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Whats your setlist?

Here's some of our list, off the top of my head

8 Days a Week / Just Seen a Face / Ob La Di - Beatles
Fadeaway / Misery - BoDeans
Cecelia / Julio - Paul Simon
Fast as You / Little Sister - D Yoakam
All for You - Sister Hazel
Peaceful Easy Feeling / Take it Easy - Eagles
Come and Get your Love - Redbone
Oh What a Night - Valli and 4 Seasons
Couldn't Get it RIght - Climax Blues Band
American Kids - K Chesney
Luchenbach - Waylon
Stuck in the Middle - Steelers Wheel
Draggin the Line - Shondels?
Brandy - Chili Peppers version
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller
Billie Jean - M Jackson
Toes - Zac Brown
Fooled Around and Fell in Love - E Bishop
You May be Right / Longest Time - B Joel
Crazy Little Thing - Queen
Truckin - Grateful Dead
Good Hearted Woman - Waylon
Blister in Sun - Violent Femmes
No No Song - Ringo
Two Pina Coladas - G Brooks
The Way - Fastball

Just a quick glimpse, 3 pc group, all of us sing and the lead vocal guy has a great voice to sing the high stuff.

Dancing happens alot at our gigs, lots of fun.
 
Hi you all
For now we have (not in order of what so ever)

Gel / shine - collective soul
rollin in the deep - Adele
NIB - Sabbath/Ugly kid Joe
Are u gonna be my girl - jet
Rock and roll - Led zep
Interstate love song - stp (darn i love that song)
I love rock and roll/hitme with ur best shot - Johan and Pat
sweet emotion - aerosmith
call me - blondie
Take me out - franz ferdiand
respect - arita F.
mr brightside - killers

after a month and a half i pretty proud !
 
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Here's some of our list, off the top of my head

8 Days a Week / Just Seen a Face / Ob La Di - Beatles
Fadeaway / Misery - BoDeans
Cecelia / Julio - Paul Simon
Fast as You / Little Sister - D Yoakam
All for You - Sister Hazel
Peaceful Easy Feeling / Take it Easy - Eagles
Come and Get your Love - Redbone
Oh What a Night - Valli and 4 Seasons
Couldn't Get it RIght - Climax Blues Band
American Kids - K Chesney
Luchenbach - Waylon
Stuck in the Middle - Steelers Wheel
Draggin the Line - Shondels?
Brandy - Chili Peppers version
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller
Billie Jean - M Jackson
Toes - Zac Brown
Fooled Around and Fell in Love - E Bishop
You May be Right / Longest Time - B Joel
Crazy Little Thing - Queen
Truckin - Grateful Dead
Good Hearted Woman - Waylon
Blister in Sun - Violent Femmes
No No Song - Ringo
Two Pina Coladas - G Brooks
The Way - Fastball

Just a quick glimpse, 3 pc group, all of us sing and the lead vocal guy has a great voice to sing the high stuff.

Dancing happens alot at our gigs, lots of fun.

Dude - I like your setlist! Have to get to one of your shows this year to check it out!
 
Summer of 69
Working For The Weekend
Blister In The Sun
Dancing With Myself/Sedated
Every Rose has Its Thorn
Fight For Your Right to party
Handclap
Hurts So Good
Jessie's Girl
Keep Your Hands To Yourself
Living on a Prayer
Mony Mony
Play That Funky Music
Pour Some Sugar on Me
Rebel Yell
Shut Up and Dance
Sweet Home/All Summer long
Tainted Love
Talk Dirty To Me
Turn Up The Radio
We're Not Gonna Take It
What I Like About You/R.O.C.K.
Wild Wild West
Wildflower
Love Shack
I Hate Myself (For loving You)
I Love Rock and Roll
Kiss
Mickey
One Way or Another
Separate Ways
Sweet Child 'O mine
We Got The Beat/RnR all night
You Shook Me All Night Long
Pump Up The Jam Medley
Push It
Walk like an Egyptian
We Built This City
Black Velvet
Don't Stop Believing
Ex's and Oh's
Girls just Wanna Have Fun
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Like A Virgin
Centerfold
1999
Crazy for You
Feel it Still
Uptown Funk
Alone
No Roots
Jump
Sister Christian
White Wedding
Once Bitten Twice Shy
 
to be successful, your set list should be 100% influenced by your intended audience. successful cover bands play what people want to hear, not the bands favorite songs to play.

as far as length, IMO you should have about 40-45 songs worked up. a typical night is 3-4 hours... so 3 sets of 15 songs should easily cover 4 hrs. better to have too many songs ready than not enough.
 
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Here's the current 4 hr set list for our classic rock band:

Set 1
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1 Radar Kings Opener
2 Can't Get Enough
3 Born on the Bayou
4 Runnin' Down A Dream
5 Mary Janes Last Dance
6 China Grove
7 Listen To The Music
8 Black Magic Woman
9 Dirty White Boy
10 Bad Case of Lovin' You
11 Fortunate Son
12 Red House
13 Hey Joe
14 Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
15 Fool For Your Stockings
16 I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
17 Rough Boy
18 Rocky Mountain Way
- 15-minute break (15:00) -

Set 2
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19 Danoon Welcome
20 Hey Bulldog
21 Taxman
22 Come Together
23 Day Tripper
24 Oh Pretty Woman
25 I'm A Believer
26 Sunshine of Your Love
27 White Room
28 You May Be Right
29 Stuck in the Middle With You
30 Honky Tonk Women
31 I Ain't Afraid Of Your Husband
32 We're An American Band
33 Mississippi Queen
34 Born To Be Wild
35 Crazy Little Thing Called Love
36 Comfortably Numb
37 Alright Now
38 Twilight Zone
- 15-minute break (15:00) -

Set 3
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39 Radar Kings Opener Set 3
40 Pearl Necklace
41 Waitin For The Bus
42 Jesus Just Left Chicago
43 End Of The Line
44 Radar Love
45 Born Under A Bad Sign
46 Jet Airliner
47 Birthday
48 Secret Agent Man
49 Suffragette City
50 Crossroads
51 Fly Away
52 Surrender
53 Her Strut
54 Fish Camp Woman
 
Currently this my setlist for my four piece:
Set 1:

Ring of Fire
Waste of Time (original)
If I Had a Pony
Just Like the 1980's (original)
White Freightliner
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Other Singer's Choice (Currently Deal from Jerry Garcia)
I Feel Alright Tonight (Steve Earle)
New York Banker (Todd Snider)
Charlie and the MTA

Set 2:
Jeff the Killer Weasel (original)
I Melt With You
Wagon Wheel
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Call Me Euro-American (original)
Other Singer's Choice (currently Pink Houses)
Lawyers, Guns, and Money
The Laws of Propaganda (original)
Mexican Radio
It's The End of the World As We Know It

Set 3:
Keep Your Hands to Yourself
Broken Septic Tanks (original - rip off of La Grange)
The Beat Generation (via the Beat Farmers)
Everyday is a Winding Road
The Kind of Girl I Could Love (Monkees)
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Other Singer's Choice
Let It All Be (original)
Guns Don't Kill People (original) - we often skip this song
Taxman
Werewolves of London
Hey, Hey, My, My - if there is time. We have yet to play this live.
 
Ill play... Sat at the Stanhope House NJ

Alabama Getaway
Promised land
Althea
Me and My Uncle ->
Big River
Dire Wolf
Let it Grow
Loser
Cumberland Blues
Music Never Stopped

When Push Comes To Shove
Greatest Story Ever Told (72)
Help on the Way ->
Slipknot ->
Franklins Tower
Estimated Prophet ->
The Wheel ->
Sugar Magnolia ->
Loose Lucy ->
Turn on Your Lovelight ->
Sunshine DayDream
Morning Dew

...for sure the whole room will be on their feet and dancing all night long.
Grateful for our scene.
 
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This is our most recent setlist from a 3-hour show last weekend. I think we cover a good variety of styles and tempos and most of them are a lot of fun to play.


Set 1

Steal My Kisses
Angel Of The Morning
Exs and Ohs
Wagon Wheel
House Of The Rising Sun
Can't Let Go→Folsom Prison Blues
Life During Wartime
Semi Charmed Life
Long Cool Woman
9 to 5
Seven Nation Army
The Middle
American Girl
Just Like Heaven
867-5309/Jenny
Shame On You
Stuck In The Middle With You→Bang a Gong
Big Black Horse and A Cherry Tree
Material Girl
La Bamba→Twist and Shout→Good Lovin’

Set 2
I’m Yours
Havana
Crimson And Clover
These Boots Are Made For Walking
One After 909
I Won’t Back Down
Stir It Up→One Love
Listen To The Music
No Roots
All I Wanna Do
Get This Party Started
Get Lucky→We Are Family
And She Was
What I Got
Workin' For A Living
Gimme All Your Lovin’→Sharp Dressed Man
Keep Your Hands To Yourself
Bang On The Drum All Day
Surfin’ USA→Bad Case Of Loving You→I Saw Her Standing There
 
Hey @Nick Danger
What is "Radar Kings Opener" exaclty?!
When i google that i get a link that they lost in the last inning :roflmao::laugh:

Radar Kings is the name of our band. We have a prerecorded opener for each of our sets. We play classic rock so the openers are things like the Bonanza theme, Hawaii 5-0 & Perry Mason with some voiceovers. It's a fun way to introduce the band.
 
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Just did a fill-in gig, the list was thus (not in this order). Was a fun mix, eclectic/modern/old/standard.

1 - How ya like me now
2 - Parachute
3 - Tennessee whiskey
4 - SOB
5 - You worry me - N. Rateliff
6 - Mr Brightside
7 - Girls, Girls, Boys - Panic at the Disco
8 - Feel it Still - Portugal The Man
9 - Wish I Knew You - The Revivalists
10 - Better Now - Post Malone
11 - Use Somebody
12 - Sex on Fire
13 - Sugar, We're Going Down
14 - In Bloom - Neck Deep
15 - absolutely - Nine Days
16 - Ophelia
17 - Still Feel - Half Alive
18 - Cake by the Ocean
19 - Short Skirt, Long Jacket
20 - Somebody Like You
21 - 1985
22 - Animal - Neon Trees
23 - Valerie
24 - Crazy - Ceelo
25 - Slide
26 - Use Me
27 - Sweet Caroline
28 - American Girl
29 - Buddy Holly
30 - Footloose
31 - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
32 - Blister in the Sun
33 - Don't Stop
34 - September
35 - I Can't Go For That
 
I'll bite... we are definitely 'Classic Rock'

Rocky Mountain Way – Joe Walsh
Hard Sun – Eddie Vedder
Blow at High Dough – Tragically Hip
Rain on the Scarecrow – John Mellancamp
Jumpin' Jack Flash – Rolling Stones
6th Avenue Heartache – The Wallflowers
High And Dry – Radiohead
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
Better Man – Eddie Vedder
Born on the Bayou – CCR
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynard Skynard
Honky Tonk Woman – Rolling Stones
The One I Love – REM
Mary Jane's Last Dance – Tom Petty
7 Nation Army – The White Stripes
Whiskey in the Jar – Gary Moore/Thin Lizzy
Lost Together – Blue Rodeo
My Old Friend the Blues – Steve Earle (acoustic)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door – Bob Dylan/G&R
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
All Along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
Sweet Jane – Lou Reed
Susie Q – CCR
Poor, Poor Pitiful Me – Warren Zevon
Takin' Care of Business – BTO
Bad Moon Rising – CCR
The WeightThe Band
Time of Your Life – Green Day (acoustic)
The Wall – Pink Floyd
You Can't Always Get What You Want – Rolling Stones


How does Sweet Jane go over?
 
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Here is what we have so far:
Havana-Celina Cabello
Locomotion-Little Eva
Dakota-Stereophonics
Shut Up And Let Me Go-Ting Ting's
Get Lucky-Daft Punk
Ex's and Oh's-Elle King
Valerie-Amy Winehouse
Zombie-Cranberries
Unchain My Heart-Joe Cocker
Proud May-CCR
The Way You Make Me Feel-Michael Jackson
Some Kind Of Wonderful-Grand Funk
Ca Me Vexe-Mademoiselle K
Stupid Girl-Garbage
Feel It Still-Portugal The Man
What's Up-4 Non Blondes
Call Me-Blondie
One Way Or Another-Blondie
I Don't Care, I Love It-Icona Pop
Creep-Radiohead
Santeria-Sublime
Take Me Down-Pretty Reckless
Heartbreaker-Pat Benatar
 

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