your karaoke set list

def leppard, 'photograph,' where i, inspired by anthony michael hall's turn as mutt lange, went the extra octave; van halen, 'poundcake,' mainly because of the bridge ('tried some sex without love/i found the real thing is poundcake'); golden earring, 'radar love'; and the presidents of the usa, 'lump.'

my total dud song was definitely 'come on over' by christina aguilera, in part because i hit myself in the mouth with the microphone and also in part because i can't go the extra extra octave.

Boys, never attempt "Take on me" unless you can arrange a swift kick in the goollies at the relevant points.

Even when I was I practically coerced into it by this intimidating bitch-diva friend of my then-boyfriend I just will not do it.

Many many songs have forever been ruined / improved by hearing my friends' / other peoples' renditions.

(I'd still love to do Heaven 17's "Temptation" with a hot soul diva. I might advertise for one in the Croydon Gazette).

"now just let me introduce myself / my name is Dare / pronounced with the 'air' / and oh ladies, you know that I am far from square"

which of course marked me as being just that.

Erm...I have it on a karaoke vcd at home. ;-)

1. Livin' On A Prayer
2. Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now
3. I Would Do Anything For Love
4. Every Rose Has Its Thorn
5. Crazy Crazy Nights
6. Mr Brownstone.

both voices!!

i wz told it was a "phenomenon"

haha the best thing wz [xXx] wz there — we haven't been in the same room for i think two years, and we between us managed total non eye-contact, BUT i sang "lollipop (candyman)" by aqua (which includes the line "i wish that i were a bubblegum"), and [xXx] sang nothing so i win utterly

(i realise it doesn't actually work like that)

freda payne : band of gold
neil diamond : shiloh
the box tops : the letter
astrud gilberto : girl from ipanema
cheap trick : surrender

I'm no fun to do karaoke with. People have told me this. No one ever wants to follow my triumphant performances with their off-key drunken mushmouthed bleating.

If I'm too inebriated I've been known to attempt 'American Trilogy' - always a big mistake.

Take That - Back for Good
Queen - Don't Stop me Now
Queen - Killer Queen
Queen - I Want to Break Free
Frankie Vallie & the Four Seasons - Sherry
A-Ha - Take on Me
Pogues - Fairytale of New York (with Ally C)
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Who am I (What's my Name)
Sugababes - Freak Like Me
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
Chicago - Hard to Say I'm Sorry
Eminem - Lose Yourself
Lionel Richie - Hello
Spice Girls - 2 Become 1
Manic Street Preachers - A Design for Life
Patsy Cline - Crazy

...and many more! (probably)

Make sure you're properly (un)dressed for your performance! "Wow, he really needs to learn the words to verse two, AND do a few sit-ups!"

"Paranoid", "Boys Are Back In Town", "Thong Song", and "Fill Me In".

Fuck it, I'ma' do it anyway.

"Semi-Charmed Life" - Third Eye Blind
"Swing, Swing" - The All-American Rejects
"Sucked Out" - Superdrag (the DJ at a karaoke night I used to frequent actually had this)
"Follow Me" - Uncle Kracker
"Right Now" - SR-71
"Girl All The Bad Guys Want" - Bowling For Soup

these are the songs i did do last weekend at karaoke

I've done well with:
"Keep On Lovin' You"
"Wild Horses"
"Angel From Montgomery"
"Feel Like Makin' Love"

There was a, er, KJ, who used to set up at my local who had "Tuesday's Gone." I live to find that again.

Also, why does every karaoke bar have "Love is the Drug" and "Virgina Plain" but no other Roxy? Very sad...

xpost to myself

Baby One More Time

Get Into the Groove

-- gygax! (gygax0...), May 7th, 2003 5:28 PM. (gygax!)

reo speedwagon : keep on loving you
tracy chapman : fast car
burt bacharach : i'll never fall in love again
otis redding : these arms of mine

A friend did Cheap Trick's Surrender last night at Kiss-me-oke and it was fantastic. I may have to get drunk enough to attempt it sometime. If any karaoke bar ever has Fleetwood Mac Secondhand News, I'm doing it, but this has yet to happen. But mark my words!

Ain't "Keep On Loving You" teh sweet? It always brings me joy to catch the change on the second "and I meant, every word i said etc..."

Such a shame it's only two verses...

ha, this advice couldn't be more OTM if it were printed out and sat atop a pile of actual money.

some faves: "Genie In A Bottle," "I Wanna Sex You Up," "Ignition (Remix)," "Opposites Attract" (when forced by my pal Marie), "Frontin'"

Fall Out Boy- Dance Dance
Coolio- Gangsta's Paradise
DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremony- Do You Really Like It?
Suede- Beautiful Ones
Erasure- A Little Respect
Lisa Loeb- Stay
The Smiths- This Charming Man

technotronic - pump up the jam
toto - africa
reo speedwagon - can't fight this feelin'

more suggestions for me plz! going tonight!

god i wish i could find a karaoke bar that has 'tinseltown in the rain'. i'd be all over that shit

i did 'purple rain' last time out. killed it.

johnny cash - a boy named sue

dude looks like a lady

the cars - just what i needed
fleetwood mac - landslide/you make loving fun/gypsy
louis armstrong - wonderful world

whitney houston - the greatest love of all
extreme - more than words
chris deburgh - lady in red
tina turner - private dancer

Barry White--Come On
Barry White--Practice What You Preach
Barry White--Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
Prince--When Doves Cry
Prince--Little Red Corvette
Michael Buble--whatever I feel like!

DONT DO THAT MAMY SONGS IN ONE NIGHT OMG

weird al -- "eat it"
best new karaoke song in a long time imo

also
rainbow "since you've been gone"

last night
The Doors - Alabama Song (whiskey var)
Metallica - ? (It wasn't the one with the sheep singing like I wanted)
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride

some previous fun ones
She Blinded me with Science, What a Wonderful World, Saturday in the Park, Goodbye Horses (had to use a youtube karaoke video to get this song), You Had to be a Big Shot, Self-esteem, Logical Song (lol), Luka (at a bar not expecting all classics and rock songs), Stone Cold Crazy (Queen)...

head like a hole w/ servant friend

Went for an all-90s night at karaoke last week.

Matchbox 20 - Push
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine
Counting Crows - Long December

People went nuts for all three. I think the potential for mining 90's radio rock nostalgia among 20-somethings has gone relatively unnoticed at least at karaoke. In the same vein, the all-time biggest response I've ever gotten at karaoke was for 4 Non Blondes - What's Up (What's Going On).

I do a lot of rap, like T.I.'s Dead and Gone, and have also done Nas's "If I Ruled the World" several times. like to also do stuff like Kool and the Gang's "Too Hot", Barry White's "Practice What You Preach", and "Razzle Dazzle" from Chicago.

i'm a semi-professional singer (in that some of my gigs unpaid, some paid), so like I also do at rehearsals for performances, sometimes I tape performances to see what I can improve on in the future. last night I sang "Father Figure" and did that but the Blackberry was next to this obnoxious guy who was singing along. I got to the riff at the end ("I will be youuuuuuuuuuuurs, FATHERRRRRRRRRRRR, I'll be your daddy, oh"), and on the recording you hear the guy go "HE GOT IT!". made me lol.

last week did Bubba Sparxxx--Ugly (boring song to do) and T.I.'s Live in the Sky. gonna try Big Shit Poppin' this week!

The only songs I've ever done are:

"Shiny Happy People" - R.E.M.
"Candy Everybody Wants" - 10,000 Maniacs
"Crush On You" - The Jets (have 0 recollection of actually doing this, btw)
"Let The Music Play" - Shannon

the last two were duets with donna rouge, who saved me from looking like a COMPLETE fool.

dj kool - let me clear my throat

I've done...

"Ziggy Stardust"
"Under The Milky Way"
"Nowhere Man"

I don't mean 2 brag but I keeled dat T.I. Song alsoi am kinda drunk

me and my friend gonna try "Fuck Wit Dre Day" tonight. can't believe they made a karaoke track for this!

i love karaoke
my fav. song is i believe i can fly
i stretch my arms out like i'm flying

weirdly enough this one seems to show up most places and is my go-to when i don't wanna attempt notes.

girlfriend always does lola and has a pretty mean drop-to-her-knees-and-fist-pump move.

i need to karaoke again.

this dude I know did "Tequila" once. he would run around the entire bar for the entire verses flailing all crazy just to return to the mic in time to say "Tequila". it was total performance art.

i mostly rapaoke, not that I can't sing (I can) but it's like when will I ever have the chance again IRL. I'm a skinny nerdy white dude. :)

sang last night:

madonna "into the groove"
prince "when doves cry"
blink-182 "what's my age again?" -- someone else's pick, i filled in b/c apparently they left before it was played
ke$ha "tik tok"
adam lambert "whataya want from me"

everyone was prett drunk by the last two so they were big singalongs w/ ilxor on da mic

everyone was pretty drunk by the last two

(whoops)

haven't been in a while, last song I sang was She's Like the Wind, and the host (a friend of mine) pointed out the ridiculousness of the lyrics throughout

How'd you do on that Lambert song? I couldn't sing a line for my life.

Usually Bowie for me. I do a mean Bowie.

How'd you do on that Lambert song? I couldn't sing a line for my life.

i did alright! i can't let loose & really belt it like he does, but i can stay on key

teenager in love - dion
is it my body? - alice cooper

going through max karaoke's song search to figure out what i'm gonna do today. here's what i have on my list:

debbie gibson - foolish beat
ost - the sound of music
richard harris - macarthur park
glen campbell - wichita lineman
kate bush - cloudbusting
kris kristofferson - help me make it through the night
steely dan - rikki don't lose that number
rose royce - love don't live here anymore
nu shooz - i can't wait
expose - point of no return
diana ross - it's my turn

on Tuesday, it was

Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Michael Buble - Call Me Irresponsible
T.I. - Dead and Gone

one more:

dusty springfield - "i just don't know what to do with myself"

Twista - Slow Jamz

Oi a few stumbles but mostly got it

started doing this Judas Priest one recently - this obv wasn't from a karaoke night (cos nobody ever records those) but it's karaoke in that I didn't record the backing track.

http://mfi.re/listen/20yp0eupnk218bg/Before_the_Dawn.mp3

tonight i will probably be doing

springsteen, downbound train
solange, cranes in the sky
rem, electrolite

depending on who is willing to put up with me, i also would like to do

cate le bon, are you with me now
kylie, can't get you out of my head
julia jacklin, pressure to party
neil young, wreckin ball
and if my friends won't hate me for doing it,
the soft boys, tonight

i have been hosting karaoke twice a week for five years now in the suburbs of portland oregon ama

Wow. Any tips, nuggets, anecdotes to share?

ama

do you have any songs that, when they come up, you know it's going to be bad (or good)

ama?

sure!

nobody in the audience is impressed by the depths of your music knowledge and they generally won't respond to songs they don't know, so pick the hits (or if you want deeper cuts, pick cuts that people at least know but nobody thinks to sing?), however this does not mean you should just sing sweet caroline and bohemian rhapsody. be creative but don't try to shut people out by doing shit nobody's ever heard of before. *this is easily circumvented if you are with a group of friends who all know the song(s) and will be into it.

energy is nearly as valuable as talent. if you can't sing nobody will care if you're having a good time and bringing something to the table, even if it's just that you're having fun up there. people like effort!

don't bother the kj about where you are in line more than once. if it's me, i will be petty and start bumping you down the list every time you ask after the first time. also tip your kj as they don't get paid much and are working for tips!

learn how to use a microphone!!!!! a lot of people don't know that it is not a magical stick that merely needs to be held in the hands. also if you can learn to project your voice like a frickin singer you are an angel and i adore you!

don't put your friends up for songs they don't know & etc. this sucks and just leads to embarrassment and i hate when someone sheepishly quits mid-song. like most things, karaoke is better with consent!

no heckling the singers! i have strict no heckling rules and i enforce them with an iron fist!

if you are in town come to my karaoke night and say hi to me and let's hang out i am fun

My neighborhood watering hole 💦 🕳 has now extended their karaoke to seven nights a week, which is kind of interesting. Lots of recent Spanish language pop songs, most of which I am unfamiliar with but still enjoy listening to. Sometimes songs get entered into the queue but nobody seems to know who entered them so someone has to volunteer to perform them. Radiohead’s “Creep” seems to pop up every night in this fashion, at least when I have been there, last time it happened I stepped up to sing it since it would be another 45 minutes until my selection came up.
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Wow, I really like your approach, thanks.

Ha, “Bohemian Rhapsody” was another abandoned pick, so one guy who is a pretty good singer but a baritone stepped it to sing some of it in a lower octave and the rest of us including me tried to pitch in just to get through it.

do you have any songs that, when they come up, you know it's going to be bad (or good)

oh man yes? it's so situational though. most of the stuff that i groan at is when people pick the really obvious stuff, song after song, or go for songs that they are doing "ironically". i'd rather see people sing songs they genuinely like as that leads to better performances and sometimes honest emotion on stage. i have a whole thing about karaoke and public catharsis. you're not going to get there with "boom boom pow".

i love to be surprised, in the main. "You? doing that? wow. okay! we'll see how that goes!" is probably my favorite reaction to anyone putting a song in. the absolute worst shit is when a drunk dude late at night wants to do "tears in heaven" or johnny cash's version of "hurt" or whatever. like folks, this is supposed to be a party, come on.

Another ghost selection was “Hey Jude.” This was made worse by the fact that we couldn’t see the lyrics for some reason. It just seemed to go on for ever, feels like it is exhibit A if a hit that should be avoided by most at karaoke night. Truth be told even when listening to the recorded version I am sometimes looking at my watch waiting for Ringo to come back from his bathroom break.

karl btw i love your picks and want to have a spingsteen off with you some night! i sang electrolite a few months ago when i got terrible news from a doctor (turned out the doc was wrong but that was still a tough weekend and i had to get some thoughts about life/death outta my system) and absolutely no one had any idea what the song was, but fuck 'em, had to say my peace about not being scared into a microphone you know

i have attempted to dissuade more than one person over the years from doing hey jude. "you realize this is going to devolve into you saying na nananana nananana for about five minutes, right?" they still always end up doing it. the smart ones bow out with a couple minutes to go

Feel like maybe even somebody put that in just to mess.

Agree that people should basically like the song they are singing and try to sing it as well as they can without worrying about being perfect, even if there is some comedy element to their performance- “doesn’t the original singer have some weird elements to their style?” or “I can’t sing this as well as I’d like so I’ll throw some attitude on it and some funny stuff” - without doing the ironic ironing thing. The Replacements kind of did it right, but most do it wrong.

When people sing too well and too close to the original that can be another problem in The Uncanny Valley.

One older guy sang “My Way” pretty impressively, but there is still a part of me that remains unimpressed.

karl btw i love your picks and want to have a spingsteen off with you some night!

my other bruce material is Brilliant Disguise, but I also have been thinking about Thunder Road. it's down there deep in my links, and in the parentheses i put "hard mode" because it seems like one where you have to walk in ready to go

"dancing in the dark" is one of my karaoke standards bc i can sing with joy and conviction and dance at the same time

i love to be surprised, in the main. "You? doing that? wow. okay! we'll see how that goes!" is probably my favorite reaction to anyone putting a song in.

^^ why Alice Cooper's "Is It My Body?" is another fave. plus it's in my range!

i miss going out with friends for karaoke a lot :(

I forgot I was going to add a Bruce song and maybe should try some Alice Cooper, thanks for reminding me.

Karaoke scratches a certain weird itch that cannot otherwise be scratched imo.

Is there an Iggy Pop song people recommend? Thinking “Lust for Life” or “The Passenger” but then those are kind of repetitive.

passenger's a bit one-note. lust for life is a big energy song, probably great for karaoke! some weird sin might be good? i think passenger & lust for life are the only solo iggy's we have at my joint.

lachera - i also do dancing in the dark, i've done it a million times now going back to my early 20s. just one of my favorite go-tos. gotta be bruce's best yeller

Thanks. Do you actually have a karaoke machine? Place I go to just uses youtube videos.

Hey Ya
How do u want it
Toto

Na na na nanana
Nanana

Na na na nanana
Nanana

Nanana

Hey Jude

*checks watch, lookes at screen*

Thank, you Jude! Nanana

loving clay's posts itt

Yup

one time I went to a karaoke night (hosted by my recently departed friend, DJ Di), and this woman got up on stage, sang through an entire song, and as it ended, said "that was the wrong song", accusing her friend of signing her up for the wrong one after she'd already sang it. Di, never amused by foolishness, said "You're bringing that up now?" and the woman then said her dog just died and screamed "I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU ALL!" on the mic.

Di then told me "her dog has died every week at karaoke night for five years now", as this person was apparently a regular.

OMG. Yes, there can be some problematic personalities.

most recently managed to pull off Chicago's "Make Me Smile", only to completely blow it the next time I tried. it's a tricky one

That sounds like a pretty hard one.

Although actually I saw a good bar band play it in the park a few weeks ago.

It was their opener!

Great song!

Not a big Chicago fan but kind of like that one.

Next question for clay: do people ever attempt proper two part harmony and if so how often do they succeed?

i have to say, last night we ended (in a friend's basement -- not in public) on a lovely 3-person rendition of End of the Road. I was the voice-over guy midway through the song who understands that his partner has cheated on him but is actually totally fine with that if she wants to come back, but also hurt, and then joined in on some of the harmonies in the chorus

I did a nice (for me) version of Electrolite and was told by a friend that it was his favorite "TBD karaoke song" now, so that felt nice. I love that song and yet it's not in my top 25 REM songs. it's really fun to sing. Golden Years was a strange mix of pretty good and disastrous. I really thought I could do the squeaky-high "angel!" parts, but no, I cannot, not reliably. Cate Le Bon went ok but I couldn't figure out which octave I was in. I wouldn't do that one in public because it's indie schmindie, but I was with friends so fuck it.

Wrecking Ball was a good one. again, wouldn't do in public, and wouldn't even do for most friends, but it was late in the night and we were at "singing karaoke while laying on the couch" mode, so it was getting quiet and it was ok, I think

my goto is Lita Ford’s “Kiss Me Deadly” and Stevie Nicks’ “Stand Back”

i hate when ppl pick a song that they just know the name of but haven’t heard in 20 years and are awkwardly stunned when they’re still struggling through American Pie after 4 minutes

also will never forget going to karaoke the night after Prince died and watching this super drunk intense dude do “Erotic City” while trying to make eye contact with women in the room ughhhhhhh it was so creepy lol

Ugh

I did Erotic City once but only because I loved the song and would often sing Prince

Karaoke creeps are the worst.

I had some drunk guy once approach the stage while I was singing, then climb on the stage and try to hug me.

He tripped and fell and ate it and I just moved to the side and didn't help him up.

(I have a thing about personal space and had he not ate it, I would have moved away quickly)

Also got stalked once. This woman kept emailing the karaoke host asking her to give me my number and showing up looking for me (I was v much not interested).

Di shared the email with me. Was asking for my email, phone number, abd a "direction to call her". Di refused every time.

Avoided that spot for month til she gave up and stopped going/emailing.

Also got stalked once. This woman kept emailing the karaoke host asking her to give me my number and showing up looking for me (I was v much not interested).

was this after the Erotic City performance? :D

lol

Lmao

Actually was after Beezelboss weirdly

looks like a dull karaoke Saturday! I might start a 77 karaoke night diary thread if anyone’s interested. There’s a half dozen little stories every evening I swear

I am totally interested

cosign

i do zoom karaoke with a bunch of weirdos on mondays and fridays if anyone is interested in joining

How do people feel about performers trying to sing way above their range. Are baritones trying to sing Roy Orbison hot or not?

Ain’t it fun
Ain’t it fun
Ain’t it fun

Peter Laughner?

I guess if things get too high one can strategically drop an octave but it can be tricky.

the rarely attempted but always powerful Shepard Tone karaoke performance

Lol

How do people feel about performers trying to sing way above their range. Are baritones trying to sing Roy Orbison hot or not?

― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, September 11, 2022 5:50 PM bookmarkflaglink

lots of people who aren't singers don't even realize it when they pick it, I think

I am assuming you pay attention to such things though.

I don't generally like to do things out of my range or lower the key. even if it's just like 15 seconds of the song. which is why I've never done Richard Marx's "Hazard", despite wanting to.

besides sounding bad, main reason was I did most of my karaoking when I was performing a lot more and I didn't want to damage my voice and explain to the director the reason was "I totally thought I could sing Everything She Wants at karaoke and I was wrong"

Clay do you ban any songs?

Di used to ban "Picture" by Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock because she believed if you liked this song that you had no taste.

actually TWO hosts in town banned that one at around the same time.

Can you lower the key? Seems fixed from what I have encountered.

I don't think with all hosts, but Di and my friend Craig had mechanisms on their machines that allowed lowering the key a few steps.

every time I sing "Down in a Hole" with Craig he always lowers one half step for me

Clay do you ban any songs?

overtly racist stuff ("colt 45" has been requested a lot lately, idk if it went big on tik tok or something, and i've just had to be like yeah uh i don't have that one sorry. it's just gross), songs that feature the word "rape" in them, stuff like that, idk, i don't want anyone getting hella triggered because of karaoke of all things. it's supposed to be fun!

back when weezer's version of "africa" was blowing up i actually banned the toto version because it's impossible to sing well and it was getting performed horribly like twice a night and i couldn't stand it anymore. if i could ban "picture" i'd be a happier person but i'd be out of a job, people live for that trash. still not sure i've ever heard the original.

sometimes i consider adding on a required charge/tip for certain songs. just, like, you want to sing "summer nights"? "bohemian rhapsody"? "baby got back"? "fergilicious"? "picture"? "need you now"? "shallow"? that's $10 up front. sorry i just work here.

the software i use is kinda janky for karaoke tbh and i can only change the key by a half or one step. really the only people who care about this are total diva singers who love to drunkenly tell you about the time they auditioned for american idol and are constantly going off mic to yell at me like "MORE REVERB" etc, like c'mon have some chill about it.

otoh i've actually been enjoying the "audio engineering" side of things lately and spend more time eq'ing the board for individual singers and changing fx based on what's appropriate for the song and stuff. it's made me better at listening, if nothing else!

Ha, is "Fergilicious" some kind of karaoke favorite? I can see why but can also see why you wouldn't want to hear it.

They are understaffed tonight and may not do the karaoke 🎤 tonight. They are awaiting a ruling from the boss so I may not get to debut my new version of [NAME REDACTED].

IMO do it anyway, a capella

Thanks for the suggestion. Talking to all the young folks that have started working here in recent years with whom I am unfamiliar. Young Folks? Hmm.

Think like Spanish language records used to have the type of dance or form that went with each song- bolero, cha-cha-cha, danzon, etc.- maybe the karaoke box should have vocal ranges listed: soprano, mezzo, tenor, countertenor, lyric baritone, heldenbaritone usw.

Also wondering if doing “Rock Lobster” is on the far side of the thin line between clever and stupid or not.

Being able to go down 2 keys has changed the game for me!

A number of songs mentioned here I'd sure love to see in the Lucky Voice catalogue but never will

I keep wanting to do Yello's 'The Race' but forgetting. I only 'sing' in private rooms with friends tho.

i wish a karaoke night had this proper. this would be on my setlist. but alas, i can do it online only

https://www.smule.com/recording/faith-no-more-kindergarten-faith-no-more/870266080_4314720160

my actual go-to at k nights, but it's lost its luster after Di passed away :(

all Bee Gees is fun actually. like "Jive Talking", "Staying Alive","Nights on Broadway", "I Started a Joke", so many styles you can play w/. maybe the best karaoke song to sing really.

https://www.smule.com/recording/barry-maurice-robin-gibb-the-beegess-tragedy/870266080_3824804723

Based upon my research the only Roy Orbison tune I can sing the high note on is “Blue Bayou,” although maybe I could stretch a half step for “You Got It.”

lol "You Got It" is def the only one I could even come close to attempt and it would require some falsettoing

I substitute hosted karaoke several times, a few years ago

Gained a serious new appreciation for emo and pop-punk

I will typically sing “Love Is A Stranger”, “It’s Oh So Quiet” and “Head Like A Hole”. If I want to show off I do a perfect Colm Wilkinson impression on “Music Of The Night”

After about a month long layoff I went back to try out “Pancho and Lefty” along with “How Bizarre.”

Ppl still do karaoke? Sounds fun tbh

Still fun as long as it’s easy enough access.

I was happy enough with my "Pancho and Lefty" and my "How Bizarre" was okay but I kind of wished my audience knew the tune well enough to provide backing vocals.

I think I may have mentioned that sometimes songs get “orphaned” in the sense that for some reason they are selected but nobody gets up to sing them so somebody else has to self-volunteer. This happened a few times with Radiohead’s “Creep,” as I have said. I did it once which was sort of fun but I couldn’t really sing the high “run, run, run” part. I just was reminded that the same recently happened with “Wonderwall.” Feel like I was relatively accurately able to do the Liam snarl but, much to my surprise, as I always thought of this as one of the few Oasis songs I actually liked, there was no joy in it. Guess the only part I ever really like in the song is the “I Am the Walrus”-like cello.

god, one time that happened to me with creep -- it was orphaned and it was late and people were like zach come on, you love radiohead. god i fucked up the high part soooooo badly, and i looked out and people were just kind of wandering off and trying to move on, it was horrible. meanwhile i'm feeling "what the hell am i doing here?" more than ever, oof

Ppl still do karaoke? Sounds fun tbh

― jaymc,

My last COVID-era hesitation. I broke down three weeks ago. Song: Paramore's "Ain't It Fun."

Tonight I ventured into foreign language territory and it went over pretty well.

Whats orphaned mean? Like, someone selcts it and then fucks off home before they get their go?

I've done karaoke exactly once, as a duet, of "dont you want me" by the Human League. The guy I sang with sang "don't chew on me baby" and I couldn't finish the song because I was cracking up laughing too much.

I would love to see someone do "Bump" by Spank Rock without asphyxiating during the fast raps.

That's what I mean by orphaned, yes.

I do Slow Jamz by Twista. I guess I won't anymore cos of the Ye intro, but it took me a month of practicing to get Twista's part down

I’m gonna add The Safety Dance into my rep; much less annoying outro than Word Up!

Cool. I have been thinking of doing "Walk on the Wild Side," but feel like that kind of sprechgesang list song will end up being pretty boring so then thought it might be a good idea to interpolate some of "Can I Kick It?" but ultimately concluded it still might not be worth it.

if something is “orphaned” when I’m working I just skip it and move onto the next person’s song, idk why anyone has to sing someone else’s song unless it’s some kinda running gag

Feel like the "Creep" thing was indeed some kind of running gag for a while.

It's been about 15 years, but I used to do a passable National Express by The Divine Comedy. Slow death by whimsy.

hey I forgot I was gonna start a 77 hosting karaoke diary thread! I’ll get on that tonight, it’s Halloween weekend after all

Wondering if there is any Elton John song without a high note I can’t sing that I can sing.

Your Song?

Your Song is perfect, sits right in a comfy range, and the "I HOPE you don't mind" at the end isn't too bad.

I do "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" as well, that one sits pretty comfy for a baritone.

"I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That" , but that one's Alfred's (sorry I don't make the rules)

i think i sang "I'm Still Standing" once and it was fun but it def has a high note

I tried "Healing Hands" once, that was a mistake

Thanks. Was thinking about “Your Song.” In all these years I’ve never decided how I felt about the lyric: is it a good lyric, is it an okay lyric, is it a cheesy lyric but after all it’s Bernie Taupin so what can you do, in fact it’s so bad it’s good, par for the course.

I experimented with “Rocket Man” the other day whilst walking around, no way I can make that high Bflat.

Speaking of comfy baritone, I have been thinking of doing the “The Passenger” but I don’t know, seems like it’s maybe got that “Hey Jude” thing, five minutes of going “La la la la.”

Sir Elton totally lowered the high notes after his surgery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNNl3C0qvKg

yeah he quit doing the flip to the falsetto decades ago from my recollection.

So maybe I *can* sing some Sir Elton songs if I just do the One Night Only versions. Although I think he has backing vocals fill in at strategic places.

so bring DJP with you for that.

hahaha

I wish

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26874110/A-karaoke-night-I-d-rather-eat-live-snails

Midnight karaoke not easy on the faint of heart or long in the tooth.

Finally starting at 12:45AM and the first song is…”Bohemian Rhapsody”!

The guitar stuff on the accompanying YouTube is pretty enjoyable, I gotta say.

Perhaps I will nap in place until my turn is up.

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Okay, this is an interesting choice.

Meaning guy singing “Don’t Be Cruel.”

I took the low road and sang “Ring of Fire.”

it's time for THUNDER ROAD

Some other interesting choices people singing, lots of songs in Spanish I am unfamiliar but they sound good and then “My Way.”

Ha, have we discussed that before?

It’s somebody’s birthday and he is singing a metric ton of stuff, doubt I can do another.

no, i just feel like sometimes the night is right and it's time to do thunder road! i always cheer when someone does it

Is it done a lot? And you have enjoyed listening to it? It seems to be the kind of song with a lot of drama and not too many pre-op “Rocket Man” high notes to derail that would work in karaoke.

damn the kj needs to get control and institute a fair cycle, you can't just let one person eat up the whole night that is super uncool xps

signed, famous kj

OMG. He’s doing “Slim Shady”!

Which I actually thought about a while back and then thought better of

no one ever does thunder road, so i've only cheered for it twice. i have it deep down in my "potential karaoke songs" list, but it says "(hard mode)" because there is a potential for great disaster

I have this general idea that the performance more than two or three karaoke numbers per person in one night is not only unseemly but that doing so will put on display cracks in technique and variability of energy that reveal one to not be a *real* singer.

I feel like TR might be doable because errors the more challenging moments might be safely covered up with some kind of simplistic bar room razzle dazzle.

Too late to put this to the test tonight though.

“I Will Survive.”

i had a regular sing 16 songs in a row in about 90 minutes one night when it was pretty dead. i started counting early on because i just knew that's what he would do. pretty much all sappy lovestruck country from the 90s too, it was a rotten night

In this place the kj basically just sets up a YouTube playlist.

16 songs, jfc, that's more than i want to hear from a legendary rock band

buddy you and me both

i've never seen the stones or springsteen but in ideally they would play 10 kickass songs, 2 for the encore and the whole show is $25

have a distinct memory of an acquaintance doing “thunder road” at karaoke years ago and just slaying it, like an all-time best karaoke performance. that era of springsteen is hard to pull off well at karaoke imho! props to anyone who does a halfway decent job of it

I feel like that lovesick sappy country karaoke is probably a common thing. I have definitely seen it before. In my experience it really goes into some kind of uncanny valley territory where, on the one hand, while they may basically sing the melody in tune and in time, some underlying layer of showmanship is conspicuously absent.

Lol, KM.

okay i started a 77 thread for karaoke lyfe, will update with the Real Shit, please ask your Q's to a Pro in there!

Thanks!

Before I sign off for the evening I would like to reiterate that I believe that the one song we have been discussing is actually quite manageable but don’t want to jinx myself by going on about it too much since I myself will not be able to test this theory out right away or possibly for another solstice or two.

In the cold light of day slightly ruing the fact that I used up my one shot on something as easy if crowd pleasing as “Ring of Fire.” I know, I know you are all thinking, “Easy, you say? What about that foreshortened bar in the middle?”

Okay, it's all good now. Onward and upward, excelsior!

Feel like I am overposting on this thread. Debating whether to report the latest incident.

Report!

Finally tried “You Got It” to get it out of my system. I had been there for an earlier musical performance but hung on as my friends left while the karaoke witching hour slowly approached. When it started I chased down the would-be kj who had overlooked me earlier whilst making his rounds so I was twentieth-something in the queue, after a lot of reggaeton I was unfamiliar with. This song, like many, has easy parts and hard parts. The regular part is not too hard to do, the only thing you’ve got to nail is “baby,” which I sort of did tolerably but wasn’t happy with. The really hard part is a bunch of high “alls” that I can’t really hit anyway, which was exacerbated by the especially off brand YouTube video the guy had chosen to accompany me. Those “alls” are especially hard to hit because they are like a vertical ascent, not like the top of a melody. Anyway maybe nobody cared about that part but me, especially since most were waiting to get back to the reggaeton anyway.

I think if I try another one by Roy Orbison it will be “Blue Bayou” or more likely his take on “Love Hurts.”

Or just do “Handle With Care” and sing all the parts in character.

You Got It is one I've been meaning to try.

Lol the backing track wasn't a MIDI file was it?

No, it was a youtube video. But some are better than others at cuing you and filling up spaces in between vocals. Hoping you'll try it soon and let me know how it goes hitting that A for "all."

Just talked to the owner about his imminent karaoke kutbacks so it won’t be seven days a week. Which might actually work out fine for me since it will be more klearly koncentrated on nights that I can even think about staying up that late.

Tick tick tick…

I did it. Mixed results.

My “Starman” was a little pitchy but “Thunder Road” was fine.

Might go for a Blecch Friday Special and do a third if the technical difficulties get resolved.

Third time was a charm.

Although I think it’s gonna be a long long time before I try that again.

For my third number I did as discussed on this thread, listened to some live recordings so I would have an option in my head if and when I was gonna miss a high note.

i still haven't done 'thunder road' but i'm worried that i will inadvertently air drum to the big fill after the last line, because you _have_ to do that

I just sat back down and waited for it to finish. Which was kind of nice, since a lot of tunes have some kind of two minute musical interlude at the back part and then you have to remember to sing something again at the very end.

Did the dress sway or wave

Ha! This time it waved, but I often see "sway" as well. I always heard the first one so I prefer it. I guess "sways" rhymes better with "plays" but maybe it's too on the nose so I still prefer the other.

Here's my one unsolicited amateur tip: that tune has a metric ton of lyrics, so best to familiarize yourself with all of them to the extent possible so you have some ability to know the nuances of each little part otherwise it will be the klassic karoake reading a list of words performance and you won't get the ebb and flow.

my years long preparation is starting to backfire, because now i'm listening to the early version of thunder road when it was called "wings for wheels", and entire verses are switched out for other lines that have very similar themes.

i suppose i can get around this by loudly announcing "i'm doing the WINGS FOR WHEELS version of thunder road tonight, friends and strangers!" before i sing it. the crowd will love that

I know I would at least.

<3

So the owner originally told me that he was stopping the midnight karaoke on weekends meaning Friday, Saturday and Sunday to let the live music go later while putting in an open mic on Tuesday, but yesterday he said he was going to extend the open mic to more nights so going forward karaoke will only be on Thursday. Which is fine with me since that is the best night for me anyway. Just kind of glad that I did my little karaoke krash kourse while I could.

Perhaps, at the risk of further embarassment, I will share some of the fruits of Dr. Redd's Experiment in the near future.

Believe they will be open on Thanksgiving evening.

Only no one can sing anything but Xmas songs for the next month.

I would love to do "Don't Stop Me Now."

where eagles dare

my actual go-to at k nights, but it's lost its luster after Di passed away :(

all Bee Gees is fun actually. like "Jive Talking", "Staying Alive","Nights on Broadway", "I Started a Joke", so many styles you can play w/. maybe the best karaoke song to sing really.

https://www.smule.com/recording/barry-maurice-robin-gibb-the-beegess-tragedy/870266080_3824804723🕸

that's a good one

Now "Somebody to Love" would be a bridge too far.

Gonna try two new ones tonight.

Lots of Chente Fernandez this evening.

This is another situation where the same guy keeps singing almost all the tunes. He’s up to a half dozen now.

Okay I got my two shots in.

Let me shoot a seven with every shot-tah

Gonna need to start seeing videos

For VAR analysis?

So I can be your audience!

A friend of mine sang "Horny" last weekend at karaoke and it was a really good choice

Last time, I did a bad thing: I repeated "Superstition" from the time before.

In my defence, that was a full band called "Bandaoke" so.

*sigh*

There’s also this thread: Karaoke Log

“Stacy’s Mom” not so hot
“Bizarre Love Triangle” really good

Although lots of words to get through in the verses that go buy pretty fast in the latter.

I think I’m going to work on Wicked Game

Cool!

I pulled off "Bitch is Back" last week.

"After the Love is Gone" is getting better but the key change initially fucks with me

I thought about "Bitch is Back" but couldn't tell if it wasn't too high for me.

it sits right at the top of mine but I've somehow developed a rock 'n roll rasp in my highest register in the last few years and it makes it work.

but breathing is tricky on that chorus.

Cool. Wonder if there is a way to fake that rasp without smoking or making oneself hoarse etc

did karaoke at my friend’s house on NYE with YouTube videos and a party microphone that puts funny filters on your voice. among the songs performed by one or another of us:

Stratford on Guy
Tear in Your Hand
Teenage Kicks
So Hard (PSBs)
Both Hands
Pretend We’re Dead
The Ledge
Do They Know It’s Christmas?
I Don’t Want to Get Over You
Wichita Lineman

Love Wichita Lineman so much

Cool! Witchita Lineman is totally in my queue! EIther that or Galveston.

Nice that everybody likes The Undertones, or is it a Derry Girls ripple effect?

morbs sang WL at a karaoke party i had once ;_;

TK was thrown up by the YT algorithm after another song i did (which escapes me now), so i ended up claiming it. fun and fairly easy song to sing!

That must have been after certain posts in the archive I came across recenty.
Karaoke Log

I've done it exactly twice, and am contemplating wheteher I need to keep it all-Kinks til my death...
office party, circa Dec 2000: "Lola"

WFMU Record Fair, Nov 2004: "David Watts"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:15 (seventeen years ago)

Along with the one here:
Your Karaoke History

Or even here

"The Ledge" as in The Replacements, or is there another one?

fleetwood mac song from 'tusk'

Did you try to imitate Feargal Sharkey or just sing in your own voice?

Did 'Teenage Kicks' at live band karaoke, and it's my one shining karaoke moment that I can say the crowd was like really into. It's a winner, for sure.

Here are a couple I keep considering but then I think why bother: "Johnny and Mary" and "I Wanna Be Sedated."

Did you try to imitate Feargal Sharkey or just sing in your own voice?

― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, January 6, 2023 8:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I can, so I do.

One time, we were in town, and I could hear "Teenage Kicks" in the distance, however my wife said "that's you" as in it was coming from my mobile. So I get it out, and find it's literally me from an old band practice.

Ah. Good story.

I think I’m going to work on Wicked Game

Bedroom doom karaoke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfR_yDAVj-k

It’s back!

But is it functioning?

Después.

Ahora si.

Had to miss last night but maybe tomorrow.

Maybe someday.

There was some relevant discussion in the Dean Wareham tribute to Tom Verlaine.

Any grindcore song

*bump*

May go over my limit and sing a fourth one

Might even go to five. I feel unclean.

The only way to shrive is to change my screenname

“Valerie” by Mark Ronson-Amy Winehouse seems to be very popular

“Valerie” by Mark Ronson-Amy Winehouse seems to be very popular

“MacArthur Park” or bust

Ha. Have never heard that one or thought of attempting myself.

I did that as a duet, my first and last time doing karaoke. I thought it was terrible. People told me our harmonies were great. Won’t do it again. Will never have that recipe again.

Just seems too long, to name one obvious difficulty.

In recent weeks and months, I've hit a bunch of classic rock staples, such as The Beatles, Dylan, Springsteen, Simon and Garfunkel (along with some I am probably forgetting) and have branched out to some Spanish language material as well. Wondering if I am going to hit some kind of wall or burnout or just oversing one day and get hoarse.

Sometimes I try to do some New Wave stuff but it can be challenging to actually find the relevant videos.

Rosanna

“All I wanna do when I wake up in the morning is compromise…”

Haven’t tried any Candlemass yet. (xpost)

My local host sometimes records sound bytes on the machine he also uses for karaoke, and he got me saying "I farted" and played it on loop for a few.

I did fart during a duet and my partner couldn't sing so well after

No shame. Maria Callas farted in many of her best performances. Yr partner needs to learn a little thing called professionalism.

I just can’t stomach karaoke videos which are just the original track with the vocal vaguely filtered.

might not be legal for a KJ to use those tracks either, depending on their source.

I didn't realize until a few of my KJ friends told me that KJs are expected to have 100% licensed tracks, and that enforcers for various copyright organizations often do inspections and that the KJs could be sued. my KJ friend got sued, for tracks she had legally purchased, but I guess the company that owned the license got acquired and the new company wanted her to repurchase them, so she tried to just remove them from her catalog, but they actually still sued her for a ridiculous amount of money (six figures), and she had to take a settlement that crippled her financially (this is the same KJ friend who passed away last year).

playing youtube karaoke videos that are clearly just someone who used one of those vocal remove devices on a track may not be legal, though apparently all tracks from Karafun are fair game.

one of the karaoke bars my KJ friend Di worked that, that fired her, her replacement KJs had tracks that were literal MIDI files. i was mortified singing Judas Priest over that.

the practical problem with singing over the remnants of a vocal is that you can be easily influenced by that vocal, esp if you're trying to do your own thing and make the song your own, but you hear that muffled vocal and feel like you have to match it.

It even makes it bad if you are trying your best to match the original!

For similar reasons actually

Lots of KaraFun’s seem to have guide vocals but they are very low so are kind of easy to ignore.

Okay I think I understand how the YouTube karoake works legally, when it is legit and when it isn’t. Will type more later.

So it looks like the big karaoke YouTube providers like KaraFun, Sing King and Party Tyme all have their stuff properly licensed but then the establishment also has to have its own licensing covered with ASCAP etc. as it would for other uses of copyrighted music, then it’s all hunky dory, I think.

“Can I Kick It?” was a huge hit, although it was pretty hard for me to do both parts cleanly and not run out of breath so I made some slight stumbles.

I’ve slowly been expanding my list of Beatles songs, almost always John’s. Somebody asked me to do “If I Fell” this week. I decided to accept this suicide mission, but it is very difficult to sing a famous harmony duet, maybe the most famous, with one voice. I finally ended up singing the Paul melody parts in the John register, which in retrospect was not such a bad idea.

Lol rap is hard if you do multiple parts. I used to bring a friend to do choruses to give me a break

Word.

It is often fun to do two different voices on a song, just as long as there are not too many syllables and the parts are not concurrent.

I used to do Slow Jamz and do both Kanye and Twista but then had the friend just do Ye so I could rest up

Not doing that song anymore for obv reasons

recently had a go at 'Starman' (too much la-la'ing by half at the end so skipped the last 30 seconds plus there were ten of us in the room with lots to get thru) and 'Enter: Sandman' (relatively straightforward)

Lol the repetitious end of songs.

"Shut it down!"

Ha, the Hey Jude rule! Sometimes the thing ends with a non-vocal interlude of one of two varieties. In the case of the first type you have to stick around to sing one more thing at the very end, in the second, you can safely leave your position at the mic to wander amongst your adoring public.

I did “Starman” once. Got no reaction and, more importantly, didn’t enjoy singing it that much. Too repetitive as you say, and I didn’t get anywhere close to nailing some of the other moments as well as I would have liked. Would still consider doing it again, but want to try some other Bowie first. Thinking about “Ziggy Stardust,” “Jean Genie” and “Rebel Rebel.”

Another one with a repetitive ending is “Suspicious Minds.”

Which is kind of fun to sing except how many times can you sing “caught in a trap” to a karaoke track instead of the TCB Band?

Last time I tried the live version, next time I will try the studio version which presents another challenge.

Almost feel guilty or nervous about enjoying my current karaoke jag so much and am afraid it will all dry up and I will turn back into Michigan J. Frog once again.

The challenge of the studio version of “Suspicious Minds” being that it is slower which prolongs the agony of trying to do justice to the chorus and breakdown. Elvis’s high notes have still got some amazing bottom going on like nobody else’s. It’s like chocolate or … velvet even.

Anyway, here’s another semi-pro tip: “Hey Jude” aside, you can pretty much sing any Beatles song you want to that you can find a track to and if you do even a half decent job people will respond since most know and love every single one of their tunes. I sometimes get sick of the phenomenon of The Beatles and their monolithic presence in the monoculture but I still can enjoy their music in isolation tracks, in limited doses. But they don’t really need me anymore, Rob Sheffield is taking good care of them.

Just now hearing Death Cab for Cutie singing “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” and reminded that I was thinking about singing that last year like I was Darlene Love on David Letterman or something but ran out of time and couldn’t get over there. Maybe I can do it this year if we make it to December.

Which reminds me that I did two Merle Haggard tunes, “Mama Tried” and “Pancho and Lefty.” The first got a good response, the second crickets but I felt really good about it, it was really fun to do both Willie and Merle, and I may try it again. Also checking out some more Merle material for future use.

See some good candidates but don’t want to jinx myself and post ahead of time.

Just posting that much makes my vocal chords want to close up shop.

Under the weather so nothing this evening.

We were waiting at the end of our holiday for the coach transfer, about 30 mins early. So, we went into a bar where it was kicking and it was KJ time.
I put me down for doing "Ebeneezer Goode", what the hell, thinking we'd be long gone. Five mins later, I'm called.
Threw myself into it, kept up with the lyrics, did an "into the crowd", handed the mic back at the end, then grabbed our bags and out to the bus which came 5 mins later.
Definitely an "Elvis has left the building" moment.

Wow

Had to skip the last three times. Feeling some combination of withdrawal and a backup backlog of unsung material.

Still doing this. There is some kind of brinkmanship of singing something a little too high and seeing how it goes. Just tried “In Dreams.” Pretty much knew I would have to drop the last line an octave but there were plenty of rough patches before that.

I feel like whatever you can hit in a rehearsal at home (lol 'rehearsal' for karaoke, god i'm pathetic), you should deduct like 15% of that range at a karaoke night. something about alcohol plus nerves and having never done it before leaves the notes you thought you were just hitting at home to disappear.

nothing worse than being like 30 seconds into a song and going "fuck this was a mistake"

Yes, this is a very good point.

I don’t really drink anymore. Sometimes I may have one in the middle of the thing after I have already sung one. I went out drinking with some old friends beforehand a few weeks ago and my one nurses drink extended to two. When I got to karaoke and tried to hit some high notes it was like there was a sock in my throat.

The bright side is that afterwards I did “Rocket Man” again for the second time after many months and I didn’t feel much strain hitting the high Bb, more or less.

Still can’t hit and hold that note well enough to do “Life on Mars?” to my satisfaction though. Which is pretty much the whole song so…

“Human”
Love this shit

Tonight I overcame my lifelong fear of singing in front of people and did karaoke for the first time ever at a friend's birthday party. It was at one of those places where you're in a little room with just your friends, so less intimidating. I started with Tik Tok by Kesha, then did Dancing in the Dark, then Fast Car toward the end of the night. It was ridiculously fun and now I finally understand why people like karaoke.

:)

Just did one the title of which was the screenname of an ILX0r who used to frequent this place.

Some songs get done a lot and I don’t like hearing them until some ringer shows up one day to show how it’s done.

Thinking of doing “Ray of Light” sometime soon, but might have to split the difference between Mo and Jim.

Last night:

ABC - The Look of Love
Paramore - Ain't It Fun

Was just thinking of doing that first one.

Maybe I will have to approach it gradually, by doing “Poison Arrow” and “When Smokey Sings” in prior weeks.

I'd love to do 'Ain't It Fun' but that's way above my capabilities. 'Tears Are Not Enough' would be my ABC pick - at least trying to go that high might be funny.

Been doing this regular for pretty much a year now. Wonder if I should issue some kind of summary report, start a new thread or keep my own counsel.

maybe a 'year in review' retrospective post? i'd read!

Man oh man, they started booking rock bands now before the karaoke, often playing at Live at Leeds volume in this cozy little place, which pushes the karaoke back even further into the wee wee hours, assuming it even happens at all.

They should make the bands play for karaoke

we have one actual karaoke venue at Citywalk that does exactly that, though for apparently only two nights a week. however, it's a crapshoot if you ever get called to perform as so many people sign up and htey pick randomly.

we also used to have a Blue Martini around here that did it where just about everybody got called up, and man....was it fun! so different singing in front of a band. more likely to move around and have fun with it.

Ha, another band tonight, and they just played one of my karaoke tunes from a few weeks ago and did a good job so I will give them a chance.

next time get on stage right as the vocals are about to begin

Heh, I wish

Think I recognize the front lady of this band as one of the “ringers” from karaoke a few weeks ago.

Wish I could remember what she sang then.

Second encore is done and the karaoke tablet is making the rounds!

Cool cumbia version of “Alone Again Or” on the sound system

Okay, this one is for Ned.

Seems to me some people may sing with too much Dracula vibrato.

Always wondered exactly how this worked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk55OuX3Ic0

Interview with the guy from the beforetimes: https://themollyzone.beehiiv.com/p/lemmy-caution

Just did
Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
Is It Like Today?
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
#onethread

Then I did something by someone who’s been dead even longer

Ozzy Osbourne - Mama I'm Coming Home
Jackson Browne - Somebody's Baby

Roxy Music - Virginia Plain (always a nice easy one to start with)

Yello - The Race (good fun even got to do the commentator bit at the end)

Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time? (ropey af, one of the harder Pulps really)

Amy Winehouse - Rehab (passable, not the version with Jay Z)

Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better (aborted after 30 seconds of '2 beers falsetto' good lawd...)

The last week:

Spandau Ballet - Gold
Bryan Ferry - Kiss and Tell
U2 - One
Paramore - Ain't It Fun
Nirvana - Lithium
Rufus - Sweet Thing

just tried Underworld's Born Slippy the other night, seemed easier in my head

I did a Monkees song a few days ago. Somebody asked me who the artist was, misheard and thought that I said The Arctic Monkeys.

i feel a great unstoppable urge to go and karaoke the fuck out of "I Feel It Coming" tonight

Birthday special

Start (The Jam)
The Chain (F Mac)
Banquet (Bloc Party)
Spellbound (S & Bs)