I was once in a covers band that did a lot of pretty decent pop/rock songs and for one gig the BL had us learn a bunch of Christmas carols. They weren't even rocky versions, just traditional slow, boring carols. So the most embarrasing song? The Little Drummer Boy. I need to point out that the host who hired us hadn't asked us to play Christmas music but the gig was in December so BL just thought it would be a good idea to slip a couple into each set. After the second one, the host asked us to stop playing them.
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Most "embarrassing" song.....
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I remember how red the bride's face turned when we played Savoy Brown's "She's got a ring in his nose and a ring on her hand". The marriage lasted less than a year, no sense of humor.
I f'n love Abba. Seriously, I realized when I first started playing that I couldn't really learn songs I was going to get sick of easily because I sucked and needed to play them about 100 times to get it. There are of course songs I've heard over 30 years countless times that I haven't gotten sick of so those are the ones I set out to learn. Lay all your love on me is a really great song to practice steady tempo at 133 bpm. But mostly it's just that Rutger Gunnarrson's basslines are really fun to play and interesting to analyze. One of Us is tricky I still don't have it down exactly but have it down fundamentally. However I'm not embarrassed by them.
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Lyrics may be the most vulgar and primitive things you heard in your entire life without even knowing it
Really it is not possible to translate to English, and trying not to be vulgar makes stuf even harder.But when it comes to turbo folk, brief history goes back to 60s when first recorded music showed up in Yugoslavia, folk songs played by orchestras were the standard. People wanted more and then newly composed and written folk songs came out. It was like that up till the late 80s. All this music sounds the same, like this:
Then in the 80s, 3 guys started doing folk music with synths, guitars, accordion, bass guitar and rhythm machine. They were very, very sucessful. Around 7-8 singers recorded with them back then. They are called Juzni Vetar (Southern Wind) and all their songs are easily recognizable, jazz bass and 80s drum machine.
Then in the 90s and early 2000s turbo folk came out. Basically dance music with accordion and synths.
Nowdays there is barely any real folk music out there, young people listen to some crap with autotune. I guess this was not that boring to read and listen to lol.
Years ago in a pop-rock cover band we played a dance song namely "Sucks to be You" by Prozzak. There is a vocal duel between male and female vocals where female vocal sings "Sucks to be you" and a low key male vocal answers "I know it's true". Male lyrics go as far as "I'm a b*stard and it's true"... I was the only back vocal in the band with a suitable range.
I used to sing the male vocals a couple times, then we dumped the song.
I used to sing the male vocals a couple times, then we dumped the song.
The Fraggle Rock theme song. I learned it for my kids when they were little just goofing around. Well, this past Sunday at sound check the sound guy called me out and I just started playing it without even thinking. Everyone was like “what is that?” . Well, I’m honest so I told them and everyone got a good laugh
There's a (real) reason that eludes bar owners, other than they make money, as to why people who are drunk want to hear this song- it MAKES THEM DRINK MORE!!!
Back when that song came out, we did a great send up of it- mash those THREE songs together, and not in a flattering way!
Lead singer would start the Kid Rock song. As he'd start the second verse, Lead guitarist would start singing Sweet Home Alabama in a mood that sounded like he was trying to take the song away from the vocalist, and I'd then I'd chime in with Werewolves.
It took the crowd anywhere from 10 seconds to two or three minutes (depending on 2nd or 3rd set) to realize what we were doing and that all three songs used the SAME CHORD PROGRESSIONS!
Always a hoot- try it at a wedding gig and see what happens!
Used to do Bitch and Touch myself.
Luckily, after the first time, we got a female singer to do it. Metal guys can't look good singing Either one! LOL
It's never the song selection that's embarrassing. It's playing a song that a singer insists on doing but can't sing. You feel embarrassed for the singer as she sings flat and for yourself for being seen on stage with her.
We Got The Beat by the Go Go's....my, then, female singer complained about not having "female" songs to sing. So the rest of us learned it as a joke before our next rehearsal. We cracked up...she didn't find much humor in our joke.
Easy Lover MAY be a cheesy song (and the true indicator that Phil had sold his soul to Satan), but you can't deny that hook, written by our very own Nathan East!The worst/most embarrassing was back in the 80's. I was touring with a three piece Top 40 act. Guitar/Keys. Synth Guitar (Roland) and Linn Drum and myself on Bass and keys. We played all the current crap. The worst? Phil Collins/Phil Bailey's "Easy Lover"....I sang the falsetto parts. We were on the road for weeks at a time. I'm still having nightmares.
I understand that Monica Lewinski is no longer a fan (but I'm sure Bill still is! After all, Zappa loved the saxophone!)...
Played both. Same band that had the Metal Front Man sing "I touch myself" and "Bitch" for ONE GIG.
