Yet-Another-Revised-Fakes-List or what?

For years I've been frustrated with jam sessions playing the same ol' stuff all the time. I keep wondering why "Get together" or "Hey Jude" always comes up at "Hey let's play something from the Beatles" - time.

I started collecting a kind-of Top N songs which (almost) never came up on the jam sessions but I sure would've liked to try -list. Then I added some more obvious titles just for fun. Maybe I'll try handing this out to people next time.

Any of these songs would be met with great enthusiasm - some of them will be performed with tongue firmly in cheek, but that's the best attitude for jam sessions anyway.

A good number of these songs have at some guise been part of repertoire for bands I've played with over time or I've studied them for other reasons. Some of them have not been visited for years, which just makes them nicer to get back to. My whole repertoire, of course, is "somewhat" larger than this.

Rock, Soft Rock, Rhythm and Blues (in its original meaning)

• Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
• Suffragette City - David Bowie
• Baba O'Riley - The Who
• I Can See For Miles - The Who
• The Kids Are Alright - The Who
• Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
• I Am The Walrus - The Beatles
• You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles
• Back In The USSR - The Beatles (Ok. This is a common one)
• War Pigs - Black Sabbath
• Ever Fallen In Love - The Buzzcocks
• Police On My Back - The Clash
• Cadillac (The quintessential rock song)
• Gates Of The West - The Clash
• Have You Ever Seen The Rain? - Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Distant Sun - Crowded House
• Weather With You - Crowded House
• Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
• Grimly Fiendish - The Damned
• Shadow of Love - The Damned (Horse Jazz ho-ho)
• Alone Again or - The Damned
• Milk and Alcohol - Dr. Feelgood
• Ordinary World - Duran Duran
• Here Comes The Breeze - Gomez
• Third Stone From The Sun - Jimi Hendrix
• Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
• Tea In The Sahara - The Police
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police
• Life's A Long Song - Jethro Tull (lovely 6/8 thing)
• Mother Goose - Jethro Tull
• Starbreaker - Judas Priest
• Hell Bent For Leather - Judas Priest
• Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin
• Ace of Spades - Motörhead
• Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
• Lithium - Nirvana
• Highway To Hell - AC/DC (I can do other things with my fingers throught the A part he-he)
• Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC (One of my favorites on the Contrabass)
• Harry Irene - Captain Beefheart
• Tales of Brave Ulysses - Cream
• Europa and the Pirate Twins - Thomas Dolby
• People Are Strange - The Doors
• The Crystal Ship - The Doors
• Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie And The Hot Rods
• Willie The Pimp - Frank Zappa
• Let's Make The Water Turn Black - Frank Zappa
• Deathless Horsie - Frank Zappa
• Tequila - Ventures
• Sweet Lorraine - Uriah Heep
• London Lady - The Stranglers
• (Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads
• Reeling In The Years - Steely Dan
• Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
• Closer To The Heart - Rush
• Love Hurts - Nazareth

Rockabilly, Psychobilly, whateverbilly

• Garbageman - The Cramps
• Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps
• Can Your Pussy Do The Dog - The Cramps

Country (& Bluegrass)

• It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels - Dolly, Loretta, Tammy...
• Harder Than Your Husband - Frank Zappa
• Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard (For obvious reasons in Amsterdam)
• Long Gone Lonesome Blues - Hank Williams Sr (Any yodelers out there?)
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe version in 6/8 is real nice
• Footprints In The Snow - Bill Monroe
• John Henry - Bill Monroe (et al. think it's Trad.)
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown
• Seven Drunken Nights (Ok. This is Irish...)
• Journey Of The Sorcerer - Eagles (Hard to classify this one.)
• The Road To Bayamon - Tom Russell Band

"Hippie S**t"

• Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
• Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

Reggae/Ska

• Rivers of Babylon - Jimmy Cliff
• Many Rivers to Cross - Jimmy Cliff
• The Guns Of Brixton - The Clash
• Message To Rudie - Specials
• Rudie Can't Fail - The Clash
• Zimbabwe - Bob Marley
• Israelites - Desmond Dekker
• Ghost Town - Specials
• Too Much Too Youg - Specials
• On My Radio - Selecter

Brazil

• Tanta Saudade - Djavan (Sstarts as a pseudo Afro-Cuban tumbao/son montuno, actually.)
• Aguas de Marco - Tom Jobim
• A Felicidade - Luiz Bonfa

Blues (& Roots)

• Sexual Harrassment In The Workplace - Frank Zappa (Well it is just a blues. In Dbm, though...)
• You Got Me On So Bad - J.J. Cale (very slow, works beautiful with double bass and piano)
• Hold On - J.J. Cale
• Cajun Moon - J.J. Cale
• Creole Belle - Mississippi John Hurt
• Salty Dog Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
• In The Pines - Leadbelly
• Stagger Lee - Memphis Slim
• Jesus Just Left Chigago - ZZ Top
• Mexican Blackbird - ZZ Top

Acoustic (or sort of)

• Tell Me Why - Neil Young
• After The Gold Rush - Neil Young
• Starman - David Bowie
• Life on Mars - David Bowie

Slows

• Rain song - Led Zeppelin
• Something - The Beatles
• If I Can Dream - Elvis Presley (though not his song, methinks)
• Lilac Wine - Not Jeff Buckley's own but he did it best, IMO
• Lover, You Should've Come Over - Jeff Buckley
• Old Furry Sings The Blues - Joni Mitchell

Slow Instrumental

• Albatross - Fleetwood Mac

Soul, Funk

• Searching - Roy Ayers
• Mystic Voyage - Roy Ayers
• What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
• Do Your Thing - Isaac Hayes (In its 12-minute glory. No use wasting a perfectly good groove so let's stretch it a bit!)
• Little Child Running Wild - Curtis Mayfield
• Freddie's Dead - Curtis Mayfield
• For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder
• Try A Little Tenderness - Wilson Pickett
• I Can't Stand The Rain
• Everyday People - Sly and the Family Stone
• Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey - Sly And The Family Stone
• If You Don't Know Me By Now
• I'll Keep Holding On - Simply Red

Afro-Cuban (Son, Salsa, etc)

• Chan Chan - Compay Segundo
• Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara - Victor Jara

Jazz - Vocal

• Paper Moon - Natalie Cole et al
• Seventh Son - Mose Allison (Mod Jazz)
• Body And Soul
• Black Coffee
• Willow Weep For Me
• Blue Moon
• Just a Gigolo
• Coyote - Joni Mitchell
• Off Night Backstreet - Joni Mitchell
• Why Don't You Do Right
• Money's Getting Cheaper - The Nomos
• If You'se A Viper (old-time)
• Jack I'm Mellow (old-time)
• Speak Low
• You Don't Know What Love Is

Jazz - Bebop et al

• Nardis - Miles Davis
• Song For My Father - Horace Silver
• Stolen Moments - Oliver Nelson
• Night In Tunisia
• Ey Ukhnyem (Volga boatmen song)

Jazz/Fusion

• Spain - Chick Corea
• Peaches en Regalia - Frank Zappa
• Cariba - Wes Montgomery
• Road Song - Wes Montgomery