I just like singing, okay?

[moominmolly]

What is your favorite music to sing along to? Be specific, where possible: albums or songs, not just "Gilbert and Sullivan" or "REM".

Comments

[ivorjawa.livejournal.com]

Last night, it was Peter Gabriel's "Up".
I don't imagine the neighbors appreciated. It was late.

this is a GREAT question

[bluepapercup]

U2 - the Joshua Tree, most specifially "still haven't found what I'm looking for" [if possible the live version with the gospel singers], and "with or without you"

Susan Tedeshi - "It Hurts So Bad" off of Just Won't Burn

Anything off the Beatles' first couple of albums. Favorites - "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "When I saw Her Standing There".

Metallica - "For Whom the Bell Tolls" off the live album S&M. I've listened to that one a LOT this week.

Re: this is a GREAT question

[laura47.livejournal.com]

you're familiar with negativland's rendition of U2's 'still haven't...", right?

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

ani difranco, "puddle dive"

[laura47.livejournal.com]

thunderstorm by matthew sweet

musicals! rent! les mis! 1776!

learning to fly by pink floyd

most of dar williams, especially after all

lost of ben folds five

mary prankster, blue skies over dundalk

tori amos, TMBG

[bluepapercup]

oh man, how could I have forgotten about pink floyd!

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

all of "Once More With Feeling". and whenever i hear the "Restless Suite" i want to dance to it. right now i have no furniture... maybe i will tonight. that'd be cool.

"(I Want) Candy"

"Macho Man"

"MacArthur Park" (Donna Summer version)

most 'Floyd, Beatles....

"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" in the album of the same name by Neutral Milk Hotel.

most of the Billie Holiday catalog.

"No One in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine" by Bessie Smith -- "Milkshake" is essentially a rip off of this song. a far inferior rip off, but a rip off nonetheless.

n.

[dreda.livejournal.com]

"Where Do The Boys Go?", Men Without Hats

All of Jesus Christ Superstar except Mary's stuff

"Happy Phantom," Tori Amos

All of Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer (When I Go, Tanglewood Tree, Drum Hat Buddha)

Really, anything to which I can pick up the harmony and feel cool.

[dreda.livejournal.com]

Oh, and "Sugar in my Bowl," Nina Simone. ;)

[sol3.livejournal.com]

These days I seem to be having the most fun with The Shamen's "Boss Drum" and "Ebeneezer Goode" while driving around in the car.

Meat Beat Manifesto's "Asbestos, Lead Asbestos" is up there too.

"Deep in the AM" by ilyAIMY (made even better by the fact that Rob's vocal range almost completely matches mine : )

[valancy17.livejournal.com]

I second U2 and I add Kirsty MacColl, "Wrong Again" and "England 2 Columbia 0" (all her albums but especially every track on "Tropical Brainstorm," her final album). Holly Near, "I Wish You Were Here" from "Sky Dances." Rose Polenzani, "You Don't Know" & "Molly's Lilly" and Erin McKeown, "Queen of Quiet." Brad Yoder's "School Together", which I don't think has been put out on CD yet. Paul Tabachneck, "I Only Have Eyes for You" and "Please." Del Amitri, "Always the last to know". From "Aspects of Love", "Love Changes Everything." From the musical "Chess," "Quartet" and "Mountain Duet." Erasure, "A Little Respect". The Cure, "Inbetween Days."

Then there are songs that feel like they're being ripped out of me because they're so steeped with meaning, the ones I can't hear without singing along, usually at full volume. The first was Peter Gabriel's "Biko." (I don't like Joan Baez's rendition as much.) Also The Indigo Girls, "Compromise."

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

OH! and "Hurt"

especially the Jonny Cash version.

n.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Over the last few days, Ecklar's "Phoenix", "The Ruler of the Queen's Navee" (G&S), "I Will Survive" (Cake cover), "When I'm Up" (Great Big Sea). It varies wildly, depending on what I'm looping in the player.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Yes. Gotta go with Cake's cover of "I Will Survive".

And for the definitive hammy-it-up (drumroll...)

"What's Up?" by 4 Non Blondes.

YES!!

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Too many to list, or even think of in one sitting! But a few that spring to mind:

Mmm mmm mmm mmm - Crash Test Dummies
Give it Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sinnerman - Nina Simone
Down to the River to Pray - Alison Krauss (from O Brother soundtrack)
I'll Fly Away - Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch (ditto)
Cold Tea Blues and Crescent Moon - Cowboy Junkies
House of Hope - Toni Childs
The Christmas Song and Seek Up - Dave Matthews Band

And I know it's cheating, but pretty much anything by Mark Cohn, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple (first album only), Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

O, yeah. Forgot about the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack. And I do agree with the JC Superstar vote. Sing it from beginning to end. I do it on long roadtrips.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

For Spanish: "Pachuco Hop" by Mano Negra. Any Spanish song I try to sing always mutates into this.

For German: "Spiel ohne Grenzen (Games without Frontiers)" from Peter Gabriel or "Wenn der Morgen graut" from Element of Crime, depending on how up or down I feel.

For Rumanian: "Dragostea din tei" from O-Zone (the dreaded "Numa Numa Song"). Once I heard it, I just had to know the lyrics.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

My very favorite singalong album to date is a rather obscure one unless you are on the East Coast fandom circuit: Salvaged by Clam Chowder (http://members.aol.com/sirharper/chowder/). I'll lend it to you sometime if you want.

More musicals: The Music Man! Oklahoma!!

Moxy Fruvous, almost any album. Live Noise and Bargainville have the advantage of containing "King of Spain".

Gilbert & Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance for sure, but also H.M.S. Pinafore, and Ruddigore, and... well, once you know the music, almost all of them are great fun to sing.

Indigo Girls: Rites of Passage and others.

The Partridge Family's Greatest Hits. Also the Jackson 5!
Jim Croce, Photographs and Memories (which is basically a Greatest Hits album).

[mickeymao.livejournal.com]

The first that comes to mind is Tom Waits - "Misery's the River of the World (Everybody row!)"

[zsquirrelboy.livejournal.com]

"Suck" and "March of the Pigs" Nine Inch Nails
"You Can Call Me Al" Paul Simon
"Alive Alone" The Chemical Brothers

[piratedan.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to call you LAME!"

Alive Alone is a great fucking song!

[goat.livejournal.com]

I've gotta admit...I'm famous in my cape cod camping group for my Karaoke rendition of Wild Thing.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

You do realize you've just committed yourself to being famous in *other* groups for this, too.

Karaoke!

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

I love to sing along to "Get Me Away from Here, I'm Dying" by Belle & Sebastian and most things by Sufjan Stevens, particularly "For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti."

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Hmm, Sufjan Stevens seems like good singalong music. Time to finally buy that. :)

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

I am fickle about songs, but at the moment, I'm having a thing for Dar Williams' cover of "Whispering Pines."

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

"There's a Light" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's been a lullaby for our daughter for years, and a week ago we managed a screeching, bellowing, high-note-hitting duet.

Which doesn't help sleep at all...

[tisana.livejournal.com]

What an awesome lullaby...

[cuthalion.livejournal.com]

Makka na bara to gin tonic!

[tisana.livejournal.com]

"Son of a Preacherman"

Musicals--particularly Phantom, Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, Man of la Mancha and Les Mis

Ani Difranco's "Little Plastic Castle"

Dar Williams' "As Cool as I Am"

Tori Amos' "Leather"

(I tend to gravitate towards singing songs of women who have similarly low voices to mine, it's a bit easier for me to manage)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I tend to gravitate towards singing songs of women who have similarly low voices to mine, it's a bit easier for me to manage

Me too -- or songs of men with high voices that match my range (one of the reasons I like Ad Frank and Paul Simon, actually).

[pxr5.livejournal.com]

heh. um:

1) A bunch of Hawkwind (duh) mostly Bob Calvert numbers: Jack of Shadows, Psi Power, etc., but also the stolen-from-longfellow one: Golden Void.
2) Opening credits and closing credits songs from Tenku Senki Shurato.
3) Dominion - Sisters of Mercy
4) Change - Tears for Fears
5) Veteran of the Psychic Wars - Blue Oyster Cult

[piratedan.livejournal.com]

Dominion is a great song to sing along with if nobody is listening!

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Amazing Grace
Battle Hymn of the Republic
almost anything off Indigo Swing's All Aboard
Operator (get me long distance)
Eternal Father
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (it'd help if I knew more of the lyrics)
Closer to Fine
On the Turning Away
Son of a Preacherman
Don't Bet on the Shanghai

But really, you don't want to hear me sing.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Paradise by the Dashboard Light

[piratedan.livejournal.com]

Lately I've been big on Lawyers, Guns, and Money and Mr. Bad Example by Warren Zevon. Other favourites over the past years have included:
Right Here, Right Now by Ice Cube (with Paul Oakenfold, I think, but am not sure),
Flood II Sisters of Mercy
Supernaut cover by 1,000 Homo DJs
Dyer's Eve by Metallica
Inside Out by Anthrax
Mope by The Bloodhound Gang
Helpless by Sugar (I don't know most of the words, so I tend to "sing" with the cool guitar riffs half the time),
Alive Alone by The Chemical Brothers (zquirrelboy!)
You'll Never Get to Me by Killing Joke
Kennedy and Unwanted by Kill Hannah
Waiting for Paradise and Radio Orchid by Fury in the Slaughterhouse
Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You) by Chef, of South Park "Oooooooo, suck on my chocolate salty balls! Stick 'em in your mouth and suck 'em!"

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, Fury in the Slaughterhouse! Hahah, that's awesome.

[vimnelius.livejournal.com]

Talking Heads!
-Psycho Killer
-Wild, Wild Life
-Life During Wartime

Bon Jovi!
-Livin' on a Prayer
-Wanted, Dead or Alive (done famously by piratedan as Gravity
-Bad Medicine (god, I'm cheesy)

uh...Smashmouth "Walking on the Sun", TMBG (the albums Apollo 18 and Flood basically in their entirety), NIN "I was up above it", Rolling Stones "Paint it Black", Aerosmith "Walk this Way"

Plus a bunch of stuff that other people have already mentioned by name.

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