Come Up With The Ultimate Chicks On The Floor Set

[gandolf203]

We have been trying to come up with a set to keep as many chicks on the floor as possible. They will get up for a few, but we haven't gotten them to stay for more than 4-5 songs.

Your challenge (so we can steal the ideas) is to come up with eight songs to play in the middle of a set guarenteed to keep the women up and partying. I don't care if the songs are what some here consider "lame" (to wit Mustang Sally which, I'm sorry, always works). What we have been working with is:

Addicted To Love
Another One Rides The Bus
Jessie's Girl
Mustang Sally
Keep Your Hands To Yourself
Pride And Joy
Be My Girl
Crazy Bitch

I would be interested in your ideas and/or suggestions. Particularly useful are songs which sort of lead into each other, something the above set does not lend itself to.

Thank you for your responses!

[B Money]

Originally Posted by gandolf203

What we have been working with is:

Addicted To Love yes
Another One Rides The Bus No
Jessie's Girl YES
Mustang Sally YES
Keep Your Hands To Yourself yes
Pride And Joy No
Be My Girl The Jet song? if so, then YES
Crazy Bitch YES

don't forget:
Jenny (867-5309)
Pour Some Sugar On Me
Summer of 69
Love Shack
Brick House
Play That Funky Music
Brown Eyed Girl
Living On a Prayer/You Give Love a Bad Name
What I Got
Sherri Sherri/Sweet Caroline
Mony Mony
Muskrat Love

[Gas-man]

Lose the Pride and Joy, it's a dude song.

[Bassomatic]

Our mostly 80's-themed gay wedding band is doing...

She Blinded Me w Science
Brass in Pocket
Love Shack
Walking on the Moon

and a bunch of other surprisingly dancy pop/rock/R&B fare. Fun stuff, having never done the coverband thing (for more than a one-off gig).

[Tinman]

Talk Dirty to Me

[jimfog]

Originally Posted by Gas-man

Lose the Pride and Joy, it's a dude song.

Nope......BIG female dance inducer............seriously.


also:

James - Laid

Jessie's Girl

I Kissed a Girl

Your Love - The Outfield

To Be With you - Mr Big

[rwe333]

Start will all the stuff you'd prefer NOT to play and you'll get the bootys shakin' (girls and guys). Ya know, the Mustang Sallys, the Brown Eyed Girls, the Sweet Home Alabamas, etc...
(and - always odd - as it seems many of the folks that bitch about playing these well-heeled tunes don't play 'em right!)

[Bassomatic]

Originally Posted by rwe333

Start will all the stuff you'd prefer NOT to play and you'll get the bootys shakin' (girls and guys).

Some wisdom there, fo sho.

[Gas-man]

Originally Posted by jimfog

Your Love - The Outfield

This is a goodie, but impossible to sing full voice.

Do you do it falsetto?

[jimfog]

Originally Posted by Gas-man

This is a goodie, but impossible to sing full voice.

Do you do it falsetto?

Nope......just wear spandex a few sizes too small.

[CraigSuperLead]

This is the exact thing I'm fighting with my band about. We do a ton of great dance songs, but lately they've decided that they need to showcase our musical tastes or talent or whatever, and we're doing songs that CLEAR the floor. We'll do 2 songs that kill, then we do some heavier rock song and.... nothing.... 'are there still people here???.... oh, cool! the bartender liked that one.'

Keep the ladies happy and on their feet. Everything else will work itself out after that.

I know that sounds lame or whatever, but as a bar band, we're there to do a job: make a party happen. We can play whatever else we want on our own time.

Anyway, as far as suggestions go.... listen to what the dj is playing in between sets at the clubs you're playing or going to be playing. See what works and what doesn't and try to incorporate some of that. It's can be a decent starting point for figuring out the club.

[tone4days]

honky tonk women always works for us

[wire 247]

I don't think they will stay up for more than 4 or 5 songs no matter what. Do a whole set of stuff the chicks like and they still will not stay the whole set. Play those 5 and than play a couple you guys want to do, start off each set like that. Ones I would add would be:

American Girl
Last Dance with Mary Jane
Play That Funky Music
Superstition
Get Down Tonight

If none work on any given night break into "Smack My Bitch" by Prodigy.....

[Phil M]

Regarding 'Your Love' by The Outfield.

Originally Posted by Gas-man

This is a goodie, but impossible to sing full voice.

Do you do it falsetto?

I was in a group a couple of years ago that worked this out in rehearsal. We finally unleashed it and got the RCA Dog look from the audience. Singer just couldn't hack it. I remember the bar manager saying, "And you guys were doing so well! Maybe play it earlier in the set--the singer's voice was shot." That was all our singer needed to hear.

Personally I thought we did it terribly anyway so good riddance. I agree with the Gasman on this one. That said, if you can pull it off I agree that it's a good choice.

[Deacon]

Here are some songs from our set list that seem to get the ladies up boogying.

Are you Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty
The One I Love - REM
Sweet Home Alabama - Skynyrd
Money (That's What I Want) - Beatles
Shook Me All Night Long - ACDC
Pink Cadillac - Springsteen