What cover gets your crowd going the most?

[davidd]

I was just wondering what other peoples experiences are (whilst looking for good things to add to our set list!).


We have quite a varies list. I've noticed that the crowd really get going when we play 'Boys don't cry' which is annoying as I hate it, we added 'She Sells Sanctuary' for the last gig and they went bananas.

Cheers

D

mod note: No links to your own band please.

Edited by eybic on Thursday 29th January 12:14

[BorkFactor]

Sadly I have only played a handful of gigs (something that needs to change...) but of all the sets I have played, Sultans of Swing and Whole Lotta Love seem to go down the best and really get peoples attention.

Great fun to play as well!

[HOGEPH]

Brown Sugar, Jumping Jack Flash, 20th Century Boy. Old classics never fail!

[littleredrooster]

Depending on where we were playing, our late-set numbers used to include Hi Ho Silver Lining and Mustang Sally. Girlies used to love them!

[popegregory]

We do the Mark Ronson / Amy winehouse one which I can't stand, aside from that Mustang Sally always goes down well too. Oh, and Mr Brightside is always popular.

[BorkFactor]

Don't forget Sweet Home Alabama either!

[davidd]

Interesting that these are mostly old standards.. We do I predict a riot and I bet that you look good on the dancefloor, tey seem to love those.. Anny other modern stuff?

Re Whole Lotta Love, we are mashing it into Taylor Swift Shake it off at a gig on Saturday, should be interesting although I cannot get the solo in (it kills it dead).

[BorkFactor]

That does sound like an interesting mix! Sure you can't change songs after the solo? It's the best part!

With modern stuff, Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon seems to go down well too.

[davidd]

BorkFactor said:

That does sound like an interesting mix! Sure you can't change songs after the solo? It's the best part!

With modern stuff, Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon seems to go down well too.

Maybe, we've only just started to do it, I'll have another look after Saturday... It's annoying as I can play the bloody solo.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Here's my 5-piece band's set list:

Set 1:
Monster
Girl all the Bad Guys Want
Jailbreak
Learn to Fly
Hold the Line
It’s My Life
Is This Love
White Wedding
Here I Go again
Times Like These
Feeling Good
Bartender and the Thief
American Idiot
Don’t You Forget About Me
Dakota

Set 2:
Crazy Train
Vehicle
Animal
No One Knows
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Poison
Pinball Wizard
The Pretender
Sex on Fire
Are you Gonna be my Girl
Living on a Prayer
You Give Love a Bad Name
Rebel Yell
I Predict a Riot
Chelsea Dagger
Basket Case


The first set has some classic 70's / 80's rock in there, for the 'musos and old rockers' that might be in the pub sort of earlier on when it's less hectic. They usually like and appreciate the attention to a quality rendition of good old classic tracks like those.

The second set goes in a slightly different direction - the first few are 'big sounding' tracks that, although a bit 'rocky' also have a groove to them which starts to get people a bit more excited.

The next few from 'I believe' to 'The Pretender' are also well recognised, and keep most people's attention. The girls like Poison and I believe, and the chaps usually love The Pretender.

By the time we play 'Sex on Fire', it's about 10:30 or so, and most people are drunk enough to want to be silly, but also have their attention towards us, rather than wanting to stand and try and talk to their mates...

Hence 'Sex on Fire' ALWAYS gets ALL the girls up dancing, everywhere....works every time. And now they're up, they all love the next few songs, especially the Bon Jovi stuff....you really can't go wrong with Jovi. As the singer, I normally go and grab a chair, put it in the middle of the dance floor, and sing the song from there, replacing the lyrics 'living on a prayer' with 'standing on a chair...!'

I Predict a Riot and Chelsea Dagger makes them all go mental, again they never fail. By the time we play Chelsea Dagger, I've whipped them up into a frenzy by shouting at them to sing along....and everyone in the pub, including the bar staff, cannot resist singing 'duh-duh-duh....duh-duh-duh....duh-duh doobie doo...'

We normally finish on that, saying thanks and goodnight whilst the band do a huge 'stadium finish' at the end of the song. Then we always get shouted at for an encore, so my rhythm guitarist starts playing the intro chords to 'Basket Case' over and over whilst I wind them up like......'oh, you want more do you? Eh? Who wants more!!!' Etc. etc...

Then I say something like 'ok, we might have one more song....' then launch into the first verse......' do you have the time, to listen to me whine....'

They go mental. Everyone knows the song, and after 2 years of experimenting, this second set works brilliantly, everywhere we go.


I hope this helps!

[davidd]

Thanks Ray, there are some cracking songs in that list, some of it is a little Rocky for us but there are a few bits in there I might steal.

We do Jailbird and get the audience singing back to us, they love it.