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Recently I was at a party and we were having fun singing songs and then we kept on running out of songs that we knew (other than Christmas Carols!!).

Anyone got any suggestions of good sing-along type songs for next time? And no, I don't mean of the Old Macdonald or 100 Green Bottles Variety.

― toraneko (toraneko), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

ODB - "Shimmy Shimmy"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i always end up singing either 'shine on' or 'feed the world' with my girlie pals.it always works for us!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Bon Jovi - "Livin on a Prayer"

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Me and best friend in car last night: "Sweet Child Of Mine", though any Axl would do i s'pose.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

or boy band songs from your youth. because really, deep down somewhere in the folds of your brain, you can find the lyrics to every New Kids on the Block song

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Wheels in the sky keep on turnin'

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The Key, The Secret, by Urban Cookie Collective. The credits to K-9 and co? Running out of songs... what a sadly alien concept...

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i enjoy the fact that almost everyone my age knows ALL of the lyric's to that dreaded hit,"ice,ice, baby" by vanilla ice......the anthem of a generation.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend Chris and I used to walk up and down Victoria Avenue in Brandon and just about anywhere else singing "Mother" by the Police. No wonder neither of us could get a date.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

alright stop. collaborate and listen?

also, people seem to know the words to Baby Got Back.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e338/e33830k0dkv.jpg

every single track.

we used to do this in the kitchen of the bar/grill that i worked in. Had so much fun all yelling along to "Skulls" that i didn't notice that i had cut my knuckle instead of the onion.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmmmmmmm, french knuckle soup.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I second 'Skulls' - I was having fun singing that just last night

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Is "French Knuckle" anything like "French Vanilla"? It sounds like filthy sex slang.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Rock and Roll McDonalds :(

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Baby Got Back is hard to sing!

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

NA, you have such a bear cracker mind.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit. I have been looking so hard for opportunities to use "bear crackers" and you just beat me to it.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

hard to sing? All you need to know is one line: "My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hon." followed with a whip-crack, and the video-ho does this amazing sideways jump-kick.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The whip-crack is the most important part! Everyone always goes "hwhooo KEEEEESH"!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/3576/melcmove

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, fuck it.

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/3576/melcmove.gif

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(Delete the .gif) (Oh, it isn't even funny now I hate you all)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe the problem is that rosemary is trying to sing it instead of rap it.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

hahah dan i love you.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

felicity, Mary and I performed "Baby Got Back" at our karaoke date, and it was more difficult than we had expected.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Drown everyone in booze and get 'em all going 'mama say mama sah ma ma coo sah' or whatever from that Michael Jackson song.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorry Ms Jackson-EEEEEEEEEWWWWW, i am for real!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Leader Of The Pack - the bit where the backing line gets like two seconds to fit in "What'd they mean when they said you had to find somebody new" is particularly fun to attempt, but it's all great. As are their other hits - the "Mwah!" kissing bit on Give Him A Great Big Kiss is wondrous.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

so is 100 green bottles the same as 100 bottles of beer on the wall? i am confused. and sober.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't that a Michael Keaton movie?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

the 2 bottle songs are different. what about "she'll be coming round the mountain" Second the Shangri-las other fun driving sing along tapes are Queen and the Rolling Stones tape with Wild Horses and Angie on it. I think.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Build Me Up, Buttercup

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is one of the best summertime sing-whilst-driving albums - "Kamera," "Jesus, Etc.," "Radio Cure," "Heavy Metal Drummer."

Also: all Old 97's, Baptist Generals and Lucinda Williams and Tom Petty's Wildflowers album.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Weezer's first two albums, too, but only when inebriated.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

L.M.L.Y.P. by Ween
how much better does it get?

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"Green Grow the Rushes Ho"? I don't know if this is the kind of thing you have in mind, but it's great even if only one person knows the words and the melody because it's one of those "tack on another line each time around" songs, so by the end everybody knows all the words (and has had plenty of time to get some good harmonies in on the "three, three, the rivals" part!)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

alright stop whatcha doin'
cuz i'm about to ruin
the image and the style that you're used to....

fuck was that an earthquake?

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

In the sounds-like-a-good-idea-but-it's-really-not dept.: "Yellow Submarine".

So, um, "Seasons in the Sun".

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Night Fever!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"I get knocked down!"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG, I know of hardly anything mentioned above, xept Bon Jovi, Axl and Yellow Submarine.

There must be a songbook somewhere of "easy songs to sing from the 70's 80's & 90's that aren't too dorky and that every one knows the melody to and at least the words to the chorus"

― toraneko (toraneko), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It's weird cuz it's not a happy song, but everyone and their momma sings along to "When Doves Cry". Don't they?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

They certainly do. Every single version of it, too.

I like singing along to Girls Aloud and Lucinda Williams at the moment.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the bangles' Eternal Flame- me and my friends' fave.
Snow's Informer- all boys my age know this one off by heart.

― lid, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

girls just wanna have fuh-un oh girls just wanna have...that's all they really wa-uh-uh-uh-aaant...THEY JUST WANNA THEY JUST WANNuh-uh-uh

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

our house in the middle of our street

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought toraneko was talking about singing without the stereo.

This is sad. I feel like it's the death of folk music, as in "music everybody knows and that everybody can sing."

"Dream Dream Dream" by the Everly Bros?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Heaven is a place on Earth.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Every single melodramatic male/female duet ever!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I will now have that song stuck in my head all day.

ooooh baby, do you know what that's worth? Oooh heaven is a place on earth, they say in heaven, love comes first, we'll make heaven a place on earthhhh

Damn you jel!!!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I always enjoy singing along to "Let's go crazy"

― Mandee, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the dukes of hazard theme song by waylon jennings
the facts of life theme song by ?
that horrible jingle on the tv ad for meow mix cat food

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

just some good ol' boys
never mean any harm...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

DAMN! I wish I was your lover

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Now imagine if the theme song had run like that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Careless Whisper"!!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"boom, i fucked your boyfriend"
or anything by outhere bros.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

no we're never gonna survive unless we are a little crazy!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god nick, I must hurt you!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

oh now you've done it

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Kenny Loggins Two-fer: "Dangerzone" and "Footloose"

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha ha ha ha ha

hiiiiighwaaaaaaaay toooo the daynjazone!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

nickalicious you could have a group of people on the side of the room whose job is to go "unless" and then everybody joins in for "we get a little... crazy!" think about it!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

* The Final Countdown
* Crazy Nights
* Every Rose Has Its Thorn
* Take My Breath Away
* I Wanna Be Sedated
* Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
* Poison (Alice Cooper)
* Surrender (Cheap Trick)

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate you all.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't hear "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" anymore without yelling "you're my boy Blue!".

btw Jel's list is perfect.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Day-o, Day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

let's get physical physical I wanna get physical

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

*brain exploded*

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

TOUCHATOUCHATOUCHA TOUCH ME
I WANNA BE DIRTY!!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

cuz we are beautiful no matter what they say your words can't bring me down

(quickly becoming my favoritest thread evah)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't you forget about me
I'll be alone , dancing, you know it, baby
Going to take you apart
I'll put us back together at heart, baby

Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me

As you walk on by
Will you call my name
As you walk on by
Will you call my name
When you walk away
Oh, will you walk away
Will walk away
Oh, call my name
Will you call my name

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Jack Knight and Dakota House
All we wanna do is make you bounce
Monifah, would you turn me out
Show me what your thing is all about

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Luna I kiss you.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

(I get those first two lines stuck in my head about eleven times a day.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my God, I'm listening to Moby's "Bring Me My Happiness" right now and it's the greatest thing ever. "IT'S HARD TO LET YOU GO!!!!!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

that monifah song is gonna be stuck in my head now

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Chaka Kahn, lemme rock you
Lemme rock you, Chaka Khan

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

and the obligatory:

Go on now go walk out the door
just turn around now
'cause you're not welcome anymore
weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
you think I'd crumble
you think I'd lay down and die
Oh no, not I
I will survive
as long as i know how to love
I know I will stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive
I will survive

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Somehow, some way, there needs to be a mash-up of Chaka Khan and "Touch It." Right now.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

won't you take me to

FUNKYTOWN

won't you take me to

FUNKYTOWN

(and the best part is when everbody sings)

DEET DEET DOO DEET DOOT DOO DOOT DEET DOO DOOT

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
and then we'll take it higher

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Change my pitch up
Smack my bitch up

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it when my hair is poofy
I like it when you slip me a roofy
I like it when YOU'VE GOT THE CRACK!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

STAND in the place where you live
now face West
think about direction wonder why you haven't now...
STAND in the place where you work
now face North
think about the place where you live wonder why you haven't before...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Feel the vibe from here to Asia
dip trip flip fantasia

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

CAAAAAAAN YOOOOOUUUUU FEEEEEEEL THEEEEEE LOOOOOOOVE TOOOONIIIIIIGHT

especially when drunk. and alone.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Rats, beaten to the Electric Avenue punch.
How bout:
Relax don't do it
When you want to go to it
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
Relax don't do it
When you want to come
When you want to come

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Just like that river twisting through a dustly land
And when she shines she really shows you all she can
Oh Rio Rio dancer across the Rio Grande

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

People are people so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay we've turned this thread into Totally 80s!.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Gahan has one of those voices that you just have to try and imitate.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

You're too shy shy
Hush hush, why do I?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

cheer up sleepy gene oh what can it mean to a daydream believer and a homecoming queen

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god. Nickalicious is my idol.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and also the Last Train to Clarksville.

Something Stupid (as long as you don't think of Robbie Williams).

I wish I knew the words to 'Green grow the rushes oh" and what the things are eg the five flambards under the pole.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

buffy the musical!! the entire cd, in order, and you must act out "i'll never tell" with your boyfriend or pet.

― allyson (schmanktenputchka), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

my friends and i have an unfortunate tendency to sing songs from Astaire-Rogers musicals really, really loudly.

― fiofio (fiona), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

(Allyson, were you around to see Mark S's Village Voice article on the Buffy musical episode? Maybe the VV still has it on its site.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(yes martin! i lurked and saw and read. it made me very happy.)

― allyson (schmanktenputchka), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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