What song would you love to hear a bar band play? - Beyond Tiki

M MachTiki Tiki Socialite San Diego, CA Joined: Feb 16, 2004 Posts: 1369	M MachTiki Posted posted on Fri, Oct 22, 2004 5:08 PM WOW! You guys are gonna keep me busy this weekend looking for recordings. I (and the regulars) appreciate your suggestions. On a last note. The majority of our audience is 30 & 40 somethings who want to hear the songs they grew up with, but we don't want to just do the usual stuff that they always hear like "Hotel California" or "American Pie". As we do wish to mix it up - The average audience still wants to hear something that they've heard before. Collective Soul - "December", Fastball - "The Way" & Jimmy Eat World's - "The Middle" are all newer songs (for us) that all go over really well because those songs were kinda instant classics. What else might you suggest that got a fair amount of radio play (enough to be recognized, but people aren't sick of). That being said... Keep the "not-so-typical" stuff coming as well. I remember someone suggesting that we learn a song by this band out of Canada called the Barenaked Ladies. This was in about 1994 and we had no idea who they were. From the first time we played it, everyone loved it. Nobody knew who it was - they just loved the song (If I had a Million $'s).

WOW! You guys are gonna keep me busy this weekend looking for recordings. I (and the regulars) appreciate your suggestions.

On a last note. The majority of our audience is 30 & 40 somethings who want to hear the songs they grew up with, but we don't want to just do the usual stuff that they always hear like "Hotel California" or "American Pie". As we do wish to mix it up - The average audience still wants to hear something that they've heard before.

Collective Soul - "December", Fastball - "The Way" & Jimmy Eat World's - "The Middle" are all newer songs (for us) that all go over really well because those songs were kinda instant classics. What else might you suggest that got a fair amount of radio play (enough to be recognized, but people aren't sick of).

That being said... Keep the "not-so-typical" stuff coming as well. I remember someone suggesting that we learn a song by this band out of Canada called the Barenaked Ladies. This was in about 1994 and we had no idea who they were. From the first time we played it, everyone loved it. Nobody knew who it was - they just loved the song (If I had a Million $'s).

Post #121198 by MachTiki on Fri, Oct 22, 2004 5:08 PM