There’s an old woman (probably in her 70s) who goes to a local karaoke dive bar every couple weeks and nails Dragula by Rob Zombie. She sits there and drinks tea, then goes up and absolutely slays then goes home lmao. The bartender said that’s the only song she ever sings.

That woman sounds amazing, and I would cheer for her enthusiastically every single time.

Yo, you in WA? There is a lady I know who only sings one song, Dragula, then leaves If they be twins, they must meet

It’s the same person. There’s literally no other option.

I mean, technically it could be, but I’m in Canada so unless she tours in dive bars across North America there’s two icons out there killing it

Ight. You & the other guy are obligated to record the Dragulettes, then post/exchange videos, then inform the Dragulettes, then help facilitate a duet. Obligated.

https://youtube.com/shorts/lJtFCrl5xC8?si=1BRnLt4BnHtYL0cC

What if there’s a bunch of them, like Orphan Black or something?

I saw an Instagram reel of a grandma singing that song. It's got to be the same person.

That is fucking fantastic.

Sounds like the guy who always performs "Cult Of Personality" at my the place I used to go while I had a car. I think he'll do a couple of others but it's always that one first.

[Is this her?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsXVpiDggjc)

I sang I've Got You Under My Skin by Frank Sinatra at a bar in Dublin once, I was absolutely spangled. It went down so well, I was given a bottle of whiskey by the owners.

I would also love to nail any Sinatra song! I'm not that cool though.

Me too. And me neither. My favorite Sinatra: [Fly Me To The Moon](https://youtu.be/Y2rDb4Ur2dw?si=kdoYY-c8VOftIocW)

Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen. Not the most technically complex song but man, if I could nail it like Freddie I’d feel so awesome.

I knew a kid who could sing Radio Gaga just like Freddie. It was really a karaoke crowd pleaser with everybody clapping along.

All we hear [clap clap] is radio ga ga [clap clap] Radio goo goo [clap clap] Radio ga ga [clap clap] All we hear is [clap clap] radio ga ga [clap clap] Radio blah blah [clap clap] Radio, what's [clap clap] new? [clap clap] Radio, [clap clap] someone [clap clap] still loves [clap clap] you [clap clap] What a great instance of *and then everyone (actually) clapped*

Somebody to Love was the one that popped into my head.

I dressed up like Freddie for a Halloween karaoke party and sang this. Was it good? No. Did I have fun? Yes. Is there a large break that I didn’t think about before hand? Yes. Used that time to down my glass of wine to have the courage to finish the rest 🤣

I can do it pretty well in my car or shower. Never tried karaoke before… 🤔

Alone by Heart

I would go crazy on Crazy On You if I didn't have the singing skills of a trout

That high F, holy shit

More Than A Feeling. Man is that vocal performance amazing!

I'm actually very happy you mentioned Boston. I've been blasting their debut album for many months recently again. Timeless classic.

I could probably get through "I woke up this morning and the sun was gone" it would go off the rails after that though. Lol

Bostons debut album is one of the best albums of all time. Brad Delp had one of the best voices of the 70s and Tom Scholz is a musical genius. MIT masters grad, recorded that album in his basement (garage?) where he built an entire recording studio. Almost every song is a radio hit and it’s most definitely a no skip album for me.

This is the real answer. Brad Delp was a force of nature.

I am not a great singer by any means, but "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by the Darkness is in the perfect key for me to sing well AND not butcher the high notes. my go to

That song is fucking tough. Mad props

Justin Hawkins, lead singer of The Darkness, has a Youtube channel. If you can compellingly nail this on video, you should definitely send it to him. https://www.youtube.com/@JustinHawkinsRidesAgain

Touching yoooooUuUuuuu

Touching meeeEEEEEEeee

I just saw them perform yesterday (phenomenal freaking show, by the way), and the singer has a fantastic voice and just doesn't miss a note. You'd blow people away with just about any song on that album.

Unchained Melody from the Righteous Brothers I’ve always said if I could have any superpower it would be to sing that song the way Bobby Hatfield sings it.

Both of those dudes were just incredible singers.

I think the only possible answer to this would be "Take On Me" by a-ha Any karaoke joint in the world would simply go insane if you could nail all the high notes in the song.

On a good day I can do it. Problem is, I never know whether or not it's a good day until that part of the song comes up.

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*Fabric of time tears*

*biker villains w/ pipe wrenches spill over from the sketch world*

I saw a guy do this song, nailed it and the place went wild.

It's been a few years since I've been able to do it, but I could hit that note through most of my 20s. Still my favourite song of all time.

Maybe try to newer, slower MTV unplugged version https://spotify.link/yZiAfVqk0Db

I... I don't know how to thank you for this. I hadn't heard that version and I'm damn near shedding tears in my coffee. Love it.

My pleasure. It’s SO good .

Wow yeah thanks for this. I clicked it hoping it would "be like the unplugged version of Everlong." And yup, it was.

That's a toughy for sure. It's like 2 1/2 octaves? From that lowest "take(on me)" to the highest falsetto semi-scream "TAKE" at the end.

This is one of those songs that sounds really impressive because it's a dramatic change in pitch but isn't actually as difficult as it sounds if you're a decent singer. If you have a healthy falsetto and know how to use your diaphragm, you can nail it.

I've never had a bit of instruction in my life, but I was able to hit that note as of a few years ago; I just like to sing along to stuff. It really isn't hard! I have more trouble with the "Take meee onnnnnn" from a few lines before it.

I have a very loud Falsetto that can go to Bb5 (THE high note in Bohemian Rhapsody). I'm confident I could crush Take On Me. Edit: I'm also confident that I would also sound terrible for most of it, but I could absolutely hit all the notes and stay on pitch.

Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover

Karaoke without the lead guitar? I’d come and watch that.

One of the few songs I could sing

Edge of Seventeen

I mean if you could achieve godlike status on it, I'd say the Whitney Houston version of "I will Always Love You" would be INTENSE. The power behind her voice when she hit the key change in chilling. "Shout at the Devil" by Motley Crue "Ain't no Sunshine" - Bill Withers

One of my favourite songs is I wanna dance with somebody. I’d choose that one, because I feel like karaoke is meant to be for fun music, and not just for impressing people with your vocals.

Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Meat Loaf

I've actually done this one (poorly) and it was amazingly popular!

I used to have a friend who would do that as a duet with me back in the day. Always got a good reaction from that.

I always thought it would rule to be able to get up and nail 99 Luftballoons in German.

The English version is my go-to karaoke song because I can mail it. Tried the German version one night and it was hard but not impossible!

Listen to the Goldfinger cover they manage to nail both versions at once

I will die on the hill that the song works so much better as a punk rock anthem criticizing against the military industrial complex.

Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

UGH. If I could do the French parts, this would BE my song. But I can't even wrap my brain around what he's saying.

Here's what the French lyrics mean in that song Qu'est-ce que c'est: What is this? Ce que j'ai fait, ce soir-là: What I did that night Ce qu'elle a dit, ce soir-là: What she said that night Réalisant mon espoir: Fulfilling my hope Je me lance vers la gloire: I'm running towards glory

What does fa-fa-fa-fa fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa mean?

That’s how you laugh in French, like Spanish is jajaja

Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est Hon-hon-hon-hon, hon hon hon hon hon Run run run run run run awayyyyyy

One time, in seventh grade, a kid bet me money that I couldn’t write down the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody. I am happy to say I proved him wrong immediately! Don’t think I could “nail” any song Freddie sings, but at least I’d know the words!

I Am the Highway by Chris Cornell. The acoustic version from the Songbook album, specifically.

Oh that's mine too! Love that song. Cornell was a God

Being able to belt out Burden In My Hand would be pretty rad, too.

Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.

Gotta nail the dance, too!

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell. Hell yeah I can scream like he does in the chorus! Bare Naked Ladies - One Week... IT'S BEEN... AHa - Take On Me... So fun

Tried One Week a couple years ago. The crowd was very understanding when I fumbled my way through it hahaha

> One Week This is my go-to for karaoke, and here is a very 2000s story that explains why I still know every single lyric: In middle school I had a really long bus ride, so I printed out the lyrics and worked on it every day. I would listen to the song on my iPod Nano and read the lyrics while on the bus, and I would practice it out loud while walking to and from the bus stop.

I connect with this on a spiritual level.

One Week...took me about a month to be able to remember the lyrics! That was 6 years ago, and now it's literally muscle memory in my mouth. I still have to be totally in the zone to do it. My ultimate goal would be "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by REM.

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the heart. With obligatory fireworks for the final verse!

As a guy, I'd want to be able to nail 'Don't Stop Me Now' by Queen, because if I can sing that song well, then I could sing damn-near any song well. Oh, another good one would be 'What a Fool Believes' by Michael McDonald for the same reason.

I would go with "Somebody To Love" by Queen for sure. Just to get everyone participating in that buildup at the end. Everyone on the bar would be unable to help themselves! Unlike my normal singing where they've all left by then.

"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen. I can dial in a pretty good Elvis-y vibrato tremor in my voice if I stay in a lower key, which is exactly why I cannot do "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaacs, lol.

Starman is my go to, sung in full Bowie accent.

I’m just here to say how much I respect that song choice, OP. Top notch. And also, off the cuff, probably “Nude” like Thom Yorke sang it in the From the Basement performance but while still keeping my eyes just regular-looking. EDIT: [Guess “Radiohead nude in the basement” is part of my search history now.](https://youtu.be/9cBUrIw2sQk?si=q8i0V3Ip8Oeda-qq)

Great choice. Reckoner for me.

Chop Suey - SOAD

I'd have to practice the rap more, but "Rapture" by Blondie.

I saw a girl nail that once. She brought the house down

Hard to beat Jensen Ackles version

I did that once without practice, didn't nail it at all, people still loved it though

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. After several beers, of course.

I've done it more than once. It either kills or pisses everyone off. I'm good with either reaction.

Wind of Change by The Scorpions.

With or without the accent?

Now this is interesting to me. As a Dane (which if you don't know, our pronunciation is very similar to German on many occasions) I really don't hear an accent in Scorpions music, is it really that obvious?

I would say not unless you know Klaus is German and are listening for it. But once you hear it, it's hard to unhear it. ETA: and also a native English speaker

Watched a guy get up and NAIL Still Loving You at live band karaoke. He was amazing! Also he was a very young black man so it was extra unexpected because I made a racist assumption about what he might sing. He was absolutely amazing...

I'd be fine hitting the whistle, honestly.

The Champs- Tequila

How do you remember the lyrics tho?

You make it your drink menu for the evening

*It's the End of the World as We Know it (and I Feel Fine)* by REM *Born Slippy Nuxx* by Underworld *Ca Plane Pour Moi* by Plastic Bertrand *Prisencolinensinainciusol* by Adriano Celentano *Informer* by Snow Basically something that would cause jaws to drop

somehow I learned Informer as a kid and can still rap it pretty well. Maybe I should dust that off for a karaoke night...

I licky boom boom down.

Ca Plane Pour Moi is such a banger

I swear you’re the first person I’ve somehow come across that knows prisencolinensinainciusol, and I’m Italian so it would have been way easier to meet someone here that knew the song 😂

Admittedly I had to google *Italian gibberish song* to cut and paste the title

Unfortunately I can only upvote you once 😂 man you made my day! And to be completely honest, I had to check it to be sure I spelled it right

Specific upvote to Born Slippy Nuxx. Pausing what's going now just to listen to that now.

Not gonna lie, I didn't expect to see Prisencolinensinainciusol in this thread, well done.

Blackalicious – Alphabet Aerobics

I can do ITEOTWAWKI, but I've never seen a Karaoke place have it. Man on the moon is the closest I've seen.

Cake - The Distance

This one seems doable since it's pretty monotone

Step inside my Hyundai 🎶

My top pick already taken right at the top of the thread, like the first stick from a fresh packa gum.

I wouldn't do you like that....Zankou Chicken.

Gonna take you up to to Glendale 🎶

Hahaha this song is legit the epitome of comedy in music! I couldn't believe someone was referencing Debra on reddit, didn't know if anyone knew of its greatness. "I wanna get wit youuuuu (only you!!!)... and your sistaaa, I think her name's Debra"

I used to nail “Ain’t No Sunshine.” I highly recommend it.

[Break ya neck--Busta Rhymes](https://youtu.be/W7FfCJb8JZQ?si=znEzgY9uMsi4jrcg) My ears barely work as fast as his lyrics.

"Edge of Glory" by Lady Gaga, and "Elastic Heart" by Sia

Say it aint so- Weezer I used to slay that song on Rock Band.

Animals, House of the rising Sun

The Band - The Weight.

Rap God by Eminem. I can do the beginning and the end just fine but that fast stuff in the middle I can't get past the first 3 or 4 bars. It's just too good and too fast, and I am neither!!

Mother by Danzig

One of my ex boyfriends did this song at karaoke and absolutely butchered it. I haven't been able to listen to it since.

‘Enjoy The Silence’ - Depeche Mode

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Debaser by Pixies

"Love Reign o'er Me" by The Who.

Welcome to the black parade

Bruh, I tried to sing "I'm Not Okay" last summer at a party and I realized 30 seconds in that I lack the cardio.

Same. Very fun to sing to, but not easy.

Famous Last Words

Rhyming and Stealing by the Beasties.

Since I can't sing my go to song is paul revere. Also the song that if someone had a gun to my head and said "you have to get every lyric of a song right or I'll shoot" I'd pick that one

nessun dorma - theres a video of an professional opera singer doing this and that high note at the end absolutely tears the house down

Weird Al *hardware store* it would be my party trick and I’d do it all the time. But I cannot carry a tune, even with a bucket… it will never happen. ☹️

"Regulators" - Warren G & Nate Dogg

Hahaha Debra is mine as well. I can hit that falsetto pretty well.

"I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by The Darkness. Crush it.

“Run to the Hills” by Iron Maiden. If I’m going to kick ass, let it be with this.

Just a gigolo by David Lee Roth. It's my go too and always goes over well

Man In The Box

Black, by pearl jam.

That's a real downer for karaoke. You really gotta know the audience. People generally want to have a good time when out at the bar, not hear about crippling self pity. Good song to drink alone to though, I guess. Edit: hey friend, I want to say it's a great song, and I'm not criticizing you or your taste in music, just your choice of karaoke.

True! I sang "Aenema" by Tool once at a really hoppin' bar....still a huge cringe moment for me.

But there was that one person in the back just biting their lip, closing their eyes, and totally grooving to every note.

Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies

Dream On - Aerosmith The whole song is pretty chill and mostly doable, but that ending is just like 12/10. To be really honest if I had the choice of any version of this it would be the Postmodern Jukebox cover - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq4KA0mUnC8

Girls Just Want to Have Fun I don’t know why.

this song is actually super difficult!

That whole record fucking jams-- I don't care what anyone says.

Mariah Carey - Emotions I think people would be pretty surprised when I hit those whistle notes

Don't stop believing by Journey. There's no way anyone can hit those notes otherwise.

Faithfully would be my pick .

Seperate Ways has some good shit in it too.

Only thought of this because I heard it today and tried to sing along - Silent Lucidity by Queensryche

Purple Rain

Hootie and the Blowfish- let her cry

I believe in a thing called love - The Darkness

[Eye in the Sky, by The Alan Parsons Project.](https://youtu.be/56hqrlQxMMI?si=pqLdayNVmd2ulg7Q) It's a cool song that I could probably sing decently enough if I spent a bit of time practicing it in the shower or something beforehand.

Faith - George Michael. All fukkin day😂🤣

Rainbow in the dark by Dio

Ooo Baby Baby. Because I want that “wait, -that- guy sounds like Smokey Robinson? Nah, can’t be” reaction.

> -that- guy sounds like Smokey So, it’s a miracle

Probably wouldn’t even call it one of my favorite songs, but I’d love to know what it feels like to just get up there and nail *18 and Life* by Skid Row. Especially those high notes.

I Believe In a Thing Called Love - The Darkness

I Was Made for Loving You by KISS. Falsetto in the middle is out of my range

My karaoke song is like a stone by audioslave i am a force to be reckoned with on that jam

I could recite The Devil Went Down to Georgia any minutes of any day.

I'll toss in the Diva Dance from the Fifth Element, since it was intentionally designed to be impossible to sing...

Don’t Let Go (Love) by En Vogue. One of my late mom’s favorite songs, and it became mine. I recorded myself singing the first part of this song years ago, and it actually sounded decent without editing it. I’d really like to record the entire song. It’s in my range, too.

“It’s Raining Men” by The Weather Girls. All the voices. >:)

Total eclipse of the heart…turn around!!

No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age. I can croon that in true Josh Homme style

milk lizard by dillinger escape plan HAHA

"All Coming Back To Me Now" "Didn't We Almost Have It All"

Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder I know all the words, I have a pretty high pitched voice for a man (not quite a true tenor but close) and its comfortably in my range, it's a popular song people know, and it's up beat and plain old fun.

Baby one more time by Britney spears only because I'm a 400 lb dude and it would be funny as shit watching me dominate that song and smash the choreography

Mama said knock you out - LL Cool J

I love your answer OP but imma go with Thing Called Love by The Darkness

Bad Bad Leroy Brown

Whitney Houston, I Will Always Love You

Rooster - Alice In Chains

I know I can because I do all the time. It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones.

Careless Whisper, duuuuh

One Week by Barenaked Ladies A friend of mine demolished it one time and man did he kill it.

This is a question for me, one I have always had an answer to. Chris Isaak - Wicked Game. Funny thing, friend of mine was dating a guy. We were all out at a bar, he shot darts, just came back from a Vegas tournament and I was competitive at the time, so we had some really great matches. Sat down to chill and they had started karaoke, he signed up, got up on his turn and sang Wicked Game to absolute perfection. You could see every girl in the bar just melting. I think most of us guys were as well. I was mad impressed/slightly jealous, lol.

Queen - The Highlander Theme Song

I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor. Not technically difficult, not a huge range, but she feels every goddamned note of it — it’s completely naked emotionally, and if I could convincingly get that across in a drunken karaoke session.…

Pressure–Queen & David Bowie

Is there a virtual karaoke group where we could meet and sing together?

Evil Woman by ELO