I'm crossposting the following, so please ignore the tildes and lack of caps:
so for a tour fundraiser in march my band is going to be putting together a ~*live karaoke night*~ and i'm just wondering what you guys think when you look at this list of song suggestions. we're going to cap requests at like 40-ish so that we can have it go for a reasonable amount of time.
the way we're planning on working is: we're going to post the list of songs on like thursday of this week, and then we're going to start doing a media ~blitz~ to get the word out. first people who are going to get a crack at this are local alt-scene celebs, who we're going to let do it for free. for everyone else there's going to be a pricing tier where you get different stuff at each tier, but the basic level is that you get to do karaoke PLUS you get a live .mp3 of your performance. (we haven't hashed out all the deets for this yet.) we're considering cooking dinner for the top tier.
the idea is that you select your song ahead of time so we know what to practice. we're aiming for like 40 songs but if we come way under we're still going to push the fuck out of the event and practice a "potpourri" selection of tunes that will then make it to that night, and we'll publish a signup sheet for that night that will basically be first-come first-serve. since we are also capping it and trying to do it in advance we're also going to offer to learn whatever song you actually want us to learn. i think.
so ok. here's the list, there's the structure. anyone have any thoughts or ideas or
SUGGESTIONSARCADE FIRE: Rebellion, Neighbourhood #1
B-52s: Rock Lobster, Love Shack
BAND: The Weight
BARENAKED LADIES: Alcohol
BEATLES: Hey Jude
BIG BLACK: Cables, L Dopa, Big Money, Bad Penny
BLOC PARTY: Banquet, Helicopters
BLONDIE: Call Me
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE:7/4 Shoreline, Ibi Dreams of Pavement
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Thunder Road, Glory Days, Born To Run
CONSTANTINES: Workin Full Time, Nighttime Anytime, Hotline Operator
CURE: In Between Days, Friday I'm In Love
DAVID BOWIE: Heroes, Young Americans
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE: Title & Registration, Soul Meets Body, I Will Follow You Into the Dark
DECEMBERISTS: 16 Military Wives
DEVO: Jocko Homo, Mongoloid, Girl U Want, Uncontrollable Urge
DFA1979: Romantic Rights
DINOSAUR JR: Just Like Heaven
DIO: Holy Diver
DIRTY PROJECTORS: Stillness Is The Move
ELECTRIC 6: Danger High Voltage
ELVIS COSTELLO: Pump It Up, Allison, Radio Radio
FLAMING LIPS: Do You Realize, The WAND, Yeah Yeah Yeah
FRANZ FERDINAND: This Fire
FUCKED UP: David Comes To Life, Twice Born
GANG OF FOUR: I Found That Essence Rare, Damaged Goods
GIRLS: Lust For Life
HOLD STEADY: Stuck Between Stations, Yr Little Hoodrat Friend, Most People Are DJs
HÜSKER DÜ: Makes No Sense At All, Don't Want to Know if You’re Lonely
IRON MAIDEN: Wrathchild
JOEL PLASKETT: Million Dollars, Drunk Teenagers
JOY DIVISION: Transmission, Disorder
JUDAS PRIEST: Breaking The Law, You Got Another Thing Coming
LADYHAWK: The Dugout, Teenage Love Song
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
LOU REED: Walk On The Wild Side
M.I.A.: Paper Planes
MAXIMO PARK: Apply Some Pressure
MCLUSKY: Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
METRIC: Dead Disco, Combat Baby
MGMT: Kids
MODERN LOVERS: Roadrunner, Dignified and Old, Modern World (anything off that first album, really)
MODEST MOUSE: Dramamine, Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset, Tiny Cities Made of Ashes, Neverending Math Equation, Bury Me With It
MOUNTAIN GOATS: Best Ever Death Metal Band Out Of Denton, This Year
NATIONAL: Fake Empire, Mistaken For Strangers, Apartment Story
NETURAL MILK HOTEL: Holland 1945
NEW PORNOGRAPHERS: Graceland, Use It, Slow Descent, Electric Version
OKKERVIL RIVER: Black
ORGAN: Brother
PARAMORE: That's What You Get, Crush Crush Crush, Ignorance
PAVEMENT: Cut Your Hair, Range Life
PIXIES: Gigantic, Here Comes Yr Man, Wave Of Mutilation, Debaser, Dig for Fire
R.E.M.: Radio Free Europe
RADIOHEAD: The National Anthem, Karma Police, 2+2=5, There There, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
REFUSED: New Noise
REPLACEMENTS: I Will Dare, Sixteen Blue, Bastards Of Young, Kiss Me On The Bus
RUSH: Spirit Of The Radio, Closer To The Heart, Fly By Night
SEBADOH: Gimme Indie Rock, The Freed Pig
SHINS, THE: So Says I
SLEATER-KINNEY: You're No Rock'N'Roll Fun, Oh!
SLOAN: Money City Maniacs, Underwhelmed, Everything You've Done Wrong, If It Feels Good Do It (we will learn any other Sloan song you want)
SMITHS: This Charming Man, There Is A Light
SONIC YOUTH: Teenage Riot, 100%
STOOGES: Wanna Be Yr Dog, TV Eye
TALKING HEADS: Burning Down The House, Psycho Killer, Life During Wartime
TEENAGE FANCLUB: What You Do To Me, It's All In My Mind
TELEVISION: See No Evil, Venus de Milo
THERMALS: Pillar of Salt
TRAIL OF DEAD: Worlds Apart
TV ON THE RADIO: Wolf Like Me, Staring At The Sun
VELVET UNDERGROUND: I'm Waiting For The Man
WALKMEN: The Rat
WEAKERTHANS: The Reasons, Aside, Plea From A Cat, Watermark, Reconstruction Site
WEEZER: Buddy Holly, Why Bother, The Good Life, Pink Triangle, El Scorcho, Island in the Sun, Keep Fishing, Surf Wax America (actually we will learn any song up to Maladroit)
WHITE STRIPES: Fell In Love With A Girl
WILCO: Pot Kettle Black, Heavy Metal Drummer, War On War
WOLF PARADE: Shine A Light, Sons & Daughters of Hungry Ghosts, I'll Believe in Anything
YO LA TENGO: Autumn Sweater