Songs you'd like to sing in karaoke but can never find in the book

Sugar Walls

Anything by Lords of Acid.

Especially the one about sweet soft little kitties.

/I just like to give people the wrong impression, that’s all…

Done it.

I also have sung Madonna’s Hanky Panky, the DiVinyls’ I Touch Myself, and I Want Your Hands On Me by Sinead O’Connor.

I love to see the paranoid straight boys clutch at their girlfriends or beards as the case may be as if I was singing it directly to them.

Oh… everyone gets a skosh uncomfortable with Tom Lehrer’s Masochism Tango.

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Closer by Nine Inch Nails
Did You Ever Wonder by Pig Vomit
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? from Joe’s Garage by Frank Zappa

Heh. I’d pay to see that. I can’t promise I wouldn’t squirm a little in my seat if I was given a semi-private performance of “I Tough Myself” by a fella, but it’d be a hoot all the same.

Er, “I Touch Myself”, I mean. Ooo, boy, I just know folks are gonna go all Freudian on that little misspelling… :smiley:

Well, understand that I mean no offense to you or your alternative lifestyle choice, but “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” just sounds better with a man and a woman. Having two deep voices overlapping each other wouldn’t work as well.

Having seen a photo, I think I can also say I’d squirm a little in my seat if I were given a semi-private performance of “I Touch Myself” by Mockingbird.

Uh, that was supposed to be an annoyingly flirty compliment to *Mockingbird, if that weren’t clear.

Uh, that was supposed to be an annoyingly flirty compliment to Mockingbird, if that weren’t clear.

Sigh. Believe it or not, I’m exactly that much of a spaz in real life, too, which probably explains why I can’t find anyone to sing karaoke with me.

Afternoon Delight by Starland Vocal Band

(Ever since seeing Anchorman)

Show Me The Way by Styx. Cheesy McCheesalot, but you can rock out to it’s power balladness. Dennis DeYoung’s a tenor, I’m a lazy alto, it works for me. Used to be everywhere when I first discovered kareoke but I haven’t seen it in years.

Hmm, I have generally found awesome songs to sing at karaoke night, but there are a few I have never seen. Of course, I have a very deep voice for a female, and I just can’t do most of the female-lead songs, so I am generally stuck with the male ones. Sometimes it just doesn’t sound right.

-Love and Affection by Joan Armatrading
-Ladder by Joan Osbourne
-Playboy Mommy by Tori Amos

Usually lately, though, I have been sitting out. I mean, who can compete with the endless renditions of Staind’s *It’s Been Awhile * and drunken attempts at Dust in the Wind? :rolleyes:

I’d like Styx’s *Come Sail Away * myself. I’m a big fan of super-bombastic, long, long songs for karaoke. *Paradise by the Dashboard Light * is also good for this.

I have to go to not one but two events Saturday night that feature karaoke (a birthday party and my 10-year high school reunion). I foresee a Styx-y revenge in the organizers’ futures. :wink:

I’m still reeling from the idea thatSugar Walls and Sit On My Face can be found in karaoke bars. Anyone seen The Penis Song or Every Sperm Is Sacred anywhere? Darling Nikki might be barrels of fun, too.

Big Ten Inch Record might be kinda fun, and I’ve never seen that. I’m not sure I can sing like Steve Tyler, though.

I want to do Paradise, too, but I’m a woman, and I do the Meatloaf part far better than the chick part.

Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips
The Origin of Love from the Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack
The Humpty Dance by Digital Underground
*When You’re Evil * by Voltaire

bamf

I’d get down on my knees, I’d do anything for you…

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