your karaoke set list

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.