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Right, because we all know country music doesn't have any songs like that. Gimme a break, I could list a dozen reasons why I don't like much country music and most of them would have to do with lyrical content. If you can't sing it or prefer not to, just leave it at that, no need to be insulting. Rudy.[/quote]

I am so with you on this VBU, what a pretentious thing for the mousekateer to say....jeez

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Well, I'd jump in here..but we had ZERO singers on Friday night...not much of a crowd for anything else either.  We had a huge storm here in Northern/Mid Michigan and I was hoping it would bring out the crowd...well it didn't, that's for sure.  I had my groupies..about 10-15 friends showed up and we hung out and have a few cocktails, listened to some good music and there was a few straglers at the bar, NOONE else even came in the door.  The dinner crowd was non-existant as well, so it was a crap night all the way around.  Oh well, there is always this weekend....

Hhahahaah, the only Karaoke request I got was, "do you have any ICP karaoke"  So, Bill....I noticed you had "ICP" on your list....please tell me where you can get a ICP song?!?!?!  I have a few juggalos (including myself) that would be certainly down with the clowns.  I have searched and found nothing/nowhere.  Thanks, MrD

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I bought "Homiez" at the Selectatrack website. It's not SBI but some other brand that I can't remember without the Karaoke computer up (and it's not right now). But a pretty good rendition.

It's the only ICP track I've found. But a good one if the room can handle the language. The place sings the chorus right along with the singer. So it's a "sing-a-long". Of a different type than usual.

Huh, I've never seen that site till just now...thanks for the info!
Keep it rockin'...MrD

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I substituted for a KJ on Fri and Sat

Sultans Of Swing Dire Straits 5:41
Hit Me With Your Best Shot Pat Benatar 3:11
The Sign Ace of Base 3:17
Hunger Strike Pearl Jam 4:15
Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison 3:43
Turn the Page Bob Seger 5:27
(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Day Otis Redding 3:10
Gold Dust Woman Fleetwood Mac 5:41
Dammit Blink 182 3:04
Freak on a Leash Korn 4:34
Have You Ever Seen the Rain Creedence Clearwater Revival 2:59
Jeremy Pearl Jam 5:20
When Will I Be Loved Linda Ronstadt 2:28
Better Together Jack Johnson 3:47
Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd 5:20
We Live For Love Pat Benatar 4:19
Call Me the Breeze Lynyrd Skynyrd 3:47
Patience Guns N Roses 6:29
Basket Case Greenday 3:29
Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin Journey 4:06
Enter Sandman Metalica 5:55
Bring Me to Life Evanescence 4:28
Friends in Low Places Garth Brooks 4:14
Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet 3:56
In the End Linkin Park 3:55
Footloose Loggins, Kenny 4:10
Working For the Weekend Loverboy 3:42
My Sacrifice Creed 5:02
I'm Not Ok (i Promise) My Chemical Romance 3:14
Fallin' Keys, Alicia 3:57
Whiskey Lullaby Paisley, Brad and Alison Krauss 4:18
Dancing With Myself Idol, Billy 3:54
Only The Lonely.zip My Chemical Romance 3:10
Looks that Kill Motley Crue 4:36
What I Got Sublime 2:55
Are You Sure Hank Done it this Way Waylon Jennings 3:11



Sultans Of Swing Dire Straits 5:41
It's My Life Bon Jovi 4:10
New York, New York Sinatra, Frank 3:37
With Arms Wide Open Creed 5:00
Angel Aerosmith 5:08
Just The Way You Are Joel, Billy 4:43
Midnight Train to Georgia Gladys Knight and the Pips 4:55
Dirty White Boy Foreigner 3:54
Until the Day I Die Story of the Year 4:34
Mountain Music Alabama 4:03
Your Song Elton John 4:24
Bubbly Colbie Caillat 3:21
Brown Eyed Girl Morrison, Van 3:06
It s Still Rock   Roll To Me Joel, Billy 3:20
Baby One More Time Spears, Britney 4:10
I Got You Babe Sonny⁄Cher 3:20
Sara Smile Darryl Hall and John Oates 3:15
Black Pearl Jam 6:16
99 Red Balloons Nena 4:01
Leave the Pieces Wreckers 3:52
Love is Like Oxygen Sweet 4:13
Son of a Preacher Man Dusty Springfield 3:14
Let's Hear it For the Boy Williams, Deniece 4:26
Every Rose Has It's Thorn Poison 4:53
Let's Get it On Gaye, Marvin 5:04
Sara Fleetwood Mac 5:43
Kerosene Miranda Lambert 3:19
Family Tradition Hank Williams, Jr. 4:17
Lady Rogers, Kenny 4:33
Silent Lucidity Queensyche 6:32
Before He Cheats Carrie Underwood 3:34
It's Been Awhile Staind 4:42
When God Fearin' Women Get the Blues Martina Mcbride 3:30
Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day 4:51
Wrong Way Sublime 2:51
Interstate Love Song Stone Temple Pilots 3:43
Tin Man, The America 3:45
Scandal Warrior, The 4:15
You Never Even Called Me by My Name David Allan Coe 5:54
Would I Lie to You Annie Lennox (Eurythmics) 4:39
Roxanne Police 3:32
Ballad of Chasey Lane Bloodhound Gang, The 2:33

Nice diversity there Randy J.

I had a couple of Colbie Caillet songs "piggyback"  on a CDG I bought for other things, and one or the other gets sung just about every night by someone. I would never have added them consciously. Just mentioning because I saw one on your list.

Thanks for posting and bumping the thread. I would like to see it kept alive. I'm kind of green at this and it's informative to me.

Hi Bill

Interesting you mention Colbie Callet. That song Bubbly was sung by a woman who's been at karaoke for a year, is one of those singers with a good voice, but is very timid with the mic... the whole time you're listening, you wish she would SING LOUDER

Maybe most KJs just assume she's one of those people where you turn up the mic and they back off their voice. What's the point of risking feedback, right??

So here I am, haven't KJ'd more than 10 times... I turn the mic WAY HOT. She looks at me for a sec, kinda surprised at hearing her own voice over the PA, and continues on... and then the confidence comes out. She nailed the song and got thunderous applause!

Of course I was riding the mic in case of feedback. None. It's a rush to have been at the controls when she came out of her shell. Woo hoo!  :)

Margaritaville - Buffet, Jimmy
Drift Away - Uncle Kracker⁄Dobie Gray
You've Lost that Loving Feelin - Righteous Brothers, The
Everything About You - Ugly Kid Joe
Return to Sender - Presley, Elvis
Through the Eyes of Love - Melissa Manchester
Turn the Page - Metallica
What's Up - Four Non Blondes
Sir Duke - Wonder, Stevie
Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Your Man - Josh Turner
I Wanna Know - Joe
Jailhouse Rock - Presley, Elvis
You Oughta Know - Morissette, Alanis
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin
Crazy - Cline, Patsy
To All the Girls I've Loved Be - Iglesias & Nelson
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
End of the World, The - Davis, Skeeter
Home Sweet Home - Motley Crue
Heartland - Strait, George
Something to Talk About - Raitt, Bonnie
I Write the Songs - Manilow, Barry
Rodeo Song - Gary Lee & Showdon
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
Let's Get it On - Gaye, Marvin
Beer For My Horses - Toby Keith and W. Nelson
Hello Again - Diamond, Neil
Promises in the Dark - Pat Benatar
Folsom Prison Blues - Cash, Johnny
I Want Your Sex - George Michael
This Cat's on a Hot Tin Roof - Brian Setzer Orchestra
Black - Pearl Jam
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Brown Eyed Girl - Morrison, Van
Kryptonite - Three Doors Down
Time - Pink Floyd
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Clu - Paul Mccartney With U2
One - U2
Wrong Way - Sublime
Drift Away - Dobie Gray
Natural Woman - Franklin, Aretha

several songs were played off customer discs... their songs are not listed here

Okay, finally remembering to do this! Interestingly, this is a tiny tavern in a tiny town - Hit hard by the economy as most commute to jobs outside of town and it's nine miles to the connecting highway, so it's been tougher on them than most. Owner said it was pretty quiet all week but about 8:30 crowd rolled in. Not usually a country show but looking at the slips, it was a big country night tonight. Glad to hear some of the new stuff sung. Went over to accommodate but didn't start until 30 minutes after I would normally.

Settle for Slowdown
God Bless Texas
Grandpa
Purple Rain
Here for the Party
Hillbilly Deluxe
I'll Be There For You
Red Neck Woman
Livin' on a Prayer
Boondocks
Summertime
Our Song
Hicktown
Black Velvet
A Little Gasoline
My Humps
Bleeding Love
I'm a Believer
Watching Airplanes
Bette Davis Eyes
Bad to the Bone
Mississippi Queen
Strawberry Wine
Don't Stop Believin'
I Won't Back Down
Don't Wanna Miss a Thing
Five O'Clock World
Shoop Shoop Song
Addicted to Love
Before He Cheats (been months since that one last got sung - amen)
Laughed Until We Cried
Bubbly
Silent Lucidity
So Help Me Girl
Life in a Northern Town (Sugarland version)
Better as a Memory
Mama Tried
How Cool Is That
Did I Shave My Legs for This
Babe (styx)
Easy Livin'
Goin' to California
Don't Blink
It's a Great Day To Be Alive
Real Fine Place to Start
Better Things to Do
Smile
I Feel Lucky
Loved Too Much
When the Wrong One Loves You Right
More
I Will Stand
Right Where I Need to Be

I Sang (all by request)
Guilty (B. Raitt)
Love Hurts (Nazareth)
Sleeping Sun (Nightwish)
A C. Lauper song I can't recall the name of right now

Lily Allen's "Smile" Karen? If so I'm gonna guess it was the same singer who sung "Bleeding Love" and "Bubbly".

This is just a blatant bump of an old thread back to page 1 to hopefully keep it going with contributions from others. But I'll start with a few comments about changes in my home room.

1. I used to actively steer it towards contemporary non-country (not because I don't like country, but because the area is already saturated with it) but since joining the forum I've let it chart it's own course. And that has definitely been more country.

2. Although there are still some, the novelty of doing an explicit language song just to get attention has pretty much passed. There are much fewer of them in a given night.

3. I've lost some talented singers for unrelated reasons. My top rapper is currently incarcerated. One of the best female regulars, who I could count on for her room-pleasing song selection as well as her superb voice, got into a fight with one of the owner's daughters (not about karaoke) and has been 86ed.

Room was typical Thursday busy normal with most rounds in the upper teens. The first round was under 10 and there was one over 20.

grandpa
joe diffie - Third rock from the sun
bless the broken road (Me. The room started quiet and country. I go with the flow.)
bridge over troubled water
sunshine on my shoulders
david lee murphy - loco
jewel - who will save your soul
pearl jam - alive
werewolves of london
sister christian
fancy
dan seals - bop
josh turner - frecracker
kt tunstall - black horse and a cherry tree
toadies - possum kingdom
no doubt - just a girl
stp - vaseline
suds in the bucket
the joker
melissa etheridge - come to my window
duffy - mercy (this one is going to be around for awhile)
i hope you dance
santaria
justin timberlake - what goes around
katy perry - i kissed a girl (The hot song of the summer. Guys, ladies, gays, straights, they all give it a shot. I don't think it's going to last though.)
nirvana - heart shaped box
achy breaky heart
evanescence - call me when you're sober (Sung by several. Probably just my room)
timbaland - apologize (ditto)
not ready to make nice
bytch
clay walker - i can't sleep
heartbreaker
journey - lights
my give a damn's busted
sweet child of mine
she's in love with the boy
reba - my sister
scotty and keith emerick - can't take you any more
hinder - lips of an angel
eve 6 - here's to the night
before he cheats
joy to the world
rihanna - take a bow
no doubt - spiderwebs (a song I thought was just done in my place until I saw it mentioned by several in here as actually overrsung)
brooks/dunn - my maria
terri clark - better things to do
crazy town - butterfly
timbaland - the way i are
youve lost that lovin' feeling
flo rida - low (me by request. And yeah it was requested by several or I wouldn't have done it in a busy round)
tina turner - you better be god to me
stp - interstate love song
amy winehouse - rehab
garth brooks - more than a memory
michelle branch - goodbye to you
summer of 69
miranda lambert - gunpowder and lead
show me the meaning of being lonely
bloodhound gang - chasey lain
should have been a cowboy (always sung by a Dallas Cowboy fan whenever he's in)
sugar ray - fly
pantera - walk
georgia on my mind
ben folds five - song for the dumped
here for the party
martina mcbride - when god fearing women
taylor swift - our song
evanescence - my immortal
garth brooks - rodeo
melissa etheridge - im the only one
neon moon

I like the way some of your people think, Bill.

My Thursday night was saturated with country last night. It's usually fairly light, but EVERYBODY was singing it last night. The only truly interesting song anyone did was Howie Day's "Collide," which I think is the first time anyone's done that at one of my shows. The rest was pretty standard country fare, with a few rock songs mixed in.

I'll have to keep track of my show Tuesday night and post here. That show is WAY more experimental, because it's a very "indie rock" crowd.

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That would be great DJ Swirl. Thanks-

Here it goes -

What a Wondeful World
Saved the Best for Last
Rockstar
Pour some Sugar on Me
Saturday Night
Hold on Loosely
Sedated
Hemorage
Rebel yell
Apologies
Save My Soul
Spiderwebs
Just A Girl
Waterfalls
She Will Be Loved
This Love
Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy
I'm a Believer (Shrek version)
Born to be Wild
YMCA
I Feel Like aWoman
Before He Cheats
Rolling stone
Cheese Burger in Paradise
Spinning Wheel
Boom Boom
Funky Music
Johny Be Good
Cabaret
We Belong
Centerfield
Wrong Way
The Weight
heartache Tonight
Jupiter
Drift Away
Black Horse and a Cherry Tree
Piece of my Heart
I'm to Sexy
Eight Days a Week
Bodies
Mother
Ballroom Blitz
I Swear
Walking in Memphis
One
Cracklin Rosie
All jacked up
Give'm something to talk About
I feel lucky
Date rape
Lump
Who Says You Can't Go Home
Somebody to Love
Paul Revere
Put Your Lights On
Smooth
Montego bay
Don't let the Sun Go Down
Killing Me softly (Fugees)
Bleeding
Walk Away
No Air
Possum King
Baby Got Back
Mouth
It's Hot In Here
White Lines
As Good As I once Was
Honky Tonk badonkadonk
Touch peel Stand
Sex and Candy
Ice Ice baby

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Our rooms can be very similar Babs. Hemorrhage, Wrong Way, Bodies, Mother, No Air, all done in my place regularly too. Just not last night. Also Bleeding (Bleeding Love maybe?) and Apologies (All Apologies I'm guessing?), if the same songs, also done a lot.

Sounds a lot like our Monday night gig, too - interesting.

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One of the things I've learned from this forum is that my room is far from unique. I used to think that we were blazing new ground and doing something totally different than any other karaoke room. And we are... but just for for my local area.

As promised, here's my Tuesday night show's list. As I mentioned elsewhere, my crowd doesn't usually get started until later, though this was an unusual night as I didn't have my first singer until 11PM! 42 songs between 11-2:15.

Remy Zero – Save Me (sung by me)
Cheap Trick – Surrender
Amy Winehouse – Rehab
Radiohead – Paranoid Android
Ben Folds – Rockin the Suburbs
Coldplay – Yellow
Concrete Blonde – Joey
Talking Heads – Once In a Lifetime
Don McLean – American Pie
Rodney Carrington – Letter to My Pen!s
Modest Mouse – Float On
Pretenders – Don’t Get Me Wrong
Evanescence – My Immortal
Rufus and Chaka – Ain’t Nobody
Fleetwood Mac – Silver Springs
Queen – Bicycle Race
The Jam – That’s Entertainment
Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says
Spin Doctors – Two Princes
Elvis Costello – Radio Radio
Heart – Barracuda
Alicia Keys – If I Ain’t Got You
Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss – Whiskey Lullaby
James Taylor – Carolina In My Mind
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
Spinners – I’ll Be Around
Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
Garbage – Queer
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Pride and Joy
The Darkness – I Believe In a Thing Called Love
Melissa Etheridge – I’m the Only One
Rufus Wainwright – Hallelujah
Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue
Elton John – Bennie and the Jets
Steel Dragon – We All Die Young (sung by me)
Pretenders – Brass In Pocket
Etta James – At Last
Bjork – It’s Oh So Quiet
Three Dog Night – Never Been to Spain
Barenaked Ladies – Get In Line
USA for Africa – We Are the World

With the last song, everybody was having a great time at the end, so I decided to bring them all up for one last song together. They loved it!

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Here's why this thread is interesting. Your list is quite a bit different than mine or the others. I don't know if it's because you are in a different area of the country or just have a different group, but thanks for taking the time to put it up DJ Swirl.

We have some similarities though. "My Immortal" and "I'm The Only One"... constant recurrents in my place. And Bjork... I thought I had the only room that would do that stuff.