give me your set lists

[sir funkytown]

Lets share the set lists we are all using.Maybe other forum readers will get song ideas.Any kind of band is ok.I am in Albany NY for New Years Eve with the ABBA tribute band I play bass for.This is what we are likely playing tonight.

INTRO(medely of "Gimmie Gimme(a man after midnight)"and "LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME")
WATERLOO
SOS
GIMME GIMME(BAND SOLOS...I rip off Larry Graham for my solo)
SUPER TROUPER
CHICITITA
FERNANDO(audiance participation)
WINNER TAKES IT ALL
LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME
ON AND ON AND ON
NAME OF THE GAME/EAGLE(big guitar solo thing while the girls change costumes)
DANCING QUEEN

ENCORE:MAMMA MIA
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here is one of the set lists for my old school r&b band" The Special Guests":

THE GHETTO-Donny Hathaway(instumental)
HERE COMES THE JUDGE-Shorty Rogers(I sing this)
SLIP AWAY-Clarence Carter
BRING IT ON HOME TO ME
NEVER FOUND ME A GIRL-Al Greene
HOLDING BACK THE YEARS-Simply Red(I know...it's an 80's tune by an english pop band...but not the way we do it)
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE(Gladys knight arangment)

]at this point a freind comes up and sings some tunes:
RESCUE ME
YOU REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME
MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA
THE NITTY GRITTY

DO YOU LOVE ME/COOL JERK(me again)
SCORPIO-Dennis Coffey(not the whole thing just a bit as an outro for the band)

 

[Fuzzy Dustmite]

We don't really do set lists, we just kind of go with the flow and see what happens. Here's the songs we do, though

Drunk Prom Date's Song List

 

[shamus63]

We don't really do set lists, we just kind of go with the flow and see what happens.

Same here for tonight's band.

 

[Junior]

We play a lot of Croatian songs, but from the american / english ones - I will give you the list as soon as I find the set list paper. We have at least about 30 english songs I think.

 

[bottle12am]

Set lists? We don't need no stinkin' set lists!

Actually, my current outfit is an all-originals band that plays 45 min- hour set; listing a set of originals here would be futile.

HOWEVER...

Another band I was doing fill-in gigs with about a year ago made their money doing the whole 4-hour bar band marathon. They had about 45 originals and 60 covers to choose from. We NEVER went in with a set list. We knew the first two songs of the set; after that, the singer would just turn around and blurt out a song, which we were supposed to follow.

Not fun for this sub, considering I'm not a real 'cover' player, and only knew the 15 originals off the CD they gave me.

But they were the nicest guys in the world, made decent cash, and we had some wild gigs, but their 'no set list' policy raked me over the coals.

 

[AnthonyD]

Songs We're Currently Playing...

Set List varies, but here's what we're currently pulling from...

Accidentally In Love (Counting Crowes)
Another Saturday Night (Sam Cooke)
Authority Song (John Mellencamp)
Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
Carol (Rolling Stones)
Get Ready (Rare Earth)
Good Lovin (The Rascals)
Good Noise (John Gorka)
Hurts So Good (John Mellencamp)
I Saw Her Standing There (Beatles)
I'm a Believer (Smash Mouth)
Lay Down Sally (Eric Clapton)
Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffet)
Me & Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Paul Simon)
Mr. Jones (Counting Crowes)
Mustang Sally (ala Commitments)
My Girl (Temptations)
Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Rain King (Counting Crowes)
Rock & Roll Never Forgets (Bob Seger)
Stay (Jackson Brown)
Sweet Home Chicago (Blues Brothers)
Tequila
This Boy (Beatles)
Volcano (Jimmy Buffet)
Wild Night (John Mellencamp)

 

[tvanveen]

Set lists? We don't need no stinkin' set lists!

Actually, my current outfit is an all-originals band that plays 45 min- hour set; listing a set of originals here would be futile.

Pretty much the same thing here...we have 11 originals.

We still do a few covers here and there when we need to kill some time -

Pixies - Where is my Mind
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Betty Serveert - Brain Tag
Julie Miller - You Make My Heart Beat Too Fast
White Stripes - 7 Nation Army
Gillian Welch - Look at Ms. Ohio
PJ Harvey - Sheela Na Gig

Retired Covers -

Cars - Just What I Needed
U2 - Vertigo
Breeders - Cannonball
Nada Surf - Blonde on Blonde
Lucinda Williams - I Lost It
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
The Police - Message In a Bottle

 

[Colin]

Lets share the set lists we are all using.Maybe other forum readers will get song ideas.Any kind of band is ok.I am in Albany NY for New Years Eve with the ABBA tribute band I play bass for.This is what we are likely playing tonight.

INTRO(medley of "Gimmie Gimme(a man after midnight)"and "LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME")
WATERLOO
SOS
GIMME GIMME(BAND SOLOS...I rip off Larry Graham for my solo)
SUPER TROUPER
CHICITITA
FERNANDO(audience participation)
WINNER TAKES IT ALL
LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME
ON AND ON AND ON
NAME OF THE GAME/EAGLE(big guitar solo thing while the girls change costumes)
DANCING QUEEN

ENCORE:MAMMA MIA

One of the best ABBA songs I've ever played was "Does your mother know" (I can't believe I'm admitting that I play ABBA)

Colin

 

[bovinehost]

Ha! Somewhere I have an MP3 of us doing "Fernando" in sort of a Badfinger style.

Song list in no particular order because we're always fooling with it:

Saw Her Standing There - Beatles
These Boots Are Made for Walken - Nancy Sinatra
Tiger By The Tail - Buck Owens
Ring of Fire - JC
That'll Be the Day - Hank
Can't Buy Me Love - Beatles
I'm A Believer - Monkees
Standing on a Rock - can't remember
Truck Song - Lyle Lovett
Act Naturally - Buck Owens
Things We Said Today - Beatles (but we play it like a samba)
Jambalaya - Hank
California Stars - can't remember
Big Big Love - can't remember, might be Bob Wills
My Babe - can't remember, might be Bob Wills
One After 909 - Beatles
Little Sister - Elvis P
Folsom Prison Blues - JC
Why Don't We Do It In The Road? - Beatles
The Thrill is Gone (bluegrass version)
The Key's In The Mailbox - Buck Owens
Move It On Over (the hank version, of course)
I'm So Lonesome - Hank W
Hey Good Lookin - Hank W
Mrs Robinson - more like the Lemonheads than Simon & Garfunky
Buick City Complex - old 97s
Mystery Dance - Elvis Costello
Burnin' Love - Elvis The Other One
Over the Rainbow - the root-five version
My Gal is Red Hot - who knows?
Matchbox - Carl Perkins
Munsters Theme/Secret Agent Man Medley
Solitary Man - Neil Diamond
Wife - Old 97s
One Way Out - Elmore James?
'Deed I Do - some band from the 1920s
Cry Baby Cry - Beatles
8 Days A Week - Beatles
Lucy In The Sky W/Diamonds - Beatles

I am beginning to think we are not really a ballad type band.

There is more but you don't really care.

Jack

 

[sir funkytown]

great song lists?

ya see...thats what I'm talking about!I totaly took some of these tunes ideas and added them to my own set lists.Good Lovin...I had forgotten about that tune.
We did do "Does your mother know " on new years...it was our current "Beorns" last night , so we pretty well had to do it.You should check out a tune called "Eagle" by ABBA, very dark song from a dark just pre breakup period of the band.If you have an origional band you should post your web site, and if you don't have a website....why the hell not?

 

[sir funkytown]

this is the updated R&B set list

for anyone that is intertested:

instrumentals:The getto-donnie hathaway
scorpio-dennis coffey

Back door man-doors
You really got a hold on me-The funk Brothers with Mee Shell
livin' for the city(E)- S. Wonder
Signed Sealed Delivered-S. Wonder
Uptight- S. Wonder
Polk Salad Annie- Tony Joe White
I'll Take you There- Staples
Take Me to the river-Al Green
What I say-Ray Charles(scofields samba version?)
Night time is the right time-Ray Charles
heard it through the grapevine-Gladys night version
Whole lotta love(Tina turner version
Love the one you're with-(Aretha live)
Rocksteady-Aretha
The weight-Staples
Bring it on home to me-Al green
you've got a friend-Donny hathaway
respect yourself-staples
Slip away-Clarence Carter
Sara smile-Hall and Oates
So in love-C. Mayfield
sex machine-(al la Soullive)
grandmas hands-lou rawls(live)
how sweet it is-Jr Walker
Love and happiness-Al Greene
spirt in the dark-areatha
never found me a girl-all greene
Fa fa fa(sad songs)-otis redding
rescue me-Fontella Bass
function at the junction-shorty rogers
you've really got a hold on me-Meeshell
do you love me-Bootsy
love and happiness-al greene
come together-Tina turner version
she caught the katy-the origional version
cool jerk-capitols
here comes the judge-shorty rogers
unchain my heart-john scofield arangment

 

[AnthonyD]

Sir Funky - This is a great thread. I too am finding a few candidates to add to the list.

Jack - we tried "Eight Days a Week" - for us it was a train wreck... Figured only the Beatles could do it right!

But "Saw Her Standing There" rocks! And we'll be adding "Can't Buy Me Love" next!

 

[Bassplyr]

Here's my current set list:

Workin' for the Weekend
Jump
Livin' On a Prayer
Lay Your hands on me
Any Way you Want it
Separate Ways
Faithfully
You give Love a bad Name
Lady
Too Much Time on My Hands
Super Freak
Funky White Boy
SHakin'
Ridin' the Storm out
Brickhouse
Come Sail Away
Nothin' But a Good time
Never Been any Reason
Panama
Sing Me Away
Lovin'Touchin' Squeezin'
Turn Up the Radio
Don't Tell me you Love me
Once bitten Twice shy
Mama Let him Play
I'll Fall in Love again
Slide it in
+ about 3 originals

 

[edensdad]

I used to play in a trio where we just improvised for 3 or 4 hours

No singer either We actually got tons of gigs.

We called ourselves Angry Sandwich.

That was the best setlist I ever had.

>^..^<

 

[SteveB]

We called ourselves Angry Sandwich.

That was the best setlist I ever had.

>^..^<

You should re-form that band and call it:

Angry Sandwich Revisited

 

[Junior]

Here's my current set list:

Workin' for the Weekend
Jump
Livin' On a Prayer
Lay Your hands on me
Any Way you Want it
Separate Ways
Faithfully
You give Love a bad Name
Lady
Too Much Time on My Hands
Super Freak
Funky White Boy
SHakin'
Ridin' the Storm out
Brickhouse
Come Sail Away
Nothin' But a Good time
Never Been any Reason
Panama
Sing Me Away
Lovin'Touchin' Squeezin'
Turn Up the Radio
Don't Tell me you Love me
Once bitten Twice shy
Mama Let him Play
I'll Fall in Love again
Slide it in
+ about 3 originals

I smell some Richie Sambora playin' ... I love it

 

[Junior]

These are some of our songs... the ones I could find (I mostly play drums in these... except the acoustic versions)

Let it be - Beatles

Fallin' - Alicia Keys

Twist and Shout - Beatles

Simply the best - Tina Turner

It's My Life - Bon Jovi

Walking on sunshine - can't remember

You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi

Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi (both electric and acoustic)

I wish everyday could be like Christmas - Bon Jovi

All I want for Christmas is you - Mariah Carey

Silent Night - Croatian version




Plus, in my other band

Santana - Black Magic Woman

Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight, Lay Down Sally, Cocaine etc.

Animals - House of the Rising Sun

Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick

Allman Brothers band - Jessica

Plus A LOT of Croatian songs...