Campsite Anthems?

[echoechoecho]

Here's my top ten tunes for the campsite...

The Libertines - Don't Look Back Into The Sun

Primal Scream - Movin On Up

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor

The Smiths - This Charming Man

Bob Marley - One Love

Oasis - Some Might Say

Sufjan Stevens - Chicago

The Doves - There Goes The Fear

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Anyone else got any campsite anthems??

[Sonofjackass]

Fresh Prince of Bel Air (Y)

[Kevrig]

David Bowie - Starman

Chooooooooon!

[staffsknot]

Times Like These - Foo Fighters

Everlong - Foo Fighters

Good Riddance - Green Day

Day We Caught The Train - OCS

Sit Down - James (The most festival tune ever)

[bekimo]

Times Like These - Foo Fighters

Everlong - Foo Fighters

Good Riddance - Green Day

Day We Caught The Train - OCS

Sit Down - James (The most festival tune ever)

[redmad1971]

Cast - Walk Away

Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang

Beats International - blame it on the Bassline

Shed 7 - Chasing rainbows

The Killers - All These Things I've Done

Green Day - Basket Case

Oasis - Half the World Away

The Who - Magic Bus

Stone Roses - waterfall

Bob Marley - One Love

[Mr Nasty]

The Charlatans

Oasis

Ian Brown

The View

might throw some ladyGaGa in there too.

[GuffGuy]

Here's my top ten tunes for the campsite...

The Libertines - Don't Look Back Into The Sun

Primal Scream - Movin On Up

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor

The Smiths - This Charming Man

Bob Marley - One Love

Oasis - Some Might Say

Sufjan Stevens - Chicago

The Doves - There Goes The Fear

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Anyone else got any campsite anthems??

[GuffGuy]

The Charlatans

Oasis

Ian Brown

The View

might throw some ladyGaGa in there too.

[matt266]

My Ten...

The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection

Oasis - Cigarettes and Alcohol

Kasabian - Empire

The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now

MGMT - Kids

Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot

The Enemy - We Live and Die in These Towns

Blur - Song 2

The Killers - Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll

The Strokes - Last Night

[pebbles1385]

you must have New Order Blue Monday on there!

The fact the GaGa is there is bad enough - i'll scream if i hear her shite round the campsite!!!!

[Rich Jones]

Newly learnt on my acoustic guitar ready for the festival...:

Bon Iver - Skinny love

Stacie Orrico - Stuck

La Roux - Tigerlily

Gaga - Poker face

To learn in the next 4 weeks :

Couple of Phoenix tunes despite them cancelling and making me cry

A sufjan tune

Any requests i get..

[Angelis]

a bit of acoustic satch boogie will do fine

[GuffGuy]

Newly learnt on my acoustic guitar ready for the festival...:

Bon Iver - Skinny love

Stacie Orrico - Stuck

La Roux - Tigerlily

Gaga - Poker face

To learn in the next 4 weeks :

Couple of Phoenix tunes despite them cancelling and making me cry

A sufjan tune

Any requests i get..

[PaulDavis]

Life Of Riley - Lightning Seeds

Poker Face - Lady GaGa

Dont Look Back In Anger - Oasis

Mr Brightside - Killers

I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry

[matt266]

Please dont take this the wrong way Rich but, i find the whole thing horrible..

fair enough its your bag and thats cool. However, i had to put up with douche bags playing Razorlight and Cold fuc*ing play on thier guitars and singing badly,all week at glasto once , never again...

so a little tip for you, if people look like they are not enjoying your poker face session..stop playing. stop playing and put the weapon down..

As i say not a dig at you, just think of the other people as well. Have a goodun.

[Gaaz]

Oasis - Supersonic

Sonic Youth -Teen Age Riot

Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey

The Jam - Tales From The Riverbank

Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning

The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar

The Velvet Underground - Rock n' Roll

The Smiths - Some Girls are Bigger Than Others

Sly and The Family Stone - Everyday People

Michael Jackson - Rock With You

Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood

and finally MGMT - Kids

[MilkyJoe]

Oooh this is hard! are you only allowed 10? Well these are the first 10 to pop into my mind so in no particular order:

The Libertines - Time For Heroes

Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down

The Smiths - This Charming Man

Pulp - Common People

Blur - The Universal

Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

Oasis - Acquiesce

The Killers - Mr Brightside

The Clash - London Calling

For all those that don't agree, I'm afraid you're wrong! and for all those that are wondering, I'm afraid The Goombay Dance Band didn't make the top 50!!

[MilkyJoe]

And neither did lady gaga!

Edited July 22, 2009 by MilkyJoe

[Flaminglippy]

Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky (always the one I play putting up the tent!)

Muse - Plug In Baby

Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums

Pulp - Sorted For E's & Wizz

Foo Fighters - Breakout

Public Enemy - Bring The Noise

The Enemy - Had Enough

Charlatans - Sproston Green

Arctics - Mardy Bum

Shed 7 - Disco Down

Kanye - Jesus Walks

....ooooh....and....

Flaming Lips - Be My Head

Super Furrys - Northern Lites

Edited July 22, 2009 by Flaminglippy

[Rich Jones]

haha nah dont worry guys I wont be playing guitar until the early hours.

infact, I might not get it out because I can imagine what a horrible clash of sounds there will already be!

[Flaminglippy]

infact, I might not get it out because I can imagine what a horrible clash of sounds there will already be!

[GuffGuy]

haha nah dont worry guys I wont be playing guitar until the early hours.

infact, I might not get it out because I can imagine what a horrible clash of sounds there will already be!

[staffsknot]

haha nah dont worry guys I wont be playing guitar until the early hours.

infact, I might not get it out because I can imagine what a horrible clash of sounds there will already be!

[GuffGuy]

Rich quick tip make sure the people around you are up for it, took one of my guitars and guitarlele (mini guitar / uke style) and had a whale of a time with some mates and 'the neighbours' but always put it away (in the car) when people wanted to get their heads down. Haven't taken it for ages as am afraid of it getting nicked now and it tends to attract the 'can I have a go' crowd.

If your sitting around a BBQ some good ones everyone knows

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day

Times Like These - Foo Fighters

Everlong - Foo Fighters

Iris - Goo Goo Dolls (trust me all the girls get nostalgic)

Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry (as above)

Polly - Nirvana

The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve

Blaze of Glory - Bon Jovi

Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams

Run - Snow Patrol (nice and easy strummer)

Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day

House of The Rising Sun - The Animals

Wonderwall - Oasis

Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis

Anything by Newton Faulkner or Seasick Steve obviously sounds great but can be a bit technical to include the precussion too.

Generally I wouldn't advise taking a dance tune and playing it on an acoustic, but if you can make it work fair play. Just make sure you can play it after a few beers as there's nothing worse than someone who can't sing and is out of tune / playing crap chords belting out bad versions of songs. If you want it to work try and play what your neighbours will enjoy so they are involved, otherwise they will get hacked off... so have a few instant sing along songs everyone knows and keep asking if they are ok with you playing so they can tell you when they've had enough.

But best advice is do it Friday during the day and then put the guitar away for the weekend so you don't brass everyone off or attract the attentions of the thieves.

Oh one last piece of advice - make sure you sound good and are confident as if you're crap soemone will tell you, or worse still they might pull out a guitar and outplay you... did that at a local festival and the bloke had a bottom lip like a catfish as he thought he was a virtuoso (he was at best a RGT Grade 3 acoustic) so get your chops and riffs in order.