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.
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I did this with “Everybody Hurts”. Everybody went outside.
Saw this irl once. Two dudes, totally tone-deaf decide to sing Aqualung by Jethro Tull...
...as a duet.
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!
A Passion Play.
The entire thing. Including the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles.
(Side note: I love this album, but as a karaoke performance I can't imagine it'd go down well)
"Peace and Love (Blind Man's Penis)" by John Trubee
Wrecking Ball- Miley Cyrus.
I could butcher anything, but that, I'll butcher it with glee.
If you would have said Party in the USA, I would be up there butchering it with you.
In the UK any of the below should do the trick, with the added bonus of possibly getting you stabbed and/ or glassed:
Gary Glitter - My Gang
Rolf Harris - Jake the Peg
Lostprophets - Last Train Home
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Long song with not a lot of singing.
Gummi bears theme song
I don't know how you got to that anwer, this would go hard as balls
I'm killing the "hyped up" vibes and getting everyone to cozy comfyville
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's a Debbie Downer of a song, it lasts forever, and it gets really repetitive.
Hum the Russian national anthem
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.
Instrumental version of Tequila
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
I find it quite a thrill...
I touch myself.
That's a sing-along song in our local bar, lol!
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.
This is definitely the wrong answer.
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.
Wouldn't work as I'd be singing along
Urgh just whatever I think might be fun at the time, it's always bad
Live - Lightning Crashes
People would get into it, but it would definitely kill the vibes before then.
The Smallest Church in Saint-Saens
Somebody that i used to know
Goodbye my Lover by James Blunt would work to kill a hyped up mood.
The Mountain Goats' "No Children", but very intensely.
Tequila
Blurred Lines
I repeat the last song.
Or anything from an obscure screamo band.
auld lang syne
If you're in Scotland when you do this people will sing along with you
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the internationale
We Are the World which might be fine if everyone in the bar was fifty-plus, but wouldn't work today.
Alice’s restaurant- Arlo Guthrie
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.
If that kills the vibe, you got the wrong crowd.
Woman Is The N***** Of The World
(Although anything by John Lennon would probably work lol)
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