Is there only one song list for bands and kareoke ???

snakes



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 12:05

walk into a bar or anywhere there is live music and you always hear the same old stuff !!how boring and predictable but is this what you all want ? come on everyone I bet you could write the list i'll start it !

Brown Sugar ! YAWN !!!!!

mamachina


Joined: 22/11/2008
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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 12:09

Never mind the list - its the noise!! Now windows are open at night these bars and clubs with any kind of music seem to have to blast it out so people for miles can hear it. am not sure which one we can hear the most where we are, but Karoake at Acmenya and Ibo seem to be the worst - didnt stop til after 1.30am the other night. But certainly the same songs (?) seem to be repeated from both at different times. I know Im another whinging Brit!! Actually I put up with it, but some (even) older people may find it difficult to sleep with the big band beat drumming in their ears!

snakes



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 12:11

OOPS ! sorry mamachina you aint heard nothing yet !!

nurseawful



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 12:14

Mamachina think yourself lucky you don't need to hear me sing!!! as it would sound like a Cat on a hot Tin Roof!!

mamachina


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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 12:15

snakes - maybe I'll have to start shutting the bedroom window?? Or - perhaps I should go down and join them, did suggest that to dadchina but he didnt think much of the idea - he's a bit deaf already and says he doesnt want it to get worse!

mamachina


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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 12:17

You too? Im tone deaf and sing like a corncrake! Perhaps we should get together - maybe theyd close early? Used to get bullied into going to karoake in China, but there they seemed to think I could sing!1 Poor deluded people. Love listening to good singing and good music- bring back the 50s and 60s. (that should get someone going)

negativenick


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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 12:18

"Black Like sunday" by Kings X

Lilli



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 12:22

i will survive gloria gaynor and me

mamachina


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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 12:34

Trogs - with a girl like you.

everon


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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 12:36

lay me down in a bed of roses " yes please " Bon Jovi x

mitsi


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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 15:47

Never liked Karaoke in UK but it's all we get here and sick of hearing the same old songs. Still. seems the Brits like it cos they keep goin just as they do to hear the same old acts year in year out. May I say that they do NOT improve with age. NO-ONE seems to like rock, Aerosmith, stones, U2, Santana, Lenny Kravitz, Ozzy, bon Jovi, Anastasia, etc; etc;

TheSaints



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 16:16

Every Track Clapton done, then errrr everything by Zeppelin, Whitesnake, Marillion, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Golden Earing, Wishbone Ash, Black Sabbath, Peter Gabriel,



Then throw in a bit of country, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Willie Nelson, JC, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline and many more...



mellow out later to some old Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Al Martino, Louis Armstrong, a few more drinks then it's time for the old Nat King Cole

TheSaints



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 16:32

Me Mam said can yer play the following back to back;



Agadoo by Black Lace.



The Birdy Song by The Tweets



Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini by Timmy Mallet

snakes



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 17:37

Watcha Mike hope you ok !!

thanks for your post and very long list of great artists and songs but felt a little sick when you started the country list !!! YUK sorry mate no chance ! dump ur mum at the nearist TRNC hotel or bar she'll be in her elephant !! thats my whole point ! why the heck cant these plonkers find something else to play and sing or are they scared of rejection !! whoops !! i really have let myself in for a lot of criticism when i do my concert of majority unknown songs and mostly my own !! oops would you like to come it will be for charity and around September ish ?

regards Barry

TheSaints



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 17:39

Barry



I will defo be there mate, change yer leads when yer get a crackle and re solder the din plugs etc....

snakes



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 18:14

mike you do go back in time !!! leads ???? solder ????? blimey charlie will be good to see you both

Lilli



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 20:36

Now snake can we please have the eagles the santana sting seal elton anything else italian imagine someone doing the three tenors can we arrange this xxxxxxxxxxxx

mitsi


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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 21:07

Lily, Rob plays Eagles, Hotel California really well. next time we pop in for Mortadella, salami, stilton etc; He'll bring his guitar and serenade you. xxx

snakes



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 21:11

hello Liz !!

i have the acoustic version of hotel california and 3 santana songs in my set but need to concentrate on songs i've written like "how long ( has this been going on)" which got to number one in July "74 a very apt date for TRNC how strange ? and one of my better ones " save the world" which was recorded by annie lennox and did very well "for her "" oh well ! got to try my own style cos i (and others here) are sick to death of the same old songs repeating everywhere you go ! time for a change and i hope i get some positive support from all who want something special or different xx

littlerob


Joined: 07/06/2009
Posts: 6

Message Posted:
07/06/2009 22:32

Snakes



Have to say in 8 years i have NEVER heard any band here play Brown Sugar. Seen probably every band here as well. How many have you seen when you have only been here a couple weeks??

I also notice you praise Eric Clapton in an earlier post to The Saints. Would you be the same plonker who a few months ago to another poster said Clapton wasnt very good.

You also say you wrote How Long recorded by Ace and it was a number 1 in 1974. It was actually written by Paul Carrack and only got to number 20 in 1976. Having researched the Band your name isnt mentioned in any way shape or form. Annie Lennox NEVER recorded a song called Save the World according to her OWN Discography.

If you want to come on here and spout bullshit( which you seem pretty good at) I would suggest you at least get some facts right otherwise you are going to look an even bigger prat than you do now



There are some damn good bands here and quite frankly I seriously doubt you could compete with them

simbas



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Message Posted:
07/06/2009 22:43

Hi littlerob . For a first post that was quite nasty and unprovoked , if you cannot adhere to rule 3 then you had better reconsider your membership with the board

Simbas

ps , i have sent you an e-mail

kezspot


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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 00:34

Think you all need to do your homework, plenty of different acts around, you just have to look!

Lilli



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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 01:15

I for one know that snakes is not full of Bsht. He is a talanted and worthwhile musician.Give It Up For Mr Snakes xxxxx

zerochlor


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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 01:26

What a pleasant surprise to listen to a live band in Shayna beach club & Bar and not hear the usual agadoo mama mia. i will survive garbage you normally hear around the island. what a good saxaphone player the singer is also.

kezspot


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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 01:32

errrrr Funky monkey are also a 5 piece live band, been performing all over north cyprus no abba,I will survive etc .........

like I said do ur homework, look and drive around!

Lilli



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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 01:41

kez hear hear xxxx

Annna


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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 02:23

'Hey hey.... I Saved the world today, everybodys happy now, the good things here to staeeeaaaay!!'



Well... It sounds like Annie to me Little Rob!!!! Look it up on U tube!



100 percent support from me snakey :o)

Was good to meet you



Anna

xxx

snakes



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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 07:28

littlerob thank you for your comments appreciate your input ! if you believe all the statistics you see or read on internet and in your guiness books then there would be no need for the rest of us ! mant songs have been written by others please remember "my sweet lord"by one of the most famous musicians of all but as i said we all have our opinions

cheers snakes, ps paul sends his regards

littlerob


Joined: 07/06/2009
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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 09:19

Zerochlor



Totally agree. Serdar Tuksal is a top singer and a great Sax player. Been watching him for years.



Kez

Yep Funky Monkey very good as well together with Unreal, The Old Rockers and a few others and all playing different songs and never heard one of them play Brown Sugar

Thats the point I was making earlier as I feel the original post on here was rather derogatory and not based on any fact whatsoever



Snakes



Surely if you wrote a number 1 hit you would at least know what year it was a hit. Copyright and Publishing Rights also dont lie

littlerob


Joined: 07/06/2009
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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 10:43

Lilli



Not saying he isnt a talented musician but there are plenty of talented musicians here and never seen any of them post childish remarks about other acts on any of the Forums or make false claims to fame



Annna



It might have helped if Snakes had got the title of the Annie Lennox song right in his post dont you think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Makes you think doesnt it??????????????



Snakes

No comment from you about How Long only getting to number 20 and NOT number1 I notice

Kitty1


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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 11:17

As has already been said, Funky Monkey does not do all the same old stuff. They play Bon Jovi, Proclaimers, Blur, Franz Ferdinand, Lynard Skynard, Killers, Greenday, The Who, The Clash, Vanilla Sky, Police, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys and the list goes on.

Annna


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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 12:21

Little rob...etc

I think your missing the point,

I don't think Snakes is making judgements on any of the entertainers here being 'bad musicians/singers' I think the bigger picture is the entertainment industry in general, as it's the same the world over.



Few musicians remain true to their art, We might mess around with covers, and portray them in our own style, but there's nothing original.

I know of more than one musician here who writes their own stuff.... yet we rarely here any of it??!!

Why?? Because it's a risk, and it's very hard to make a living performing original stuff. Far easier to do 500 miles, or Que sera sera! (somebody shoot me!... I know you want to!) I know I'm never gonna please everybody, but I'll die trying!

Whether or not snakes has done what he says he has.... really is besides the point, although having met him I don't doubt it.

The fact that he is saying it, in the first place, suggests to me, that he is a musician that believes in the true art. the

snakes



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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 14:41

littlerob ! i know when i wrote the song with my friend paul and when it was released even wogan knows ! even know who you really are and no amount of new strings or posh guitars can help you bless !! as for save the world i have a tape of my band playing that song before annie released it as she heard me playing it in the studio and asked to use the tune

take care at least you bring atotal new meaning to "while my guitar gently weeps" have the bottle to introduce the real you !

snakes



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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 14:45

message 21 hello Simbas

if you study the aggressive nature of littlerob and the fact that he joined that day to be nasty and also been here 8 years without posting before !!! yeah right !! i think you will find that he has a previous forum i d and it has numbers aftere his name

thanks for your support

snakes (ps dont think he'll be at my concert ha ha )

littlerob


Joined: 07/06/2009
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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 17:16

Clearly you are on a different planet Snakes as I dont even play an instrument so I am not who you seem to think I am but would be interested in who that is according to you. Please take the trouble to enlighten me



Still no answer to a number 20 in 1976 becoming a number 1 in 1974. ha ha ha.



Perhaps its time to rein in your ego somewhat and concentrate on your own playing. Maybe you will even open with Brown Sugar

littlerob


Joined: 07/06/2009
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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 17:39

Anna



I fully take your point but I dont think I misinterpreted what was said. One post from Snakes used the word plonkers which while I am not a musician, ( despite what the man himself seems to think) I feel is a slur on people like yourself hwo provide what the people here want. Namely entertainment. You have certainly never come on here and slighted your fellow songsters, neither has Jonny Hawkins or anyone else that I've ever seen. As other people have also pointed out the bands here provide a great range of music which makes the first post totally wrong.



As for the other claims, I stand by the facts and not what someone claims. Seen it too often over here

Bootz


Joined: 16/01/2009
Posts: 46

Message Posted:
08/06/2009 17:52

Hey, I do get your point re the old same stuff, but if people are out having a good time etc... that's fine isn't it?

There are a few real 'live' acts here and I'm sure if the law was different, we would get to hear more of them.

I do like real live music with live musicians, but don't like it too loud!

60's music seems to go well, as there are alot of ex-pats from that era here. There was a couple here a little while back that did 60's stuff and though it was covers, of course, they did a really good and different selection to the usual songs done on karaoke



There's room for everyone...

littlerob


Joined: 07/06/2009
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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 18:49

Bootz



Quite right and highlights the irrelevence of the first post.



Snakes



" no new strings or posh guitars can help you" . You are clearly the proof of your statement

snakes



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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 22:44

littlerob (335) !!! the whole point of my post was because i was watching a band on saturday night sitting with some well respected board members of many years who have submitted their identities and pictures (unlike yourself who joined the day you posted abuse at me ) who said why do they all play the same old stuff we'd like to go out and hear and see something different !!! which led to me posting number one and because i hope to play some concerts here although as you said not here long but that is not a qualification to be earned ! i open a challenge to you ! post your picture or come to my first concert introduce yourself and then we will see who is the "liar " and fake !! the public can decide !

regards

Barry ! by the way ! this bloke i saw saturday you should post about ! he had a nice guitar but !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you know !!!!!

snakes



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Message Posted:
08/06/2009 23:21

hello Anna !! thanks for your input and support ! you know as well as me there are lots of stato's out there who live from facts from internet garbage that was compiled from other info right or wrong ! I find people who register and immediately post abuse when they see a loop hole to make themselves noticed are clearly lacking in self esteme and talent as i am sure this person is !!! meanwhile i hope to see you soon and enjoy your performance but as discussed it would be nice to see a different act etc ! i know how good "funky monkey " are and Johnny a great front man soon to be gone and i have heard about the great sax player but as yet not been able to see him !! i admire all good musicians no matter what their genre (style and era 335) but the whole point was "wouldnt it be nice for something totally different" whether or not you like it as i dont the predictable stuff here but surely i can give my opinion !!!! You Tube Highbarn Baker street !! regards

Barry (real name)

simbas



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Message Posted:
09/06/2009 06:14

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