Are most of the songs you play for fun from the last century?

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Just got to thinking: if you're playing someone else's songs alone on the guitar just as a leisure activity, not prepping for a covers show or something like that, are most of the songs you play pre-2000?

I often surf the forum with a guitar on my lap, twanging a bit as I read the threads, but reading Deebo's Deep Thoughts thread I suddenly thought: all the things I play are old enough to legally buy weed in Arizona.:embarrassed:

Are you folks playing newer tunes?
 
sadly I haven't touched a guitar in years and even then I only played my own stuff but if I were to play a song it would be something from the 70's or 80's
 
Oh, I don't know. I guess when I'm just noodling around, it's mostly stuff from movies and series, and the odd commercial. And yes, I play along to TV when I'm alone :embarrassed: Chernobyl was a particularly disturbing session.
 
I rarely play songs all the way through, usually just bits a pieces, but most of them are probably pre 2000. But I do play some newer stuff too. It could be Wilco, or some All Them Witches riffs, or Party in the USA or that one song by the Weekend or what ever tune I hear my kids listening to to get a laugh out of them when they hear their dad playing one of ‘their’ songs.
 
If Im not playing a song from my youth or trying to write something, then most of the time its me noodling my life away on a simple chord loop from a Dead jam.
Eyes of the World, Dark Star, Birdsong, are some go-tos.
 
Songs I’ve been playing almost everyday as a set. I don’t play out but I pretend just doing my own thing having fun.

Bright Side. 2021
Come Together by Third day
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Drunken Poets Dream
Distance. 2021
Forever Young 1973
Highway Song 70’s
Hotel California as a instrumental 70’s
I’m With You 2002
LaGrange
Landside sing and as a instrumental
Let Her Cry
Little Martha
She Talks to Angels
Star Spangled Banner
Sunrise in Texas
Sure Felt Cold After the Rain Fell
The Space Between 2001
Wagon Wheel. 2013 DR version
Wish it Were True 2012
 
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Bones McHorror said:
I think I'm equally likely to play Tove Lo, Foxes, Allie X, etc. as I am to play Bacharach, Beach Boys, or whatever.

I've also transcribed newer songs, and they are harder than you think to do correctly. Though you learn about conventions that make it easier to play and understand.
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I learned 'Mr Brightside' by The Killers for a covers band (not my idea), and was surprised at just how awkward the arpeggios are. It was surprisingly different from anything I usually play because it didn't use any chord shapes I was familiar with. We played it once in rehearsal, then the singer decided he didn't want to sing it. I still play it sometimes, just because it's awkward, and I want to keep it sharp in my muscle memory.
 
Since I mostly play originals and wrote a lot of songs in the past few years, I say most of what I play is from this century. When it comes to covers it is all from last century.
 
Yeah I guess I’m guilty too, although I have tinkered with some 21st century stuff.

Right now almost everything I am working on is pre-war (WWII that is). I’m not an old blues purist or anything, that’s just how things break down at the moment.
 
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