I won't offer any suggestions for individual songs, but in general it's not a great idea to do covers of the biggest hits. It's fine to play them at a concert, but it is in most cases pretty darned difficult to make it interesting covering the stuff that has already been heard a million times. I think the most successful covers are when the overlooked songs are picked up. In addition to making it sound less like something people have already heard you also get the added bonus of "Whoa...this-or-that-band made this song? It's great!" which gives you extra credit.
Elvis - Hound Dog
The Beatles- All You Need Is Love
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
U2- Beautiful Day
RHCP- Under the Bridge
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Beck- Loser
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Muse - Uprising
Coldplay - Clocks
I won't offer any suggestions for individual songs, but in general it's not a great idea to do covers of the biggest hits. It's fine to play them at a concert, but it is in most cases pretty darned difficult to make it interesting covering the stuff that has already been heard a million times. I think the most successful covers are when the overlooked songs are picked up. In addition to making it sound less like something people have already heard you also get the added bonus of "Whoa...this-or-that-band made this song? It's great!" which gives you extra credit.
Exactly!!!!!!
I figured as much. Thanks for all your input. This was kinda more interesting to see what people put as their flagship song. So maybe that is what we should do with the rest of the post.
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