the Free World
smells like teen spirit
must shag sally
any 'duran duran' song
any'led zep' song
and 'to be with you' by mr big.loath that one with a passion.even refused to play it at rehearsal and got the '1000' yard stare by the rest of the band who loved it.shame.
My Way (???? isn't that classified as lounge music)

I'm going to show this list to my Wife tonight. I'm betting she will like 99% of the tunes on this list.


Keep em coming.

Keep Low :bassist:
 
#138
60bass said:
More tunes added and my comments are in RED

My Way (???? isn't that classified as lounge music)

I'm going to show this list to my Wife tonight. I'm betting she will like 99% of the tunes on this list.


Keep em coming.

Keep Low :bassist:
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+1 to it being lounge music - it fit in the set like a square peg in a round hole - but it fit the singer's ego perfectly (didn't play with him for long...)
 

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