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Songs That Have Made Me Bawl My Eyes Out While Doing Karaoke
16. "Love Shack"—The B-52's
15. "I Touch Myself"—Divinyls
14. "Tainted Love"—Soft Cell
13. "Loser"—Beck
12. "Lose Yourself"—Eminem
11. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"—Bob Dylan
10. "Love Is a Battlefield"—Pat Benatar
9. "True Colors"—Cyndi Lauper
8. "Summer Nights"—Grease
7. "Bridge Over Troubled Water"—Simon and Garfunkel
6. "Mr. Jones"—Counting Crows
5. "I Want to Know What Love Is"—Foreigner
4. "Roxanne"—The Police
3. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"—Whitney Houston
2. "Keep on Loving You"—REO Speedwagon
1. "Total Eclipse of the Heart"—Bonnie Tyler
Jim Behrle tweets at @behrle for your possible amusement.
Perhaps the shorter listicle would have been the songs you don't cry at?
@saythatscool Jump Jive and Wail?
@sorry your heinous: Living on a Prayer?
@deepomega (Livin' On A Prayer, surely?)
@saythatscool This is Behrle, not Bry (Sorry Dave Bry!)
A life goal of mine is to bawl while singing Klaus Nomi's Total Eclipse.
At least you don't bawl your eyes out while actually touching yourself. (If you do, please do not correct my misapprehension.)
@jfruh ahem
@sorry your heinous [weeps]
0. "Kiss From a Rose"—Seal, as performed by DeepOmega.
"Just A Friend" is Biz Markie's gift to us non-singers who somehow got dragged to karaoke and are now being prodded to "get up there and sing something, you loser."
Also, you could probably bawl your eyes out doing it and still sound basically like the original recording.
What I wouldn't give to see this (especially nos. 1, 3, 10 and 11.)
Please tell me this is in solitude, at home, with the doors locked and the karaoke machine cranked to cover any chance of being heard.
"ROXANNE" ABOVE "LOSE YOURSELF" JESUS CHRIST YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME
"True Colors", but not "Time After Time"? You monster!
I lost it while warbling Tesla's "Signs" once, but I'm sure as hell not going to write about it on the internet. (Oops.)
I heard "Empire State Of Mind" this summer. So bad.
You Can't Hurry Love
Cried because the song was so good or because the song was so bad?
Cause "Total Eclipse of the Heart" would make me cry in a Noriega torture sort of way.
Wait, I thought that was a Guns 'n Roses song.
@Butterscotch Stalin
yah same thought….
One night in the middle of innocently singing "against all odds," (I like phill Collins when I'm drunk), a dude with whom i'd gone on a not entirely unsuccessful first date a few weeks prior rolled up holding his new bf's hand. Which i suppose is exhibit a as to why we as human beings should never ever ever sing that song in public for any reason. I'm sure you can imagine the many hours of bourbon therapy which ensued…