Karaoke Log

nobody got it.

He proceeded to sing "Dont chew on me, baby" in the chorus, at which point I cracked up and lost it and couldn't finish my lovely atonal harmonies.

It was Japanese restaurant/sake bar/karaoke box, so we got a room (nearly a cubicle!) to ourselves. I opened by seizing on They Might Be Giants' Istanbul Not Constantinople as one of the few good non-singing songs (no Sultans WTF!!), then a bit later It's The End Of The World As We Know It, Johnny Cash's Hurt, Smashing Pumpkins' 1979 (my boss picked it and handed me the mic), and a bit of Don't Be Cruel. Unfortunately, we also picked random numbers inbetween times, and the only actual audio that escaped was my growling my way through Metallica's Nothing Else Matters. The enclosed situation meant the only embarrassing bit was when a GURL came in to ask if we had the two pages with the Abba songs (they were missing from our book too) during Love Shack (which we were giving full voice on the boy and girl tracks).

Other songs included Tie A Yellow Ribbon, Losing My Religion, Man On The Moon, Pump Up The Jam, Sweet Home Alabama, Centerfold (The J Geils Band one), Folson Prison Blues, Anarchy In The UK, and for a closer, the always terrible Light My Fire.

Not only was this my first (and last karaoke), but it was the first time I heard Chirpy-Chirpy-Cheep-Cheep. Now there was a love that lasts!

I am not too funny about karaoke, I don't think, but you need to hang around in groups. In 1991 the young blond boy came with a group and I've never seen like it since. Holy fuck!

lou reed - perfect day - heartfelt
modern lovers - roadrunner - singalong
roxy music - do the strand - everybody dance now

My personal highlights were Blur's Song 2, In Da Club and a good duet on Bus Stop by the Hollies with my friend.

I think once in Cyprus I might have sung 500 Miles by the Proclaimers with my husband and got booed off the stage by a bar full of English football fans the night before England v Brazil in the last World Cup, upset that we weren't singing either Three Lions or Vindaloo. I think we misjudged how funny we thought it would be to be not supporting England. (we had been in the pub all day drinking hideous cocktails, in our defence, so my memories of this evening are so blurred they might not even have happened).

Most of the songs on the list were Chinese, and most of the english stuff were boybands, so I chose MmmBop by Hanson, only to realise (when the song kicked in) that I had forgotten the melody of the song.

I'm kinda glad that my only karaoke experience has been in a small room..
Or maybe I should listen to the Bon Jovi back catalogue in time for my next trip...

annie - chewing gum
lita ford - kiss me deadly
martha reeves & the vandellas - jimmy mack
franz ferdinand - take me out
kinks - lola
sweet - fox on the run
olivia newton john - magic
suzi quatro - can the can
soft cell - tainted love
steve miller band - abracadabra
madonna - borderline
liz phair - fuck & run
go go's - vacation / our lips are sealed

I'd still rather see/hear Maria doing Suzi Quatro, though.

My lifetime karaoke history:

(and then we sang lots of blink-182 and american hi-fi and green day and aerosmith/run dmc and aqua and er Mr Children.)

I have a standing invitation offered to my Australian wife for us to perform "Summer Nights", but I don't think that she's ever going to accept.

Nil.

-- Marcello Carlin (marcellocarli...), March 15th, 2005. (nostudium)

office party, circa Dec 2000: "Lola"

WFMU Record Fair, Nov 2004: "David Watts"

rage against the machine - killing in the name
limp bizkit - break stuff

La Mexicana - Pontoon Beach, IL, Spring 2007

Matched girl with whom I have been friends for a very long time (and on whom I had at the time a major crush) Drink for Drink in some sort of ridiculous attempt at chivalry, not fully comprehending her magical ability to metabolize alcohol.

Did a rendition of "Rebel, Rebel" which devolved into angry, out-of-breath, atonal screams at anyone I knew in attendance. YOUVETORNYOURDRESS! YOURFACEISAMESS!

10 may 2008 - the research club, glasgow university

birthday party for the ex of my old glasgow buddy. the ex is now in the 1990s (a band). so it is with some trepidation, mitigated of course by the alcohol i've been necking, that i sing "harper valley p.t.a." by jeannie c. riley

somewhat later i do a disastrous version of "islands in the stream" - ATTENTION KARAOKERS: the timing of the chorus IS VERY DIFFICULT. also note that when performing a duet it is never good form to argue on stage over whose part is whose.

finally i achieve some sort of redemption with "your cheatin heart", which goes down to thunderous approbation

other highlights included Member of Famous Rock Band singing "Livin on a Prayer" and Member of Semi-Famous Rock Band doing a duet WITH HIMSELF of "to all the girls i've loved before", actually holding his own nose to achieve willie nelson effect

NAME NAMES!

haha OK it was d1n0 from the 1990s, and st3vi3 jackson and chr1s g3dd3s out of belle and sebastian

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=41

woops, i mean :

taking sides: karaoke vs rock bands

CHILXors did karaoke the other night.

I sang:
U2, "Mysterious Ways"
EMF, "Unbelievable"
Justin Timberlake, "Rock Your Body"*

*This was originally supposed to be "Under the Milky Way," but the karaoke machine was messed up, so I went for my second choice.

i did "alison" by elvis costello. i was supposed to do "i touch myself" by the divinyls but some dudes stole my turn so i did "suffragette city" by david bowie instead

winner was the random dude who did "what a fool believes," maintaining his awkward michael mcdonald impression through the entire song without giving up

"Mysterious Ways" is a great karaoke song!

I think I missed Michael McDonald dude! Was I outside smoking?

ATTENTION KARAOKERS: the timing of the chorus IS VERY DIFFICULT. also note that when performing a duet it is never good form to argue on stage over whose part is whose.

EXCEPTION: If you are dueting "Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing and you complete your argument when the girl shouts NO ONE PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER right before your last chorus. (see: Mar 24 2008 @ Mia's, Lexington, KY)

go-go's = vacation
freda payne = band of gold

Benny Mardones, "Into the Night" (dedicated to R. Kelly and his jury selection)
B. Springsteen, "Dancing in the Dark" (i danced throughout)
Air Supply, "All Out of Love"

(at previously mentioned Chilx gathering)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/tracerkaraoke.jpg

Bright!

i so wanted the bottom of the mike stand not to be there and see you rocking it freddy mercury style, however, I scrolled down.

yeah the flash sux - the youTube clips give a better idea

Ed that was part of the schtick - never take the mic off the stand - during the instrumental breakdown I turned around and did a line dance

sade - by your side
fleetwood mac - landslide

Bryan Adams, "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
Gretchen Wilson, "All Jacked Up"
Talking Heads, "Burning Down the House"
Ace of Base, "All That She Wants"

last night
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
Lionel Richie - Hello
George Michael - Careless Whisper

fine young cannibals - good thing
the commodores - easy

'honky tonk women' (possibly overdid the jagger impression, struggled for high note in the chorus)
'purple rain' (old fallback, killed it)
'killing in the name' (led rousing group rendition of this)
'ziggy stardust' (piss-poor; in my defense i was pushed into the breach when the person who'd programmed it left early)
'ain't no sunshine' (not bad)

also: comandeered mic during 'red red wine' and started gibbering verses from 'cocaine in my brain', then 'limb by limb' by cutty ranks

Sat night:

Wichita Lineman (sober and offkey)
What's New Pussycat (no and yes)

Last week:

Deborah Harry - "I Want That Man"
Pulp - "Disco 2000"

"tvc15"

on saturday (same night/place as morbs):

'walk on by' (dionne warwick)
're-hab' (amy winehouse - one of the most recent songs in their collection, sadly)
'superstar' (carpenters, w/ very poorly translated chinese->english)
'don't you want me' (human league - girl part, as per usu)
'too close' (next - girl part, w/ requisite 'poking' by male counterpart)
'mr. brightside'
'deacon blues' (backup vocals)

"what have i done to deserve this? (duet, tennant part)
"bigmouth strikes again"

"Pretty Vacant"

stones - honky tonk woman
tom t. hall - i like beer

the latter didn't go over like gangbusters like i imagined tho i blame it on a younger, hipper crowd taking over the bar that had prior been populated by middle aged cops and bikers when i picked it out.

"girl u want"
"separate ways"

"into the night" - benny mardones
"eat it" -- weird al
"magic" -- the cars

"fool to cry"
"blasphemous rumors"
"arthur's theme (best that you can do)"

Last night was half-dead, so I got to sing a fair amount.

sly & the family stone - if you want me to stay
kate bush - running up that hill
nilsson - coconut
chris isaak - wicked game
santana ft. rob thomas - smooth
bee gees - how deep is your love

BENNY MARDONES!

So far this year (since February which was the first time I sang karaoke ever)...

The Beatles - "Nowhere Man"
The Church - "Under The Milky Way"
David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust" (turned out pretty great actually)

and as part of a duet...
The Archies - "Sugar Sugar"
Lady Gaga - "Telephone" (Beyonce part)

haha love karaoke....my most recent have been

rod stewart-do you think i'm sexy (had had a lot to drink, it went down v well tho)
elton john and george michael-don't let the sun go down on me (duet with former flatmate, we hit the chorus well and the "ladies and gentlemen, MR ELTON JOHN" is brilliant, but we couldn't remember how the verses went to had to a sort of spoken word dialogue.
abc-look of love (karaoke host said i "absolutely nailed it", which prob meant it was more boring than the above two...

"They Don't Know" - Tracey Ullman (first song of the night--a little shaky, maybe too high for me)
"Gold Digger" - Kanye West (sick of this one but a friend requested it. I've done it so many times that it's kinda boring for me now.)
"Stutter" - Elastica (sang this once in Tokyo but this was the first time I've seen it in the States. Awesome!)

I never do karaoke; I've done maybe four songs in my life? and two of them have been with donna rouge. But the next song I will do is "Crazy For You" by Madonna.

I need to pick some karaoke songs so I can load them up on my i-pod before I go out tonight

so, recently...

Outkast--So Fresh So Clean (killed it)
Outkast--Ms. Jackson
Ludacris--Roll Out
Dre/Eminem - Forgot about Dre (w/ bro)

honestly need to sing more cuz I'm a singer but it's kinda fun to try reciting these flows live. only problem is this is a bar where stuff like David allan Coe's "You never even called me by my name" is popular.

place was mostly empty last night so we got a shit-ton of turns; my selections:

Prince - When Doves Cry
Depeche Mode - Somebody
The Cure - The Lovecats (this was way too fucking high btw, I fooled myself into thinking I could do it via beer)
Santigold - L.E.S. Artistes

others in my group did:

Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
Salt n Pepa - Shoop
Meatloaf - Paradise Under the Dashboard Lights
Pink - Raise Your Glass
Carly Simon - You're So Vain

there was also a dude who did FANTASTIC versions of "Ramble On" and "I Wanna Be Your Lover"

hey I want to do this again

the last l.a. ilxor karaoke outing was in september, and i made a spotify playlist of all the songs we did. very proud of my "wuthering heights."

http://open.spotify.com/user/grannykart/playlist/0CvgPoGMSQKHUZx4Kd99bQ

Boney M. – Rasputin
Ace of Base – All That She Wants
Faith No More – We Care A Lot
Blue Oyster Cult – Godzilla
Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
Donna Summer – Spring Affair
Scritti Politti – Perfect Way
Benny Mardones – Into The Night (Re-Recorded In Stereo)
The Rolling Stones – Paint It, Black
The Human Experimente, feat. Robert Fripp, Maynard Keenan, Jeff Fayman – 21st Century Schizoid Man (feat. Robert Fripp, Maynard Keenan, Jeff Fayman)
Romeo Void – Never Say Never
Kid Rock – Bawitdaba - Explicit LP Version
Frank Sinatra – It Was a Very Good Year
Liza Minnelli – Mein Herr
Aaliyah Tribute – Are You That Somebody?
The Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian - Album/Single
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories – Stay
4 Non Blondes – What's Up?
Dixie Chicks – Goodbye Earl
Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
Animotion – Obsession
Miranda Lambert – Gunpowder & Lead
Sisters Of Mercy – Lucretia My Reflection
Shampoo – Trouble
Adam & The Ants – Antmusic
Michael Jackson – Rock With You - Single Version
Joe Jackson – Steppin' Out
XTC – Senses Working Overtime - 2001 - Remaster
The Ting Tings – That's Not My Name
Wall Of Voodoo – Mexican Radio

Things I have done recently:

Our Lady Peace - "Is Anybody Home"
Michael Jackson - "Will You be There"
Liz Phair - "Divorce Song"
Janet Jackson - "Escapade"
The Sundays - "Summertime"
Pulp - "Common People"

Last night:

Cyndi Lauper - "Money Changes Everything" (that one note at the end is really, really long!)
Shawn Colvin - "Sunny Came Home"
Crush - "Jellyhead" (but it was the original, not the Motiv8 remix that got all the airplay)

TLC - "Red Light Special"
Le Tigre - "Deceptacon"

Liz Phair - "Fuck & Run"
Alanis Morissette - "You Learn"
Crystal Waters - "100% Pure Love"

Alanis Morissette - "All I Really Want"
Azealia Banks - "212" (replaced n-word w/ "honey" + fucking nailed it)
Pavement - "Gold Soundz"

saw this thread title and I wondered if a "Karaoke Log" was like a singing Yule Log

Sister Act sdtk - "I Will Follow Him"
Gin Blossoms - "Til I Hear It From You"

Okay sometime v soon I am going to sing the lyrics of Radiohead's "Creep" to the tune of TLC's "Creep"

did "Seasons in the Abyss" the other night. was kinda fun

Some dude sang "Regulate" and the screen flashed the lyric "Got some girls peein' D"

Sometimes the mistranscriptions are better than the actual lyric

Man on the Moon
Can't Feel My Face
I Want It That Way
Wannabe

oh ilx friends in new york, i host a monthly karaoke reading series at qed in astoria now, hit me up if you’d ever like to read. if you’d like to attend/sing some songs, it’s the last tuesday of every month, i.e. the next one is tuesday april 24

So has anyone done Sweet Pandemic Zoom Karaoke yet?

i did it twice and it sucked ass. haven’t revisited