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[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

Blurred Lines

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Instrumental version of Tequila

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. A jaunty little sea shanty about a ship sinking in a storm and killing everyone on board.

https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Urgh just whatever I think might be fun at the time, it's always bad

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Great Gig in The Sky by Pink Floyd.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Bloodhound Gang - A Lapdance Is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying

https://m.soundcloud.com/bloodhound-gang/a-lap-dance-is-so-much-better

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

That's a sing-along song in our local bar, lol!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you're in Scotland when you do this people will sing along with you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

then I could use the renunciation, a wobbly song to the same tune

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember the first time my then-girlfriend, who was American, heard God Save the Queen while here in the UK. It was an instrumental version and she had no idea why they were playing My Country 'tis of Thee in a situation where you would expect a national anthem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Even our "anthem" is a white supremacist poem slapped on top of an old British drinking song. How apt. A country of drunken racists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Somebody that i used to know

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Weird Al.

Or Eminem.

Or Weird Al's Eminem parody.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I'm pretty sure I've seen this at a dueling piano bar. The crowd was into it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I repeat the last song.

Or anything from an obscure screamo band.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] SomeAmateur 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But if you sing it three times agent 47 will appear

[–] neidu3 3 points 1 day ago
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Dead puppies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Goodbye my Lover by James Blunt would work to kill a hyped up mood.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

"Loving You" as Im a guy who cannot sing and absolutely does not have Minnie Ripperton's range. It would be horrific and I would lean into it with all my might.

https://youtu.be/9I3UTG1dSTc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Isn't that just karaoke?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] RowRowRowYourBot 2 points 1 day ago

That guy could hit nost of the notes except that one. I cannot hit any of the notes as I am unskilled at singing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Summer loving

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Wacht auf, Verdammte dieser Erde!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

“Memories” from Cats

[–] badhops 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bad Manners - Special Brew Singing to my wife

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

We Are the World which might be fine if everyone in the bar was fifty-plus, but wouldn't work today.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Alice’s restaurant- Arlo Guthrie

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I worked with a 17 year old once who knew the entire lyrics to Alice's Restaurant and would recite them, not sing them, in the most deadpan voice.

I miss that guy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

If that kills the vibe, you got the wrong crowd.

[–] zaphodb2002 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

I WOULD OFTEN GO THERE

TO THE TINY CHURCH THERE

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Woman Is The N***** Of The World

(Although anything by John Lennon would probably work lol)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wtf? I have never liked the Beatles, I find most of their catalog grating to listen to, and most of their lyrics either nonsense or fart sniffing. This one, though it's a Lennon and Yoko, has to be the pinnacle of sniffing their own farts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, even ignoring the obvious issue with the lyrics, it's a dog shit song.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The ISIS song

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

the cure - killing an arab

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