There are a whole raft of songs that I have this automatic association with the teenage bands from my high school - it was like there was some rule that every band that formed had to play at least one of these songs, if not all of them. Mandatory rawk.
April Sun in Cuba - DragonGimme Head - The RadiatorsBlack Night - Deep PurpleYou Really Got Me - The KinksGloria - Van MorrisonMidnight Blue - Lou Gramm (okay that one was def a 1988 thing but still)
Am I alone here? does anyone else get local band flashbacks when they hear certain songs?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 January 2013 23:19 (twelve years ago)
Every band I was friends with in the early 90s did a cover of REM's "Driver 8".
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 January 2013 23:21 (twelve years ago)
Perhaps that's a regional delicacy.
ive taken part in and/or witnessed like a hundred urinals covers in the past 5-6 years
― 69, Friday, 4 January 2013 23:24 (twelve years ago)
yeah I always wonder what the chemistry is to make a bunch of bands latch onto a particular song
I swear every band when I was 15 played April Sun In Cuba. And they didn't even play it on the radio much by then, it was kinda weird how they all started playing it. Cool song though
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 January 2013 23:25 (twelve years ago)
green day - beef stew
― 2am chopped top (brimstead), Friday, 4 January 2013 23:29 (twelve years ago)
lol "brain stew"
haha
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 January 2013 23:30 (twelve years ago)
Free BirdSweet Home AlabamaSmoke on the WaterTake It Easy (Eagles)
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 4 January 2013 23:30 (twelve years ago)
oh shit I forgot about Smoke on the Water
also Sunshine Of Your Love
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 January 2013 23:31 (twelve years ago)
Takin' Care of Business
― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 5 January 2013 18:44 (twelve years ago)
Love Hurts (a la Nazareth)
― nerve_pylon, Sunday, 6 January 2013 01:49 (twelve years ago)
Proud Mary
― henry s, Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:09 (twelve years ago)
Sunshine of Your Love
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:12 (twelve years ago)
Enter SandmanCenterfield
― MarkoP, Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:16 (twelve years ago)
The main riff to Thunderstruck
― MarkoP, Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:20 (twelve years ago)
Every band I was friends with in the early 90s did a cover of REM's "Driver 8".― Johnny Fever, Friday, January 4, 2013 6:21 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Friday, January 4, 2013 6:21 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ditto (but mid/late-80s) (and in the midwest).
also:
Modern English - "I'll Melt With You"Grateful Dead - "Franklin's Tower"U2 - "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:22 (twelve years ago)
China Grove
― nerve_pylon, Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:30 (twelve years ago)
brown eyed girl
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:35 (twelve years ago)
TAKE ON ME
― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:52 (twelve years ago)
sometimes i think there wasn't a small-town punk band in the 90s that didn't cover this.
see also: boys of summer
The Misfits
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:58 (twelve years ago)
Sadly, living in Newport in South Wales, all the local bar bands in the mid to late 90s specialised in playing Manic Street Preachers and Stereophonics songs. Grim days.
― Rob M Revisited, Sunday, 6 January 2013 17:06 (twelve years ago)
my condolences
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 January 2013 17:41 (twelve years ago)
someone haltingly playing "axel f"
― silver pozole (clouds), Sunday, 6 January 2013 17:44 (twelve years ago)
Teenage Kicks <- that riff can sound so terrible if it's not played with any bite
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Sunday, 6 January 2013 17:49 (twelve years ago)
Duran Duran, "Planet Earth"
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 6 January 2013 17:51 (twelve years ago)
a message to you rudy
― said the brohaim to the cochise (how's life), Monday, 7 January 2013 12:08 (twelve years ago)
cherub rock
blitzkreig bop (sometimes ironically covered by a local prog band)
― said the brohaim to the cochise (how's life), Monday, 7 January 2013 12:09 (twelve years ago)
the passenger - iggy popdon't wanna know if you are lonely - husker dui want you - the troggs
(auckland, nz, late eighties)
― cb, Monday, 7 January 2013 13:05 (twelve years ago)
Mandatory Rock, you guys:
Smoke on the water - Deep PurpleCan't get enough - Bad companyFeel like making love - Bad CompanySome yes and/or LedZep, prob.
These were the 'official' school band staples, they all did them, I think, so they could work out who was the 'best'.
Naturally, my band did none of these and stuck to our own self-penned tunes, also never did the school gig thing.
― Mark G, Monday, 7 January 2013 13:50 (twelve years ago)
Don't think there were any. Bands, that is. Unless a group of kids from the music dept doing Crazy Little Thing Called Love at a school fete counts.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 7 January 2013 13:52 (twelve years ago)
Wonderwall
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Monday, 7 January 2013 14:19 (twelve years ago)
Sweet Jane
― llurk, Monday, 7 January 2013 15:11 (twelve years ago)