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Blurred Lines

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Baby Shark, followed by Wonderwall.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Great Gig in The Sky by Pink Floyd.

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“Memories” from Cats

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

Weird Al.

Or Eminem.

Or Weird Al's Eminem parody.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

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Dead puppies

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

The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns

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

Bad Manners - Special Brew Singing to my wife

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"Hey hey wait. Let's throw in one It's Not Unusual"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Somebody that i used to know

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In the arms of an angel....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Best answer, IMO. Whole bar in tears.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 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] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

(Although anything by John Lennon would probably work lol)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

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The ISIS song

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wouldn't work as I'd be singing along

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Alice’s restaurant- Arlo Guthrie

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I repeat the last song.

Or anything from an obscure screamo band.

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But if you sing it three times agent 47 will appear

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