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| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 05/25/2005 : 11:41:43
...anyone have any to share? I used to go karaoke-ing fairly frequently during my twenties. I had to get really drunk to enjoy it. But it got out of hand. Since 1997, I have only participated twice. The first was in October of 2002...a buddy and I jokingly sang 'More Than Words' and wound up winning first place. The last time was in January in a bar where I seriously sang 'Revolution'. I didn't win. But I want to hear horror drunken karaoke stories. Like the time I was so plastered I sang 'Behind Blue Eyes' at a pizza restaurant and got so emotional and started breaking the beer mugs. I got tossed out. Or the time my brother and a friend and I went to El Torito restaurant. I got so drunk I started going up to the mic when other people were singing and tried to steal the show. We got tossed out. For years, these memories where so traumatic and shameful I got sick just recalling them. Now I think they are hilarious. Who else? Lemme hear 'em!
Catchin' blue in his eyes that were brown
-bRIAN |
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| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 12/19/2005 : 11:35:12
Okay thanks, but I must admit I made that story up.
Well, except for the part abuut getting drunk and making out with a fat chick. That's happened many times over.
In fact I wish it was happening right now.
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| OldManInaCoffeeCan |
Posted - 12/18/2005 : 07:01:26
KOK, Denis, Heywood, Super,...,now that's funny stuff, I dig karaoke and/or otherwise drinking and singing
Very liberating and cleansing, good for the soul...
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| OldManInaCoffeeCan |
Posted - 12/18/2005 : 06:50:37
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Originally posted by TRANSMARINE
...Like the time I was so plastered I sang 'Behind Blue Eyes' at a pizza restaurant and got so emotional and started breaking the beer mugs. I got tossed out...
Catchin' blue in his eyes that were brown
-bRIAN
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| chineselover |
Posted - 12/18/2005 : 06:22:20
I did karaoke for the first time in Western Australia last year - i sang 'Stand' by REM while the mostly aboriginal clientel of the bar looked on in bewilderment - i won a coveted beer cooler and an around the neck key ring thing.. which i keep treasured, and also 3 free drinks, which gave me the courage to go and sing 'More than words' (boyzone style) with a hot austrian nurse later on in the night...ah... the memories... |
| Superabounder |
Posted - 12/17/2005 : 20:39:06
I sang karaoke for the first time in my life last month at a birthday party at a sushi restaurant. After watching all the drunk thai people at the party sing thai songs, I thought I was off the hook because none of the songs were in english. Actually, they were just waiting for me to get drunk enough to spill out an Eagles' song (Take it Easy I think), which was performed in a halfway respectable fashion. I should have stopped then, because during the next song-some drivel by Coldplay, I saw people actually wincing as I sang.
My best drunken singing experience was last year at a charity event for a Dallas hospital where the Supremes sang while I hit the open bar. By the time the after-band starting playing and all the blue bloods and blue hairs were gone home, I was taken over by my insane alter ego. The last thing I remember before my friends drove me home was the 250 pound black female singer walking around the crowd with a cordless microphone serenading people. When she got to me, she was smiling and singing until I reached around her as if to hug her and squeezed her massive butt cheeks with both hands. That was very wrong, I realize now.
I tend to think of human beings as huge rubbery test tubes, too, with chemical reactions seething inside |
| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 12/17/2005 : 12:38:18
About four years ago I went to the Olde Ship with some friends, unbeknowest to us that when we arrived Karaoke night would be in full swing. I'm not ordinarily the type to get up and participate but some encouragement from friends and Jameson's has a way of curbing some of your inhibitions. So I got up and sang "Foolish Heart" by Steve Perry to my pal Jemma sitting down front. It was pretty fun, she was visibly embarassed but the crowd was eating it up. I think they were laughing mostly because I knew all the words without having to look at the screen which meant I could devote much more energy to my drunken crooning and lothario body language. She told me afterwards that it was like being the center-piece in a festival of pain. I think she secretly liked it though.
And Homers is right, the more serious you take it. The more rediculous you look. |
| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 05/26/2005 : 03:21:58
I had a particularly drunken karaoke experience at a one of the most debauched parties I've ever been to (rock stars misbehaving unsupervised). Not me singing (wouldn't dare inflict that torture on anyone, apart from my cats, no matter how drunk) - had 2 songs dedicated to me - involved me being carried onto the stage and then having 2 songs sung to me. To this day I cannot listen to the 2 songs in question without going a deep shade of beetroot and giggling like a schoolgirl.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. |
| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 05/25/2005 : 15:05:01
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Karaoke is only good when it's funny. If they are bad then great. If they are good then it's a tad pathetic.
I guess floop WAS right!
The best bars are the ones with the regulars who have been at it for a while. They are so horrible but they take it so seriously...to the point now where they actually walk around the room and get on tables and chairs when belting out such staple gems as 'I Will Always Love You', 'Open Arms' and 'Piano Man'. The contestants actually cheer each other on, then talk waspily behind their backs...or they actually do warm up excersizes in the corner...it's fodder for a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
Catchin' blue in his eyes that were brown
-bRIAN |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 05/25/2005 : 14:51:26
Karaoke is only good when it's funny. If they are bad then great. If they are good then it's a tad pathetic.
I guess floop WAS right!
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| vilainde |
Posted - 05/25/2005 : 13:54:48
I went on a holiday in Scotland once, and we ended up one Sunday evening in a lousy empty pub in Inverness, and after a while they installed a karaoke, a lot of people came in, we met a couple of very cool Scots (apparently called Rodrigue and Jogging, but we might not have heard their names correctly due to high amount of alcohol), got extremely drunk and had a blast singing/yelling Alive And Kicking in front of a bunch of crazy Scottish. That's one of the best nights I've ever spent in a bar.
Denis
I know the god of rock n roll / Yeah I sold him my soul! |
| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 05/25/2005 : 13:44:54
You rock!
Catchin' blue in his eyes that were brown
-bRIAN |
| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 05/25/2005 : 13:39:23
"Micky" by Toni Basil.
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| mosleyk |
Posted - 05/25/2005 : 13:32:58
Oh man...that is awful...funny!
So, what song did you sing to her? |
| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 05/25/2005 : 13:28:15
Quite a few years back I went out with some friends and they insisted on buying me shots of some kind. I usually only drink beer so eventually the evening became a big drunken blur. I remember nothing except that the next morning I awoke on a strange couch thinking "How did I get here?" I realised I was in one of my buddies house and that I didn't feel too fucking good. I got up and stumbled my way to the bathroom feeling as though I might puke (again?). As I looked at my puffy pale face in the mirror I noticed what appeared to be some of McDonalds (world famous) "secret sauce" on my cheek. At that point I had an extremely vague recollection of stuffing a Big Mac down my throat around 2:00 am. Judging from the blisters on the roof of my mouth and tongue I also had a hot apple pie. At this point my buddy came out of his room laughing his ass off while pointing at me. When I asked him "What the hell was so funny?" he said "Dude, I've never seen you so fucking wasted! You were a complete circus last night!" You were making out with this big fatty at the bar. Then, as if to impress her, you got up and started singing karaoke to a packed house! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" I was like "Yeah? What's so bad about that?" He informed me the place we were at didn't have karaoke. They had a band.
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| mosleyk |
Posted - 05/25/2005 : 12:19:48
Can't say that I have any real good stories. Only Karaoked a few times in my twenties as well.
I do recall a surreal experience of ending up at a Dim Sum place on Christmas Day evening and listening to a couple singing "Island In the Stream" with very thick accents and obviously drunk.
Speaking of karaoke...this reminds me, I still have a Michael Jackson karaoke machine my mother bought me as a joke probably well over 10 years ago. It is still in the original box. I wonder what it would sell for on ebay?........ |
| kathryn |
Posted - 05/25/2005 : 11:59:06
I have managed to avoid all Karaoke in my life so far and
will continue to do so. Am I missing something fun?
 I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| floop |
Posted - 05/25/2005 : 11:51:27
for me, any time i go to a bar where they have loud karaoke that i have to listen to it, it's a bad experience |
