What Songs in your setlist do you hate playing?

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

We have 'paint it black' in the setlist for tonight. What a stupid song with a stupid bassline. Punters seem to like it though.

[yorick]

Anything related to Queen, apart from Tie Your Mother Down.

[farmer61]

Broken Stones - Weller
Going Underground - Jam
Pork and Beans - Weezer

[harvey1-8]

1999 - Prince

[Hobbayne]

Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison, an oft requested song,
This is especially bad for me as I have to sing it!!

Edited October 29, 2010 by Hobbayne

[Dave Vader]

Flock of Seagulls - Wishing utter, utter, dirge, and neither me or the guitar player can remember the boring e-bow sequence at the end. Cue staring at cheat sheets stuck to monitors....

[Marvin]

All of the ones suggested so far by potential band members, even the one I chose.

Most of it's quaver, quaver, quaver. And I'm not referring to the crisp snack.

I just get lost and forget when the changes are

[paul h]

I get that with songs I don't like. I get bored and stop listening!

[simon1964]

Highway to Hell. I hate the song, and it has the most tedious bass line ever. But the punters seem to like it.

[JTUK]

Take me to the River.

Decent enough song, for sure, but in the context of our set, it was a dancey function number we included and now it kind of stays..

It just doesn't fit with the rest of the stuff, IMO.

[Cat Burrito]

I refuse to play songs I hate, awkward bugger that I am!

[PaulWarning]

If any of the band members don't like doing a song we don't do it, it is supposed to be fun

[razze06]

[quote name='Hobbayne' post='1005332' date='Oct 29 2010, 03:27 PM']Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison, an oft requested song,[/quote]

I don't dislike playing it, I just dislike the fact that we play it.

Also: Sex on fire, but thankfully we almost definitely ditched it. Really. No seriously.

[El Bajo]

We do Don't let me Down - Beatles. Great song but its really grating on me. We are 3 piece and for some reason it just doesn't work, it doesen't feel fluid enough. So I changed the bass line so it fits more.

[thunderbird13]

had to learn Sultans of Swing last night - I'm pretty neutral to it as a listener but I get bored playing it all the way through - hoping it sounds better at rehearsal

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

[quote name='El Bajo' post='1005434' date='Oct 29 2010, 04:44 PM']We do Don't let me Down - Beatles. Great song but its really grating on me. We are 3 piece and for some reason it just doesn't work, it doesen't feel fluid enough. So I changed the bass line so it fits more.[/quote]
I put my foot down on 'Don't let me Down' - point blank refused to do it. I don't want to do that too often though, so I just grumble mildly about 'paint it black' and grit my teeth.

I know I'm not supposed to admit to it, but I quite enjoy doing 'brown eyed girl'. At least until the harmonica warbles all over the breakdown where it should go down to bass & drums ruining the effect as the concept of not playing for a few bars is quite a difficult one to grasp.

[the_skezz]

Seventeen by the Sex Pistols - good song, but we could never get it sounding quite right, and it started to get annoying. Thankfully, we've stopped playing Sex Pistols songs in order to show our disgust at the fact they're realeasing a Sex Pistols perfume/scent.

[thisnameistaken]

We don't do any songs I don't like. One of the key benefits of not playing covers.

[Slipperydick]

When I played in 'standards' covers bands always refused to play All Right Now, hated playing any version of Knocking on heavens door or anything by the Beatles.

Generally, if I actually hated it, I wouldnt play it.

[JTUK]

Many many standards will crop up on the bandstand just because they are an 'easy fix' to a set.
I don't mind them in that situation and context as they become a jamming vehicle for the players.

You need to have something to say though, as solos for solos sake can get as tedious for the band as it can be for the audience.

If someone droppped in 'Heavens Door' and the band could take it somewhere interesting, then that is ok.

For a regular band though, those sort of songs would/should be on the banned list...IMO.

[lojo]

From a bass players point of view


Sit Down


Its more boring to play than sweet home alabama, the drummer even offered to swap instruments for it

But it does get the crowd going, so I just get into it and feel it would be selfish to drop it, I've songs I love in also

To be fair to the band, if I said please no, they would drop it

[Wylie]

I don't hate any of them, but if we played 'Brown-Eyed Girl,' that would be the one I'd hate.

[AndyTravis]

Playing a 50th birthday tomorrow, and for some odd reason 'Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay' has been dropped in the set.

I'm depping this gig, and have had two rehearsals... the drummer is playing it far too straight, so the usually chunky, warm, rolling bass sounds like a pile of sh*t.

Also, i'll advised 'Ring Of Fire' as an Encore. I hope we don't get that far.

[tauzero]

I've now left the band in question - it gradually progressed from just hating "Dance the night away" to include all the UB40 stuff, and then a few others, and then we brought in the most rocky number of the set which was "Summer of 69" which I didn't hate playing but the guitarist didn't grasp the concept of down-down-down-down rather than down-up-down-up so I decided to go back to rock.

Out of the stuff in all the current bands' repertoires, "Gloria" is the one. Now that Mrs Zero is probably the new lead vocalist, that's gone.

[goblin]

I've quit my band now, but I hated playing anything by Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon and I forced them to drop Holiday by Green Day. I hated Sweet Home Alabama too, until I started playing it fretless and put the guitar riff in as the other guitarist couldn't play it. I once did a full solo too

Edited October 30, 2010 by goblin