Sorry if there's a thread dedicated to this song already, but the advanced search option doesn't seem to agree with me.
After what, more than a year?, of resistance, I've finally realised the genius of The Boss. Here I am, making dinner, drink in hand, bouncing around the kitchen. This must've been incredible live.
I think it was the Springsteen reference that put me off.
Nothing like it on a Friday night is there?! Seriously, I've just got back from the local which has a small function room adjacent to it. For approximately the 1,234th time in my life I heard the strains of Bryan Adam's 'Summer of '69' much to the delight of the bacardi breezer swigging brigade. Wouldn't it be just great if for once the pub dj got his head out of his Heart FM educated arse and spun a long-forgotten, make that never remembered, dusty demo by a once hip band from many moons ago band but now largely negletced. At a certain stage of the night the fcukers will dance and rub up against each other to anything.
Eamonn you talk sense mate! (I am one of the bacadri breezer drinking giggly girls) Yeah The Boss is fantastic. Love it and I also think Live On would be a great one for the night scene too. Great summer feel to that tune. 'Wearing a shirt that was trying too hard..." - great opener.
Rarely, but sometimes. It helps if it (a) has a good, easily-picked-up beat, and (b) is rather fucking excellent.
Obviously both Live On and The Boss meet criterion (b) but I don't know if they're really the sort of thing you can latch onto in a pissed-up dancefloor haze. The Boss a bit more than Live On maybe, but they both have unexpected "stops" in them which can frighten off prospective dancers. Conversely (Dis)Count Us In by ROC (yes you have, check out that Muxtape site I posted ages ago) always used to go down a treat, because they can pick up what's happening in about five seconds.
I find that the kind of crowd who turn up to live gigs tend to be far more receptive to songs they might not know than clubbers. For instance, I once covered Dogs Are Everywhere, & had half a pub doing their funny little dance.
Then again, this was years ago when I used to play only very rarely, so maybe they were just glad to see someone different! Although I've done Acrylic Afternoons a few times over the last 6 months & that always goes down well for me.
No, I think that's fair - I was careful to put "dancefloor" in there somewhere, I think it's totally different seeing a live band. Both those songs would have the whole crowd pogo-ing along quite happily, but dancing on a dancefloor is different - the fear of looking like a tit is probably a factor.
But with gigs it often depends how old the audience are and how much alcohol has been consumed... Audiences can often by extremely cold, disinterested and dismissive of bands which they have never heard before.
