Almost 100 Songs I’d Prefer To Hear Instead Of This Overplayed Dance Rock Song
Upon experiencing This List Of Dance Rock Songs I’m Totally Sick Of, I realized that I could look at every song and think immediately of another song by the same artist that I’d prefer to hear.
Several bands have no better songs and should obviously be skipped entirely. One or two bands I am sure have better songs in their back catalogs but I am not a fan so I don’t know what they would be. In one rare case I actaully agree with the list. And in the case of Toto, well, you can’t really lose–they have better but whatever. In every other case I’d rather hear anything else, or nothing.
Almost 100 Songs I’d Prefer To Hear Instead Of This Overplayed Dance Rock Song
Journey – Wheel in the Sky
AC/DC – For Those About To Rock (alt: Dirty Deeds)
Aerosmith – Back In The Saddle
Rolling Stones – Paint it Black
Bob Segar – Strut (it’s “Seger”)
Def Leppard – Die Hard the Hunter
Lynyrd Skynyrd – [Anything but Sweet Home Alabama]
Doobie Brothers – China Grove
Bon Jovi – Bad Medicine
John Mellencamp – Hurts So Good (the only thing I agree on)
The Beatles – Ticket To Ride (alt: Dear Prudence)
Outfield – Taking My Chances (alt: Voices of Babylon)
Talking Heads – Life During Wartime
Kid Rock – You Never Met A Motherfucker Quite Like Me
Romantics – Talking In Your Sleep (if you really must)
Rick Springfield – Human Touch (must be performed with keytar)
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – (Skip)
Queen – Killer Queen
BTO – Let it Ride
Rusted Root – (Skip) (Seriously, nobody really wants to hear rusted root WTF)
Dave Mathews – Best of what’s around (alt: Skip)
CCR – Run through the jungle (alt: Fortunate son)
Rolling Stones – Dancing with Mr. D (Please, anything but Brown Sugar)
Joan Jett – Hate myself for loving you (alt: Skip)
Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
ZZ Top – Precious and Grace
Black Crowes – Jealous Again
Commitments – (Skip) (Also, did not write “Mustang Sally”.)
Grand Funk RailRoad – I’m Your Captain (alt: American Band)
The Clash – London Calling (alt: anything by The Clash)
Stevie Ray Vaughn – Texas Flood (alt: Skip)
Ike & Tina Turner – (SKIP!) (alt: “Proud Mary” is CCR; pick a second CCR song at random)
Rod Stewart – (Skip) (“Hot Legs” is OK but you can’t cover Rod Stewart without Rod Stewart.)
Bad Company – Rock N Roll Fantasy
Kiss – Heaven’s On Fire (alt: Lick it Up)
Van Morrison – Wild Night
Guns N Roses – Sweet Child o Mine (alt: Skip)
Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls (alt: any early track except Enter Sandman)
311 – (Skip)
The Beatles – Dear Prudence (alt: Skip the beatles in a dance-rock set; all their good stuff is lyrical)
Dropkick Murphy’s – (Skip) (WTF please no)
Robert Palmer – I didn’t mean to turn you on
Free – (Skip)
Queen – Bicycle Race (I get to pick a second Queen song hooray!)
Doobie Brothers – Listen To The Music
Van Halen – Top Jimmy (alt: Panama/Hang em High/Diver Down album side)
AC/DC – Shoot To Thrill
Ram Jam – (Skip)
Billy Squire – Emotions in Motion (it’s “Squier”)
Guns N Roses – (Skip) (one gnr song was more than enough thank you)
Billy Idol – Rebel Yell (alt: Skip)
Rolling Stones – Connection
Steve Miller Band – Wild Mountain Honey
Bon Jovi – (Skip.) (TWO Bon Jovi songs? Seriously?)
Men Without Hats – (Skip)
Meatloaf – Paradise By The Dashboard Light (uncertain)
B52’s – Channel Z
The Beatles – (Skip) (Enough Beatles Already)
Blur – Girls and Boys
Cars – My Best Friend’s Girl
Nirvana – In Bloom
Aerosmith – Eat the Rich (alt: Spaced/Dream On)
Billy Idol – (Skip) (One Billy Idol song only please)
Bruce Springsteen – The River (alt: Skip)
David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
Eddie Money – Shakin’
Elton John – Bennie and the Jets
Georgia Satellites – Hippy Hippy Shake
J. Geils Band – Love Stinks
Jimmy Buffet – Pirate looks at 40
Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy (alt: Catfish Blues/I Want To Be Loved)
Norman Greenbaum – Canned Ham
Whitesnake – Still of the Night (alt: Slow and Easy/Bad Boys)
Kings Of Leon – (Skip) (Just no)
Peter Frampton – (Skip) (also, that’s a Stevie Wonder song)
Pink Floyd – Pigs
Poison – Talk dirty to me (alt: Skip)
Queen – Who wants to live forever
Robert Palmer – Addicted to love
Rod Stewart – Do Ya Think I’m Sexy (Skip, because you can’t do it if you’re not Rod Stewart)
Rolling Stones – Under my thumb
Scorpions – Raised on rock
Smash Mouth – I can’t get enough of you baby (alt: Why can’t we be friends)
Steppenwolf – Magic carpet ride (alt: The Pusher)
Steve Miller – Sweet Maree (also, it’s “Steve Miller Band”)
Stray Cats – Rock this town
Survivor – (Skip) (Just for the love of god no)
Kid Rock – Don’t tell me you love me
The Beatles – (Skip) (No really. One beatles song is plenty.)
The Standells – (tbd but definitely not THAT song)
Toto – Hold The Line (KEEP! Did toto ever do anything bad? alt: any Toto song)
Van Morrison – (Skip) (one Van Morrison song is too many)
Warrant – (Skip)
ZZ Top – Shiek (alt: Waitin for the bus/Jesus just left medley)
Bare Naked Ladies – (…suck utterly. Skip)
Beastie Boys – No Sleep Till Brooklyn (alt: Brass Monkey or Paul’s Boutique era stuff)
Bush – (Skip)
EMF – (Skip)
Duran Duran – Hungry like the wolf/New Religion/New moon on monday/anything else really
I notice that I apologize or explain myself when I say “Skip” for Van Morrison, but no explanation is necessary when I “Skip” Warrant. Hehe.
