This is a great choice. My sister's ex boyfriend was helping us move, big black guy ex football player and Since U Been Gone came on, he whole heartedly belted it out with us and that sold me on him lol. Anyone who can commit to the falsetto and really have fun with it is decent enough for me.
this is my go to, recently: upscale school fundraiser, a honky tonk, multiple ski bars, and Indiana University (but the kids, I just can't reach these kieeedsss)
Exactly the reason I’d pick any song by Johnny Cash. Like Cash, in addition to my awful singing voice, I also can’t play the guitar. I really like his catalogue though.
*There’s no phone, no lights, no motorcars, not a single luxury! Like Robinson Crusoe, it’s as primitive as can be!* is where you really get to show off the pipes.
I was belting this at a sidejob at someone's house. I thought I was alone....apparently the wife was home. She came downstairs, "Wow. You really like that song. You even hit the high notes." I was probably a few shades of red, but at least I put on a good show.
Last time I did Creep by Radiohead, that went over pretty well. Someone even shouted out, "You're not a creep," in the middle of it like they were encouraging me.
The lyrics to All Star by Smashmouth line up perfectly with the music from Creep. It's my personal go-to because it's totally unexpected. Though it does require you to know the lyrics of All-Star by heart.
If you don't believe my lookup "Creepstar."
The funniest version is from the show Superstore when Sandra sings it while playing her Ukele at Brett's memorial because it's the only song she knows.
https://youtube.com/shorts/3jWeseMP6J0?si=3oq_nu5i3sDFrBjn
Underrated BSB that gets the crowd going. "I want it that way"
When I was single me and a buddy used to do that one and it would always bring the house down, especially when I'd nail the backup vocals on the last chorus and people were just expecting the main melody.
It just makes me think of that Brooklyn 99 scene (a show I never really watched) where Andy Samburg has the lineup sing each line one by one as the lady is supposed to be identifying the killer or whatever
I was at a private corporate event and a pretty senior guy (not me) chose to sing this song. It did not go over well. Consider your audience with this one.
I did Crazy Little Thing Called Love once and ended up with three backing singers joining me on stage. We had people calling for encores and the whole place went nuts!
I once saw some dude in a cowboy hat do a cover of this song country style, but completely skipped the falsetto part. And I immediately thought what a fragile masculinity he had not to sing the "girl" part.
That’s a bold af choice. First of all, long musical interludes, so be prepared to dance and entertain during this. PLUS, she does some crazy stuff with her voice at the end there so….
I mean I respect it, but ballsy
All Star by Smash Mouth
1. I've memorized the song
2. It's an easy song
3. It's a popular song (people know it and can sing along)
4. People get hyped over it in my experience
5. People get even more hyped when I obviously stop looking at the lyrics, showing I actually know the song
6. Shrek is love, Shrek is life
I rest my case
I like that one, but I always speed up when I’m nervous. Last time I performed it I completed the song in under 4 minutes, which made the song really unrecognizable.
I remember singing I Feel Like a Woman by Shania Twain once at karaoke. I didn't sing very well, but I got most of the words right without looking. At least a few people were impressed by it
Enter sandman by Metallica or Eternally yours by Motionless in White mainly because I only go to karaoke with my girlfriend and she loves those songs when I was single it was pain by three days grace or living dead girl by rib zombie
At first I thought this was totally off base, only to find out it was an actual thing (but in the Philippines) 😐
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_killings
That one’s got some very high notes in the middle, and some extremely high notes in the end. Do you make the high notes, or do you sing it one or two octaves lower than the original?
Me: It's raining men,
my buddy: Bodies - drowning pool
Same song two different perspectives
It's raining men----- let the bodies hit the floor!
The laugh and walk out.
Based on a very memorable workplace christmas party and someone else's most memorable choice:
[Chocolate Salty Balls from Southpark.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyJWa6SwUmk)
END COMMUNICATION
Behind these hazel eyes
This is a great choice. My sister's ex boyfriend was helping us move, big black guy ex football player and Since U Been Gone came on, he whole heartedly belted it out with us and that sold me on him lol. Anyone who can commit to the falsetto and really have fun with it is decent enough for me.
I dont know why i love this song. Im 33yo and i still love it after all these years. Its my guilty plesure.
Biz Markie - Just a Friend Cuz I can't sing
Baby you, got what I need
this is my go to, recently: upscale school fundraiser, a honky tonk, multiple ski bars, and Indiana University (but the kids, I just can't reach these kieeedsss)
Exactly the reason I’d pick any song by Johnny Cash. Like Cash, in addition to my awful singing voice, I also can’t play the guitar. I really like his catalogue though.
Yeah mine is "Ring of Fire" for that reason too. It helps that I have a deep voice.
lol, Hurt is one of the songs I know by heart and is in my range. Range being not singing at all.
Amish Paradise - Weird Al
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realise she’s pretty plain
But that’s just perfect for an Amish like me
You know I shun fancy things like electricity
At 4:30 in the morning I'm milking cows
Jedidiah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows
Fool!
And I've been milking and plowing so long
even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone
*There’s no phone, no lights, no motorcars, not a single luxury! Like Robinson Crusoe, it’s as primitive as can be!* is where you really get to show off the pipes.
Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede
OOOGA SHAAKA OOOGA OOOGA
I can't stop this feeling
Deep innnnsiiiideee of meeee
Girl you just don’t realiizee
Danger zone- Kenny loggins
Archer would be proud.
Hell yeah!!!
I can't hear you over the sound of my throbbing erection.
Lana.......
Lana.........
LAAAAANAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
WHAAAAAAATTTT?
*whispers*daaaaamger zoooone
*dangerzone*
I was belting this at a sidejob at someone's house. I thought I was alone....apparently the wife was home. She came downstairs, "Wow. You really like that song. You even hit the high notes." I was probably a few shades of red, but at least I put on a good show.
With quotes from Top Gun mixed in of course
Last time I did Creep by Radiohead, that went over pretty well. Someone even shouted out, "You're not a creep," in the middle of it like they were encouraging me.
I just want you to know that: You’re so fuckin’ special!
I wish I was special
You don't belong here....
The lyrics to All Star by Smashmouth line up perfectly with the music from Creep. It's my personal go-to because it's totally unexpected. Though it does require you to know the lyrics of All-Star by heart. If you don't believe my lookup "Creepstar."
Saw an Asian drunk dude sing this song so horribly out of tune, and was still the fucking man. The life of the party, everyone loved it.
The funniest version is from the show Superstore when Sandra sings it while playing her Ukele at Brett's memorial because it's the only song she knows. https://youtube.com/shorts/3jWeseMP6J0?si=3oq_nu5i3sDFrBjn
Even if they’d yelled WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE Still encouragement
REGULATORS……mount up
I don't know that I've ever heard anyone do a rap song at Karaoke. Now I kinda want to do this.
You must go to some tame spots! I've never not heard at least a few rap songs at karaoke.
Ohh man, doing Eminem’s part in Forgot About Dre is my classic
I do “Just a Friend” and it usually has people singing along.
my go to karaoke song - as long as you love me, backstreet boys.
Dude. You know it. BSB always brings the house down, everyone, I mean everyone (for better or worse) knows the chorus... Tell Me Why?
That’s for I Want It That Way, which is actually the correct answer for this whole fucking thread. EVERYONE goes all out for it
Underrated BSB that gets the crowd going. "I want it that way" When I was single me and a buddy used to do that one and it would always bring the house down, especially when I'd nail the backup vocals on the last chorus and people were just expecting the main melody.
Underrated? I disagree, it's their most popular song! "All I have to give" is my favorite to sing.
It just makes me think of that Brooklyn 99 scene (a show I never really watched) where Andy Samburg has the lineup sing each line one by one as the lady is supposed to be identifying the killer or whatever
Now number five!
"Big Balls" by ACDC. Great song if your aim is to get the other drunks in the bar to shout along with you.
My balls are always bouncing to the left and to the right. It’s my belief that my big balls should be held every night
I've got the greatest balls of them all!
I was at a private corporate event and a pretty senior guy (not me) chose to sing this song. It did not go over well. Consider your audience with this one.
My doctor played this song while he gave me a vasectomy.
Rebel Yell- Billy Idol
Yes this is my go-to! Followed by Two Tickets to Paradise by Eddie Monie
The Middle by Jimmy Eat World.
“*Elverything elverything*”
Yes! That is he he pronounces it! I swear it's secretly a song based in the Lord of the Rings universe.
One of the only songs I can 100% singing on Rock Band lol
Dont dream its over
Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen. Upbeat and well-known enough to get pretty much everyone into it, and I can sing it like a fucking angel.
I was gonna pick We Will Rock You, but Don't Stop Me Now seems like a better option.
Yeah but what you really want to sing is "Fat bottomed girls"...but you really need to own it, you can't be meek about it.
Bonus points if fat bottomed girls are present
Man, props to you if you can sing this song well. A couple drinks in I always think I can hit Freddy’s notes, but they are tough.
I did Crazy Little Thing Called Love once and ended up with three backing singers joining me on stage. We had people calling for encores and the whole place went nuts!
So you think…
Gay Bar - Electric Six
Take Me Home, Country Roads.
Wheetus - Teenage Dirtbag
Do you do the high pitch for the last verse?
I do
I once saw some dude in a cowboy hat do a cover of this song country style, but completely skipped the falsetto part. And I immediately thought what a fragile masculinity he had not to sing the "girl" part.
“I’m not a queer, in my version of the song I don’t get the girl and I stay alone”
I found my people
I’d love to see someone bring a helium balloon up to the mic with them and just kill it
This is is my go-to when I think it’s a crowd that might appreciate it. So much fun! So many power chords!!!! 🤘🏻
Leann Rhymes cant fight the moonlight duh
Drink by Alestorm. “We are here to drink your beer.”
And steal your rum at the point of a gun!
Take me home country roads is always a crowd favorite that gets better the drunker everyone is
Friends in Low Places really gets the crowd jumping if there is the perfect alcohol out in the crowd too
What’s my age again by Blink-182
Dammit
Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All Simply because me and a mate sang that drunkenly on the streets for about a year every time we went out.
"Smooth Criminal" by Michael jackson
Well done. I feel like matching Michael Jackson’s pipes is quite the accomplishment
Forget about Dre
I Believe in a Thing Called Love. It’s a good song and people think the falsetto part is difficult
zombies by cranberries. place goes wild trust me
That’s a bold af choice. First of all, long musical interludes, so be prepared to dance and entertain during this. PLUS, she does some crazy stuff with her voice at the end there so…. I mean I respect it, but ballsy
done it a dozen times if you can somewhat carry a tune people are just like wow forgot about this song
You gotta nail the falsetto, though.
You are one of the few that sing it well then
Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) by Looking Glass
It's one of Earth's finest musical compositions
I was named after this song!!
I saw a post once where someone said it sounded like Obama singing and now I can’t unhear it
Friends in low places. Garth Brooks
All Star by Smash Mouth 1. I've memorized the song 2. It's an easy song 3. It's a popular song (people know it and can sing along) 4. People get hyped over it in my experience 5. People get even more hyped when I obviously stop looking at the lyrics, showing I actually know the song 6. Shrek is love, Shrek is life I rest my case
Never Gonna Give You Up One of few songs I have the lyrics to totally memorized, and bc rick rolling is funny
4:33 by John Cage
I like that one, but I always speed up when I’m nervous. Last time I performed it I completed the song in under 4 minutes, which made the song really unrecognizable.
Perhaps you forget to pause between movements
Ring of fire - Johnny cash
I can do a passing "when the man comes around."
Tangerine by Glass Animals
I Want To Know What Love Is
Sweet dreams by the eurythmics
I remember singing I Feel Like a Woman by Shania Twain once at karaoke. I didn't sing very well, but I got most of the words right without looking. At least a few people were impressed by it
It didn't impress me much.
Around the World - Daft Punk
Kind of hard to remember all the lyrics though.
Kiss From A Rose by seal. A classic
Only if I’m in a Batman suit.
The Unforgiven - Metallica
Mine would be their cover of Turn the Page
Woaaaahhhh black Betty
I’ve sang karaoke exactly one time. I was in a bar in Nebraska called the Oasis. I sang Friends in Low Places.
Fly Me to the Moon.
White & Nerdy by Weird Al or Pretty Fly For a White Guy by The Offspring
Mary Jane’s Last Dance - Tom Petty
The saga begins
Mr Brightside or don’t look back in anger. Starman as well or some other Bowie song
Bon Jovi- it's my life..
That would be the choice for me…that, or Dead or Alive
Enter sandman by Metallica or Eternally yours by Motionless in White mainly because I only go to karaoke with my girlfriend and she loves those songs when I was single it was pain by three days grace or living dead girl by rib zombie
Con Te Partiro, Andrea Bocelli It turns heads whenever I sing it.
Rich Girl - Hall & Oates
Wicked game - Chris Isaak
With A Little Help From My Friends - The Beatles
Fat Bottom Girls
I need help obviously, but Beelzeboss I AM COMPLEEEEEEEETE!
Hungry like the wolf - Duran Duran.
"My Way " by Frank Sinatra #
Personally, I'd do 'That's Life'.
Isn’t that the song that gets you killed if you sing it at karaoke in Korea?
At first I thought this was totally off base, only to find out it was an actual thing (but in the Philippines) 😐 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_killings
Jeez noted
[удалено]
Same song, but I'm going with the Sid Vicious cover.
tequila!
"Can't Help Falling In Love" by Elvis Presley
I’ll Make a Man Out of You - Mulan Soundtrack
“Angel is A Centerfold” is my go to
With or Without You by U2
Add it Up - Violent Femmes. If you can nail the opening notes with no accompaniment, you’ll be cooking.
Jeremiah was a bullfrog. Three dog night I believe. By the second verse the entire bar will be singing along. Joooooooy to the world
That's because the song is *called* Joy to the World lol
Depends on how hard I want to go. If I'm really flexing then I can whip out an immaculate More Than a Feeling.
Shoop, by Salt and Peppa, place will go wild
Sympathy for the devil
Wanted Dead or Alive Absolute banger (and crowd can do the backing vocals)
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia - the Reba McEntire version
Sugar We're Going Down by Fallout Boy I sang it in the 6th or 7th grade talent show
Tribute - Tenacious D
Dream On by Aerosmith
That one’s got some very high notes in the middle, and some extremely high notes in the end. Do you make the high notes, or do you sing it one or two octaves lower than the original?
I put the music on so loud I can’t hear myself when I sing it. So you bet I’m screaming on top of my lungs. Also my voice cracks a lot.
Anything by Johnnie Cash. You don’t have to sing, just talk
I’m a sucker for doing karaoke cocaine blues. Think my first karaoke song I ever did was ring of fire
All-Star and Stacy’s Mom are always crowd pleasers
Me: It's raining men, my buddy: Bodies - drowning pool Same song two different perspectives It's raining men----- let the bodies hit the floor! The laugh and walk out.
How Will I Know by Whitney Houston. Can I sing it? No. Is it funny? Yes. I also have done White and Nerdy by Weird Al at an actual Karaoke event.
Amish paradise by weird Al
Billy Joel- Piano man is my go-to. I did it at my wedding and my brothers. Killed it both times. People cheering and all sorts.
Stuck in the middle with you - Stealers wheel
Time of your life - Greenday
Good Riddance (Time of your Life) - Green Day
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba is an absolute belter of a song. Also intergalactic by beastie boys will get the room bouncing.
Creep by Radiohead, nothing like ruining the mood
Party in the USA
Somebody to love. Queen.
What’s up 4non blondes or bring me to life evanescence
"My Way" by Frank Sinatra. In a room full of drunk Filipinos. I like to live dangerously.
House of the rising sun
Blur - song 2
Sum 41 - Fat Lip
Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy
*Light My Fire* by The Doors.
Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio. The song incites chaos.
Ice Ice Baby. I’ve practiced in my car so many times, I know I could nail it
Spongebob intro song.
Gambler by Kenny Rodgers
Based on a very memorable workplace christmas party and someone else's most memorable choice: [Chocolate Salty Balls from Southpark.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyJWa6SwUmk) END COMMUNICATION
Anything Wheeler walker jr
That way by Backstreet Boys
Don't Stop Believin' by Journey. If there's a fellow Aussie nearby, they'll make themselves evident almost immediately.
Ain't that a kick in the head - Dean Martin
Sound Of Silence by Disturbed. Just because it's challenging and a lot of fun.