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Covers which get the best crowd reaction?

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LebarqueLebarque Frets: 3754
Inspired by the Mr Brightside thread, which covers are most popular with a crowd? I thought trawling through no.1s might be useful, but Mr Brightside and Sex on Fire kinda go against this. What say you?
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  • Sadly Chelsea dagger and Dakota are hugely popular.
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  • Normally I would've said Sweet Child O' Mine, but I saw a band recently who completely butchered it on Facebook and since then it's robbed me of any pleasure of that song. 

    Bye!

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  • Don’t Look Back in Anger
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  • When I did my terrible blues bands I’m not sure anything got a great reaction. When I did my terrible ska bands definitely Lip Up Fatty ( although it has a weird guitar intro that nobody recognises). I really don’t like that song but it would raise the dead. 

    Valerie.I think everyone in the world knows that one a bit. 

    The same weekend as the Mr Brightside incident a rocked  up Let Me Entertain You ( the Robbie track, not the Queen one) seemed to raise the crowd as well. Added advantage that you don’t need a good singer. 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • vizviz Frets: 10643
    Don’t Stop me Now, Rio, Rebel Yell, Livin’ on a Prayer. 
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • Dakota, Purple Rain and Highway to Hell. Honourable mention to Reef's Place Your Hands.
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  • poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
    Signed sealed
    superstition
    sex machine
    get down tonight
    blame it on the boogie
    la freak

    etc etc etc
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  • horsehorse Frets: 1561
    Don't stop believin
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  • Jimbro66Jimbro66 Frets: 2418
    Agadoo
    The birdy song
    Hi Ho Silver Lining




    Yes, I am jesting but sadly in some venues it might not be too far from the truth  :o
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  • Have you,  or have you not,  heard  that


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  • On a more serious note  is rare that punters like the songs I choose to play by they have always loved 

    Piece of my heart cover by Stephen Tyler
    So what by pink
    What's going on by 4 non blonds


    I want to play Mean Man, Harder Faster and Fuck like a Beast by WASP but I just can't get the bookings. 
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  • Our most popular ones were usually bullet with the butterfly wings, halo and bizarrely in keeping secrets of silent earth 3.

    Walk when we still played it too although Im a bit uncomfortable with that one these days.  
    ဈǝᴉʇsɐoʇǝsǝǝɥɔဪቌ
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  • Don't stop believing
    Any songs by ABBA
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  • Anything 90s seems to be a winner for us so our third set at weddings has Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, Oasis, Pulp and Blink 182 before we round the night out with 500 Miles and All These Things That I Have Done.
    "As with all things, some days you're the dinosaur, some days you're the monkey." Sporky
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  • p90foolp90fool Frets: 31366
    I Will Survive, which luckily is great fun to play. 
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  • Danny1969Danny1969 Frets: 10356
    Most popular wedding songs I can think off over the last 10 years or so for bands I'm in have been

     Uptown funk, Shut up and dance, Moves like jagger, Blinding lights, Park Life, Brightside, Locked out of heaven, Sex on Fire, Place Your hands, Don't stop me now, Town called Malice

    All the usual suspects with some apprentices basically :)


    www.2020studios.co.uk 
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  • FarleyUKFarleyUK Frets: 2377
    I've found a lot of 80s pop songs rocked up always go down well - the latest one in particular is Hot Stuff.
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  • MusicwolfMusicwolf Frets: 3627
    edited September 2021
    Danny1969 said:
     Town called Malice
    With the additional entertainment value of watching it all fall apart after the bridge when the drummer starts his snare roll in the wrong place
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  • stratman3142stratman3142 Frets: 2176
    edited September 2021
    A few that have been mentioned already: Sex On Fire, Dakota, Don't Stop Believing, I Will Survive, Valerie...

    Also, in my last band:

    Word Up - The Gun version
    Radar Love
    Ready To Go - Republica. That was a real stonker

    It's not a competition.
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  • RolandRoland Frets: 8590
    Has Mustang Sally gone out of fashion, or does everyone refuse to play it nowadays?
    Tree recycler, and guitarist with  https://www.undercoversband.com/.
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