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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

Instrumental version of Tequila

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In the arms of an angel....

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (4 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I sang that two nights ago, at our local open mic. Went over very well, but then again the average age was probably over 70.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's a banger though, as long as everyone in the bar is over 35.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Wouldn't work as I'd be singing along

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

By the Devinyls, or just in general?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's a Debbie Downer of a song, it lasts forever, and it gets really repetitive.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

I repeat the last song.

Or anything from an obscure screamo band.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Right now, as someone not from the US, star spangled banned would ruin the evening more than anything else I could think of. Everyone can recognize it, arguments would follow.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Baby Shark, followed by Wonderwall.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The Mountain Goats' "No Children", but very intensely.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I would be so hyped that someone is playing The Mountain Goats in public I would probably join in.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Somebody that i used to know

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Great Gig in The Sky by Pink Floyd.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Saw this irl once. Two dudes, totally tone-deaf decide to sing Aqualung by Jethro Tull...

...as a duet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Same bar had a dude that would sing Disney princess songs every night. He never went home alone.

Shout out to Dante's in Seattle!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 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 3 weeks ago

Isn't that just karaoke?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wrecking Ball- Miley Cyrus.

I could butcher anything, but that, I'll butcher it with glee.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Alice’s restaurant- Arlo Guthrie

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks 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] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love - the original album version where there's around 20s of motorcycle sounds and vocals start around 1:50.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Weird Al.

Or Eminem.

Or Weird Al's Eminem parody.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Dead puppies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The link preview gives it away sadly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, the goal was to kill the vibe, and I would argue a poorly done rickroll meets those requirements :p

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Blurred Lines

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

(Although anything by John Lennon would probably work lol)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

The Smallest Church in Saint-Saens

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