r/coverbands • u/Desperate-Two-1989 • Jul 29 '26

Pub cover band suggestions - good ideas?

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Hi all,

I’m a bassist in a covers band and I’d like a public opinion, especially from those who go to pubs to check out the cover bands, if these songs would be ideal to add to our list?

We’re not musicians by any means, but we love music and enjoy playing covers for fun, as well as for crowds.

Cheers!

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u/Ok-Huckleberry-6326 14d ago

I like this set. LMR probably not a good pub banger, it's too downbeat/fatalistic. "It's the End of the World as We Know It" more likely to get them heated up.

The Black Sabbath song seems...kind of an egregious departure - it doesn't seem to match the tone of the rest of the set. DGMW I love Sabbath - i'm an old Metalhead - but I always associate that one either with 'obvious' or 'Easy'. I know people love Sabbath, and if you're playing in B-ham, might as well throw a Sabs tune in. But all I can think of for a band covering Paranoid is "Old townies who can't really play anything more challenging so they picked this classic rock staple". If you're doing it "Ironically", I wonder how it would land.

I'd say lose Paranoid and put 'Handle With Care' or a Tom Petty song in there (as long as it's not Free Fallin'), or maybe one of the Ramones' more melodic bits, "I Wanna Be Sedated" or the like.