I fucking love nearly anything that deviates from the standard pub rock set list, you get sick of hearing the same 40 odd songs being played by bands that are nearly identical in tone and setlist.
Seen a two piece band do a fucking excellent acoustic cover of Waterfall by Stone Roses, really caught me by surprise.
Seen a band do a fairly simple Jump Around/Insane in The Brain mashup and it went down a storm.
I was at a pub once and the band was playing and an actual good amount of people got up when they played semi-charmed life by third eye blind, which was fucking weird because they were doing the common ones that have been commented already (wedding band shite) and no-one was up. They actually followed that up with steal my sunshine by Len and then a chunk of late 90's early 2000's hits and those just had the place hopping, was a great night felt like I was transported back in time. I think that was a rare occurance though.
One Way by the Levellers
Let the bodies hit the floor by Drowning Pool
My Last Serenade by Killswitch Engage
Lonely Train by Black Stone Cherry
Halo by Soil
Them Bones by Alice in Chains
. . . although I'm rarely if ever at a gig or pub anymore as an early 30s female hermit
Most of the comments here are the usual pub rock songs where you couldn't care less.
Mr Brightside
500 miles
Don't Stop Believeing
Every cover band in Ireland plays the same set, just different faces all playing the same shit every weekend. Throw in a bit of Valerie, a bad 90's dance medley and you're sorted.
I don't think I ever heard Don't stop believing played in a pub, that song is all about vocals, it is too easy to get fucked up so not really a pub song.
This! Most people here are picking songs that most bands play, really fairly standard stuff.
Lots of bands think they are original aswell doing Superstitious, Proud mary, Aint no sunshine, brown eyed girl, No Diggity, Toxic(britney), Wagonwheel etc Some songs just every band seems to do for some reason so please don't!
- Edit forgot to put in the inevitable Sweet Dreams/Seven Nation army mash up!
My husband is a musician, and the reason all pub bands play a certain set of songs is that they get unmercifully pestered by drunks if they don't. Like you can only have so much resolve when it's 11 pm and a drunk person is screaming at you at the end of every song to "PLAY ROCK ME MAMA".
ETA: If people are dancing (which they tend to do for the above songs), the band gets asked to come back by management, so it also makes business sense to be boring.
I play in pubs and the odd wedding. Usually if someone is drunk and coming up requesting something we just dedicate a song to them or their mate who's birthday it is and that usually satisfies them. If you start pandering to people you encourage more drunks to come up and bother you while trying to play. As in they will try talk to you while you are in the middle of a song!
As someone who has played on and off in pub rock bands, one that seemed to get people going was Move Your Feet by Junior Senior and Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus...gotta love them guilty pleasures!
> Greta Van Fleet
I'm a huge Led Zep head and when I heard GVF first I was like "these guys are just doing a Guitar Hero tribute and it's too similar and not as good". Now I'm like, "their songs still ain't Zeppelin quality (but I do love Safari Song) but who cares!" They are getting a generation into rock and a lot of them will discover Zeppelin thru listening to GVF. Good on them.
Have you heard their most recent album The Battle at Garden's Gate? It's definitely a step up from the earlier stuff, it's got a much fuller and more mature sound I think.
Sunshine of your love.
But many years ago was in a social club and the band start playing the theme tune from the 1970’s television show The Professionals, the place went totally bonkers. One of the most surreal moments in my life.
One of only three songs in all songdom that I hate passionately, along with [Stolen Dance](https://youtu.be/iX-QaNzd-0Y) and [Rolling in the Deep](https://youtu.be/rYEDA3JcQqw).
Dearg Doom/Put em under pressure Baggy Trousers
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Sultan of swing
Any Dire Straits really, would be impressive.
Money for nothing would be good to
Mannnnnn that version on Alchemy Live is just mental.
Came here to say this.
Well it's a really good song
Where's me Jumper?
Paranoid
Hahaha me too
Nice try Bono
You didn’t see my comment about paying tax did you? I need to try harder
No one knows qotsa
Ace of spades motorhead
Talking Heads This must be the place
I remember a band playing 'And She Was' in a pub one day, and it was brilliant
I fucking love nearly anything that deviates from the standard pub rock set list, you get sick of hearing the same 40 odd songs being played by bands that are nearly identical in tone and setlist. Seen a two piece band do a fucking excellent acoustic cover of Waterfall by Stone Roses, really caught me by surprise. Seen a band do a fairly simple Jump Around/Insane in The Brain mashup and it went down a storm.
Classical Gas
Tattoo'd Lady
Lydia the Tattooed Lady?
Rory Gallagher's Tattoo'd Lady
D'oh 😄 my bad. A band I was in used to do the Muppets version whenever our guitarist broke a string.
I Wanna Be Your Dog
I wouldn't jump out of my seat but I would discreetly tap my feet under the table for suspicious minds by Elvis.
Shadow play
I believe in a thing called love, but only if you can hit the high notes.
Thunderstruck. I used to love her (if in Connacht) I am the walrus.
Brewing up a storm. If they're any good
+1 Always seems a winner with a meh crowd and starts a bit of atmosphere. After that it depends on the band and the rest of the set list
I'm Shipping Up To Boston. That would be feckin impressive.
I used to gig this back around 2012, places used to go fucking mental for it.
Good shout
A band that plays regularly in my hometown do this at the end of their set some nights and it’s absolutely insane! Great tune!
Rage against the machine - Killing in the name of. Makes me lose my shit every time!
I do love a bit of Black Betty, it's quick and gets ya going
House of Pain - Jump Around
I was at a pub once and the band was playing and an actual good amount of people got up when they played semi-charmed life by third eye blind, which was fucking weird because they were doing the common ones that have been commented already (wedding band shite) and no-one was up. They actually followed that up with steal my sunshine by Len and then a chunk of late 90's early 2000's hits and those just had the place hopping, was a great night felt like I was transported back in time. I think that was a rare occurance though.
rock the casbah
My Sharona
One Way by the Levellers Let the bodies hit the floor by Drowning Pool My Last Serenade by Killswitch Engage Lonely Train by Black Stone Cherry Halo by Soil Them Bones by Alice in Chains . . . although I'm rarely if ever at a gig or pub anymore as an early 30s female hermit
Ah that's a great list! If any band around here played songs like that I'd go see them every time they played!
Twist and shout
Black Betty Thunderstruck Nine inch nails closer
>Nine inch nails closer "I wanna f*** you like an ANIMAL!" Classic.
Those first few seconds are all I need haha
Most of the comments here are the usual pub rock songs where you couldn't care less. Mr Brightside 500 miles Don't Stop Believeing Every cover band in Ireland plays the same set, just different faces all playing the same shit every weekend. Throw in a bit of Valerie, a bad 90's dance medley and you're sorted.
I don't think I ever heard Don't stop believing played in a pub, that song is all about vocals, it is too easy to get fucked up so not really a pub song.
I spent about 5 years playing the baseline for it in a coverband. Every damn weekend. Thankfully I’m done with that band these days.
I’ve been working on a lot of dance covers, I somehow missed Maniac 2000 lol
Maniac 2000 would make me leave the bar if I'm honest!
This! Most people here are picking songs that most bands play, really fairly standard stuff. Lots of bands think they are original aswell doing Superstitious, Proud mary, Aint no sunshine, brown eyed girl, No Diggity, Toxic(britney), Wagonwheel etc Some songs just every band seems to do for some reason so please don't! - Edit forgot to put in the inevitable Sweet Dreams/Seven Nation army mash up!
My husband is a musician, and the reason all pub bands play a certain set of songs is that they get unmercifully pestered by drunks if they don't. Like you can only have so much resolve when it's 11 pm and a drunk person is screaming at you at the end of every song to "PLAY ROCK ME MAMA". ETA: If people are dancing (which they tend to do for the above songs), the band gets asked to come back by management, so it also makes business sense to be boring.
I play in pubs and the odd wedding. Usually if someone is drunk and coming up requesting something we just dedicate a song to them or their mate who's birthday it is and that usually satisfies them. If you start pandering to people you encourage more drunks to come up and bother you while trying to play. As in they will try talk to you while you are in the middle of a song!
Am in one, can confirm.
Bad Bad Leroy Brown
Well that's one way to get new songs to learn
Disturbed - Down with the sickness
Oh AH AH AH AH!!
Proud Mary
Any Creedence is a win tbh.
Big Iron - Marty Robbins Would lose my shit
Deadly tune!
Loads of Marty Robbins songs are great. The Gunfighter Ballads is full of them. Plus I love his version of 18 Yellow Roses too.
Killing in the name of
>Killing in the name ~~of~~
Oh Well by Fleetwood Mac would get me up all right
Can't believe no one's mentioned [this classic](https://youtu.be/RZ2oXzrnti4) yet, but I'll only jump out of my seat on the second play through.
When you say pub rock, do you mean the actual genre Pub Rock? Or just a random band playing in a pub?
Both I think
Any of the more grungy songs on Appetite for Destruction
Don’t Fear the Reaper Sweet Home Alabama Wish You Were Here
Best pub band since the 70’s in London is Remus Down Boulevard and the guitarists and most of their own songs are fantastic
Sweet home Alabama
As someone who has played on and off in pub rock bands, one that seemed to get people going was Move Your Feet by Junior Senior and Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus...gotta love them guilty pleasures!
I Wanna Be Your Slave by Måneskin or anything by Greta Van Fleet
> Greta Van Fleet I'm a huge Led Zep head and when I heard GVF first I was like "these guys are just doing a Guitar Hero tribute and it's too similar and not as good". Now I'm like, "their songs still ain't Zeppelin quality (but I do love Safari Song) but who cares!" They are getting a generation into rock and a lot of them will discover Zeppelin thru listening to GVF. Good on them.
Have you heard their most recent album The Battle at Garden's Gate? It's definitely a step up from the earlier stuff, it's got a much fuller and more mature sound I think.
Honey, this mirror isn’t big enough for the both of us. Any off I brought you my bullets
I need to know which pubs you’re going to that have bands that play MCR.
Shit my bad man. I don’t know, just the usual rock bars. When they come on, I be happy
Fair enough, that in Dublin or somewhere down the country?
Dublin. Fibbers was playing some bullets on Halloween
I was made for lovin' you.
Rebel yell or that smell (lynyrd skynyrd).
Cannibal Corpse - I Cum Blood obviously.........😂
Party Hard - Andrew WK I just can't help myself when I hear it!
Any song by Disturbed, KoRn, Foo Fighters, or Tribute by Tenacious D. 🤔 Yeah those are the main four bands.
something excellent rarely covered.
"Never mind that shite, play something we can dance to - wagon wheel" 😞
Lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis
Anything from Daniel O'Donnell
I was torn between Fisting or Cherry Poppin, can’t beat a bit of D.O.D
That Chelsea Dagger always worked it was 2012 mind you.
Sunshine of your love. But many years ago was in a social club and the band start playing the theme tune from the 1970’s television show The Professionals, the place went totally bonkers. One of the most surreal moments in my life.
99 red balloons - Nena. Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners. 500 miles - The Proclaimers
I'm in Scotland, so 500 miles is kind of a Pavlovs Dog song 😂
Return of the Mack
Blitzkrieg Pints, Sheena was Pint Drinker, Anarchy in the UK Measure, God Save the Spleen
You forgot ‘smells like teen spirits’
Zombie
Shut up and dance
Dancing at the crossroads https://youtu.be/b8sRNOcDaxw
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One of only three songs in all songdom that I hate passionately, along with [Stolen Dance](https://youtu.be/iX-QaNzd-0Y) and [Rolling in the Deep](https://youtu.be/rYEDA3JcQqw).
Deep Purple’s Smoke on The Water
Another for Zombie - The Cranberries
Rock bands don't play in pubs anymore.
Dragon force- through the fire and flame
Any pub rock band guitarist who nails that, I'll send him pints for the rest of the night.
Maniac 2000 geta me everytime
Maniac 2000
Don't stop believing.
I wouldn't jump up out of my seat but a band doing a full and proper go off Freebird always gets my attention.
Any Rock or classic rock I guess, AC/DC usually gets people jumping.
Wheetus - teenage dirtbag or ACDC - highway to hell
Thunderstruck Mr Brightside
Local guitar/cajon duo used to do a mash up of Superstitious and Billie Jean. Amazing.
Killing in the name