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What particular songs do kj's from elsewhere hate the most? Mine is "summer nights". I want to slit my own throat every time I hear or have to sing this song. I have heard both clean and dirty lyrics.
Posts: 49 | From: Duluth,MN USA | Registered: May 2000
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From a die hard karaoke junkies point of view, I have a nice list of my all time hated karaoke songs. These are the ones you go on your restroom break or step outside for a few...
American Pie Summer Nights Friends In Low Places You Never Even Called Me By My Name I Will Survive New York, New York My Way
You can almost gaurantee you will hear one or more of these each and everytime you go to karaoke, and usually a few times a night!! YUCK!!!!!!
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Add Crazy to that list and you have the 8 all-time most requested and most overdone songs in history of Karaoke. Slit my throat too, please. GaryC
Posts: 426 | From: Oklahoma City, Ok | Registered: Jan 2000
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American Pie Summer Nights Friends In Low Places I Will Survive New York, New York My Way Crazy Paradise By the Dashboard Lights Men Stairway to Heaven Anything by Britney Aguilera, Christine Lopez, Jennifer Speers, NSTYNC, Spice Boys or Backstreet Girls.
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"you never even called me by my name" david allen coe i really hate this song and pretty much everything posted so far, it's not that they are all BAD songs, it's just that they are really OVERDONE.
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Posts: 1898 | From: DuBois, PA | Registered: Jun 1997
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IMO, here are this area's most overdone songs:
-Any Man of Mine -Amarillo By Morning -Summer Nights (I'm guilty...) -Love Shack (I'm guilty...) -Honey, I'm Home -My Way -Crazy (Patsy Cline version, not Britney Spears) -Friends in Low Places -PBTDL (I'm guilty, on occasion...but only because I love the play-by-play..lol) -Guys Do It All the Time
Hmmmm....no one has said "Livin' La Vida Loca" or "Mambo #5." I am asked to sing the latter song at virtually every show I attend...probably because I have the CDG, and the two regular KJs in town don't have it.
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Sorry, not a KJ, hope you don't mind. 1. Paradise by the Dash Board Light 2. Friends in Low Places 3. Smooth 4. Love Shack 5. Sweet Caroline...SO BAD, SO BAD, SO BAD
Posts: 789 | From: Audubon, Pa. | Registered: Jan 2000
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the dance, by garth brooks. it's a nice song, but i've heard it done 1,000,000 times too many. plus it was the only garth song available back when i started 9.9 years ago
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Posts: 1898 | From: DuBois, PA | Registered: Jun 1997
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Most of the songs you hate have made karaoke what it is today,these songs that you hate get most everyone up and partying, making the bar owners or resturant owners happy, where you will be able to comeback next week and do a show again. Most people that post on this forum are people that have everyday jobs, and karaoke is not there way of making a living. Sure these songs are sung alot, but do you know why? It's what the singer wants to sing and that is what makes everyone happy. I've been in this business since 1990 and i've heard these songs a million times but it makes the shows happen,makes the crowds happy unless you're one of the singers that set in a corner or ask the dj when it's my turn to sing or complain because you didn't win a singing contest.You know american pie is along song but thats nine minutes of a crowd cheering someone along or everyone in the house singing and everyone likes the soundchoice verison rather than the pioneer laser disc one ,by the way the lazer disc's are outdated and most everyone of the lazers are off key. I got rid of pioneer lazer disc's when soundchoice startes producing cdg's in late 1992. By the way i do shows in SC,OH,AND NOW W VA.
Posts: 64 | From: Anderson,S.C. USA | Registered: May 1999
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Jimmy, around here, Don McClean's "American Pie" (after a large moan from the karaoke ho's) usually means 9 minutes of cigarette break outside.
I must admit, I tried it once, and I didn't remember it being that long. I vowed to never do it again. I also vowed to remove it from my books if I ever became a KJ. No "Stairway to Heaven", no "Paradise. . . " no "American Pie". Nothing over six and a half minutes will ever sit in my book (in my present book, I have PBTDL listed, but where the song number should be, I have the words, "NO WAY!").
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off key, you're nuts. pioneer ld's are great. although i can't say anything about american pie since i don't have the pioneer version. dk is off key, but sound choice is now the king of karaoke tracks
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Posts: 1898 | From: DuBois, PA | Registered: Jun 1997
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l'Opera, In answer to your question about "Rapture", no, I don't care for this song too much, though I have sung it. Rap of the 90's and 00's is what I really dread most.
Posts: 397 | From: Strongsville, OH | Registered: May 1999
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-I am NOT a kj (only a very occasional fill-in)...
-I mis-read the topic.
The list I posted does not necessarily reflect badly done or hated songs. It's just that we hear them night after night after night. If they're done well, that's great.
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I Agree With The Previously Posted Songs And Would Also Like To Add "Baby Got Back".That's A Definite Cig. Break! Posts: 54 | From: Henderson, NV., U.S.A. | Registered: Sep 2000
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Jimmy, thanks for the lecture or sermon. You've got me by three years,so i've only heard these songs 9997 times or whatever. This topic was meant to blow off a little steam,and "most" of these songs are are no longer crowd "pleasers" as they were in the 90's. They are mostly sung by the same people who on the most part have a lack of imagination and guts enough to sing something different or new. We have about 10,000 songs in our library (duplications included)some of which are very good songs but are never sung. On the most part people around here look for "just off the charts" to sing which is a relief from the same old same old. Please Jimmy in the future refrain from reminding us what our jobs are and let us vent a little. By the way I do this 5 nights a week as a living. Posts: 49 | From: Duluth,MN USA | Registered: May 2000
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wanna see my 1099's..the only day i get off are cancellations due to severe weather or my 3 day summer vacation (my other shows or one of my friends, fill in for the night) so i guess i really only work about 360 days.. maybe it's because i have a money grubbing wife who likes to shop alot, you gotta keep the girl happy. anyway, maybe now you'll realize that this is my full-time job ------------------ DJ Mad Maxx Karaoke done right!
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Posts: 1898 | From: DuBois, PA | Registered: Jun 1997
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These are a few of the ones I shrink in playing for various reasons, such as, lack of the singer's ability (some of these are invariably chosen to be sung by those least able to pull it off) / song length / overdone / long & drawn out.
Paradise By Dashboard Light American Pie Don't Take The Girl Friends In Low Places Crazy (Patsy or Willie) You Never Called Me By My name Scenes From Italian Restaurant
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I cannot believe that I forgot that god-damn-rip-your-eardrums-out-then-kill-the-singer-with-an-axe-and-go-to-jail-for-the-rest-of-your-life-but-it-would-still-be-worth-it sinking ship song.
That reminds me, add "I will always love you" to that list. *shudder*
Max, nobody works 365 days per year. THat was my point, nothing else.
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Hey well one thing is for sure, we who make a business out of this will surely get burned out on some of these songs on a regular basis but the bottem line is what makes the show go,if they want it let em roll and keep em drinkin and happy.
Posts: 20 | From: Colonial Beach, Va.22443 USA | Registered: Sep 2000
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Arg, No-one has mentioned Margaritta Vile! Can I go Blow out their other flip flop and get them to shut up - I hate this song. It's a first song to so so many and old hat singers have to sing it all the time too. God help me if I have to endure that song again.
I will leave the room if someone sings Gennie In A Bottle (It makes me ill - I am tempted to get another version than PHT, just so I don't have to have my heart go nuts). And I will leave when ever I can for Fugees - Killing Me Softly.
And what's up about What's Up many of the good singers want to do this song and I am sick of it.
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If I hear another crappy Creed song, I'll scream! Lately, up here in Southern Ontario, all we seem to hear is "My Own Prison", "Higher" or that horror "With Arms Wide Open"
Posts: 176 | From: Alliston, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Jun 1999
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All I gotta say is Shania. I am so sick of hearing every song off the Shania disk. There are so many great female country songs and yet every country singin' girl in a bar wants to sing Shania. Arg!!!!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Posts: 37 | From: Oshkosh, WI USA | Registered: May 1999
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I've noticed an unsual phenomena in recent weeks:
I used to have people request "I Will Survive" at least once a night. Yes, I got really sick of that song... so much so, that I could probably recite the lyrics by heart... however, lately, it has fallen off the radar scope. People have obviously moved on to bigger and better things I do realize that just by sayin that here, that I will be playing it at least twice tonight (jinxing myself again...)
Posts: 575 | From: West Hartford, CT USA | Registered: Apr 2000
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Hmmm...I must be immune to the affects of overdone songs...I guess I find something else to do after I set the levels and get the next song loaded and cued. NOW, if ya wanna talk about songs I hate DOING (by reqest, of course!), they'ed hafta be:
Summer Nights- Years ago, a friend and myself badgered a host ,incessantly, to get this song....he ACTUALLY didn't have it. Well, after a few years, it has gotten old, however, whenever this friend and myself find ourselves at karaoke together, she INSISTS on doing it! AHHHHHH!!!
T-R-O-U-B-L-E---Used to do this one as my last song of the night. Then, people came to expect it. Soon, it became nauseating. RRRERETCHCHHH!
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Posts: 490 | From: Irving, TX. USA | Registered: May 1999
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I must agree with everyone here, pros and cons. But the bottom line is that a nice big tip makes the song go by faster. WAY FASTER! even american pie!!!
Posts: 110 | From: Santa Fe Springs Cal.cou | Registered: Aug 2000
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Yes. I also get requests I hate doing (or get sick of)...
For starters, it somewhat takes up a turn in my rotation of something else that I planned to do. Secondly, I don't want to "abuse" songs so that the audience becomes immune to them.
Here are some requests that I hear constantly:
Mambo #5 - Lou Bega (seems a bit teeny-boppy to me now) White Lines - Grandmaster Flash (I'm waiting for SC to make it!) The Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang (Got old kinda fast) Shout - Otis Day & The Knights (Takes a toll on my throat)
Then there's the persistent, "Do Jump Around! Do Jump Around!" I don't want to abuse this one either. I'm trying to save it for contests or special occasions .
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I must be lucky because a lot of songs you all listed I have never heard at karaoke. I couldn't even hum the tune to "Paradise By The Dash..." That doesn't mean I don't have a top 10 hate list. I guarantee that at least the first five songs are sung EVERY NIGHT at my gig! (The others are about every other night)
1) STROKIN (oh s***, Clarence Carter!) 2) You Never Even Called Me By My Name 3) Baby Got Back (I don't know what's worse, a rhythmically challenged redneck guy, or three loud sorority girls singing this one) 4) Family Tradition (Just scary) 5) Plush (one night we had a Plush-off because 6 people turned it in at the beginning of my show!!! Everyone totally cracked up and most vowed to learn a new song) 6) My Way (and I love ol' Blue Eyes) 7) My Own Prison - (and I said "OOOOOOHHHHHHH!" at the top of my lungs) 8) You've Lost That Loving Feeling (substitute "loving feeling" with "key") 9) Why Don't We Get Drunk and Skrew (up) 10) Love Shack (tied with Summer Nights)
Now, I know, the have fun with these songs, but this topic is to vent our frustrations to each other so we can smile and let them embarass themselves, RIGHT?
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Have to agree with "Summer Nights", altho I don't even hear the songs anymore when I'm working. Once the singers are balanced with the music, my head just kind of tunes out...EXCEPT when somebody does one of those metal songs....6 minutes of shouted monotone with no redeeming social significance!! (Sorry, but this post IS about frustrations, right?)
Posts: 74 | From: Orlando, Florida | Registered: Apr 1999
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(looks up at Larri's post) *sputter* BLASPHEMY!! Buffett RULES!! (kidding 'bout the blasphemy thing Larri- but I have found that "Margaritaville" is the best song for breaking in virgin singers...and I LOVE Buffett...too bad there are only about 17 songs available in karaoke) (hint, hint BC..)
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Posts: 745 | From: Portland, OR, USA | Registered: Aug 2000
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Karaoke Corollary to Murphy's Law: The worst singer(s) always pick the longest song.
Add my slitted throat to "Strokin."
At one of my old and alas long gone shows, there was a contingent of singers who thought "Bed Of Roses" was rock and roll nirvana. Thank god that's over. I sang my own lyrics (Bed of Nasturtiums)
Posts: 195 | From: Antioch, IL USA | Registered: Sep 2000
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RC, There are 17 other Buffet songs to chose from for god sake. Although I don't have The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful. Last night I heard a real good version of Come Monday. But then again there was also, ARG, Margaritta "vile". Every now and then I take the Sound Choice disc over and suggest other songs, and it works occasionally.
I am still reeling from two weeks ago when someone put up Cheeseburger In Paradise - some else took the other mic and broke it and still would not give it up. Hope no one attemps that song for a while unless they do a real good job - I might go postal. But this is just a passing phase.
And yes, every now and then I recommend Margarittaville to a new singer when all else fails. Grumble grumble. But regular singers Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggggg.
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I do realize that just by sayin that here, that I will be playing it at least twice tonight (jinxing myself again...)
