karaoke is kara-ok!

2) shania twain, dixie chicks

A) It is fairly short allows me to get it over with quickly
B) It has the lovely ad lib part at the end to show off on
C) It is an old classic that old people like
D) It was in a David Lynch movie
E) It has a very easy and memorizable melody and words
F) cool backing vocals for the friends to join in on

(1.) Rather interestingly enough, I seemed to do best with a Pat Benatar song. "We are young! Heartache to heartache, we stand! No promises, no demands!" Was very, very fun.

(2.) Shania Twain seemed to also be rather popular around here. But it was fun seeing all the varied attempts people made to conquer Frank Sinatra. The one who was the most successful at it interestingly enough reminded me a bit of Fred Durst. Um, huh?

i've never done this actually! i'm chicken.

i'd like to do 'drive' tho.

It always takes me a moment or two to realise that I have no chance of finding these available at any karaoke. I'm still thinking about it.

2. Been ages since the last K-FAP I was at, but The Darkness, Missy Elliott, PJ & Duncan, The Cheeky Girls and Reel 2 Reel featuring The Mad Stuntman appear to go down well round these parts. I feel this is solely confined to the London ILX Mafia though. Otherwise its all I Will Survive and Wonderwall as far as the eye can see.

I didn't know which thread to revive but this one wins for the title.

Going to Honky-Tonk Karaoke tonight fellas, whaddoising, whaddoising, eh? eh?

I'm thinkin a little stones, a little waylon. A little Cark Perkins. Yeah? Yeah?

i always wanted to sing george jones but my usual spot hardly has any. good luaoke

Oh there's tons of George Jones here, my problem is I don't know my GJ well enough...! Shame!

Oh my, we're leaving in just moments. Wheeeeee (this should maybe be in the I am drunk thread...)

so tired of hearing "Killing Me Softly" every hour on Fridays

a) Paul Rodgers, Gregg Allman, Michael Stipe, Scott Weiland
b) still haven't karaoke'd since moving to SF - looking forward to finding out!

Bahhh, too many people there, I only got to sing Up Against The Wall You Redneck! But it went over like gangbusters, apparently, so hell...

1. Annie Lennox, lol
2. I dunno. I hear "House of the rising sun" more than any other song, but we go to two places; one place it's young people trying to be all cool and singing Steely Dan and, like, "99 problems" where they memorized the whole thing; and at the other it's these incredibly cartoonishly square middle aged people singing, like, Neil Sedaka and Perry Como, and other similar shit I've never even heard of.

I can sing a pretty mean Yaz, too.

like, like, like I have to stop trying to post convertsaionally

I'd rather people post conversationally than make some stilted attempt at dressing it up all proper-fashion-like. Pffff

My "likes" are stilted so there

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This is Bill, who is brave enough to sing with his voice box. He gets into it and is always one of my favorite singers.
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Here's Bill on stage with Craig who runs the show. Craig says if you don't like country, you don't like shit. Craig OTM.

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Craig and Katie do a duet.
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This is my friend who used to occupy the bedroom I'm now in (AHEM)

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Now this here is my friend whose birthday it was we were celebrating.
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This guy's king, but I didn't get a good shot of him singing so here he is with beer. No shots of me here because these are from my camera. Not pictured are a bunch of other kids I hang out with.

It was a fun night.

The end.

This is my friend who used to occupy the bedroom I'm now in (AHEM)

Um, just to clarify this statement:
discovering a JUG OF PEE in your new bedroom: C or D

ha ha ha

Man, my bachelorette party was KARAOKE RADICAND. Me & my gals were all of the people in the bar but two, so we all got to sing like 20+ songs. Danced to all, of course! And we all happen to know the words to most every song in the world so we all sang along w/one another.

My best performances:
• K8 Bush - Running Up That Hill
• Heart - These Dreams
• Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
• David Bowie - Oh You Pretty Things

I can't even remember what all we sang, 'cept there was mad David Bowie & basically whatever spooky new wave we could find. And Hall & Oates.

Karaoke is my favorite activity in the ENTIRE WORLD!!!

Oh duet on "Rock Lobster" was SUITE too. We asked first, if we could sing it, bcz it is ~7 minutes long. We got permission and ROCKED that shit.

Oh we also sang basically every Prince song they had, too, which encouraged a dude in the bar to sing "Jungle Love." Dude looked methed out but a good time was had by all. He knew all the dance moves. (All...two...of them?)

omg the friend of mine with whom i did Enya (only time) karaoke (which we later turned into art/music performance piece) really wants to do a K8 Bush Running Up That Hill performance piece. i am into this, so fun.

i wld sing more Heart and Fleetwood Mac for sure but they never seem to have them at karaoke i go to (tho i haven't been to any karaoke place in a while)

yes to Prince!

i appreciate a really good, slightly camped up britney karaoke performance

(but i wld never do one myself)

i used to always sing tori amos precious things but i think it is a little tired now and also ppl are like 'waht' bc you have to make strange noises.

though after doing it once a girl asked me if i would help her since crucify bc she was scared.

rrrob come here bc there is lots of fleetwood at karaoke! i want to do sara but i am so scared bc it really is a lot to live up to.

my sis and i were talkin bout torch songs and think 'i can't make you love me' would be awesome but it's probably really cliche and sung very often and very badly.

oh i would totally do sara with you at karaoke. i kind of love doing backing vocals/harmonies/echoes.

Does anyone ever go to the one at Piano's? A good friend of mine has apparently achieved legendary status there but I never go because it's on Mondays and he goes late.

did anyone else see rabies photos & the captions & think he trying to subtly be all hey i karaoke with bill maher?

Bill Maher has an electrolarynx?

that craig guy is a dead ringer for maher!

on Saturday i did:

Enola Gay '98 (too many musical gaps, not enough lyrics - realised this too late)
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
National Express
Gangsta's Paradise (they left the n-bomb in but i didn't say it)
Shine (by Take That)

Last weekend the place was dead and I got to sing way more than usual. "December 1963," "Kansas City Star," and "Gossip Folks" - felt good about all of them, although "Gossip Folks" is even screechier than I remember and they don't put up the lyrics for the "Double Dutch Bus" sample which leaves you having to kind of improv...

xxp: Oh hey I kinda see it. I thought you were talking about the guy who is named Bill. Because his name is Bill. But y'know, any excuse to say the word ELECTROLARYNX.

Would so krokey with all of you.

'fremme neppa venetta' is how the Double Dutch part goes

I wish I had a karaoke gang. :(

there were so many people last time i did karaoke that i only had time for one song, which, mercifully, was "stand back"

i did a MUCH better job at that than "edge of seventeen" which a) goes on forever b) has very few instrumental passages c) left me practically mute well into the next day

"gypsy" is even more trying than all of those SN songs IMO!!!!

by the time i got to the WELL I HEAR YOU IN THE MORNING part i was thinking "oh CHRIST"