If you were in a cover band playing in some little bar full of preppy college kids, what would your setlist look like?

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To piss them off, obviously. I'm sure there'd be 2 or 3 indie-type kids who'd blow their wad. Even though I'm not in a band, I think of my setlists all the time.....odd:

1. Joy Division - "No Love Lost"
2. Gang of Four - "To Hell with Poverty!"
3. Killing Joke - "The Wait"
4. A Certain Ratio - "Do the Du"
5. Dead Kennedys - "Holiday in Cambodia"
6. The Rapture - "Sister Saviour"
7. Killing Joke - "Intellect"
8. Fugazi - "Styrofoam"
9. Nirvana - "Love Buzz"
10. Gang of Four - "Anthrax"

― PB, Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

ARE WE ALLOWED TO DO 4'33" JOKES IN HERE?

― Matt Chesnut, Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

1. Xiu Xiu - "I Luv the Valley (OH!)"
2. Kylie Minogue - "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
3. Scritti Politti - "Hegemony"
4. Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come"
5. Annie Ross - "Twisted"
6. Young Marble Giants - "Zebra Trucks"
7. Kitchens of Distinction - "Don't Come Back"
8. The Pin Group - "Coat"
9. My Bloody Valentine - "You Made Me Realise"
10. Swans - "New Mind"
11. John Cale - "Damn Life"
12. Robert Ashley - "Purposeful Slow Lady Afternoon"

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

This is the thread where the hipsters talk about how they're better than the preppies!

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

King Crimson, "Red"
JSBX, "Skunk"
Compulsive Gamblers, "Sour and Vicious Man"
Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit"
The Who, "Sparks"
Kinks, "Animal Farm"
Miles Davis, "Shhh/Peaceful"
Richard & Linda Thompson, "The End of the Rainbow"
Julian Cope, "Gimme Back My Flag"
YLT, "We're An American Band"

(encore) "Ack Ack Ack"

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and the encore? 23 Skidoo's "The Gospel Comes to New Guinea" and Matchbox 20's "Push". God, that would be so disconcerting and hysterical.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

man o man when these white upper middle class kids hear a band playing songs designed for the white upper middle class they're gonna be so freaked!

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

other crazy god can you even imagine 'what if' scenarios: what if, get this, a country act played at - are you ready? - the grand ole opry? CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE???

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

If your setlist doesn't contain at least one Britney Spears song and at least one Usher ballad, then you have failed at your task.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

you should do an all-gogo set.

FOUR IN THE MORNIN AT THE PANCAKE HOUSE

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

This would piss of the preppy college kids I'm thinking of, but maybe they've changed over the years...

Misfits "Bullet"
FEAR "Let's Have A War"
Agent Orange "Blood Stains"
Social Distortion "Mommy's Little Monster"
SOD "Pussy Whipped"
Judas Priest "Turbo Lover"
Y&T "Midnight In Tokyo"
Dio "Rainbow In The Dark"
Iron Maiden "Alexander The Great"
White Zombie "Psychoholic Slag"

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

so you people *STILL* bitched about preppy kids in college? would these pretend set lists enrage or convert them?

― artdamages (artdamages), Sunday, 27 February 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

these pretend sets would make them shrug, or leave.

― djdee (djdee2005), Sunday, 27 February 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

Village People, "YMCA"
Nickelback, "Figured You Out"
Tom Robinson, "Glad To Be Gay"
Three Doors Down, "Here Without You"
Village People, "Macho Man"
Creed, "Higher"
Electric Six, "Gay Bar"
Lee Hazelwood, "God Bless The U.S.A."
Franz Ferdinand, "Michael"
"Deutschland Uber Alles"

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 27 February 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

Rich, elitist people would probably like most of this stuff. CCM would drive them insane (although it does to me as well).

The concept of rich people hating counter-culture/underground is dogma as San Fransico and its surrounding areas are the richest areas in the country and produce the most radical things.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 27 February 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

drunk preppy college kids would either not notice the music or get sorta peeved that their favorite O.A.R. song isn't being played for them to sing along to.

or maybe that's frat boys ... oh who can tell the difference anymore

― lemin (lemin), Sunday, 27 February 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

my setlist is for the band that has to play between a local favorite and Breaking Benjamin

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 27 February 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

IS THIS WHAT ILM HAS BECOME?

― artdamages (artdamages), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

haha blount OTM. Nothing like NIRVANA to terrorize the preps!

I imagine Mozart would do the job better than most of this stuff, as long as you're not playing to music students.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

(I did think Miccio's answer worked. "Deutschland" would probably piss off anyone in their right mind. At least from what I know about it. I don't know that I've ever heard it.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.valpophipsi.org/pkp/guys%20at%20kennywood.jpg

"Omigod! That cover band is cleverly playing that --- hey wait! There's another pitcher of Lite!"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 27 February 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

Well, being that I went to an insipidly preppy little college back in the mid-80's, I know all too well what they'd have played (and probably still play).

What those prepsters would want to hear:

1. "Dixie Chicken" by Little Feat
2. "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrisson
3. "Uncle John's Band" by the Grateful Dead
4. "Whipping Post" by the Allman Brothers Band
5. "Exodus" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
6. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" by Crosby, Stills and Nash
etc.
7. "Blister in the Sun" by the Violent Femmes

What I'd play:
1. "Rip Ride" by Venom
2. "To Hell with Poverty" by Gang of Four
3. "We Are the Road Crew" by Motorhead
4. "Bloodsport" by Killing Joke
5. "Bring On the Nubiles" by the Stranglers
6. "Lo.Com.Denom." by Cop Shoot Cop

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 27 February 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

these pretend sets would make them shrug, or leave.

Exactly. Make the whole thing feel genuinely disconcerting to them.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 27 February 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

50 minutes of interchanging back and forth between Sex Bomb and Billie Jean.

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 27 February 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh. BTW, a band I was in (The Bunny Game) did this in 1982.

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 27 February 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

How about a more modern combo of Broken Witch (Liars) and Toxic???

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 27 February 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I Kill Everything I Fuck by GG Allin

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Sunday, 27 February 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I'd cover the entire Hootie & the Blowfish album Cracked Rear View, but I would do it naked and on my period and make sure I got blood on everyone.

― aline, Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

LET HER CRY!!!

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/News/9812/07/showbuzz/rucker.jpg

I only wanna bleed with you.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I would either play that C,E,G,A,Bflat,A,G,E vamp for the whole night or hide microphones inside all the tables with the signals mixed back through the sound system with really long delays and let them annoy each other into fisticuffs.

― Pangolino again, Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

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