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Need of more tunes.

odie

odie

Gold Supporting Member
Mar 12, 2000
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Minnesota, Earth, Milky Way
#1
We are trying to please the crowds more and more. As we do that we have been weeding out some of the newer harder rock stuff. What are some ideas for songs that we can still stomach to play.

FWIW we are a 4 piece. Guitar, bass, drums, vocal...with a sampler for intro/break parts etc.

311- Amber, Down
Alice In Chains- Would
Audioslave- Show Me How To Live
Blur- Song # 2
Cheech and Chong- Earache My Eye
Chevelle- Red
[B]Dope- You Spin Me
80' Remakes [/B] Super Freak, Cars
Flies- Got You Where I Want You
Foo Fighters -Breakout
Green Day- Brainstew/Jadded, When I Come Around
Hoobastank- The Reason
Incubus- Drive
Jet- Are You Gonna Be My Girl
JOHNNY CASH-RING OF FIRE
Limp Bizkit-METALLICA-Sanitarium
Linkin Park- One Step Closer
Lit- Own Worst Enemy
Marilyn Manson- Mobscene
Nine Inch Nails- Head Like A Hole
Orgy- Blue Monday
Papa Roach- She Loves Me Not
Powerman 5000- Free
Rage Against The Machine- Bulls On Parade, Killing In The Name Of
Ramones- Blitzkrieg Bop
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Suck My Kiss
Seether- Fine Again
Sevendust- Praise
Staind- For You, Mudshovel, So Far Away
Stone Temple Pilots- Dead & Bloated
Sublime- What I Got, 40 oz To Freedom, Caress Me Down
System Of A Down- Toxicity
Tantric- Breakdown
Taproot- Poem
Tool- Sober, Stinkfist
Violent Femmes- Blister In The Sun
White Stripes- Seven Nation Army
White Zombie- Electric Head, More Human Than Human

others that I couldnt think of.
 
#2
Today...

Local H- Bound For The Floor
Foo Fighters- Everlong
Eddie Money- I Think I'm In Love
Tommy Tutone- 867-5309 (Jenny)
Dishwalla- Counting Blue Cars
Soundgarden- Outshined
Danzig- Mother
The Cult- Lil' Devil
the Knack- Good Girls Don't

I've always wanted to do "Let Me Out" by the Knack.

edit- you're from "up nort" hey? Don't forget The Replacements- Can't Hardly Wait.
 
#6
A simple thing to do might be to just pick different songs from all those bands...Since you're talented enough to pull off some of that stuff, you could play the rest of those bands' catalogs and still do it convincingly.

Example:
311 - Come Original, What the Fxxx was I thinking?
Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole, Rooster
Audioslave - Cochise
*** that Blur song is old and boring...woohoo, bfd.
Mix up Chevelle with The Used - Taste of Ink
Foo Fighters - Hero or something new.
Green Day - American Idiot is destined to be a classic
*** lose the Hoobastank ---the reason is the worst goddxxmed song ever.
Incubus - Do "Pardon Me" and you'll be heroes in my book

wow that's a long list...

Tool - Aenima, 46 and 2
Rage - Take the Power back, Know your Enemy, Guerilla Radio, No Shelter
Metallica - Whisky in the Jar...I hate that one...Go Old Skool with Metallica, ie: Creeping Death, Battery, etc.
Chili Peppers - Greeting Song, Purple Stain, Around the World

The world needs more good hard rock/metal cover bands.
 
#8
Mo'Phat said:
A simple thing to do might be to just pick different songs from all those bands...Since you're talented enough to pull off some of that stuff, you could play the rest of those bands' catalogs and still do it convincingly.

Example:
311 - Come Original, What the Fxxx was I thinking?
Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole, Rooster
Audioslave - Cochise
*** that Blur song is old and boring...woohoo, bfd.
Mix up Chevelle with The Used - Taste of Ink
Foo Fighters - Hero or something new.
Green Day - American Idiot is destined to be a classic
*** lose the Hoobastank ---the reason is the worst goddxxmed song ever.
Incubus - Do "Pardon Me" and you'll be heroes in my book

wow that's a long list...

Tool - Aenima, 46 and 2
Rage - Take the Power back, Know your Enemy, Guerilla Radio, No Shelter
Metallica - Whisky in the Jar...I hate that one...Go Old Skool with Metallica, ie: Creeping Death, Battery, etc.
Chili Peppers - Greeting Song, Purple Stain, Around the World

The world needs more good hard rock/metal cover bands.
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We played Pardon Me, no one that heard us reacted....chirp chirp.

Old Mettalica- Everyone does it. We played that stuff for 10+ years. I think we met our threshold of being able to stamch it.

Godsmack-We used to play alot of but our newe singer cant pull it off.

Foo Fighters- We used to play Hero. Dont know why we dont anymore...??? :confused:

the reason- is pretty much on the cutting block, but it gets requested alot.

Peppers- We have played a few others...Give it Away, Scar Tissue etc. Tough to fill out the songs, they are really empty sounding live. People didnt seem to dig the newer stuff.


KEEP THE IDEAS COMING!!!
 
#9
odie said:
We played Pardon Me, no one that heard us reacted....chirp chirp.
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That's too bad...

I just think that Hoobastank song is goddawful "And the reason is YOUUUU!!" Sounds like a cat goin' tail-first into a woodchipper....hopefully your singer improves that blatant stab at groupie-getting...or is that why you play it?! :p

If you want to really get the ladies, you and the drummer sit down and your guitarist and singer can bust out More than Words. mmm...oh yeah. IMO, Chicks rock. They hate that slow crap in the middle of a rockin' set.

Okay...newer Metallica...Through the Never or Holier than Thou or (nod to a great bassline) My Friend of Misery...King Nothing...or...how many of your Metallica-covering bands actually cover their cover of Breadfan? Stone Cold Crazy? Am I Evil? Crash Course in Brain Surgery? -- All awesome.

I forgot One by One - Foo's
and Santeria - Sublime
and Aerials - System OAD
and Sunless Saturday - Fishbone


You should definitely omit the Dishwalla song, as well as the Meat Puppets, that lame band that did Cumbersome, Gin Blossoms, Train, the Wallflowers....basically any band that had a hit or two in the mid '90's...including 3 Doors Down.

But now it's just my preferences oozing in.
 
#12
odie said:
We are trying to please the crowds more and more. As we do that we have been weeding out some of the newer harder rock stuff. What are some ideas for songs that we can still stomach to play.

FWIW we are a 4 piece. Guitar, bass, drums, vocal...with a sampler for intro/break parts etc.

311- Amber, Down
Alice In Chains- Would
Audioslave- Show Me How To Live
Blur- Song # 2
Cheech and Chong- Earache My Eye
Chevelle- Red
[B]Dope- You Spin Me
80' Remakes [/B] Super Freak, Cars
Flies- Got You Where I Want You
Foo Fighters -Breakout
Green Day- Brainstew/Jadded, When I Come Around
Hoobastank- The Reason
Incubus- Drive
Jet- Are You Gonna Be My Girl
JOHNNY CASH-RING OF FIRE
Limp Bizkit-METALLICA-Sanitarium
Linkin Park- One Step Closer
Lit- Own Worst Enemy
Marilyn Manson- Mobscene
Nine Inch Nails- Head Like A Hole
Orgy- Blue Monday
Papa Roach- She Loves Me Not
Powerman 5000- Free
Rage Against The Machine- Bulls On Parade, Killing In The Name Of
Ramones- Blitzkrieg Bop
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Suck My Kiss
Seether- Fine Again
Sevendust- Praise
Staind- For You, Mudshovel, So Far Away
Stone Temple Pilots- Dead & Bloated
Sublime- What I Got, 40 oz To Freedom, Caress Me Down
System Of A Down- Toxicity
Tantric- Breakdown
Taproot- Poem
Tool- Sober, Stinkfist
Violent Femmes- Blister In The Sun
White Stripes- Seven Nation Army
White Zombie- Electric Head, More Human Than Human

others that I couldnt think of.
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While there is a ton of stuff I dig on here, no one gets decent gigs around here playing that type of stuff.....unless you want to play for the door. We have to figure out a way to get people on the dance floor, which can be pretty tough to do sometimes. I can't remember the last time I saw anyone dance to toxicity.
 
#13
Not gonna give you any "play this and not that" stuff (must get rid of Hooba though, please)

It sounds to me like you need some "ear-opener" stuff.

Try something totally out of left-field, in your style. It keeps the crowd guessing and you could instantly re-birth a classic. it needs to be a dancer song though, you got heaps of heavy stuff, which probably conforms to your bands style.

try rocking out some Roy Orbison, or Jeff Lynne, or some true-to-the-original Neil Young, or vamping out some little remembered classics - try "I Want Your Love" by Transvision Vamp.

I dunno, prolly get lynched for my suggestions - all I am trying to say is that you should explore the possibilities more. Covers bands are dime a dozen and you should set yourself apart by playing tunes that others don't.

Only my 5c
 
#16
Suggestions for bands already listed-

Alice in Chains - Man in A Box
STP - Unglued, Sex Type Thing
Hoobastank - Crawling in the Dark
Lit - Miserable
Green Day - She
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly


Suggestions with bands not listed-
Night Ranger - Dont Tell Me You Love Me
REO Speedwagon - Keep Pushin'
Def Leppard - Bringing on the Heartbreak
AC/DC - Shoot to Thrill
Pearl Jam - anything off the first two records
Goo Goo Dolls - Black Baloon, Name, Slide, Dizzy, Only One, Long Way Down, Big Machine
Iron Maiden - Ides of March/Wrathchild, Revelations, Flight of Icarus
 
#17
odie said:
I see alot of Dishwalla-counting blue cars in peoples lists. We played that back when it first came out and went ok, people never got excited over it. But then it was a newer tune. How does it go over for you others?
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We're not a cover band, but we throw a few out for giggles. That song goes over pretty good- the chicks seem to like it.

I guess it depends on your audience.
 

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