Pretty poor showing tonight by anyones standards with most of the nights singing rotating between the 4 of us regulars. It wasn't until towards the end of the night that a few came in to have a go, maybe it was too cold to stand outside anymore! Yep, I blame the smoking ban for helping to ruin the pubs atmosphere as there were more people outside most of the night than there were inside. I'd rather have a smoky pub with people in than a lavender scented ghost lounge :s There is a fear that the hotel might not even be open come new year (which saves worrying about fancy dress then!) with the state of things as they currently are. Some new ideas are needed quickly to revive the once popular nights I think. Answers on a postcard please :)
Quiet nights mean plenty of songs and I managed to squeeze in 6 in tonight. I didn't really stick my neck out with anything and the only new one from me was one of the few remaining Fratellis album tracks that I've yet to sing. A few new ones from Scott and one from the girls, Pink - Who Knew, which I'd pestered them to do for ages but unfortunately it turned out to be a little too high towards the end and so won't get sung again. There were only 24 songs sung tonight which is lower than average and this is because of the extra long Meatloaf song sang as the end. Without that we could have probably got a couple more in each :p Despite being marked as sung by Others it was in fact sang by Scott with Leanne, although I refuse to tar his good name by associating it with such a monstrosity (the song that is, not Leanne!).
Anyway, this weeks songs:
- Shaun: Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men (4)
- Scott: Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone (new)
- Andy: Squeeze - Cool For Cats (3)
- Shaun: K7 - Come Baby Come
- Scott: Sting - So Lonely
- Tina & Hayley: Louise - Stuck In The Middle (5)
- Andy: Keith Urban - Jeans On (8)
- Shaun: The Fratellis - Everybody Knows You Cried Last Night (new)
- Scott: Rod Stewart - Maggie May (new)
- Tina & Hayley: Infernal - Paris To Berlin (2)
- Andy: Elvis - Girl Of My Best Friend (new)
- Shaun: The Wonderstuff - Size Of A Cow (3)
- Scott & Andy: The Proclaimers - 500 Miles (2)
- Tina & Hayley: Pink - Who Knew (new)
- Shaun: Gym Class Heroes - Cupids Chokehold (3)
- Scott: Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers (new)
- Tina & Hayley: Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
- Others: Mariah Carey - Hero (5)
- Others: Abba - Waterloo (3)
- Others: Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2)
- Shaun: The View - Same Jeans (6)
- Scott: Kinks - Lola (new)
- Others: Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
- Others: Meatloaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light (3)
This weeks stats:
- 24 songs sang tonight
- 10 had not been sung previously this year
- 14 have been sang already this year (None of which were sung last week)
- There have been 1043 songs sung so far this year!
** SHAUNS SONGS **
| 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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and so, until next week, if the karaokes still on(!), bye bye.
"It was as.. it were as if we felt no fear, as if we were already dead and had nothing to lose by dying. Or perhaps it was because we lived life so well and loved life so much that we imagined ourselves immortal. Overwhelming the powers that be with the force of our passion for science. Or maybe we were just fucked in the head." - Flatliners
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