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The song "picture" is very painful for the simple fact that only drunk people sing it.
"don't stop believin" is another one

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I haven't heard the rose (or nearly any of these songs in this thread) for a while to never.

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First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack. Extremely slow and 5 1/2 minutes of agony. You speed it up 15% and it still sounds slow.

Being Scotch Irish and playing the St.Patrick's day events "Danny Boy" can be a blessing or a cruse depending on whose singing it. I have one guy who is pretty good he is old now but he used to sing in a barber shop quartet.

"Need You Now" form Lady Antebellum or anything from Adele.

"Need You Now" is deceptively difficult (melody starts on the 2nd, uses the major 7th a lot) but people love it so they try it. Adele's voice is so rich and distinctive, most people try to emulate it and it ends up sounding grotesque.

I get a couple of the people that cannot sing Adele, but do have 4 girls that can nail her. That is a treat, but she don't get sung enough at my shows.

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Anytime she gets sung at my show, is too much! Just doesn't go down good with me!

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Those are my top (bottom) too- except I call them "Official KJ In The Bathroom Songs"

Throw in American Pie with that.

I had a couple people do Ray Stevens' "Guitarzan". they did it as well as that song could be done, and it was funny as hell- ONCE. Don't want to hear it again....

... and Wind Beneath My Wings is usually done by someone who just had a loved one die......

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Now there's another thought I need to erase from my mind.

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To be fortunate enough to derive an income from a source as fulfilling as karaoke music has got to be as close to heaven as we can get here on earth!

About the only time I cringed was when someone got up to do a song that I was sure they were going to just destroy. Then I'd remind myself there is entertainment value in every performance, smile, and hand them the mic.

I once cringed at a private party when this old fellow turned in a Whitney Houston song. I think it was "I Will Always Love You" (which I guess is actually a Dolly Parton song). Anyway, the guy nailed it in his own way. So there was a false cringe.. ha!

"Does he love you(like he loves me)"a screach fest EVERY SINGLE TIME.

My "cringers", and I have a few, are not songs... but people. Those who couldn't carry a tune in a dump truck, or whose timing is always about a half-measure behind, or who scream into the microphone like a banshee.... or, heaven forbid, a combination of all those things.

Take all three of those attributes... add in Meatloaf's "I Would Do Anything For Love"... and I'd be about ready to swallow my gun (if I had one).

Yeah, I have a few clients (I won't call them singers) who can make me cringe just by walking through the door.... but I grin & bear it, cuz that's why they pay us the "big bucks".

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Me neither. Until last week!

The cringing is still fresh in my memory.

ANYTHING by Weird Al Yankovic!

Hey, I sing 2 of his songs every now & then. Achy Breaky Song (get the crowd to line dance) & One More Minute. The rest, I agree!

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To be fortunate enough to derive an income from a source as fulfilling as karaoke music has got to be as close to heaven as we can get here on earth!

You guys already said two of my cringers...Paradise By The Dashboard Light and American Pie, however you forgot to add One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.

Definitely bathroom break songs!

I absolutely cringe at American Pie. At karaoke or by the campfire which is even worse because camping that song can turn 20 minutes long.

wait....your get paid big bucks?

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Really?

Everyone loves Weird Al at our shows. On the whole his songs are quite upbeat, lyrically they are non-offensive and most are less than five minutes. Swap your Weird Al Singers for my Ed Sheeran ones.

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