Favorite Bar Songs

[Danical]

I'm fed up with the retarded emo/indie/mod music one of the local bars plays and just about every staff member is as well. Most of the music played is from an ipod the old manager left behind.

You are tasked with making a 3 hour music set for a bar. The bar has Irish/English undertones (if that helps).

READY. SET. GO!

[Axhinde]

I was always a fan of the blues while sitting at bars. But I'm chummy.

[kheldarin]

Danzig.

[Asha]

The pogues, Flogging Molly, NOFX, Nils Lofgren, Blind Melon, The Levellers.
There, that sidesteps the shit you hate. I played these at my bar as part of my playlist and the mood was great, good times were had.

[Stanley Burrell]

I went to a bar around my hood, yo, that was sponsoring a karaoke open mic night. I would have preferred Expo 2000, by Kraftwerk, looping about ten trillion times to my noise + alcohol-induced vomiting than hear that shit again.

They need to keep that shit limited to cruise lines and Kutcher's Country Club.

[landy]

Irish/English undertones... try Dropkick Murphy

[Asha]

Dammit I knew I was forgetting something.

[Celephais]

Dropkick, Flogging Molly, Black 47, Bouncing Souls ... probably a few more I'm not remembering for your "modernized Irish cultural" music, but sprinkle your basic coverband sets inbetween it if you want to stay more generically diverse (as much as I personally love solid sets, I know most people don't love the drone of bagpipes as I do). Between classic/modern rock and early nineties you should be able to find some good filler.

[peam]

Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Tom Waits, and for that extra English feeling.. The Streets.

[peam]

P.S. I would NOT recommend playing pop-punk at your local bar.

[Jayvn]

fuck a bar, go with the pub and have it 24/7 stuff like the dubliners, corsairs, great big sea, wolfstone, and even some flogging molly.

[Celephais]

The Streets.
That's just evil. As funny as I find the streets, no one wants to listen to that at a bar.

[Celephais]

P.S. I would NOT recommend playing pop-punk at your local bar.
There are a lot of pop-punk songs DKM has, but they do a lot of real nice rock covers of traditional irish music, I agree that the punk/moshpit songs they have are not fitting for a bar, but something like Fields of Athenry, etc work nicely.

[peam]

That's just evil. As funny as I find the streets, no one wants to listen to that at a bar.

I suppose that would all depend on the person.

[Skeeter]

Irish / English you need some sing alongs. Throw piano man, turn the page, mony mony, if I had a 1000000, take the money and run, etc.

[Tsa`ah]

Heh ... I guess it's just a regional thing ...

You can't own a straight up shots, beer, and pool bar around here without George Thorogood, Floater, and Chumbawunba.

[Asha]

The Streets are a bag of shite. They're over now.

[Asha]

Thank God Chumbawumba are too :)

[peam]

Seconding the Chumbawumba motion.

However, The Streets are awesome.

[Latrinsorm]

Bruce Springsteen and CCR.

[Celephais]

Bruce Springsteen and CCR.
Agreed! Songs that rock cover bands play are the way to go in a bar.

[Danical]

All great ideas!

Could people start compiling the actual songs?

Maybe something like this--

#. Band Name -- Song Name

1. Queen -- Don't Stop Me Now

[Skeeter]

FFS do you want us to load them on an iPod and mail them to you also?

[landy]

For real, we give you fucking musical gold and all you can do is ask for more cowbell, landy... out.

[Danical]

For real, we give you fucking musical gold and all you can do is ask for more cowbell, landy... out.

I was hoping this would be a collaborative effort. Like a PC Bar Song List not a Vulvamancer Bar Song List.

A lot of people just gave me bands, not the choice song titles of said bands (although Skeeter did). I didn't think asking for a few more seconds of time was really that much of a request.

[Lyonis]

"I got friends in low places" by Garth Brooks seems to fit in to my neighborhood watering hole quite well. Keller can testify to that.

When Ice Cube comes on right after it makes it much less lame, and meshes well with the eclectic world that is Culver City.

P.S Pennywise "Bro Hymn" wins

[Danical]

#. Band Name -- Song Name

1. Queen -- Don't Stop Me Now
2. Barenaked Ladies -- If I Had $1000000
3. (Tommy James And The Shondells or Billy Idol) -- Mony Mony
4. (5+ different versions) -- Turn the Page
5. Billy Joel -- Piano Man
6. Steve Miller Band -- Take the Money and Run

[peam]

P.S Pennywise "Bro Hymn" wins

Dude, no.

[Sean of the Thread]

You guys are scaring me.

[Lyonis]

6. Steve Miller Band -- Take the Money and Run


Anything by the Steve Miller Band is full of awesome.

[peam]

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I Am A Cinematographer
The Misfits - Where Eagles Dare
Uncle Tupelo - Still Be Around and Whiskey Bottle
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Eric Clapton - Layla
The Replacements - Here Comes A Regular
Black Flag - Six Pack
Rumbleseat - Rye Whiskey
Morris Day and the Time - Jungle Love
Wilco - You Are My Face
TV On The Radio - Staring at the Sun

[ELO]

There's something about "So Into You" by the Atlantic Rythm Section when you're at a bar...

[Asha]

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I Am A Cinematographer
The Misfits - Where Eagles Dare
Uncle Tupelo - Still Be Around and Whiskey Bottle
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Eric Clapton - Layla
The Replacements - Here Comes A Regular
Black Flag - Six Pack
Rumbleseat - Rye Whiskey
Morris Day and the Time - Jungle Love
Wilco - You Are My Face
TV On The Radio - Staring at the Sun

Holy shit where was I. Completely should have said both.
Good.

[Celephais]

http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?t=20476

[Latrinsorm]

Bruce
Born to Run
10th Avenue Freeze-out
E Street Shuffle
No Surrender
Thunder Road
This Hard Land
One Headlight (with the wallflowers, LIVEZ)
Rosalita
The River

I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

CCR
Just get Chronicle v1.

[Gan]

180 minutes of drinking/bar songs.

1. Come on Eileen - Dexy's midnight runners
2. Bad to the Bone - George Thoroughgood
3. Dixie Chicken - Garth Brooks
4. Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
5. Piano Man - Billy Joel
6. Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks
7. American Pie - Don McClean
8. Hotel California - Eagles
9. Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
10. Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
11. Old Time Rock n Roll - Bob Seger
12. AllStar - Smashmouth
13. Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites
14. Hurt So Good - John Melloncamp
15. 8675309 - Johnny Tutone
16. Been Caught Stealing - ? (cant remember the band)
17. Funky Cole Medina - Tone Loc
18. Bust A Move - Young MC
19. Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
20. Legs - ZZ Top
21. LaGrange - ZZ Top
22. Panama - Van Halen
23. Jump - Van Halen
24. 1984 - Van Halen
25. Tom Sawyer - Rush
26. Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
27. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffett
28. The Gambler - Kenny Rogers

A few thoughts.

[Latrinsorm]

Smashmouth, dude? :no:

[peam]

Christ almight, Gan. Did you just list the last 28 songs that were played on your local ClearChannel classic rock station?

Totally dropped the ball.

Replace Talking Heads' 'Burning Down The House' with Life During Wartime, Slippery People, or Psycho Killer.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I Am A Cinematographer
The Misfits - Where Eagles Dare
Uncle Tupelo - Still Be Around and Whiskey Bottle
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Eric Clapton - Layla
The Replacements - Here Comes A Regular
Black Flag - Six Pack
Rumbleseat - Rye Whiskey
Morris Day and the Time - Jungle Love
Wilco - You Are My Face
TV On The Radio - Staring at the Sun


I was trying to compile a list but I think I'll just second yours.

[peam]

I was trying to compile a list but I think I'll just second yours.

/preen

[Stanley Burrell]

The Streets were fucking awesome before they got mentioned in Rolling Stone. "Stay Positive" and "Geezers need Excitement" would prolly stop alcohol sales, so I don't think it'd be received well by the bar industry.

Just no karaoke open microphone shit. They need to play Ghostface Killah and Raekwon the Chef, fuckers.

[Anebriated]

For the record... as funny as the episode of family guy was... Journey is not bar music.

1. CCR - Fortunate Son, Bad Moon Rising, Proud Mary, Midnight Special
2. GNR - Its so Easy, Sweet Child O Mine, Nighttrain, Paradise City
3. AC/DC - Have a Drink on Me, Back in Black, Thunderstruck
4. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower, Purple Haze, Fire
5. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
6. Tom Petty - Breakdown, Running Down a Dream, Mary Janes Last Dance
7. George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,
8. Jimmy Buffet - Why Dont we Get Drunk and Screw,
9. Santana - Evil Ways, Black Magic Woman
10. Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
11. Bob Seger - Turn the Page
12. Steve Miller Band - Take the Money and Run, The Joker
13. Van Halen - Runnin with the Devil, You Really Got Me
14. ZZ Top - La Grange, Tush
15. The Animals - House of the Rising Sun


I could think of more later but thats a good start from the era that people have started with here.