Thank Frankie it’s Friday.
It’s the weekend, like. So let’s party!
Even better: let’s engage in another round of music bants. Still no voucher, but you’ve all proved that your love runs deeper.
This week’s theme comes courtesy of The Millie Obnoxious (a misnomer surely) who writes:
“May I offer a suggestion? Karaoke songs. What do you belt out when gee-eyed and in the mood for a sing song?”
You’d have to ask my neighbours.
Update: They just got back to me. Apparently it’s this one.
Lines MUST close on Saturday at Midday.
Please include video links if possible.
Meanwhile….
Last week, SOQ asked for your favourite cover version. A really great playlist unfurled. But Micko won my esteem with this entry…
…Johnny Cash – Hurt, covering Trent Reznor and NIN.
Micko sez:
“In fact all the covers on that ‘American IV’ album are brilliant. Especially Hung my Head, The Man comes around and Personal Jesus. Rick Rubin’s production is savage. Amazing versions all, but I think ‘Hurt’ nails it, coz it just perfectly sums up Johnnys life.
‘He’d just died when I first saw it and even though I wasn’t the worlds biggest Johnny Cash fan at the time, I remember tearing up watching it.
‘Something about the distortion on the piano at the end, , the way it hammers down, just gets me ever single time. I think it’s the finality of it. Perfect…”
Nick says: Well done, Micko and thanks all.
Last week: Win Nick’s Esteem
Pic: Bunker Vinyl, Cork
great win
Cheers Janet
Thanks Nick – nice way to start the weekend. ;)
“Apparently it’s this one.”… the tesco ad!??
Fair enough Nick…
Also…
Congrats Micko, twas a shoe in… In fairness. ;-)
Bring a tear to an onions eye, so it would.
Well done Micko
If you ever go to Nashville go to the Johnny Cash museum they have a feast of an exhibit on this song (among many other things)
+1
Great choice Micko :)
If, like me, you can’t sing then this is the perfect karaoke number
Ian Dury and the Blockheads: Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick.
https://youtu.be/0WGVgfjnLqc
It is a fantastic song, but surprisingly difficult to pull off without sounding like a total idiot. Ian Dury sounds like he cannot sing, but he has a thing that is very hard to replicate.
100%
This is a masterpiece.
I can’t imagine anyone covering it
One of my favourites for when your locked into serious karaoke binge and you’re trying to one up your mates.
Loadsa energy and double hand claps sell it.
Gay Bar – Electric 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XNFokmDKrE
My rendition of Fitter Happier always goes down well with my associate employee contemporaries.
https://youtu.be/8EoukRWQ-ec
Well done Miguel-o! I’ll have to stand you that pint now so …
All of those Cash, Rick Rubin produced albums are great but that album in particular is a jewel from start to finish. I remember in the late 80s working a job in a kitchen and the auld lassies (probably 10 years younger than i am now!) were all heading off early to see Johnny Cash play a gig in Cavan. This was pre-enlightenment Fergalito … of course i rolled me eyes to heaven, gosson that i was and told them to have a good night of it. Oh how i’d hop on the bus with them if i knew then what i know now etc.
I’ve never actually sang a karaoke song to be honest (voice of an angle-grinder) but if i was going to “sing” one I’d pick this from Ezra Furman which of course is so obscure it wouldn’t be possible to do anything other than an a capella version …
**puffs out chest**
**flexes accusatory, pointing finger**
**eyeballs mofos**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A8ERdjUcMo
Danke Ferg
This one is a wee bit personal to me. It’s Show Me Heaven by Maria McKee.
https://youtu.be/QMVgYtzIAK0
This song comes attached to a very emotionally difficult moment from my childhood, so much so that for a long time I would cry uncontrollably when I heard it. So to deal with this, I learned the words and taught myself to sing it. To this day, it remains my karaoke song and I only sometimes shed a tear. Never underestimate how grief can affect you, even after 20 years have passed.
that’s beautiful
A beautiful song.
Big hug Millie and thanks for sharing.
Ha beautiful tale
I’ve heard of situations you know where people win their own raffle
This isn’t the credit union you know.
I’m just saying it’s not that unusual
Well now I’ll never win! You’ve scuppered my chances ;)
“I am tall and I am thin
Of an enviable height
And I’ve been known to be quite handsome
From a certain angle and in a certain light
Well I entered into O’Malley’s
Said, “O’Malley I have a thirst”
O’Malley merely smiled at me
Said “You wouldn’t be the first…”
If time permits, I like to rattle off O’Malley’s Bar (parts 1,2 & 3) by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
https://youtu.be/-u6I0L3WuJo
Well done Micko, great win.Bask in that esteem, you deserve it.
I am struggling with the Karaoke theme, fine in theory, but in practice a tad tricky with my pipes, if we had a mission in life it might be..
https://youtu.be/nqdDAfHJO3o
Have a fabulous weekend.
With a few beers , brown eyed girl , van the man!!
bob marley, ‘could you be loved’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3t6YDnGXAc
that song has got me home locked on more than one occasion.
When the night is full swing I like to grab a willing female partner and blast out:
“Don’t go breaking my heart” by Elton John and Kiki Dee ….. Karaoke Magic!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0qW9P-uYfM
10 pints, a cigarette or two, and this is no problem, you just need to do really loud and really really really high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4
FFS I’ve always wanted to do that one.
https://youtu.be/EPOIS5taqA8
drink enough whiskey and I BECOME Kim,
there’s a lot of weird eyelash batting that go with this that at the time feels inspired…Bette Davis Eyes
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=GUVT1NZtZPo&feature=share
I have also been known to be possessed by Doris, Prehaps, prehaps, prehaps.
https://youtu.be/0MYN8mAEKUo
one for that nostalgic rose tinted glasses time of the night….you know the time, my rendition of La nuit je mens fills me with delightful agony, others just agony probably ;) the best part is it’s that talky singing the french do best !
On m’a vu dans le Vercors
Sauter à l’élastique
Voleur d’amphores
Au fond des criques
J’ai fait la cour à des murènes
J’ai fait l’amour, j’ai fait le mort
T’étais pas née
À la station balnéaire
Tu t’es pas fait prier
J’étais gant de crin, geyser
Pour un peu je trempais
Histoire d’eau
La nuit je mens
Je prends des trains à travers la plaine
La nuit je mens
Je m’en lave les mains
J’ai dans les bottes des montagnes de questions
Où subsiste encore ton écho
Où subsiste encore ton écho
J’ai fait la saison
Dans cette boîte crânienne
Tes pensées
Je les faisais miennes
T’accaparer seulement t’accaparer
D’estrade en estrade
J’ai fait danser tant de malentendus
Des kilomètres de vie en rose
Un jour au cirque
Un autre à chercher à te plaire
Dresseur de loulous
Dynamiteur d’aqueducs
La nuit je mens
Je prends des trains à travers la plaine
La nuit je mens
Effrontément
J’ai dans les bottes des montagnes de questions
Où subsiste encore ton écho
Où subsiste encore ton écho
On m’a vu dans le Vercors
Sauter à l’élastique
Voleur d’amphores
Au fond des criques
J’ai fait la cour à des murènes
J’ai fait l’amour j’ai fait le mort
T’étais pas née
La nuit je mens
Je prends des trains à travers la plaine
La nuit je mens
Je m’en lave les mains
J’ai dans les bottes des montagnes de questions
Où subsiste encore ton écho
Où subsiste encore ton écho
La nuit je mens
Je prends des trains à travers la plaine
La nuit je mens
Je m’en lave les mains
J’ai dans les bottes des montagnes de questions
Où subsiste encore ton écho
Nice one J.
He’s a legend.
I apologize in advance for my next post.
oh god, I smell ABBA ;)
:)
I shall resist the urge then, don’t want to ruin your weekend.
ah no, never resist the urge…..I can brace / look the other way etc :)
Mad version of Just a Gigolo by Dave Lee Roth. My go-to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-4lX0QyZc
Louis Prima’s version is good too.
I tend to sing The Rodeo Song by David Allen Roe. Tis a bit rude and I can’t do video links but it’s out there somewhere. Or Randy Newmans version of My Old Kentucky Home.
Congratulations Micko, and excellent choice, and I think possibly one of Cash’s best songs, even out of such a repertoire.
I cannot stand Karaoke, and avoid it like the plague. The only time I was talked into singing was at the going away party of this lovely young colleague from Saskachewan who was going home. How could I resist here pleas?
So I did Cat Stevens’ Father and Son. Did not even look at the screen, I know the song so well. But I am not a great singer. And another of my colleagues decided to make it worse, telling me I sang with great pathos. The tune was not perfect, but I got the feeling across.
Needless to say she was already one of my ‘favourite’ people, and this just cemented it. Canadian eyes were tearing though, and she liked it which was enough for me. And enough in so many more ways than one.
I like this remastered version of the official video.:
youtube.com/watch?v=P6zaCV4niKk
I do a mean Yes Sir, I Can Boogie duet with Louis Theroux.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WmN-159SDdY
Avril Lavigne-Complicated
https://youtu.be/5NPBIwQyPWE
K-Town late nite…..your so……:)
Train – Drops of Jupiter
https://youtu.be/7Xf-Lesrkuc
11 June 2002. Ireland 3-0 Saudi Arabia. It was on Caxton St in Brisbane. Myself and a chap from Raheny left the pub where we had watched the game and headed to another establishment across the street. As it happens the karaoke was just warming up Feeling VERY good I decided to belt out this ditty. Over time it has come to represent the high watermark of my karaoke career. It is still spoken about in hushed tones around Brisbane and its environs. It is even rumoured that Grant McLennan and Robert Forster were not there.
By the way congrats to Micko. No competition. One of the greatest songs ever recorded
https://youtu.be/xFrGuyw1V8s
No one hates Dancing Queen
no one but me :)
If I was to sing and there was a pet within a half mile radius, the ISPCA would be called. This is probably more suitable to last weeks competition but anyways- IMO it includes one of the finest voices of out time- Henning
Can’t Get You out of My Head (Cover) – AnnenMayKantereit x Parcels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RacxNskxySo
Seeing that last week was all about famous covers and this week is all about infamous covers…
I’m gonna do both… cover a cover.
Paul Anka • Eyes Without A Face
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MT_lJ4dwCNw
Thanks Nick, by the way, for using my suggestion. Have a lovely weekend ;)
Millie, great suggestion for this week, Show Me Heaven is one of the greatest songs ever, I’d pay money to see you sing it!
Have a great weekend!!
I’m glad you agree, Andy!
She has some set of pipes. It’s a really hard song to sing, and she makes it sound easy. Maria McKee I am sadly not lol
Do I remember you saying you had trained to sign a bit though ? I’d say you more than do it justice.
Or Lone Justice!!
You have a good memory J. I am a trained singer :D
like an elephant ;) despite my best efforts to obliterate most of the old hippocampus :)
For me, karaoke is about having fun and doing the silly songs. While it’s always good to have “Son of a Preacherman” to dig out of my back pocket at a moment’s notice, this has always been a favourite; Cher’s Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSZwEwl_1Q
Here’s my own entry
Note to any big balled chaps wearing high waisted jeans out there who might happen to be reading: I sing both parts
George Michael/ Aretha Franklin
I knew you were waiting
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fDxzQJaA228