Your top 5 karaoke songs

If you could sing any songs you like at karaoke, what would your preferred 5 songs be?

I'm curious. Indulge me.

Well here's the five songs I sing that suck the least

1. The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
2. Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
3. Green Day - Basketcase
4. Jimmy Eat World - A Praise Chorus
5. Uhh... okay. I butcher pretty much everything else.

I am constantly doing karaoke at my local-bar-that-I-love-very-much.

1. Janis Joplin- Piece Of My Heart
2. Guns 'N Roses- Sweet Child O Mine
3. Blind Melon- No Rain
4. Bon Jovi- Livin' On A Prayer
5. Motorhead- Ace Of Spades

Those are what I do the most because they're damned easy for me, and they're in the admittedly pathetically small book at my bar.

I've been known to do anything from Alice In Chains to Tori Amos. It varies a lot depending on how drunk and ambitious I'm feeling.

Oh, and I've gotten into a hell of a lot of karaoke finals by doing that Joplin song, it just hasn't let me WIN anything

*flex*

i havent done it in years, but i generally go for the most obnoxious shit i can find. the best night was the time that i did, "blaze of glory," by jon bon jovi, then "friends in low places." the night was capped by me and this girl, kim, doing a duet of "close my eyes forever."

basically, i have no shame. but anyone who was at the philly party last halloween could tell you that.

Oh come on, people, I need more than this!

Wait, nevermind. There aren't the five songs that I'd most like to sing if I could choose from anything, but they are the five that are usually in every karaoke guy's collection. Also, I know the melodies by heart.

Billy Joel - "Still Rock and Roll To Me"
Hall and Oates - "I Can't Go For That"
The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
Joe Jackson - "Steppin' Out"
Scorpions - "Winds of Change" (But only if you can sing.)

[Edited on Mar 24, 2006 by Landed]

Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking
Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife
Violent Femmes - I Wanna Be Sedated
Body Count - Cop Killer
Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues

The last four songs I did at karaoke:
A Little Help From My Friends (Cocker version)
Forgot About Dre
Mack the Knife
I Got You Babe

Well at karoeke last week I sang

"Bad Touch" by Bloodhound Gang
And did a duet with Finch of "I've Got You Babe"
But I also like doing...
"Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly
"Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash
"Thunder Kiss 65" by White Zombie

Anything by Journey.
Or Trooper.

May I suggest Rollin' by Limp Bizkit?

Now I know you be lovin' this shit right here.

ideally
1. "Hip Priest" - The Fall
2. "Billericay Dickie" - Ian Dury
3. "I Hate My Job" - The Kray Cherubs
4. "She Fucks Me" - Ween
5. "Moonlight on Vermont" - Capt. Beefheart

in the real world
1. "Love My Way" - The Psychedelic Furs
2. "Heroes" - Bowie
3. "What's So Funny bout Peace, Love, & Understanding" - Elvis C
4. "Simple Man" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. "Hello, It's Me" - Todd

my friend plays in a band that does "live band" karaoke here in chicago........
ever since, i have never been able to go back to the regular kind

here is the 5 i enjoyed singing the most with them

1. 99 red balloons-nena
2. one way or another-blondie
3. paint it black-rolling stones
4. i want candy- bow wow wow
5. pinball wizard- the who

it's a whole nother world with a live band behind you

[Edited on Mar 24, 2006 by Allie]

I only do one well....

"Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley

I should add that I think I do a reasonable "Say It Ain't So" and that "Basketcase" and "A Praise Chorus" sound the best when misguided is backing me up.

1. Pretty Fly for a White Guy- The Offspring
2. Take on Me- A-ha
3. Ballroom Blitz- Sweet
4. I've Just Seen a Face- The Beatles
5. Worry Rock- Green Day

I have a Japanese Top 5 too, if anyone's interested.

Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
She Talks to Angels - Black Crowes
Jackie Wilson Said - Van Morrison
I Feel Pretty - West Side Story (done wearing a German-style biker helmet, with appropriate accent of course)
Summer Nights - Grease (duet with Megan)

sweet caroline-neil diamond
margaritaville- jimmy buffet
bizarre love triangle- new order
paradise by the dashboard light- meatloaf (for duet)
my michelle- guns n roses

these boots... - nancy sinatra
son of a preacher man - dusty springfield
busta move - young mc
suspicious minds - elvis
yesterday - the beatles

Why is Strawberry Wine not on this thread yet? Around here, that is THE girl karaoke song.

That's kind of the idea a couple of us have been tossing around down here

Ha, that's excellent. You may wish to know Anton and my dirty little secret which is that we sang Rollin' together at karaoke sometime last year.

[Edited on Mar 25, 2006 by TheFuckOffKid]

And then we made out with Fred Durst. HOT!

lou reed- wild side

men at work - down under

ac/dc- highway to hell

tom petty- don't do me like that

beloved- i love you more

Jibaili hates it when you call him that.