What song(s) would you sing on American/Pop Idol?

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The auditions for American Idol II:Electric Boogaloo aired last night.

(I wonder if any of the "singers" have friends that are too scared to tell them how bad they are.. or if they have ever recorded & listened to themselves sing ... truly awful.)

I would think the jusdges would get pretty tired of hearing hacks singing temptations songs... What song would you sing:
#1. if you wanted to make a statement.
#2. if you seriously wanted to get to the next stage - assuming you could carry a tune.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Example:

#1. "Warthog" - the Ramones

#2. "See How We Are" - X

(These aren't mine - just initial thoughts. I haven't really thought about it yet...)

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"Don't Cry Ann" - Pavement

"They Call Me Naughty Lola/Ich Bin Die Fesche Lola" - Ute Lemper

"Boilermaker" - The Jesus Lizard

"Playboy Stabtone Bloodbath Go" - Truman's Water

"Car"-Come

Spot the odd one out.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

haha um, i don't think any of the ideas thus far would work honestly

maybe choose some good pop songs?

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

#1 "I'm a Sock That's Dirty" as performed by Brak on Space Ghost Coast to Coast

#2 "I'm a Big F*#@ning Moron Who Will Do Anything To Get In Paula Abdul's Pants" as performed at the 1993 Billbaord Awards by Phil Collins

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

1. You Don't Have To Say Please - Whitehouse

2. I Need Adventure - GG Allin

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Both #1 & #2...

Tom Waits' "Step Right Up"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Want to Fuck You In the Ass"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Or you could take your pick of any of the following Ween songs...

Flies on my Dick
Waving my Dick in the Wind
Poopship Destroyer
She Fucks Me

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

No, actually, I would totally sing Ween's "Freedom of '76" and totally blow all those fuckers away.

"Mannequin was filmed at woolworth's/
Boyz-II-Men still keepin' up the beat..."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

IWTLYP

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

or is it LMLYP.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

...a jungle version of 'If you don't wanna fuck me (fuck off)', the seminal piece from Jayne/Wayne County.

― russ t, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

1. "Somebody" - Depeche Mode
2. "Can't Help Falling In Love" - Elvis

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

1.) Raindrops keep fallin on my head.
2.) I'm a little teapot.

― Rommel Cox, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd sing "Killing Moon"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

1. The Robots - Kraftwerk
2. I Was Made For Dancing - Leif Garrett

― Macattack (Macattack), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Sun, the Sea" by Verve. No, really.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably "Lick My Neck, My Back".

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard somebody already sang the Replacements' "Unsatisfied" but I would if I could.

Big Star "Kanga Roo"
Queen "Life Is Real"
Sleater-Kinney "Heart Attack"
Enrique Iglesias "Don't Turn Out The Lights"
Echo & The Bunnymen "The Cutter"
Joy Division "Transmission"
Sebadoh "Soul And Fire"
Scandal "The Warrior"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"Failure", by the Swans. "The Kids" by Lou Reed. "The Dead Part of You" by American Music Club. Maybe "Glad To See You Go" by the Ramones.

― matt riedl (veal), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I would do "Lose Yourself", and in the last chorus, I would drop trou and take a big fat morning-after-getting-pissed leak all over the Simon gobshite, and then upon seeing the size of my enormous bulge uncloaked, Paula Abdul would have no choice but to get it on with me right then and there, Emilio be damned.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"uncloaked"

― david day (winslow), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Seventh Son ala Mose Allison

...you piece of shit.

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick Cave, "Babe I'm On Fire"

― Adrian Langston (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Black Flag - TV Party
2. Nick Cave - The Ship Song

― Ian Johnson, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

1. "Mein Herr" from Cabaret in full regalia

2. "Lean On Me" or "Everybody Hurts" or "Beyond The Sea" or some other vaguely naff standard for which I hold a sneaky torch.

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

the mercy seat

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 23 January 2003 04:42 (twenty-three years ago)

1. James - "Born In Frustration" (really only because with the exception of the yodeling it's in the same key as my singing voice)

2. The Kinks - "Celluoid Heroes"

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Thursday, 23 January 2003 05:09 (twenty-three years ago)

1. something through a vocoder
2. "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush

― Clarke B., Thursday, 23 January 2003 08:31 (twenty-three years ago)

1) I'd do something by autechre.
2) '4 Violins' by Tony Conrad.

― neil simpson, Thursday, 23 January 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm A Little Airplane"-Jonathan Richman
"Pink Cashmere"-Prince
"Oogum Boogum"-Alex Chilton

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 23 January 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder how soon would you be kicked out when you'd start merrily with:

"Die Fahne hoch, die Reihen fest geschlossen/S.A. marschiert mit ruhig festem Schritt/Kam'raden die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen/Marschier'n im Geist In unsern Reihen mit"

or (phonetic):

"Soy'ooz neroosh'imi resp'ooblik svob'odnikh/Splot'ila nav'eki vel'ikaia Rus/Da zdr'avstvooyet sozdanni voley nar'odov/Yed'ini mog'oochi Sov'etski Soy'ooz"

or the old classic:

"Arise ye pris'ners of starvation/Arise ye wretched of the earth/For justice thunders condemnation/A better world's in birth!"

or even better in these days (no points for guessing where this comes from!):

"A homeland that extended its wings over the horizon/And wore the glory of civilization as a garment/Blessed be the land of the two rivers/A homeland of glorious determination and tolerance."

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 23 January 2003 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

siegbran oWnZ

― geeta, Thursday, 23 January 2003 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Quite a threadkiller, that was...

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, nobody's gonna come on after that!

"Um, I was gonna say 'This Little Light Of Mine' but now I just want to sit in the corner and cry."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

1. "Only Lover" by Jandek
2. Dunno, never seen the show

― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

a selection from H.M.S. Pinafore

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

" Soy'ooz neroosh'imi resp'ooblik svob'odnikh... "

-- Siegbran, where-why-&-how the hell do *you* know these lines? just from some record? (i hope)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 24 January 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha! Everybody knows that jolly old tune, surely? Especially nice if you sing it the old way, with the line about how Stalin reared us...

OK, all together now, from the top of your lungs:
Sl'avsa ot'echestvo n'ashe svob'odnoye/Dr'oojbi nar'odov nady'ojni opl'ot/P'artia L'enina, - s'ila narodnaya/Nas k torjestv'oo kommun'izma vedy'ot

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 24 January 2003 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"i love the dead" by alice cooper.

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 24 January 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

dunno why i'm reviving this, but what the hell, serious answer:

Peter Gabriel, "Here Comes the Flood"

― stephen, Thursday, 6 December 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

also:

Prince, "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man"

― stephen, Thursday, 6 December 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

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