Sing alongs at parties??

Antomus Prime · 18-10-2010 02:03PM #1

Here's a thought, when me and the lads started throwing house parties we always used to bring along the guitars and have a good auld jammin session where the golden oldies and crowd pleasers would come out and everybody used to sing along and have a great laugh. But over the years it died down and now never happens.

The closest to it was saturday nite in a friends apartment when we brought the guitar and bongo out to the balcony and just did one or two songs with a very small amount of people taking part. It just reminded me of the way we used to do it.

What are peoples thoughs on and does anyone here do it regularly??

prinz · 18-10-2010 02:05PM

anthonyk.is wrote: »

What are peoples thoughs on and does anyone here do it regularly??

Depends on the people involved.

Used to be quite popular a few years ago, often times they were pretentious twats and people got sick of listening to them rather than catching up with friends and having a chat/laugh. If I wanted to go watch one man and his guitar I'd go to a concert.

mikemac · 18-10-2010 02:06PM

I see
Are you one of those who goes to house partys and demands that everyone hushes while you sing sad soppy ballads and everyone gets depressed, party ruined

Sorry OP, if that was my houseparty you'd be out the door :mad:
You may be a decent lad, but some do it to show off and pick obscure songs. "I'd like that band before they were famous and went mainstream" types

kfallon · 18-10-2010 02:06PM

Love the ould sing song, this is always my party piece, only sang it two weeks ago at a session:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA79kVLHZ5c

stovelid · 18-10-2010 02:06PM

People getting out guitars for a jam at a party: cool

People getting out guitars at parties, monopolizing the room and (themselves or their acolytes) shushing people that are not paying sufficient attention: smack of a wine bottle.

Kiera · 18-10-2010 02:06PM

I love a good sing song. Its usually at 4am with a few of the girls to some 80's song on MTV and we're using sweeping brushes and remotes to sing into

Agricola · 18-10-2010 02:06PM

House parties for me involve playing PS3 and talking operating systems....
I thought thats what everyone did

..... shít!

Jaxxy · 18-10-2010 02:08PM

That's all well and good when you have people present who can actually play. There was a session a while back with a lad and his guitar, he had his chord book open at his feet and played "Wonderwall" over and over.

I'd rather listen to some pop tripe over that in fairness.

That said you can't beat a good sing song, and they're still fairly popular among one of my groups of friends. Usually lads though, because the girls seem to want music they can "dance" to at parties.

Logical Fallacy · 18-10-2010 02:09PM

Sounds like a fresh patch of hell, slap on a Kode 9 mix and dance ffs.

prinz · 18-10-2010 02:09PM

There's a difference between a sing-song and listening in silence to some knob covering the likes of James Blunt or Damien Rice.

the purple tin · 18-10-2010 02:10PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o-SuRXwK5o

kfallon · 18-10-2010 02:13PM

The old ballads are the best, fook the guitar tho my two brothers are quite good at it, I'm more of a front man meself

Antomus Prime · 18-10-2010 02:14PM

feelingstressed wrote: »

I see
Are you one of those who goes to house partys and demands that everyone hushes while you sing sad soppy ballads and everyone gets depressed, party ruined

Sorry OP, if that was my houseparty you'd be out the door :mad:
You may be a decent lad, but some do it to show off and pick obscure songs. "I'd like that band before they were famous and went mainstream" types

Well i agree with you on that, if someone came in and told people to quiet down while he played his songs i'd think the same. These were partys where everybody got involved and had fun.

And dunno where you got the Obscure songs part, as I said, we used to play the crowd pleasers and the golden oldies..........

mikemac · 18-10-2010 02:15PM

Yeah sorry anthonyk.is, my post was harsh, apologies

Not realy aimed at you.

I might stroll over to Ranting & Raving

kfallon · 18-10-2010 02:16PM

Kiera wrote: »

I love a good sing song. Its usually at 4am with a few of the girls to some 80's song on MTV and we're using sweeping brushes and remotes to sing into

Geebags.....

*dons tin hat*
*runs*
Faster
Faster
Quicker

Antomus Prime · 18-10-2010 02:18PM

feelingstressed wrote: »

Yeah sorry anthonyk.is, my post was harsh, apologies

Not realy aimed at you.

I might stroll over to Ranting & Raving

Lol no worries dude

Kiera · 18-10-2010 02:18PM

kfallon wrote: »

Geebags.....

*dons tin hat*
*runs*
Faster
Faster
Quicker

Ah shut up you! You're just pissed that i closed the blinds when it was time for the pillow fight!

NothingMan · 18-10-2010 02:21PM

We didn't even play any songs, we just jammed on my balcony at about 5:30am. I bet my neighbours love me. Anyway, the party was good, y'all missed out.

kfallon · 18-10-2010 02:21PM

Kiera wrote: »

Ah shut up you! You're just pissed that i closed the blinds when it was time for the pillow fight!

Don't worry I caught the tail end of the hot oil wrestling, you should have your mates round more often

Back on topic, I hate when people play Wonderwall at these shindigs, does my nut!

Snowie · 18-10-2010 02:22PM

prinz wrote: »

There's a difference between a sing-song and listening in silence to some knob covering the likes of James Blunt or Damien Rice.

+1

thank fully my friends cant play the guitar. tho being honest nothing like a good foo fighter mosh on the sitten room table with a carboard beer box on your head if you ask me.. ! 1 man bands at house partys suck any sort of life out people go quiet as you said and just ruins the atmosfear....

super_furry · 18-10-2010 02:23PM

Nothing worse than being at a party and some edjit finds an acoustic guitar and decides he’s going to kill the night by boring the ****e out everyone playing bad Radiohead and Neil Young covers. Gurning it up at all the single girls playing Fake Plastic Trees when everyone is hoping that someone will smash the bloody guitar up.

Antomus Prime · 18-10-2010 02:24PM

NothingMan wrote: »

We didn't even play any songs, we just jammed on my balcony at about 5:30am. I bet my neighbours love me. Anyway, the party was good, y'all missed out.

I'm pretty sure they Adore you after that incident!! And yes it was a good party!!!

Jaxxy · 18-10-2010 02:24PM

kfallon wrote: »

Back on topic, I hate when people play Wonderwall at these shindigs, does my nut!

+1. And then you have the "musically inclined" one who starts playing the Ryan Adams version, you know, just to shake things up, because he's edgy like that.

Asphyxia · 18-10-2010 02:26PM

There's always singing at the house parties I go to the majority of the people I am friends with are musicians so it's impossible not to have music going. I prefer having the music going though it adds to the atmosphere and makes the night great especially when you start making up songs as you go along... Hilarious

Antomus Prime · 18-10-2010 02:26PM

Kiera wrote: »

Ah shut up you! You're just pissed that i closed the blinds when it was time for the pillow fight!

So eh.... where do these partys be?? lol

orourkeda · 18-10-2010 02:33PM

Lisening to oul ones singing sweet caroline isnt my idea of fun.

kfallon · 18-10-2010 02:34PM

anthonyk.is wrote: »

So eh.... where do these partys be?? lol

Look there's only room for one up the tree ffs!!!

Another good one for the sing song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXYf5RCHL7I

orourkeda · 18-10-2010 02:35PM

stovelid wrote: »

People getting out guitars for a jam at a party: cool

People getting out guitars at parties, monopolizing the room and (themselves or their acolytes) shushing people that are not paying sufficient attention: smack of a wine bottle.

wine drinkers are pretentious twats too.

Reloc8 · 18-10-2010 02:55PM

stovelid wrote: »

People getting out guitars for a jam at a party: cool

People getting out guitars at parties, monopolizing the room and (themselves or their acolytes) shushing people that are not paying sufficient attention: smack of a wine bottle.

^ This

If you're any good, sing/play up there and we'll all dip in and out and enjoy it. If you're bad but good craic, probably the same goes and no harm done.

Whether you're objectively brilliant or bad, if you think people have come along for an audience with you and your bad taste in music, you deserve to have the run put on you, double quick.

Good session = can be fantastic. Mopey, deluded attention seekers = here's your coat, what's your rush.

Ash.J.Williams · 18-10-2010 03:04PM

super_furry wrote: »

Nothing worse than being at a party and some edjit finds an acoustic guitar and decides he’s going to kill the night by boring the ****e out everyone playing bad Radiohead and Neil Young covers. Gurning it up at all the single girls playing Fake Plastic Trees when everyone is hoping that someone will smash the bloody guitar up.

ha that reminds me of a party a group of 6 or so colleagues and myself were invited too and when we got there, there was only 3 other people...and yer man started playing radiohead....during the guitar intro we all just went quiet, kind of awkward....then the high pitched radiohead imitation singing started and all 6 of us just broke our bollix laughing...so hard we couldn't stop... right fit of the giggles.....that ended that session...

stovelid · 18-10-2010 03:06PM

orourkeda wrote: »

wine drinkers are pretentious twats too.

Neither are as bad as wine-drinking buskers, I'm sure you'll agree.

Sing alongs at parties??

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