BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!

Subject: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: skipy
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 07:14 PM

I am in Portugal, there is "Kareoke" in the bar, it is beyond belief!
So far beyond, that I cannot explain! Pisshead after pisshead out of tune, one after another! Not a pure note amongst them and no concept at all about how bad they are! I stopped singing years ago because I can`t sing, but even I was not as bad as any of them them, and I say that myself! Why the hell do these people do this? Why do others clap them? It is beyond me!
Skipy
P.S. there is another session tommorrow night!

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From: gnu
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 07:18 PM

See you there?

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 07:33 PM

It's the way of the World, Dave. All drunks think they can sing. I hate karaoke! I don't sing either. I'm probably worse than all of them!

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From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 08:06 PM

Skipy, get up there and show them how it's done!!

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From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 08:10 PM

Is there no other bar in town? :)

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 08:40 PM

To hell with "in town"! Is there no other bar in Portugal?

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 08:47 PM

Karaoke is all right. I think we should provide backing tracks for everybody at folk clubs.

And then as the intro played we could play, 'I'll name that tune in seven'
And if we get it right, we get let off listening to it.... It would sort of microwave these long ballads.

The Japanese also invented origami/sushi, where you get your fish and chips in newspaper that's been folded up to look like a flower.

They have much to teach us.

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 09:23 PM

You have no idea. ;-) They could teach you quite a bit about a healthy diet too, and a good sense of aesthetics when it comes to things like gardening and house decoration.

Then too, they make great automobiles. I wish I could say that about the UK, which once made great automobiles...a long time ago.

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From: Mickey191
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 09:56 PM

What were they (Japanese) thinking with this:
Restaurants started serving food in small toilet bowl shaped dishes. The next innovation was to have the customers sit on non-functioning toilet bowls facing the counters.

Saw it on the news about a month ago. One wonders what will be next?

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From: Peace
Date: 27 Oct 07 - 10:06 PM

"To hell with "in town"! Is there no other bar in Portugal?"

Make that Europe . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 04:36 AM

So why do people get so anal about the imagined failings of singers in folk clubs? But yes, karaoke can be pretty crap.

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 05:22 AM

It all bottoms with you Richard, isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 05:24 AM

A perfect match, my arse, your face!

(note to moderators, this passes for humour in England)

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 05:35 AM

"A perfect match, my arse, your face!"

I realise up North, we're not as broad minded and sexually adventurous as in more sophisticated parts of the country. But I'm not ready for that yet. Your response leaves me stunned. I'm sorry if I led you on.

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From: goatfell
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 07:02 AM

mind you some of the people in the charts today can't really sing but then we all can sing, sometimes it's out tune or rubbish but it's still singing.

Tom

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Ernest
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 08:22 AM

It must have been really bad since you put this thread in the non-musical section....

There are 4 japanese words for ritual suicide: Seppuku, Harakiri, Kamikaze and Karaoke.

;0)
Ernest

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 08:38 AM

Well, maybe karaoke singers can't sing, but by God! they usually can drink. :~) As do the people who clap them.

~Susan

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From: Bill D
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 09:33 AM

Karaoke...one step above "Rise Up Singing"

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 09:42 AM

I've seen some bloody awful karaoke in Canada too, let me tell you. Just tragically and horrifyingly awful.

One time the Orillia Folk Society set up a show at some hotel north of town on the highway. The hotel owner thought it would be great to have some live music, but it turned out that what he had in mind was not quite along the lines of folk music. He grew more and more restless. What he really wanted was a karaoke night, it turned out. He asked if anyone could play some Elvis. Fortunately, I managed to pull a genuine Elvis song out of the hat and play it, and that helped smooth the waters....but it was the last time we ever tried to do a folk night at that place. ;-)

Richard and weelittle....great repartee, lads! LOL! I love weelittle's last response on the matter...

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From: dick greenhaus
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 12:25 PM

Just think of it as wikiopera

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Irene M
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 12:32 PM

I wouldn't mind karaoke, if it were not amplified so we can all suffer.

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: treewind
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 12:33 PM

I was at the Middleton Bell in deepest Suffolk (England, UK) last night. There was a big session there and it was full of people who could both drink and sing and did lots of both. Including the landlord who gave us a song right at the end of the evening. Much better than Karaoke!

Anahata

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 01:00 PM

Damn, Al, we could have done a country song about it - you know, that Johnny Cash one - "and it burned, burned burned....."

Except that I don't sing country.

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: GUEST,Bert on Kelly's machine.
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 01:26 PM

...they make great automobiles...

yes for tiny little people. I can't drive my daughter'd Rodeo without turning my feet sideways because ther isn't enough room.

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 01:56 PM

Yes, well, we tiny little people have plans for the world, Bert, and they don't include you. ;-)

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From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 04:08 PM

that's a mistake Richard. try it, you might like it That is country music. not the other thing.

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 04:31 PM

All right, I confess, I do sing "Love has no pride". Preferably playing my late wife's Hagstrom.

And my dog died (the Great Dane) recently.

But I have no hungry children, no crop in the fields (and I'd never marry a woman named after a lavatory deodorant anyway - you know the one I mean, Loo-seal), I don't ride the rodeo and I haven't got a Chevy pickup. I haven't got cancer or TB and I never slept with my best friend's wife.

Can I sing something relevant to England instead?

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From: Peace
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 04:42 PM

Do you need a song about tea?

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Peace
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 04:45 PM

For Richard. I know it's up yer alley. ENJOY.

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 04:53 PM

Wow! Neato! Blues, Brit-style. I like it.

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 04:59 PM

Most amusing.

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 10:02 PM

I like Karaoke. I don't really mind when people can't carry a tune, either. And I think the drunks who applaud them are expressing human kindness, which is too frequently inevident in the world today. One of the most affecting vocal performances I have ever seen was by a middleaged woman who sang "I Will Alway Love You" completely out of tune, tears running down her cheeks. She meant it, which is more than I can say for a lot of professional musicians I have heard.
So my advice to Skipy is to have a couple of drinks. Maybe the alcohol will help kill the bug you've got up your butt. Then get up there and sing "Hound Dog".

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 10:06 PM

Hmmm. You make a very good point there, L.E.J.

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 04:36 AM

Ah, but were they tears of sorrow, joy or agony?

And did you check the audience for tears? If I'd been there, it would have been tears of agony - I hate that f*%^g song!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: topical tom
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 08:19 AM

Earplugs, anyone? Preferably industrial-sized.

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Wild Flying Dove
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 02:07 PM

Skipy - it is not true that you cannot sing - you can! I have really enjoyed the rare times I have heard you sing, and the good lady as well!

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: vectis
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 04:46 PM

If you had karaoke in folk clubs would it be karifilkie?

Ducks and grabs coat as she leaves

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From: Herga Kitty
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 06:01 PM

Skipy - so what was your reason for holidaying in Portugal?

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 06:27 PM

He was trying to get far, far away from the awful karaoke bars in his hometown.

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 08:36 PM

Skipy is too busy perfecting his karaoke version of "Tequila Sunrise" to respond.

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: goatfell
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 01:53 PM

and what is wrong with the book rise up singing, I mean it does have 1200 songs in it and you can't go wrong with that can you.

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From: Richard Bridge
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 02:07 PM

No, vectis, that would only be on Alpha Centauri and DS9 etc. You mean Karafolkie.

In Arkansas I think it would be KarafolkieOkie.

If they did comedy it could be Karajokie.

Now look what you've started.

Subject: RE: BS: it is hell! they cannot sing!
From: Bert
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 05:11 PM

...what is wrong with the book rise up singing...

- Dead tree karaoke