Re: Setlist from last night (11 December)

By request, an all-covers installment.

I also had a couple of requests for a tribute to John Lennon.

"Hanging on the Telephone" – Blondie
"Back in the U.S.A." – The MC5
"Disguises" – The Jam
"Cinderella" – The Fuzztones
"Soul Kitchen" – X

"Toys in the Attic" – R.E.M.
"Friday on My Mind" – David Bowie
"Love and Anger" – Nada Surf
"California Man" – Cheap Trick

"Don't Change" – Face to Face
"Alone Again Or" – The Damned
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" – Flogging Molly (for singer Dave King's birthday)
"I Want Candy" – Bow Wow Wow (for bassist Leigh Gorman's birthday)

"Freddie's Dead" – Fishbone
"Outsider" – Green Day
"The Green Door" – The Cramps
"Let the Day Begin" – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

"Miss Amanda Jones" – The March Violets
"The Harder They Come" – Joe Jackson
"A Question of Temperature" – The Lords of the New Church
"Viva Las Vegas" – Dead Kennedys

"Gimme Some Truth" – Generation X
"Instant Karma" – U2
"Working Class Hero" – Marianne Faithfull
"Cold Turkey" – The Soft Boys

"Hiroshima Mon Amour" – The Church
"Teaser" – Mötley Crüe (for Nikki Sixx's birthday)
"Shakin' All Over" – The Smithereens

"Summertime Blues" – Blue Cheer
"Traveling Riverside Blues" – Led Zeppelin
"Milk Cow Blues" – Aerosmith

You could have picked any Led Zeppelin song for this one, heh heh.

OK, that's kind of unfair. But I raise my glass of blueberry juice to your inclusion of R.E.M.'s "Toys in the Attic," which introduced me to what's pretty much the only Aerosmith song I can stand, and the Church's "Hiroshima Mon Amour," which comes from what I think is one of that band's most underrated records (though my understanding is that the band itself disdains it), and is also the cut that encouraged me to dig into Ultravox's pre-Midge Ure catalog.

You mined three of the best all-covers albums out there, in Pinups, A Box of Birds, and If I Had a High-Five. Made for a great show.

The March Violet's "Miss Amanda Jones" is an ace cover as well. Good choices all!

Thank you for the kind words, everyone.

Yeah, that March Violets version might be the least Stonesy-sounding cover available of any Stones song.

For least Stonesy Stones cover I nominate Devo's version of Satisfaction.

For least Stonesy Stones cover I nominate Devo's version of Satisfaction.

[Oops - sorry for the double post. Mouse malfunction!]



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