The karaoke bar is hyped up. You're next up and you have one job: kill the vibes. What song are you singing?

In the arms of an angel....

Best answer, IMO. Whole bar in tears.

Instrumental version of Tequila

"Hey hey wait. Let's throw in one It's Not Unusual"

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. A jaunty little sea shanty about a ship sinking in a storm and killing everyone on board.

https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI

It's a banger though, as long as everyone in the bar is over 35.
I sang that two nights ago, at our local open mic. Went over very well, but then again the average age was probably over 70.
Wouldn't work as I'd be singing along
This is definitely the wrong answer.

Bloodhound Gang - A Lapdance Is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying

https://m.soundcloud.com/bloodhound-gang/a-lap-dance-is-so-much-better

I find it quite a thrill...

I touch myself.

That's a sing-along song in our local bar, lol!
By the Devinyls, or just in general?
- Extra points if you make up your own little version.

Urgh just whatever I think might be fun at the time, it's always bad

Right now, as someone not from the US, star spangled banned would ruin the evening more than anything else I could think of. Everyone can recognize it, arguments would follow.

auld lang syne

If you're in Scotland when you do this people will sing along with you
- https://politicalfolkmusic.org/blog/joachim-raucher/renunciation/
- then I could use the renunciation, a wobbly song to the same tune

I repeat the last song.

Or anything from an obscure screamo band.

The Mountain Goats' "No Children", but very intensely.

I would be so hyped that someone is playing The Mountain Goats in public I would probably join in.
Depends on the crowd. I did this song once because I was just so excited to see it (any Mountain Goats, really) available.
The crowd absolutely loved it. People at the front row singing along, having a great time. A guy thanked me after. Surreal. Like a "then everybody clapped" moment.
Must have been a bunch of Moral Orel fans, I guess? Or, I suppose after people butchering Bohemian Rhapsody all night, this was the palate cleanser. Who knows.

Baby Shark, followed by Wonderwall.

Ave Maria. Twice.

The Great Gig in The Sky by Pink Floyd.

This made me laugh

"Loving You" as Im a guy who cannot sing and absolutely does not have Minnie Ripperton's range. It would be horrific and I would lean into it with all my might.

https://youtu.be/9I3UTG1dSTc

https://youtu.be/-Fo-qmliVAI here ya go
- That guy could hit nost of the notes except that one. I cannot hit any of the notes as I am unskilled at singing
Isn't that just karaoke?

Somebody that i used to know

Goodbye my Lover by James Blunt would work to kill a hyped up mood.

Saw this irl once. Two dudes, totally tone-deaf decide to sing Aqualung by Jethro Tull...

...as a duet.

Same bar had a dude that would sing Disney princess songs every night. He never went home alone.
Shout out to Dante's in Seattle!

the internationale

Wacht auf, Verdammte dieser Erde!

Wrecking Ball- Miley Cyrus.

I could butcher anything, but that, I'll butcher it with glee.

If you would have said Party in the USA, I would be up there butchering it with you.

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion

I literally cannot imagine a situation where the whole group doesn't sing along to this. This is a batter answer to, 'what song to bring people out of their shells?'

Karma Police

It might be a singalong in Canada where it was a part of the popular compilation Big Shiny Tunes 3, which was 8x platinum.
Assuming the audience is old enough 🙂.

Tequila

Alice’s restaurant- Arlo Guthrie

If that kills the vibe, you got the wrong crowd.
I worked with a 17 year old once who knew the entire lyrics to Alice's Restaurant and would recite them, not sing them, in the most deadpan voice.
I miss that guy.

Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love - the original album version where there's around 20s of motorcycle sounds and vocals start around 1:50.

This was my favorite song to play on a jukebox back in the day. I could put it on 3 times in a row for a dollar at the local bar, and it would take over the sound system for over half an hour. There are enough transitions in it that it flows back into itself fairly well.

Weird Al.

Or Eminem.

Or Weird Al's Eminem parody.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this at a dueling piano bar. The crowd was into it.

Dead puppies

We Are the World which might be fine if everyone in the bar was fifty-plus, but wouldn't work today.

Blurred Lines

Bad Manners - Special Brew Singing to my wife

All I want is a barrel of you...

Eye of the Tiger

The link preview gives it away sadly.
- I mean, the goal was to kill the vibe, and I would argue a poorly done rickroll meets those requirements :p
- I knew exactly what it was and clicked on it anyway

In the UK any of the below should do the trick, with the added bonus of possibly getting you stabbed and/ or glassed:

Gary Glitter - My Gang

Rolf Harris - Jake the Peg

Lostprophets - Last Train Home

4'33"

If you went up there and did the entire songs including informing when they movements began and ended … frankly you’d be a legend.

Woman Is The N***** Of The World

(Although anything by John Lennon would probably work lol)

Wtf? I have never liked the Beatles, I find most of their catalog grating to listen to, and most of their lyrics either nonsense or fart sniffing. This one, though it's a Lennon and Yoko, has to be the pinnacle of sniffing their own farts.
- Yeah, even ignoring the obvious issue with the lyrics, it's a dog shit song.

Had a woman invite me out to karaoke, but I don't think we're compatible long term so I'm taking notes from this thread.

Tequila!

The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns

I WOULD OFTEN GO THERE
TO THE TINY CHURCH THERE

The ISIS song

Windmills of Your Mind - Noel Harrison

Or you can kill the vibes despite the song. Just start sobbing in the middle of Space Jam.

The real issue is finding a song that they might actually have that would sour the mood. GG Alin's "work" are all easy picks, but nowhere is going to have that available for karaoke (and if they do, run).

the cure - killing an arab

“Memories” from Cats

Bullet by Hollywood undead

Hollywood undead is my go to energy music when I can't think of anything else. :::

The Smallest Church in Saint-Saens

I did this with “Everybody Hurts”. Everybody went outside.

Sinead

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Long song with not a lot of singing.

I Need a Hero. Can't live up to the best version, but I'll try my best!

The Mash movie theme song...

Through early morning fog, I see Visions of the things to be The pains that are withheld for me I realize and I can see That suicide is painless It brings on many changes And I can take or leave it if I please The game of life is hard to play I'm gonna lose it anyway The losing card I'll someday lay So this is all I have to say Suicide is painless (suicide) It brings on many changes (changes) And I can take or leave it if I please The sword of time will pierce our skins It doesn't hurt when it begins But as it works it's way on in The pain grows stronger, watch it grin Suicide is painless It brings on many changes And I can take or leave it if I please A brave man once requested me To answer questions that are key "Is it to be or not to be?" And I replied, "Oh, why ask me?" Suicide is painless It brings on many changes And I can take or leave it if I please And you can do the same thing if you please

A Passion Play.

The entire thing. Including the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles.

(Side note: I love this album, but as a karaoke performance I can't imagine it'd go down well)

Gummi bears theme song

I don't know how you got to that anwer, this would go hard as balls
- I'm killing the "hyped up" vibes and getting everyone to cozy comfyville
Could also do The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh theme, another actually good song that reverts the crowd to sleepy five-year-olds
- I like the cut of your jib