THE APPROXIMATORS – SONG LIST
(April 7, 2026 - MAC U “Light Up The Night” FESTIVAL)
New to the List:
· Blow at High Dough (The Tragically Hip)
· Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
· Brian Wilson (Barenaked Ladies)
· Complicated (Avril Lavigne)
· Eye of the Tiger (Survivor)
· Faith (George Michael)
· Home for a Rest (Spirit of the West)
· I Believe in a Thing Called Love (The Darkness)
· It’s All Coming Back to Me Now (Céline Dion)
· Kiss Me (Sixpence None the Richer)
· La Bamba (Richie Valens)
· Let it Go (from Frozen)
· Monkey Wrench (Foo Fighters)
· My Old School (Steely Dan)
· Paradise by the Dashboard Light (Meatloaf)
· Santa Monica (Everclear)
· Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl (Chappell Roan)
· Umbrella (Rihanna)
· Unwritten (Natasha Bedingfield)
· War (Edwin Starr)
· You Can Leave Your Hat On (Joe Cocker)
The Rest:
· 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton)
· Achy Breaky Heart (Billy Ray Cyrus)
· Ahead by a Century (Tragically Hip)
· All Apologies (Nirvana)
· All I Want is You (U2)
· All Star (Smash Mouth)
· All The Small Things (blink-182)
· Alone (Heart)
· Are You Gonna Go My Way? (Lenny Kravitz)
· Austin (Boots Stopped Workin’) (Dasha)
· Baba O’Riley (The Who)
· Back in Black (AC/DC)
· Bad Guy (Billie Eilish)
· Bad Moon Rising (CCR)
· Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)
· Basket Case (Green Day)
· Because The Night (Patti Smith)
· Before He Cheats (Carrie Underwood)
· Behind These Hazel Eyes (Kelly Clarkson)
· Believe (Cher)
· Better be Home Soon (Crowded House)
· Beverly Hills (Weezer)
· Bitch (Meredith Brooks)
· Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden)
· Black Horse & the Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall)
· Black Velvet (Alannah Myles)
· Blame Brett (The Beaches)
· Blister in the Sun (Violent Femmes)
· Blitzkrieg Bop (The Ramones)
· Bloodletting (Concrete Blonde)
· Born This Way (Lady Gaga)
· Break Stuff (Limp Bizkit)
· Bring Me to Life (Evanescence)
· Buddy Holly (Weezer)
· Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen)
· Chop Suey! (System of a Down)
· Clint Eastwood (Gorillaz)
· Closer to Fine (Indigo Girls)
· Closing Time (Semisonic)
· Common People (Pulp)
· Crazy Train (Ozzy)
· Creep (Radiohead)
· Criminal (Fiona Apple)
· Dammit (blink-182)
· Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen)
· Dancing On My Own (Robyn)
· Dancing Queen (ABBA)
· Devil Inside (INXS)
· Disturbia (Rihanna)
· Dog Days are Over (Florence + the Machine)
· Don’t Be Cruel (Elvis Presley)
· Don’t Look Back In Anger (Oasis)
· Don’t Speak (No Doubt)
· Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey)
· Don’t You Forget About Me (Simple Minds)
· Dragula (Rob Zombie)
· Dream On (Aerosmith)
· Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
· Easy on Me (Adele)
· El Scorcho (Weezer)
· Elderly Woman Behind the Counter… (Pearl Jam)
· End of Beginning (Djo)
· Ex’s and Oh’s (Elle King)
· Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
· Flowers (Miley Cyrus)
· Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
· Fortunate Son (CCR)
· Free Fallin’ (Tom Petty)
· Friends in Low Places (Garth Brooks)
· From the Start (Laufey)
· Fuck & Run (Liz Phair)
· Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper)
· Give Me One Reason (Tracy Chapman)
· Glory Days (Springsteen)
· Golden (Huntr/x)
· Goo Goo Muck (The Cramps)
· Goodbye Earl (The Chicks)
· Grace Kelly (MIKA)
· Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
· Hand in My Pocket (Alanis Morissette)
· Hard to Handle (The Black Crowes)
· Hate to Say I Told You So (The Hives)
· Heart of Glass (Blondie)
· Here Comes Your Man (The Pixies)
· High School Confidential (Rough Trade)
· Higher (Creed)
· Highway to Hell (AC/DC)
· Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Pat Benatar)
· Ho Hey (The Lumineers)
· HOT TO GO! (Chappell Roan)
· House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)
· How You Remind Me (Nickelback)
· Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen)
· Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
· I Love Rock N Roll (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts)
· I Think We're Alone Now (Tommy James)
· I Wanna Dance W/ Somebody (Whitney Houston)
· I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
· I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (The Proclaimers)
· I’m on Fire (Springsteen)
· I’m Still Standing (Elton John)
· I’ve Had The Time Of My Life (from Dirty Dancing)
· Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin)
· Iris (Goo Goo Dolls)
· Island in the Sun (Weezer)
· Islands in the Stream (Dolly & Kenny)
· Jackson (Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash)
· Jersey Girl (Tom Waits)
· Jessie’s Girl (Rick Springfield)
· Joey (Concrete Blonde)
· Jolene (Dolly Parton)
· Jump Around (House of Pain)
· Keep Your Hands To Yourself (Georgia Satellites)
· Killing Me Softly (Fugees)
· Kiss (Prince)
· Laid (James)
· Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
· Last Nite (The Strokes)
· Like a Prayer (Madonna)
· Livin’ on a Prayer (Bon Jovi)
· Lose Yourself (Eminem)
· Loser (Beck)
· Louie Louie (The Kingsmen)
· Love on the Brain (Rihanna)
· Love Shack (The B-52s)
· Love Story (Taylor Swift)
· Lovefool (The Cardigans)
· Lump (POTUS)
· Lust for Life (Iggy Pop)
· Mama I’m Coming Home (Ozzy)
· Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up 2B Cowboys (Waylon & Willie)
· Man! I Feel Like a Woman! (Shania Twain)
· Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin)
· Misery Business (Paramore)
· Miss You (Rolling Stones)
· Mother (Danzig)
· Move Your Feet (Junior Senior)
· Mr. Brightside (The Killers)
· Mr. Jones (Counting Crows)
· Never Ever (All Saints)
· Not Ready to Make Nice (The Chicks)
· Oh, Pretty Woman! (Roy Orbison)
· Only the Good Die Young (Billy Joel)
· Oxford Comma (Vampire Weekend)
· Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
· People Who Died (The Jim Carroll Band)
· Piano Man (Billy Joel)
· Pink Pony Club (Chappell Roan)
· Please Please Please (Sabrina Carpenter)
· Police On My Back (The Clash)
· Proud Mary (CCR or Tina Turner – your choice)
· Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)
· Red Right Hand (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)
· Rehab (Amy Winehouse)
· Rockin’ in the Free World (Neil Young)
· Rolling in the Deep (Adele)
· Sabotage (Beastie Boys)
· Season of the Witch (Donovan)
· Semi-Charmed Life (Third Eye Blind)
· Seven Nation Army (White Stripes)
· Shake It Off (Taylor Swift)
· Shallow (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper)
· She Will Be Loved (Maroon 5)
· Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash)
· Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson)
· Sister Golden Hair (America)
· Sk8er Boi (Avril Lavigne)
· Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
· Smooth (Santana/Rob Thomas)
· S.O.B. (Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats)
· Somebody to Love (Queen)
· Song #2 (Blur) [aka the “woo hoo song’]
· Stacy’s Mom (Fountains of Wayne)
· Stick Season (Noah Kahan)
· Still Into You (Paramore)
· Sugar, We’re Going Down (Fall Out Boy)
· Summer of ‘69 (Bryan Adams)
· Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down (Kris Kristofferson)
· Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot)
· Supernaut (Black Sabbath)
· Suspicious Minds (Elvis Presley)
· Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
· Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)
· Sweet Transvestite (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
· Sympathy for the Devil (The Rolling Stones)
· Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver)
· Take On Me (A-Ha)
· Taste (Sabrina Carpenter)
· Teenage Dirtbag (Wheatus)
· Teenagers (My Chemical Romance)
· Texas Hold ‘Em (Beyoncé)
· The Best (Tina Turner)
· The Boys of Summer (Don Henley)
· The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
· The Gambler (Kenny Rogers)
· The Good in Everyone (Sloan)
· The Joker (Steve Miller Band)
· The Middle (Jimmy Eat World)
· The Story (Brandi Carlile)
· The Way (Fastball)
· These👢are Made for Walkin’ (Nancy Sinatra)
· This Year (The Mountain Goats)
· Tik Tok (Kesha)
· Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)
· Time Warp (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
· Tribute (Tenacious D)
· Torn (Natalie Imbruglia)
· Toxic (Britney Spears)
· Try (Blue Rodeo)
· Tubthumping (Chumbawumba)
· Twist and Shout (The Beatles)
· Under Pressure (Queen)
· Underwhelmed (Sloan)
· Valerie (Amy Winehouse)
· Vampire (Olivia Rodrigo)
· Violet (Hole)
· Wagon Wheel (Darius Rucker)
· Walking On Sunshine (Katrina & the Waves)
· Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi)
· War Pigs (Black Sabbath)
· Welcome to the Black Parade (MCR)
· We’re Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister)
· Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon)
· What I Got (Sublime)
· What’s Up? (4 Non Blondes)
· Wheat Kings (Tragically Hip)
· When Will I Be Loved? (Linda Ronstadt)
· Where the Streets Have No Name (U2)
· White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
· Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
· With or Without You (U2)
· Wonderwall (Oasis)
· Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus)
· You Oughta Know (Alanis Morissette)
· You’re So Vain (Carly Simon)
· Your Man (Down With Webster)
· Zombie (The Cranberries)