# music that makes you sing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680 "2003-08-17T00:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/1 "2003-08-17T00:40:02Z")
I’m just curious what music dopers listen to that makes them have to sing out loud. I’m not big on singing myself due to a strong lack of talent, but when I listen to Tom Lehrer I can’t help but sing. I get so geeked I play air piano. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/2 "2003-08-17T01:25:15Z")
Lots of music makes me sing … Anything Box, Iris, Mesh, Apoptygma Berzerk … all great stuff and I can’t help myself but sing along. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/3 "2003-08-17T01:40:11Z")
It’s almost impossible to keep me from singing to my _Phantom of the Opera_ soundtrack. Except sometimes I get teary during “All I Ask of You.” ---
**Author:** ![LucysLogic101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@LucysLogic101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucysLogic101)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/4 "2003-08-17T04:36:55Z")
the following musicals: My Fair Lady, Singin In The Rain, Guys and Dolls, Brigadoon, On The Town, Chicago, Cabaret…i know there must be some more… the following songs: Do You Believe In Magic, Build Me Up Buttercup, anything by Joni Mitchell, anything by Boston, anything by No Doubt, Save Ferris, Catch-22, Fleetwood Mac, Phil Collins, The Beatles, Reel Big Fish, The Monkees, Def Lepard, if there is a swing/big band song with a vocalist i’ll sing along… songs that have strong, gutsy vocals i enjoy…can’t do Celine or Mariah…ugh (yet i can do Joni, i know, don’t ask - the woman is in a category all her own). And as much as i truly love Jimi Hendrix…he’s difficult to accompany. uh well…yeah, that about covers it, my musical tastes are slightly eclectic…if i paid more attention to opera lyrics, i’d probably sing those too… ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/5 "2003-08-17T05:02:30Z")
The Bobs ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/6 "2003-08-17T05:08:23Z")
I tend to sing along with just about anything, especially if I’m distracted. I do have favorites that I particularly enjoy singing along with, though. Drinking songs, pirate songs, pirate drinking songs (is that redundant?), and such Faire fare often get an accompaniment. I also like to sing/sing along with filk and lots of rock, particularly Eagles and Dire Straits. I sing a lot. Fortunately, I usually do it when I’m alone. ---
**Author:** ![stigoftdump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@stigoftdump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stigoftdump)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/7 "2003-08-17T13:12:06Z")
I don’t do a lot of singing along, but there are plenty of songs that make me sing the refrain, or even the whole song, for hours on end after hearing it. Pretty much anything from My Fair Lady or Sound of music do this to me. Also, “Nice Weather for Ducks” by Lemonjelly has this effect on me. Download NOW all those who don’t know this song - it’s ace. All togther now - "All the ducks are swimming in the water, tra la la la la la, tra la la la la la . . . " ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/8 "2003-08-17T13:42:54Z")
I usually sing to songs by: _U2_ and _Frank Sinatra_ and at times _Eric Clapton_. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Improved\_Scott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@New\_Improved\_Scott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Improved_Scott)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/9 "2003-08-17T14:19:12Z")
At the ongoing Montreal dopefest, this past friday night over diner, the radio played Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t worry, Be Happy” in the restoraunt, and a good 10 of us, including **Eonwe, Curious Cannuck** , and myself were caught singing it. Was quite the scene. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/10 "2003-08-17T14:24:06Z")
What a great topic! I’ve been listening to a lot of African pop recently – since I often don’t even know what language they’re singing in, it makes it hard to sing along – but there’s one Zap Mama song that I’ve got the chorus down, phonetically, so I always sing along. In English: Liz Phair. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/11 "2003-08-17T14:31:27Z")
“Why Didn’t You Call Me” by Macy Gray. ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/12 "2003-08-17T15:10:00Z")
Lots of things in the past have made me sing…just about any song I like. Today, though, I had an odd one. I was listening to a string quartet cover the Foo Fighters (amazingly, it’s very good), and somehow the instrumental, classical take on those songs made me sing each one. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/13 "2003-08-17T17:39:53Z")
_Better Than Ezra._ - The way Kevin Griffin sings just rips my heart out sometimes and I have to join in when he does! _Fleming and John_ - I only wish I could sing as powerfully and with such range as Fleming. _Jude_ - what a great fucking falsetto. Soooo good. ---
**Author:** ![HazyBaby33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HazyBaby33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazyBaby33)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/14 "2003-08-17T22:31:55Z")
Anything by the Beach Boys… I love singing about happy summertime songs while riding down the road Also, most of the songs from the movie Grease. ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/15 "2003-08-17T22:59:33Z")
Either of the two NY Dolls studio albums. Especially “Puss and Boots” and “Who Are The Mystery Girls”. I’m always playing them at work and singing happily along and everyone there thinks my taste in music is weird. They’re all either Nickelback/Creed/Godsmack or Eminem fans though, so what do they know about music. I doubt anybody will be listening to those asshats 30 years after the fact. 🙂 Jon ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/16 "2003-08-17T23:03:55Z")
I sing along to almost anything I know the words to. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/17 "2003-08-17T23:08:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Orange Skinner \* > \*\*I sing along to almost anything I know the words to. \*\* …and, often, things I don’t. And music without words. And music playing only in my head. And… Actually, from my point of view life is pretty much just a series of song cues. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/18 "2003-08-18T00:22:19Z")
I’m with **Orange Skinner**. If I know the words, I’ll sing. ---
**Author:** ![Quantum\_Butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e79b87/32.png) [@Quantum\_Butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quantum_Butterfly)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-makes-you-sing/195680/19 "2003-08-18T01:31:06Z")
> [@](#): > > _Posted by jr8_ > Actually, from my point of view life is pretty much just a series of song cues. Same here, **jr8**! Reminds me of a scene last week, playing poker with the family… DAD: (wanders in) How you doing, hon? MOM: Oh, I’m staying alive. QB: (recognizing her cue) Live live live live stayin’ alive! Stayin’ alive! QUANTUM SISTER: She should have to ante an extra chip for that. They would probably find my habit more tolerable if I could carry a tune. 😛