Rolling Karaoke 2006 Thread

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*Unexpectedly very successful attempt at a song I wasn't even sure I remembered all of when I signed up for it: "Do They Know It's Christmas." In early March.

*Unexpectedly successful approach: "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," sung in the most sensitive falsetto I could summon up.

*Song neither I nor anybody else should ever attempt at karaoke again: "Paranoid Android." And not just because of the over-a-minute instrumental interlude.

*Song I dearly wish there were a karaoke version of: Peaches' "Shake Your Dix."

*Song whose existence in the karaoke book mystifies me: Fatboy Slim's "Praise You."

*There is a guy who goes to my karaoke joint of choice who ALWAYS does the Bloodhound Gang's "A Lapdance Is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying." Pure pain. I am tempted to sneak into the KJ's booth and destroy that disc.

Post your recent karaoke experiences here.

Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 23 March 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

hahaha you tried to karaoke to 'paranoid android'?! i love you douglas

geeta (geeta), Thursday, 23 March 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Next time I go out to karaoke, I'm going to do that James Blunt song in either full Kate Hepburn voice or full Ethel Merman voice. I haven't decided which. But I'll report back with the results.

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
magnetic fields - "strange powers"
cat power - "nude as the news"
sparks - "this town ain't big enough for the both of us" (me and emily ROCKED THIS)

j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 19 May 2006 07:47 (twenty years ago)

nirvana - "lithium" (scared an entire gaybar in DC)
kinks - "david watts" (only cuz Douglas beat me to "tv eye" at WFMU Recfair)
kinks - "lola" (acclaimed by co-workers)

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

sparks - "this town ain't big enough for the both of us" (me and emily ROCKED THIS)

I don't know you but I really really really wish I'd seen this.

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

T.I - 'What You Know'

It actually worked

jergins (jergins), Friday, 19 May 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

I don't know you but I really really really wish I'd seen this.

I saw it, and of countless j blount performances I've witnessed it has to be among the top three. The perfect synchronicity on the vocal, the hoppity stomp dances, the intense conflict between the two singers on the chorus - shit was art.

I did a decent "Satellite of Love" that night, but I'm struggling to remember any real great achievements of note in the 2006 period. Have to flip back through my notes...

Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 May 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

TI - "Rubberband man" in a bar with a waterfall, plastic trees and a smattering of filipina prostitutes. People were speechless.

Jacob (Jacob), Saturday, 20 May 2006 07:11 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
brian eno - "st. elmo's fire"
r.e.m. - "so. central rain"
falco - "rock me amadeus"

j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 30 June 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)


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