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OK, I'm sure this has been covered before, but maybe it is a good time to re-cap. As a KJ, it is mostly up to us to keep the energy high. What are the songs you feel are best to get the crowd going? I'd like to find some new stuff to do. I have a handful, but some I like to do are Queen Fat Bottomed Girls, 4 Non Blonds Whats Up, Bette Midler At Last, Golden Earring Radar Love and Van Hallen Panama (note that I'm a guy doing a couple chick songs - people get a kick out of this)

What are your favorites?

Definitely Barracuda by Heart. Also do What's Up. Separate Ways by Journey (in fact, anything by Journey). Mercy by Duffy.

Depends on the venue & crowd, however Bodies - Drowning Pool, Walk - Pantera, almost anything Metallica, almost anything Alice In Chains - these right off the top of my head are always hits at our shows.
Actually some of the songs you list i'd put in the put them to sleep category. They've either been over done to death or not known.

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Hey, we're country here. For me, a few are Some Girls Do (Sawyer Brown), Where the Stars and the Stripes (Aaron Tippin), Tall Tall Trees (Alan Jackson). For mellower crowds, Heard It In A Love Song (Marshall Tucker) and One Night At A Time (George Strait).

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In my area for semi-newer stuff songs like

Bad Romance- lady ga ga
- Tok- keisha
Cowboy Cassanova- carrie underwood
Single Ladies- beyonce
Dani California- red hot chili peppers
Sex on Fire- kings of leon
Low and In The Ayer- flo rida
Say Hey ( i love you)- michael franti & Spearhead

Because they are so old and drawn out seems to be why they are such crowd pleasers. We may hate them for how often they are done, but they keep getting done because the crowd typically loves to do/hear them. I'll do Walk sometimes, Metallica Fuel is a good one. System of a Down too.

I Saw Her Standing There
Smooth
Sold (Grundy County Auction)

are a few that work at our gig.

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Funny as heck last night - a guy gets up and sings Barry White and the entire room jumps up and dances...

I'm learning all of Lady Gaga's stuff and definitely Bad Romance is a hit...as is Poker Face. Some females do - Tok ... and Cowboy Casanova is loved by the crowds but not as easy to sing as some. Thanks for the doink on the head, JR - I guess I was thinking about what I sing on the spur of the moment if I want to jazz things up. Have to move Bad Romance to the top of that last.

Funny as heck last night - a guy gets up and sings Barry White and the entire room jumps up and dances...

I'm learning all of Lady Gaga's stuff and definitely Bad Romance is a hit...as is Poker Face. Some females do - Tok ... and Cowboy Casanova is loved by the crowds but not as easy to sing as some. Thanks for the doink on the head, JR - I guess I was thinking about what I sing on the spur of the moment if I want to jazz things up. Have to move Bad Romance to the top of that last.

How 'bout "Single Ladies" (Put A Ring On It) by Beyonce. Most of the ladies immediately respond. Definately a pleaser at my shows.

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My first choice IS Sound Choice.

Faith - George michael
Fast Love - George Michael
Follow Me - Uncle Kracker
Stand by me - Ben E King
My Sharona - The knack
Are you Gonna be my girl - Jet

Hate to say it and we don't do it ourselves but I have yet to see "Mustang Sally" fail to bring people to the dance floor. We had a guy do it that was so drunk he didn't sing a word but just grunted "Huh" here and there throughout and people were still dancing to it.

Even at the rock-n-roll bars, "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" goes over very well.

How about this? Songs that are crowd pleasers no matter how poorly sung!

Mustang Sally
Pride And Joy
Sweet Home Chicago
Sweet Home Alabama
Sweet Caroline
Wanted Dead Or Alive
You Never Even Called Me By My Name
Family Tradition
Hotel California
Rock & Roll All Night
I Love This Bar
Margaritaville
Friends In Low Places
Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time
She Bangs
Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Me & Bobby McGee
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Good Hearted Woman
Piano Man
Redneck Woman
Before He Cheats
Wanderer
King Of The Road
Devil Went Down To Georgia
Sympathy For The Devil

Crowd pleasers really depends on the crowd on that particular night, but here are a few tried and true favs:

1. Pour Some Sugar On Me
2. Baby Got Back
3. Poker Face
4. Sweet Home Alabama
5. Mony Mony (either the Shondells original version or the Billy Idol remake)
6. Old Time Rock 'N' Roll
7. Mustang Sally
8. I Kissed A Girl
9. Sweet Child O' Mine
10. Centerfold

There are more, just listed the top 10 that came to my head.

Crowd pleasers really depends on the crowd on that particular night, but here are a few tried and true favs:

1. Pour Some Sugar On Me
2. Baby Got Back
3. Poker Face
4. Sweet Home Alabama
5. Mony Mony (either the Shondells original version or the Billy Idol remake)
6. Old Time Rock 'N' Roll
7. Mustang Sally
8. I Kissed A Girl
9. Sweet Child O' Mine
10. Centerfold

There are more, just listed the top 10 that came to my head.

Crazy- patsy cline
These boots are made for walkin'- nancy sinatra
What's up- 4 non blondes
Whatever A wants- ?
When you're good to mama, mama's good to you- ??

Mony Mony- billy idol
What i like about you- romantics
Neon Moon- brooks and dunn
My Girl- temptations
Let's Stay Together- al green
At This Moment- billy vera & the beaters
Santeria- sublime
What I Got- sublime
Is This Love- bob marley

Baby Got Back- sir mix alot
Ice Ice Baby- vanilla ice
Humpty Dance- digital underground
Hot In Here- nelly
Plush- stone temple pilots
Somebody Told Me- killers

Irreplaceable- beyonce
Single Ladies- beyonce
Check On It- beyonce
Who Knew- pink
You Belong With Me- taylor swift

...sheesh as matt would say...i've been doing this too long,
i really could go and on for awhile.....

Apaarently L-O-L-A is spelled with a smiley face, !!

I have a rowdy crowd at my regular Friday night gig

Led Zepplin Whole lotta love
Jaimie Foxx Blame it (on the alcohol)
Michael Jackson The way you make me feel
Soggy Bottom Boys
Ozzy Crazy Train
Clarence Carter Strokin

any old school rap, Sir Mix A-Lot, Vanilla Ice, Run DMC


And always by request but late into the night

20 Fingers Don't want no short (explicative) man. One of my regulars gets begged to sing this and her boyfriend gets out on the dance floor and does his little dance. The crowd has tears running down their cheeks from laughing so hard.

Hi, Cheater cheater by Joey and Rory is getting the girls up at our local gin mill.