Karaoke Log

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