Ok, at the moment I want the band to focus on learning 10+ cover songs to play at pub/bar/club gigs. We do some Nirvana, Blink182, and Grinsp00n covers. I was wondering if anyone can get a list of songs that are relatively easy to learn, and are fairly well-known that would be crowd-pleasers to all ages of people at a pub/bar/club scene. This is the lineup at the moment:
1. Blink182- Dammit
2. Nirvana- The Man Who Sold the World
3. Grinsp00n- Just Ace
4. Nirvana- Come As You Are
5. Grinsp00n- Dead Cat X3
Can you guys suggest up to 10 more songs?
Hi Funkman!
  Though, of course, it depends on what pleases the crowd (simply, what crowd your aiming to entertain), but just for suggestions sake, here's my take.  Â
The first I'll just list a couple of classic rock/modern alternative.
Place in any order you like...
I just started listing things that I thought would probably be well known.
I hope this helps!
Rock on!
~Ryan
All the suggestions are good.
Easy songs
Most Chili peppers songs are simple
I would add:
Queen - Tie Your Mother Down - built for the stage, it has a solid riff, half a dozen chords, and a solo and it rocks along like no other.
Alan 8)
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Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman
Pearl Jam - Alive
Pearl Jam - Black
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
Live - Lightning Crashes
Britney Spears - Baby one more time
That one always goes down well :)
Paginie's 24th caprice?
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Tom Petty-freefalling
Creed-higher
U2-Sunday bloody sunday
George Benson-Breezin'
Ever notice how people look at you funny when you're walking down the street and jiggling your fingers while going, "Naaar Naiiieer Naaaaeer Nira Neeeeear Neaur."?
Bush - Glycerine
Nirvana - InBloom
Nirvana - Lithium
Nirvana - Polly
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
Alice In Chains - Heaven Beside You
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
Samshing Pumkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
EverClear - Santa Monica
Hole - Violet
Nada Surf - Popular
Blur - Song Number 2
Green Day 1- Brain Stew, 2- When I Come Around
My suggestions would be to look for all the tabs for the songs you might consider playing live and see how difficult it is to play when you add the guitar, bass, drums, and lyrics towards playing the songs. The songs I have listed up above should be fairly easily to play since those were the songs that I first learned when I started to play the guitar 7 years ago, and they are all pretty well known.
I'd suggest playing about 5 Nirvana" songs when your playing live because Kurt's material is pretty easy to learn from since he doesn't do alot of crazy solos like Metal bands such as Metallica and Megadeth. Anyway these are just my thoughts on what you and and band should try to achieve, so Good Luck !
We've added the following songs to our setlist and have gotten a great response:
No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley
Drift Away - Dobie Gray
Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
These are pretty well known songs that the crowd loves to sing along with.
Most Blink 182 songs are relitively easy, I reccommend the Dude Ranch Songbook :)
I wish I could hear you do dammit :) I want to cover that one day.
Problem is, older Blink stuff isn't much of a general croud pleaser, you should play for your audience, or get an audience for what you play :)
I wouldnt do nirvanas smells like teen spirit for the sole reason that the original is so inbedded in peoples minds, and so well loved by fans of grunge that they'd compare you to kurt and surmise that youre not as good, plus its kinda like the grunge stairway to heaven; everyone learns it, then never plays it in public. I try to look for stuuf that isnt a huge hit, or too well known, but that is pretty popular within the genre(s) your audience likes. qwith that in mind, I shall suggest;
In bloom - nirvana
she - greenday
basketcase - greenday
jeremy - pearl jam
alive - pearl jam
purple haze - jimi hendrix
hey joe (poss. speeded up a bit to fit in with the set) - jimi hendrix
anything by idlewild - maybe when we argue I see shapes or actually its darkness
I've played all of these in punk and grunge bands and got a great audience response.
also, lok for stuff you can elaborate on, non-punk or grunge songs you can make work in that setting (the vandals rewrite of summer days from grease is sooooo funny).this can work well on well-known songs. maybe sometinhg like send in the clowns or somewhere over the rainbow set to a punk or grunge backing? for example, hendrix's souped up versh of johnny b. goode is ace and doesnt pander too much to the original. try it out with smoe well-known songs and you might find something interesing, which will get your fans coming back to future gigs.
Well, me and my friends usually do that sort of thing, the 5 songs we normally perform are (and Im suprised noone else mentioned maiden)
Clapton: Layla
Iron Maiden: Blood Brothers
Queen: We Will Rock You
Metallica: Enter Sandman
U2: Bloody Sunday
Or:
Iron Maiden: Fear Of The Dark
Queen: Innuendo
Creed: One Last Breath
Ozzy Osbourne: Paranoid
We play these in random orders, and simplify some stuff, but they go down well usually.......
Certain songs work in certain places.I never have understood why people stay stuck in one musical style,but it shall be this way forever.To stay working one must learn different styles.So my list is varied,here goes.
1. Brown Eyed Girl.......chicks always go for this one
2. You never called me by my name........rednecks
3. Play That Funky Music........you can rock this one hard
4. Wonderful Tonight.......a slow one that works always
5. Kryptonite.............I know....but it works
6. Any George Strait tune.........rednecks Part 2
Wouldn't it be nice if we could play our original music and be liked for doing so.I play for a living,mostly in clubs and lounges and still see the people look only for the cover crap....................
