| Rebel MC - Street Tuff | ** NEW SONG ** | |
| Year of release: 1989 Peak chart position: #3 "Street Tuff" is a hit single by Rebel MC & Double Trouble. It became the biggest hit of both performers' careers, peaking at #3 on the UK singles chart. It is the follow-up to their first hit, "Just Keep On Rockin'", which made it into the UK Top 20. The two songs, plus Rebel MC's first solo single "Better World", appear on the Rebel MC album Rebel Music, released in 1990. | ||
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| The Feeling - Sewn | ** NEW SONG ** | |
| Year of release: 2006 Peak chart position: #7 "Sewn" is the first single proper by British rock group The Feeling, following the 7" only single "Fill My Little World" (which would become a full single release itself). It was released in the UK on February 27, 2006 and entered the UK Singles Chart at #7 on March 5, 2006. "Sewn" gained the band a lot of support and went on to become one of the most successful songs of the year on British radio, with much thanks to Chris Moyles of BBC Radio One, who championed the band. The single was allegedly recorded in a shed in someone's back garden in Horsham. | ||
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| Stan Ridgway - Camouflage | 1st for 2007 | |
| Year of release: 1986 Peak chart position: #4 The most recognisable track released by Stan Ridgway tells the story of a soldier getting into trouble in Vietnam and with the aid of a shadowy companion named "Camouflage" manages to make it through the night and back to the safety of HQ. It is only there that he is told that his saviour was a former marine who died the night before. Love it. | ||
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| Erasure - The Circus | 4th Time | |
| Year of release: 1987 Peak chart position: #6 "The Circus" was the fourth single, and the title-track, released from Erasure's second album. Mute Records issued the single in 1987 as the final release from the album. "The Circus" is written by Erasure members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell and creates a more downtempo and melancholy mood than their past singles. Essentially a synth pop track, the music is accentuated by acoustic guitar and circus-like accordion. The lyrics center around the lament of "working men" whose bright futures and job securities are left shattered in the modern world of greedy corporations and technology. Despite its lyrical content, "The Circus" became Erasure's third UK Top 10 hit, peaking at number six. | ||
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| Will Smith - Miami | 4th Time | |
| Year of release: 1998 Peak chart position: #3 Released from the album, Big Willie Style, which was the first solo studio album recorded by Will Smith, after spending most of his career as the latter half of DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince. The album was released on Columbia Records in the United States on November 25, 1997 and featured several popular singles including "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It", "Miami", "Just the Two of Us" and "Men In Black", which was also released earlier in the year on the soundtrack for the movie Men In Black. | ||
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| Gorillaz - 19/2000 | ** NEW SONG ** | |
| Year of release: 2001 Peak chart position: #6 The second single to be released from the debut self-titled Gorillaz album, released in June 2001 , and the remix was the song of choice to headline the soundtrack of FIFA 2002 game, from Electronic Arts. It peaked at the #6 position in the British charts, and the song samples the drumbeat from "Sing a Simple Song" by Sly & the Family Stone. | ||
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| The Fratellis - Doginabag | ** NEW SONG ** | |
| Year of release: 2006 Peak chart position: N/A - EP/Album Track Track Number 7 of the, yep you guessed, brilliant Costello Music album. Probably the slowest one on their and not the longest either but a great little song nonetheless. | ||
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| Supertramp - Breakfast In America | ** NEW SONG ** | |
| Year of release: 1979 Peak chart position: #9 Had to do this one after saying I would after singing Cupids Chokehold last week which samples this very song. It is the title track from Supertramp's 1979 album Breakfast in America. The song was a minor hit on the singles charts in the US but is a staple of classic rock radio. The song's lyrics tell about a person who has never been to America. | ||
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| Status Quo - Marguerita Time | 1st for 2007 | |
| Year of release: 1983 Peak chart position: #3 Scott decided we should finish off with Status Quo songs so got rail-roaded into this. Whilst I like Quo and don't mind this song I have to say it was very boring to sing. Maybe it was the beer! | ||
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| Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A 1000 Men | 4th Time | |
| Year of release: 1981 Peak chart position: #6 UK Easy one-hit-wonder track to start the night off with from British Punk Band Tenpole Tudor. Credit to Kantare karaoke on the backing of this track which is top notch and sounds great. | ||
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| K7 - Come Baby Come | 1st for 2007 | |
| Year of release: 1993 Peak chart position: #3 Uk "Bounce, come on Bounce, Bounce, come on Bounce" - you know the one! A hip-hop one hit wonder from the early nineties with a great drum and sax line. | ||
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| The Fratellis - Everybody Knows You Cried | ** NEW SONG ** | |
| Year of release: 2006 Peak chart position: N/A Album Track Only a couple more to go now and I'll have completed the album :) This is track number 10 from the excellent Costello Music album and it's just as catchy as everything else they've done. | ||
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| The Wonderstuff - Size Of A Cow | 3rd Time | |
| Year of release: 1991 Peak chart position: #5 UK The first song their third album finally gave The Wonderstuff their first top 10 hit. This was followed up by a collaboration with Vic Reeves singing Dizzy and then Welcome To The Cheap Seats, both of which also made the top 10, the former reaching #1 for a couple of weeks which gave them a much higher profile. Nice little song and one I may well do again. | ||
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| Gym Class Heroes - Cupids Chokehold | 3rd Time | |
| Year of release: 2007 Peak chart position: #3 UK It was first released in 2004 on The Papercut Chronicles, and re-recorded for their album As Cruel as School Children (which was re-released on November 4, 2006 with "Cupid's Chokehold" as an additional track). There are two music videos for this song, one for each version. The second version includes female backing vocals which are not included in version one. The second version of the video does contain the backing vocals of the first video. However, the female voice is integrated into the chorus behind Patrick Stump's vocals. Several versions were produced. The most common one features slow tempo and female backing vocals while the other one has a quicker tempo and Patrick Stump does every backing vocal. The song takes its music, chorus and famous spoken "ba ba da da" line from Supertramp's song "Breakfast in America." (source: wikipedia) I'm off to learn Breakfast in America now! :) | ||
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| The View - Same Jeans | 6th Time | |
| Year of release: 2001 Peak chart position: #8 UK The third single from their debut album and definately their best in my opinion (even if it does sound like Brimful Of Asha :p). Receiving significantly more airplay than the previous singles, it was the first single by the band to enter the BBC Radio 2 playlist and the first to be A-listed by BBC Radio 1. It entered the charts at #11 on downloads alone before hitting #3 the following week. It has spent more weeks in the UK top 40 than the two previous singles combined. | ||
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| Ghosts - Stay The Night | ** NEW SONG ** | |
| Year of release: 2007 Peak chart position: #25 UK A great song that deserved better than a mere 25 position in the top 40. Expected it to be difficult to sing as there are a few parts that are edging towards the high side but fortunately I think it went alright. Makes a change to start the night off with something new ;) | ||
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| The Fray - How To Save A Life | 2nd Time | |
| Year of release: 2006 Peak chart position: #4 Uk An alternative rock song by Colorado-based rock band The Fray. It is the title track from their debut album, How to Save a Life. It was the follow-up single to the top 10 hit "Over My Head (Cable Car)" and peaked in the top 3 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. It became the joint fifth longest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, tying with Santana's "Smooth" (1999), at 58 consecutive weeks. (Source: Wikipedia) Requested by Jo to sing it and who am I to disappoint! | ||
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| The Pigeon Detectives - Take Her Back | ** NEW SONG ** | |
| Year of release: 2007 Peak chart position: #20 UK Follow up to "I'm Not Sorry" this was actually the fifth single to be released from their debut album "Wait For Me". Not too bad a track and straightforward to sing although you need a deep breath for the repeated 'Take Her Back's' on the chorus! | ||
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| Linkin Park - In The End | Many Times :) | |
| Year of release: 2001 Peak chart position: #8 UK There isn't anything else to add about this track that Scott didn't say here in his blog. Great band and a great song that has been sung many times before and will be sang many times again :) | ||
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| Bloodhound Gang - Bad Touch | 2nd time | |
| Year of release: 1999 Peak chart position: #4 UK Although it's only the second time I've done this song since I've started keeping track, it's a song that I've started the night off with many many times before. In fact I'm not even sure that I've ever sang it when it's not been my first song of the night. A cracking track and seemingly the only one that the Bloodhound Gang will ever be remembered for over here as they never really followed it up. With lyrics like 'you and me baby ain't nothing but mammals, let's do it like they do on the discovery channel', the song is awash with sexual innuendo and this is also prevalent in the video which is bizarre to say the least (view left). Still, great track and no doubt I will be starting another night off with it :) | ||
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| Green Day - American Idiot | 1st for 2007 | |
| Year of release: 2004 Peak chart position: #3 Uk Sang once before a while back and persuaded to sing it again tonight by Tina, this was Green Days first single released from their most successful (and seventh!) album of the same name. As the title suggests, it is a stab at being American in the post-9/11 era with all the paranoia and media attention paid to everything in the world. In fact most of the album follows, in a more subtle form, the same theme with tracks such as 'Holiday', 'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams' and 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' - all of which I've sang on the karaoke too. It's been some time that I've sang this and it may well be some time before it gets sung again. Not that I don't like it or anything because I do, it's just one of those 'now and again' songs if you know what I mean! | ||
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| The Fratellis - Creepin' Up The Backstairs | ** NEW SONG ** | |
| Year of release: 2006 Peak chart position: N/A - EP/Album Track The first song to be released from the excellent Costello Music album, although as an EP it was not eligible for the UK charts. Even though it was only a limited edition edition there was still an official video made for it (left) so maybe the original plan was for it to be released as a single. Who knows!?! Either way it typifies the Fratellis style with it's infectious riffs and catchy choruses. Of all the album tracks I've done so far I felt (oddly) that this was the one that I didn't get the most satisifaction from singing. Can't really explain why, but I'm not sure I'll do this again (well, maybe on a Tuesday) even though it wasn't that bad. :s | ||
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