Most "embarrassing" song.....

[basscapes]

I was in a corperate/wedding band for long time...lots of bad songs, including; Arthur’s Theme(Best That You Could Do), Lady In Red(done as Lady in White), YMCA, Dancing Queen.....the list goes on and on and on.
The most embarrassing songs were the ones that we just couldn’t do justice to. Usually this was either due to instrumentation/production stuff or the inability to render a convincing vocal performance. Rolling out the garbage night after night can crush your soul. Playing any song poorly is way worse than playing crappy songs decently, IMO.

In my old band's more "artistic phase", we played Lady in Red, along with rear stage projection of the high school fire/destruction scene from the movie Carrie!

Let's just say that it brought a hole different meaning to that song...

 

[caledoneus83]

I've learned a few songs from Moana for my 2 year old son... lol

 

[bholder]

In my old band's more "artistic phase", we played Lady in Red, along with rear stage projection of the high school fire/destruction scene from the movie Carrie!

Let's just say that it brought a hole different meaning to that song...

Speaking of changing the meaning of a song - reminds me of a little mashup I recorded - The Hollies "All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe" (which is too sappy to sing otherwise) mashed with Radiohead's "Creep".

 

[Thaibassman]

One can never forget, Leapy Lee and Little Arrows, Mouldy old Dough by Lieutenant Pigeon - glad to see no one has (yet) to can Nina and her 99 red luft balloons - always a joke in my circles

 

[Lexy Bivens]

I live like 13000 miles away from you That is Serbian Turbo Folk with... erotic lyrics. Actually I play stuff like this way more:

Remember the part where I probably have it on a playlist?
Ok I don't. But I have several EE bands, and love the ethnic sounds of EE, esp Serbian music.
Granted,i prefer it with modern overlays like.... Starts with a G.. ALLL I can come up with is Ghoti Hook but that is NOT it at ALL. Or though Cuban, the orginal Voltaire (yes, I was a goth back when, met him at a Con b4 I knew what a con was), and Serj (met him a year b4 too, super sweet guy, but this is when only fringes knew of them and they needed fans lol)

That ^^^^^^^^ Idk if I could take a whole song, unless Weird Al was the one on squeeze box (though that's one of those w/o the keys, a little one... Like in American Tail) and started singing soon

 

[Lexy Bivens]

99 luft balloons and Red Balloms are 2 of my long time (last 15 yrs) fav songs. I my like 1 cover (and I ADORE covers).
And don't ever try singing it in English at karaoke if you've ONLY ever heard it in German before. It just don't work LMAO

 

[Lexy Bivens]

Really? I will!

I simply want to learn it to tick off my 16 yr old.
I once sent her a apolify list, every songs title, 1st words were whole song! And LOVE THAT VIDEO

 

[Lexy Bivens]

I suddenly want to play "just a girl" or "spiderwebs". What's going on here?
Am I okay?

Are my hormones rubbing off on y'all? (Idk how many girls to guys are on here, but seems 90% male)

 

[Lexy Bivens]

Lots of good responses, so far. Mine? "Diary" by Bread on acoustic guitar. I'll hear a piece of a song, and sometimes the only way to get it out of my head is to learn it, especially the part that ear wormed me. We were playing a gig not long after and someone said they'd give the band $100 if we could play Diary. We goofed around and killed some time a little, then I yelled, "Wait! Bring me a bar stool." I hadn't told the band I knew it, cause, well, it was kind of embarrassing. But a hundred bucks is a hundred bucks. I put down my bass and grabbed the guitarists acoustic and played and sang the song solo, front to back to dead silence until I finished. Then the crowd went nuts and the guy came up with the hundred bucks and did the whole "we're not worthy" thing in front of the stage. The best part was the band's collective jaw on the floor. I always try to keep a couple of "I can't believe you know that" songs on hand.

Best embarrassing song story ever! Cause you had to own it, but got paid!

 

[Lexy Bivens]

It would have been infinitely better with the vocals, if you ask me. Eddie and Eva really lay the boogie down.

I can sing it by heart. I loved Nick at Nite, back when they actually played classics. Heck I went fan girl over Sissy from Family Affair! I wasn't ALIVE when it was on the air!

 

[Lexy Bivens]

I've used the same song for the same reason. Funny! Recently I've been playing The Man On The Flying Trapeze when there's a lull on stage for whatever reason.

CAT came back guys.
Always the cat came back

 

[Joe Nerve]

I just learned I Don't Dance (Lee Brice) for this weekend.

I can safely say I hate that song.

I will give it my all, nonetheless.

 

[Lexy Bivens]

I was practicing the other day and found myself playing the theme song to Mr. Ed. Does that count?

I also know all that by heart
AND his first words to Wilbur. Which was NOT How Now Brown Cow btw

I'm a geek of most mediums. 11 years of disability and boredom will do that to ya

 

[Lexy Bivens]

I was in a corperate/wedding band for long time...lots of bad songs, including; Arthur’s Theme(Best That You Could Do), Lady In Red(done as Lady in White), YMCA, Dancing Queen.....the list goes on and on and on.
The most embarrassing songs were the ones that we just couldn’t do justice to. Usually this was either due to instrumentation/production stuff or the inability to render a convincing vocal performance. Rolling out the garbage night after night can crush your soul. Playing any song poorly is way worse than playing crappy songs decently, IMO.

YMCA with this dude? (DON'T GET SUCKED I TO A CONVO WITH HIM! Sweet as sweet potato pie, and the stories he has about the Queen a D Queen Mum are priceless. (I SAID I'M. A GEEK. Yes I do cosplay. Nothing cool, hard to do CP with long dreads being white. They barely fit under my Bob Ross wig this year!

 

[Haroldo]

I was once in a covers band that did a lot of pretty decent pop/rock songs and for one gig the BL had us learn a bunch of Christmas carols. They weren't even rocky versions, just traditional slow, boring carols. So the most embarrasing song? The Little Drummer Boy. I need to point out that the host who hired us hadn't asked us to play Christmas music but the gig was in December so BL just thought it would be a good idea to slip a couple into each set. After the second one, the host asked us to stop playing them.

Howevah... playing 'Little Drummer Boy' as a New Orleans-esque rhumba with lots of Prof. Longhair piano is quite, quite fun. I played in a by-and-large atrocious Dad Band, but what I learned there is enthusiasm and the willingness to get into a song (no matter how lousy) goes a long, long way.

I am trying to get a fix on how the word (or emotion) 'embarrassing' is used in this thread. @casey Vancouver, if I understood him correctly w.r.t. 'The Too Fat Polka' and underage drinking pushed by a German Polka band leader, objects to some tunes on moral grounds. It is a wretched thing to make fun of folks.

And @swarfrat objects to tunes that could violate 'artistic integrity,' though I am at pains to see how being in a cover band comes close to the seriousness of plumbing (and I'm pretty serious here).

Mostly, it seems, folks object to tunes for Reasons of Cheese. And like it or not, pop music is about 95% Cheese (tho' Cheese is in the mouth of the beholder).

 

[Lexy Bivens]

Its not an embarrassing song, I love it, but its kind of a funny song

HEY THERE'S NOT TOO MANY DAMN STRINGS!! !! Wait, I can't sing. But I used to hear this in the streets in NOLA a lot

 

[Lexy Bivens]

Forget you all. I played in a polka band, Annie and the Playboys, and played 5 days per week for 4 months. Any song would qualify. By the way, I made the most money I ever made in a band. Paid for most of my college.

Apples peaches punkin pie, who's not ready holar I, let's go play hide and seek.....

And hey Nat King Cole Played Beer Bartel Polka!

 

[Haroldo]

Are my hormones rubbing off on y'all? (Idk how many girls to guys are on here, but seems 90% male)

I'd estimate 95% or higher of our lot are male.

Where (or what) is BFE Nebraska? (I'm a mid-west boy by birth and culture.)

 

[swarfrat]

@Haroldo Get over yourself. I poked holes in an analogy. Not equated plumbing with guys singing to sell beer. You seem to be doing that with your level off offendedness.

 

[david osborn]

Sweet Caroline

That's another brick in the wall of hits for Joe Osborn