We all have been through it....Driving in car or drunk at a houseparty or club...The song comes on and everybody is grovin...And then you notice. The person with the worst voice is wailing like he/she is Pavaroti....

What songs bring out the worst in us.....

(this thread was concieved last night at The End-Up while I danced with Miquel to John Legend's Ordinary People..Half-way through the song I realized i was that person. )




Besides Ordinary People (which has going to be a classic in the category) here are a couple other songs:

Get Here- Oletta Adams

Something In My Heart- (Mi'chelle)

Love Shake- B 52's

I Will Always Love You- Whitney...

others?

any motown/carole king/etc. song that would have been on the murphy brown soundtrack. suddenly everyone thinks they're the freakin' temptations when they sound more like jean stapleton singing 'those were the days'.

"ain't no sunshine"
"smooth criminal"- Michael Jackson

gosh, any song ever listed in a Karaoke binder.

"Love Shack" is the best example for this thread.

I would also say "Like A Virgin"
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That stupid song from 'Grease'.
My buzz starts to wear off when the typical eight or nine people get up to sing that tune at a karaoke bar.

sosgemini said:

A quick sidebar.
Another group that shouldn't sing, regardless of the song, are the celebrities in the audience at any music awards show.
It never fails that the camera catches more than one celebrity that has no clue what the correct lyrics are. Yet there they are all into it.

They look like they're doing ADR on a Kung-Fu flick.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

* YMCA - village people
* In the navy - village people
* Losing my religion - rem
* 9 to 5 - dolly parton
* one of us - joan osborne

Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
Wonderwall - Oasis
What I Got - Sublime
Roxanne - The Police

Heatwave- "Always and Forever"-- ev'rytime this song hits the box, ev'rybody suddenly thinks they're Johnnie Wilder, Jr....an' they Aint!










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kev1n said:

That's a good list.

paligap said:

Amen.

Think Martin Lawrence as "Bilal" in House Party!

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

I've been 2 an embarassing number of karaoke bars and I cannot escape hearing at least 1 person get up there and sing Garth Brooks's-"Friends In Low Places".

You Are Not Alone - Michael Jackson
Superstar - Luther Vandross; The Carpenters
Love and Happiness - Al Green
September - Earth Wind and Fire
Aint No Stopping Us Now - The Whitehead Brothers

Telling you-Jennifer Holiday

Annnnnd IIIII AM Tellllling YOU,IIIII'm NOT gOIIIII-ING...
And U And U And U...U're gonna LOOOOOve MEEEEE



I will survive-Gloria Gaynor

THE mfing ROSE.

WIND BENEATH MY friggin' WINGS.

and any damn thing by whitney houston, especially 'the greatest love of all'.

Violent Femmes- Blister In The Sun

'NEAR...FAR...WHEREVER ARE...ME BELIEVE THAT HEART GO ONNNNN...'

Songs That Make People Who Shouldn't Sing Sing..... ..... Imagine by John Lennon
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Any song by Alicia Keys, especially "Fallin" and "If I Ain't Got You".

endorphin74 said:

ThreadCula said:

sosgemini said:

Seriously! And will people please stop ruining this song at talent competitions? I love Brenda Russell's version and I love Oleta's remake, but they're the only two I need to hear doing it!

It's My Life - Bon Jovi

I like Jovi but when some 100+ people sings it it..

I was one of them though

theAudience said:

TheRealFiness said:

That's true...why do all these unfortunate things happen to some of our Greatest vocalists:

Johnnie Wilder,Jr.,

Curtis Mayfield,

Teddy Pendergrass,

Maurice White,

Luther Vandross,

Donny Hathaway,

Marvin Gaye,

Phillipe Wynne, etc...


Ok, sorry..didn't mean to take such a depressing detour....



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Angels - Robbie Williams
Beautiful - Christina Aguillera
Hey Jude - Beatles
Hit me baby one more time - Britters

"Loving You". Come on people. Leave the high notes to a trained professional.

FEELINGS! NOTHIN' MORE THAN FEEEEELLLINNNGGGSSS, TRYIN' TO FORGET MYYYYY, FEEEELIINGGGS OF LOOOOOVVVEE

hey wah...? 'scuse me? you wants me to sit down and what? stop singing??

Ladies are always singing Babyface's "Whip Appeal" and Karyn White's "Superwoman", and they sing them in groups loudly. The two songs already sound horrible enough without the group sing-a-long.

XxAxX said:

what in the world is this song?