Apologize cover, One Republic

I’ve been fortunate enough to play solo and band cover gigs for years, and my experience has been that people are generally tolerable; however, it’s inevitable that I’ll get a request from a drunken patron for a stupid ass song.  Moreover, the drunk ass usually wants to “sing along” with me while spilling beer on me and my gear and stinking up my microphone.  That said, here is my list of 5 stupid ass songs that should “die,” because with their death comes safety and sanity for me.  This list isn’t in any particular order.  The fact is that they all equally suck.

1.  Sweet Home Alabama – No offense to Skynrd and their ability to pen great songs, but the land where “skies are blue” and the “governor is true” has had some gubernatorial issues lately.  

2.  Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison has a body of work and it neither begins nor ends with this sad excuse of a song.  Plus, it turns out that Van Morrison’s brown eyed muse has some trouble ahead of her.

3.  Margaritaville – When I hear this song I have no desire to go and “nibble on sponge cake” or “waste away in Margaritaville” (wherever the f#$k that is).  If I want anything to do with a parrot it’s gonna involve this beast of a musician.  Listen to “Beak of Putrefaction”  

4.  Free Bird – Whoa!  Skynrd makes the list twice?  Sorry Skynrd fans, but the only bird song worth playing these days  is this one.

5.  The complete collection of “Creed” – I woke up one day to a Creed song and said “Why don’t they just go away?”  A week later they broke up.  Now I’m happy but their legacy lives on in the playlists of countless toolboxes across the world.  I can’t stand them.  That’s all I can say.  The truth is that the rest of the band rocks pretty hard without lead loser Scott Stapp.  Here’s proof.