Members Tullsterx Posted October 28, 2015 Members Share Posted October 28, 2015 Title says it all. Any recommendations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 28, 2015 Members Share Posted October 28, 2015 "Want To Want Me" -- Jason Derulo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratGuy22 Posted October 29, 2015 Members Share Posted October 29, 2015 We added Ex's and Oh's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratGuy22 Posted October 29, 2015 Members Share Posted October 29, 2015 We added Ex's and Oh's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sventvkg Posted October 29, 2015 Members Share Posted October 29, 2015 Every time I compare a recent "hit" anything classic that was a hit it doesn't hold up and I mean by a longshot. Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 30, 2015 Members Share Posted October 30, 2015 Every time I compare a recent "hit" anything classic that was a hit it doesn't hold up and I mean by a longshot. Sad. Because the "classics" are the ones that lasted. You forgot the gazillion other songs from the era that didn't. In 20 years this era will have its classics as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sventvkg Posted October 30, 2015 Members Share Posted October 30, 2015 Not to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 30, 2015 Members Share Posted October 30, 2015 I don't think you're the intended audience for new songs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeff42 Posted October 30, 2015 Members Share Posted October 30, 2015 Shut Up And Dance With MeHoney I'm Good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wheresgrant3 Posted October 30, 2015 Members Share Posted October 30, 2015 I think it's no surprise that the two biggest hits of the year in pop and on the cover band scene(in terms of audience response and longevity) were songs that were played by bands (not artists) recalled a different time and era in music. Uptown Funk and Shut Up and Dance both scream 80's pop. Pitbull who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 31, 2015 Members Share Posted October 31, 2015 Shake It Off is easily as strong as either of those two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kramerguy Posted November 10, 2015 Members Share Posted November 10, 2015 Shut up and dance, worked surprisingly well for us. Despite my utter loathing of that song. I hate it's face and it makes me question whether or not the 18 year old version of myself would kick my ass up and down the street for even agreeing to learn it. But the song works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sventvkg Posted November 11, 2015 Members Share Posted November 11, 2015 Both on my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sventvkg Posted November 11, 2015 Members Share Posted November 11, 2015 On my list as well. I just have to wonder how soon they fall off these recent hits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted November 11, 2015 Members Share Posted November 11, 2015 We do a fair amount of new songs. I'm supposed to be working on some crap song about can't feel my face and some florida georgia line stuff. Recently we added timber after our main guy returned from his vegas vacation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted November 14, 2015 Members Share Posted November 14, 2015 On my list as well. I just have to wonder how soon they fall off these recent hits? A year or two max, probably. Were you hoping for more? Such has it always been with Top 40/current hits. People seem to forget (or maybe haven't been around long enough to understand?) that almost all of these great "classics" that we have been playing for years weren't always so. At one point they were all current hits that people fell off. Back when I was playing Top 40/current rock in the 80s? No WAY we would have played "Jenny Jenny" or "Jessie's Girl" in 1985 (although we did a few years before). They would have emptied the room. We KILLED with Van Halen's "Jump" and "Panama" in 1984, but by 1986 those songs were off the set list and we were doing "Why Can't This Be Love" and "Dreams" instead. Was any band playing "Livin' on a Prayer" or "Pour Some Sugar on Me" in 1993? I don't think too many were. So yeah...Top 40 is a short-term deal. Once in a while you get a song that stays around a really long time, but those are few and far between and impossible to predict. And who knows which ones of today's current hits will return to be the "classics" 20-30 years from now? can't predict that either. If you had asked me in 1981, I'd have picked probably 100 other songs before "Jenny" or "Jessie's". But there you go. But just because Top 40 is a short-term deal doesn't mean we don't need some of those songs in our setlist. And just sticking ONLY to the classics? At some point, isn't that just being too lazy to learn new stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sventvkg Posted November 14, 2015 Members Share Posted November 14, 2015 I agree. I think there are a 1/2 a dozen must do songs a year and they stay on the list a couple years for the most part. What's this years song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted November 14, 2015 Members Share Posted November 14, 2015 Uptown Funk and Shake It Off are pretty easily the two biggest songs this year, I would say. At least as far at what works for cover bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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