Speaker 1: 0:32

Hey, super Awesome listeners. Matt and Sam are on a break ahead of season 5 of Super Awesome Mix premiering January 16th. In the meantime, you get a mixtape rewind this week. It's one of our most popular episodes ever, with 12 songs you can karaoke to A great one to reference. While you're thinking about a New Year's resolution that involves singing in front of people, that's a common one, right? Well, nevertheless, enjoy this episode and we'll be back soon with a new mix. Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix. My name is Matt Sidholm, alongside my co-host and co-founder of Super Awesome Mix, samer Abusabi. Samer, how are we doing this week?

Speaker 2: 1:26

I am doing so well because the weather has cooled down just a little bit at the time of this recording and I realize my mood is like 100% linked to what's happening with the weather, which is maybe not a good thing. Should maybe think about other factors that affect my mood. But no, it's great.

Speaker 1: 1:46

You may want to talk to someone about that if the weather's having that dramatic of an effect. But I experienced a little bit of that. I will say I lived in Maine for three years and the winters are so long there and after growing up in Texas just the not seeing the sun for long stretches and just the snow and the cold it definitely started to affect me after a while. So I can understand that. But maybe you just want to move to Florida at this point, maybe you've done your time in New. York.

Speaker 2: 2:20

That is the journey that I think a lot of people make, right, it's like New York for a while, then retire in the swamps of Florida.

Speaker 1: 2:29

Never to be cold again or held back by anything. Really, exactly exactly.

Speaker 2: 2:36

Let's talk about today's mix. This one hands down is one of the most fun that I've had, not only putting together, but listening to um. I found there is just like it was actually really difficult because there's so many options yeah so in a recent recording, uh, we kind of mentioned karaoke songs, like you know what would make a good karaoke song and after the recording we usually talked about, okay, what other things do we want to?

Speaker 2: 2:59

you know what other mixes? And that one immediately popped back up of like you know what. I bet that would be a really fun one, and it absolutely was, and I I'm sure we will do more of these, uh, as the years go by, because again, there's just an unlimited library of songs that you just want to belt out to um. But I think we got a pretty good good. First, 12 um, 12 songs here and 16 if you are on patreon with us yeah, I think this is a pretty solid list.

Speaker 1: 3:24

So if, and really what I tried to do, I tried to pick songs that I have sung in karaoke, while also mixing in songs that I feel like anybody could sing in karaoke, right, so I, so I tried to make it. So there's also a couple of recommendations in here for people that if you've never gotten up there before, you know could be a nice entry point for you.

Speaker 1: 3:46

So you know, we tried to mix it up there, so let's get into it. You start off with you know the first note I wrote down on this song. I think it's the ultimate karaoke song. You're not going to a karaoke night without this one. You know someone getting up there and singing this one, and maybe more than once it happens. But Don't Stop Believin'. By Journey.

Speaker 2: 4:07

Yes, it is possibly, quite possibly, the ultimate karaoke song, so I'm really happy it opens the mix. It was the first thing that I wrote down even before I started searching and thinking about other songs. Yeah, I mean, this is just like the ultimate. Like, get a group together, everyone starts singing. I think it spans all age groups. At this point, I mean, I don't think that they're. You know, it would be hard to find someone who hasn't heard of or know the song or even sung to the song out loud. Because, because it just it just hits you in all those right places. Like you, you feel good the lyrics are, you know, like you just want to. You want to feel that you don't want to stop believing yourself listening to it super positive message and it builds up.

Speaker 1: 4:52

So. So you get and and I think this is key, you'll hear me say this a few times today with karaoke songs, if you're not as confident, pick a song that the crowd will get into. That's going to get. Their energy will carry you. And here you talk about a great. It's just a great energy song generally, but there's no doubt everybody in the crowd is going to be singing along with you. So if you've never karaoke before and you want to get up there, I mean pick, don't Stop Believing Everybody's going to be into it.

Speaker 2: 5:22

Exactly, yeah, and this is. You know you'd mentioned songs that you had done karaoke to. This is one that I have done many, many times, and so that's the other reason it's number one on my mix. The other little fun thing here you know we've mentioned before kind of like lyrics that you've always thought they were one thing, but then you finally go look them up and they're another.

Speaker 2: 5:41

So this happened with me. Funny enough, with this song, even though, ironically, with karaoke, I should be reading the words you know like. But you should be, I should be. But at least in my experience, it's usually copious amounts of alcohol involved with karaoke.

Speaker 1: 5:56

Right right.

Speaker 2: 5:56

It's a little, a little, you know, both metaphorically and and physically, blurry. Um, so the line streetlight people live in just a fine emotion, so he, he kind of sings it like streetlight people so, but I've always thought it was streetlights period, people period, and I just thought he was like listing out things that he was seeing. But apparently, apparently that's not the case. He's describing a group of people that he calls streetlight people, meaning it's just people who walk alone at night or walk around at night, you know, not necessarily alone under the streetlights oh I, I think I kind of heard it like you did like streetlights period, people period.

Speaker 2: 6:35

yeah, I don't think I'd ever kind of connected the two before Huh all right, that's a fun fact, I know, yeah, so streetlight, there is an adjective, not a noun. That's great.

Speaker 1: 6:47

And a grammar lesson for all you folks out there too.

Speaker 2: 6:50

Yeah, I mean, you just never stop learning when you listen to the Super Awesome Mix podcast. Let's move on to track two. You've got a Neil Diamond song and you know, caroline could have been a really good one here.

Speaker 1: 7:02

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 7:03

But you got another strong pick. You know you went with Cracklin' Rosie, yeah, so tell us about this.

Speaker 1: 7:08

So I've done. I love Neil Diamond. I've done multiple Neil Diamond songs karaoke before. I always come back to Cracklin' Rosie. Now I had told my wife you know like I enjoy getting up and singing at the karaoke night, but she'd never seen it before. And we went. We ended up at this karaoke bar for somebody's 40th birthday and I said, yeah, I'm going to go up and sing a song and I pick this song and I get up and sing it and one. It was the first time she heard me sing and she was like pleasantly surprised.

Speaker 2: 7:40

Okay.

Speaker 1: 7:41

And then, but also I found out she had no idea what this song was. She was also like what was that song? Who sings that?

Speaker 1: 7:50

And so we had to, you know, do a little Neil Diamond education. But this is a great song because everybody loves to sing Neil Diamond. Sweet Caroline is going to be sang at some point during the night. But Cracklin' Rosie is a great. It's an upbeat song, although when you get into the lyrics Cracklin' Rosie is a store-bought woman and it's kind of funny. I like the thing about him singing to Rosie and just slipping in the line that she's a store-bought woman.

Speaker 1: 8:22

And then he just keeps singing from there and Rosie kind of reacting like wait, what's that? I thought we were past, that, that wasn't my past, but yeah. But then at the end you get the and so you can get the whole crowd into it again. Right, so you get a little help from the crowd at the end yes, um, love it.

Speaker 2: 8:43

So cracklin rosie is a bottle of wine, apparently, hence hence the store-bought wine. Uh, store-bought woman. Um, my understanding of it is that he's talking about uh, having a bottle of wine as a date.

Speaker 2: 8:55

Which guilty I I've done, also done that it makes for a great date and so I kind of feel like, yeah, by the time he gets to the ba ba ba, it's like it's kind of perfect because again my experience with karaoke by the end of the night I think if you actually hear a recording of yourself, like never take a recording of yourself doing karaoke no, you don't want to do it that way. Yeah, and you listen to it, you do not sound at all what you think you sound like. That's so like no, there's no.

Speaker 1: 9:20

You know, you don't have the ear monitors like the professional singers.

Speaker 2: 9:23

It's not like you're getting the constant right okay, god, I'm a little sharp there, right like yes, there's no sound engineer on the back tweaking your levels or anything exactly so I think you end up kind of just being like and it's great, so it's wonderful that that's just built into this song right there for you all right, so track three you went with.

Speaker 2: 9:49

I want it that way by the backstreet boys yes, um, this was another song that I knew I had to put on there. My backstory with this one is that my friend Casey, who I've actually mentioned on this podcast before, she was the person I met online on AOL ages ago and then we became real friends and lived in the same city and everything All that good stuff. Anyway, it's not weird. It's not weird, matt. Okay, it's not.

Speaker 1: 10:11

No, it was a non-Catfish situation, although it sets up like a catfish story exactly so.

Speaker 2: 10:18

She loved this song and anytime it would come on, whether we were chatting, like even if we were chatting and it came on in her like room, she would start to type out the lyrics to the song in the chat and I would have to be like, oh my god, not again. I would have to live through the like three and a half minutes of her writing out the lyrics to this song because she loved it so much and of course it was on the telephone. She would sing it um, I love casey. She's a great friend, not the, not the most amazing of singers. That's not her skill point.

Speaker 1: 10:46

I hope you've told her that before and listening to this podcast, it's not the first time she's hearing that from you. That would be a tough one that would be a tough one.

Speaker 2: 10:53

You're right. No, she has a beautiful voice. I'm just teasing her. It's gorgeous, I'm just very jealous. It is absolutely beautiful. So I had just known the song, like the lyrics, forever. And then what's really funny about the song is A I think this is a pretty easy karaoke one. It's kind of a crowd pleaser, especially if you're, like you know, millennial, gen, x, age. But the lyrics are actually completely incoherent in a way.

Speaker 1: 11:16

They make no sense.

Speaker 2: 11:17

They make no sense.

Speaker 1: 11:18

There's no through line to this at all.

Speaker 2: 11:21

And apparently this is a known thing. Like it's not just me. Having read it, I did more research on it, like we do, and even other people have just like admitted including like the band members or the producers of just being like, yeah, like this song makes no sense, like what is he actually saying?

Speaker 1: 11:43

that he wants you know, because, like, yeah, there's no through line. Anyway, that's my thought on it. Well, it's as if the five of them went off and they were like guys, we need four bars from each of, you, just come on back. And then they just sort of layered it like a boy band, mad lib, right right and just kind of put this together.

Speaker 1: 11:56

Because they each sing their parts, everything sounds great, there's all harmonies, everything. I think this is kind of the ultimate boy band song, but you're right, it makes zero sense when you really sit down and think about it, because it's like nothing connects.

Speaker 2: 12:12

But that doesn't stop people from wanting to sing it every time they hear it. In fact, when I was listening to the mix I had on the speaker this time I wasn't listening on headphones and my girlfriend was in the room and immediately took over from the Backstreet Boys and carried the tune and everything herself, so I knew I had a hit when that happened.

Speaker 1: 12:30

I said this is going to be a hit. This is going to be huge, Going to be huge.

Speaker 2: 12:36

All right, let's get to track four. Another song, funny enough about a relationship, this one a little bit more coherent. I would say a lot more. You've got Just the Way you Are by Billy Joel.

Speaker 1: 12:48

Yeah, there's a lot of great Billy Joel songs. You can sing karaoke. Of course there's Piano man, but I have a little bit of a backstory on this one. Now there is a place in San Antonio, texas, that still exists, called Martini Club, and for years and years when I lived down there, it was started and owned on Friday and Saturday night and he would play every instrument within a song and sometimes at the same time. So he'd have like a trumpet in one hand, he'd have the guitar around his shoulder. It was amazing to watch, right. Well, we would go there because Thursday nights was karaoke night, right, and one night I'd gotten up and sang like I would. We would go occasionally to where you know. Thursday night I'd get up and sing something. Well, then, one night we're there and in between songs you know they'll just play music, right, like just in between singers getting up there and this song is playing on, like just the speakers there, and Wayne looks over at me and is like Matt, my girlfriend wants to hear you sing this song.

Speaker 2: 14:03

Oh, wow.

Speaker 1: 14:04

And I was like, all right, okay. So he cuts the line, of course, because it's Wayne asking the karaoke DJ. Hey, matt's going to sing this song because my girlfriend wants to hear him sing it. So it was this song, just the Way you Are. So I get up and I sing it, and so it was probably the only request I've gotten in karaoke, but the fact that it was from the great Wayne Harper for his girlfriend, a real feather in my cap. So I love this song and, yeah, that was a pretty fun night, pretty cool to get that.

Speaker 2: 14:36

That is really awesome. I have never had someone request for me to sing a song, so I'm impressed. That is great. It's a sweet song. It's kind of sad looking back, though, because he sings a song about his then wife and he's um, you know somewhere here about how it's like forever thing and then they only they divorce like nine years later. So he said that it's. It's very cringy looking back, um, having written these songs, but well, you know, look, I've been married for nine years.

Speaker 1: 15:09

It's a pretty good run, okay that's forever.

Speaker 2: 15:13

Nine years forever.

Speaker 1: 15:16

I'm not saying this is the end. I want it to keep going, okay.

Speaker 2: 15:22

That's amazing. Let's not scoff at nine years. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1: 15:27

All right. So track five and I'm going to admit I thought this was a I was surprised this showed up. Not that I don't love this song it's Africa by Toto but I think this one's a little harder to sing than most. So talk about why this one's on our karaoke mix.

Speaker 2: 15:43

Yeah, so this is a. I would consider this a reach karaoke song, to your point about how it might not be the easiest song to sing, but I just feel, at least in my opinion, it might be the greatest song of all time, because I do not hand that out lightly. Let us, let us remember this moment.

Speaker 1: 16:03

You should start that off with look. I'm not one for hyperbole, but this is the greatest song of all time of all time.

Speaker 2: 16:11

I mean it just. It just has everything going for it. It, the, the lyrics, you know, are just all about, you know, blessing the rains down in africa. It's got such a smooth feel to it. Um, it like starts off and then, like the chorus hits and you, you just want to sing the chorus, even if you just completely butcher it because you don't have their voices. Um, it's just like. It's a very singable chorus. You know it's going to take a lot to drag me away from you. There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do. You just feel all fired up singing it. So, yes, I had to put Africa by Toto on here because it is a tough one to sing, but at least in my experience, when I've done it, you can also get kind of the crowd, at least on the chorus.

Speaker 1: 17:01

They're not going to follow you through the verses, but they will follow you in that, in that chorus, yeah, and I think the verses are the tricky part. That's that's why I would say you know, this is this is a little harder to sing. I also think it's interesting that this is literally about the songwriter's love of the continent of africa. Like there's no hidden meaning here. He just really appreciates Africa and I was like, oh okay. Yeah, I thought there'd be more of a backstory. There's really not.

Speaker 2: 17:28

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 17:28

I love that.

Speaker 2: 17:28

I love when things are just as clear as ever. All right, track six halfway mark here on this main episode You've got Family Tradition by Hank Williams Jr and I got to say when I was listening to this, you know again with my girlfriend nearby I was like, oh, he just had to throw in a country song. Now this is. This is again his efforts to get me to like country. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 17:53

Yeah, it's going to happen. Well, what did you think of this one? Did you like it?

Speaker 2: 17:59

This is very honky tonk, it is it's so incredibly honky tonk. I'm not sure this is the kind of country I can get behind okay, well, all right, let's get into this one.

Speaker 1: 18:08

Okay, it's a family tradition by hank williams jr. Uh, so when I I lived in maine for a few years and there was like one sports bar in the town we lived in and one night they hosted and I'm not lying here a paper rock scissors tournament.

Speaker 2: 18:23

Wow yeah.

Speaker 1: 18:25

Now your first question is did I win the paper rock scissors tournament? I did not, because I was playing against a drunk guy and it would be like one, two, three shoot against a drunk guy and it would be like one, two, three shoot and I would put my hand out and then he was so drunk that he was like on a tape delay. So he would just stare at my hand and then put out the thing to beat me and I'm looking at the paper rock scissors referee and going well, this isn't fair.

Speaker 1: 18:52

But um you know, believe it or not, nobody really cared that it wasn't fair and he advanced and I was eliminated.

Speaker 2: 18:59

Well, you should have appealed to the Paper Rock Scissor League. You know, gotten some fines thrown out.

Speaker 1: 19:06

I went home and Googled it right. Apparently, there is no higher authority. All right, this is an unsanctioned event. Oh my goodness, that's the sad part. Now, later that night, they open up the karaoke machine right and they got karaoke going. The DJ says, all right, hey, next person, I need a guy up here Sing. The next song I play Gets a free T-shirt. So of course I pop up, I'm like, yeah, I'm in. Okay, let me get that free T-shirt for whatever sports bar in Waterville Maine.

Speaker 2: 19:34

Nice in.

Speaker 1: 19:34

Waterville, maine, that there was. And he just starts to play this song, family Tradition, right, and I'd never sang it before. I knew the song a little bit enough and the chorus is, you know, you can get into it a little bit, but it's a great country song and I think I did it well enough because as I was standing up there, someone handed me a beer so I was like, all right, cool, I got a free drink out of it too. Free, free t-shirt, free drink. But it's also in the chorus. You can get the crowd into it, at least here in Texas, because you know the chorus. He asked you know what you know? Why do you drink? And everyone yells to get drunk? Why do you roll smoke, what to get high. So the crowd, at least here in Texas, will get into it and will respond to those questions. So you know, might be a little bit more of a regional pick, but it's definitely one. If you've got some knowing people in the crowd that they'll get into.

Speaker 2: 20:30

I like that. Yes Again, audience participation is really nice with these picks, for sure is really nice with these picks for sure.

Speaker 1: 20:39

So, speaking of one that people could get into, I feel like this is definitely on that level. Track seven you picked Firework by Katy Perry.

Speaker 2: 20:52

Yes, this is also one. You can get the whole crowd going because everyone wants to sing the chorus because, baby, you're a firework. Come on, show them what you're worth. Um so great. It also includes just the best opening line ever in a song. I think there's a lot of best evers happening in this mix this is a superlative podcast. It is, it is, but I mean she opens with do you ever feel like a plastic bag?

Speaker 2: 21:14

drifting through the wind, wanting to start again, and you know that just hits me well, and your favorite movie is american beauty, so it also lines up with that.

Speaker 1: 21:27

That's a deep pull for the listeners out there if they remember american beauty.

Speaker 2: 21:31

yeah, oh, my god. Yeah, you know, I'll just go on youtube and I'll just watch 15 hours of a plastic bag in the wind and I just silently and sadly sing this song to myself with a little tear rolling down. Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? No, but great song. You know what a singable anthem I just I love Katy Perry for that reason.

Speaker 2: 21:59

Like between this and like Roar and a number of other ones, I actually I picked this one not only because I love singing at karaoke and getting the crowd involved, but also when I was training for my first ever half marathon, I had this on the mix and it kind of amps you up, you know, it's like you know, you, just, you just um, you just got lines here like your original cannot be replaced, like it's all about kind of like motivating you and getting you going, and I found some remixes of it which are even like cooler and so, yes, that's why I had to put this on, because it doubles is just like uh, you know, don't, don't feel like a plastic bag, like, as she says, you don't have to feel like a waste of space. Very empowering, that's right. You're a firework, get out there, explode, explode on the world.

Speaker 1: 22:43

Not a bad way, not in a bad way, yeah no, in a fun, creative, loving way that's right, that's right, yes, nice message here.

Speaker 2: 22:50

Track eight come on eileen by dexy's midnight runners. Um, yeah, I, I love the opening fiddle. Yeah, I love the opening fiddle. I was sold on the opening fiddle. I've always enjoyed that part of this song.

Speaker 1: 23:03

Yeah, this is a nobody. I don't great one hit wonder here, right, dexys, midnight Runner, no one can name another song, but everyone knows. Come On, eileen. Here's why this is a great karaoke song. No one knows the words of the song except come on, eileen. So if you are a little tipsy, it's karaoke night and you get up there. It doesn't even matter if you're looking at the monitor, just get the like kind of rhythm of the song and then once you get to the chorus, I mean you just got to belt out come on, eileen, you know, and just get everybody. And again, just got to belt out. Come on, eileen, you know, and just get everybody. And again we talk about crowd participation.

Speaker 2: 23:39

Everyone's getting into this one right, yes, and and it's great that you mentioned that, because I didn't know this as I was researching this song this is basically a guy just trying to convince Eileen to have sex with him. Like, oh, like just getting more and more explicit as the song goes on, to the point where he's literally telling her to take off the red dress. And you're just like, wow, wow, this, he. He's asking for what he wants, I guess. I mean he. He starts coy and then just very explicitly, he's like yep, do that so crazy? Uh, this could definitely make our like wait, what was that mix that we had earlier this season?

Speaker 1: 24:18

You know, but Dexy's defense. He is asking for consent right.

Speaker 2: 24:22

He is as explicit as he's getting.

Speaker 1: 24:24

He's not, you know being too forward, at least you know. I mean, maybe the song cuts off.

Speaker 2: 24:32

Right, right, yes, I would love to assume that if she said no, he would absolutely respect it. You know that he's just, he's really trying, but if she said no, he'd be like OK, thank you.

Speaker 1: 24:43

Well, the video, it's just like him and his friends roaming the streets Right and they're wearing like denim overalls and it's like you know, like what I feel, like they're just going to move on to the next activity.

Speaker 2: 24:56

If she says no, right, they're going to go skip rocks down by the shore or something that's great.

Speaker 1: 25:05

Good pick, all right. So pick track nine. You went with Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera. Again, I think Christina's got such a good voice. This is a hard one to sing, so so you know. But great song, not gonna deny that. But uh, what's your recommendation here on the karaoke side?

Speaker 2: 25:24

um, yeah, do. This. One is like a later night one, when the crowd is you know plenty of of kind of drinks in, or at least the mood is really high. If you're not drinking like it's okay, if you're singing this terribly because, yes, christina Aguilera has a beautiful voice, like she is, it's funny because you know she came out that same.

Speaker 2: 25:42

She was like kind of in britney's shadow, let's say um because everyone just kind of lumped them two together because both you know, they both had these big um singles that came out. This is 1999, it's like the beginning of, like teen pop, um, but she, I mean she really stands on her own, like I think it was unfair to her to just say like, oh, she's just kind of like in britney's shadow, because she has her own talents. Like she, her voice is incredible. She's had a also a very long, like you know, amazing career in music and then on the voice and um, she's great. So, yes, all props to christina aguilera, but this song, um, is just particularly fun to sing. Also very clearly a sexual innuendo all throughout. You know another. It's funny that it just kind of paired up this way as we picked our songs, these two, these two guys mushed together Very singable lyrics. You know, like again, chorus is real strong. That's when you can kind of get the crowd in together.

Speaker 1: 26:39

Yeah, everyone knows, everyone knows this song right. Yeah, no, and I totally agree with you. You know, revisiting this song, you know, 20 years after it came out, I was like how many little kids were singing along to this song. And parents were just like, yeah, it's about a genie in a bottle, like whatever them listen to it. And then you go back and it's like, whoa, this is uh.

Speaker 2: 27:01

Yeah, this is not a song I'd want to hear my daughter singing right, um, the other thing that I've noted is I keep coming back to songs that apparently were released in 1999 and I just feel like I want to put together I really want to do a 99 mixtape.

Speaker 2: 27:18

I mean strictly songs that came out that year, because I just think specifically yeah specifically, there's so many good picks from that, from that year, and then I also wondered if I took that a step further. What if there's just something magical about like the end of a decade, you know, like maybe it's just something about the nine?

Speaker 2: 27:33

yeah where, like you know, maybe 2009, I need to go look there over 2019 there's some great music. So maybe it's just something about like you kind of wrap up a decade. Uh, since that's a you know very common way that we kind of shone your eyes, just made up that word music I like that word I could have I would have been like, yeah, that's a word, definitely If you just sailed past it.

Speaker 1: 27:54

But yeah, that's an interesting. We should make a note of that and maybe do a deep dive into some of those years and see if it makes sense.

Speaker 2: 28:00

I'll get our team of researchers on it.

Speaker 1: 28:02

Our crack research staff.

Speaker 2: 28:04

You're right, just me on a couch with a Coke Zero nearby by um. All right, let's go to track 10 here. Home stretch, um. Classic, like group song, really easy to sing. Great choice, you've got the gambler by the one and only kenny rogers yes, kenny rogers.

Speaker 1: 28:26

uh, so many great kenny rogers songs. And the great thing about kenny rogers is that he's not belting out any of these songs, right? It's all kind of like talk singing, I guess, is the best way to describe it, right? So here it's like he's really just telling this story. So again, if you're not real confident about getting up there and singing, it's like, go ahead and do the gambler. You just got to tell this story about him sitting on a train and meeting this gambler, and then everybody in the world is going to join in on the chorus and so they will just carry you through the song.

Speaker 2: 29:00

Absolutely. My whole life can be related to the show the Office, like an episode of the Office. But this was featured on the Beach Day episode when they're on the bus.

Speaker 2: 29:10

And Kevin starts singing. You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, and then the whole bus joins in. I just feel like that was such a natural moment. If they hadn't, I feel like that could have been one of those scenes that they included in the show, where he just started to choose to sing that and then everyone in the cast decided to sing it. And they didn't even script it, because I think that's what would happen when that chorus comes on.

Speaker 2: 29:37

Yeah, you can't help it like in a group, if you start that out ever.

Speaker 1: 29:39

Yeah, people will join in. Try to work today. If you're going into the office, just go to the break room. Start singing.

Speaker 2: 29:42

It see how many people join in and let us know how it works out. Leave a comment or dm us record it, you know we'll.

Speaker 1: 29:49

We'll repost the experience if you get a video of yourself singing the Gambler in your office break room and send it to us, we're going to repost it on our Instagram.

Speaker 2: 29:59

Yes, or on Zoom. If your office is virtual still, just do a Zoom recording.

Speaker 1: 30:03

Yeah, just mid-Zoom meeting. You work that in to a proposal.

Speaker 2: 30:10

We will feature the hell out of that. We'll feature that. That's a promise, that is.

Speaker 1: 30:15

Okay, and you know I think that feature, that okay, that's a promise, that is um okay, and you know, I think that would be for a form of a tribute, if you will, and that's a good segue into track 11 you picked, and this was a deep cut tribute by tenacious d. I mean, I love this song, yeah, but I was like I can't envision someone singing this in karaoke.

Speaker 2: 30:35

It is a deep cut. I had to put this in because, like you will, it's like a surprise one. You know it's like a sleeper hit for karaoke because it's not top of mind, right Like, and there's a lot of songs that, like we left off, that are, like you know, semi-term Life by Third Eye Blind. We feature on the show.

Speaker 2: 30:52

Like that is such a classic one. Many, many others, but this one like is. So I picked tenacious d because one I love that band. Two, actually got a chance to see them live at the nerdiest thing I've ever done in my life, which was go to a blizzcon conference. Um, that is blizzard. The gaming company that creates world of warcraft oh, okay yeah, so they have it. They had a yearly conference and I went with my guild Probably a number of listeners.

Speaker 1: 31:16

I just discovered what that was. So listeners, we all simultaneously had the same reaction to what that was. And then others are like look, that's the old guy in the show. And it's true.

Speaker 2: 31:29

Yeah, so I went with my gaming guild there and so definitely the nerdiest thing I've ever done in my life. But Tenacious D performed live at the conference my gaming guild there and so definitely the nerdiest thing I've ever done in my life. But tenacious d performed live at the at the conference. Um, and it was like a pretty small venue so we were very close to them performing. Um, jack black and and kyle are just amazing performers and that's what I love about this song is that it's it's very theatrical. Um, you know very clear story that's being told about his run-in with the devil and how they played the best song ever. But this is just a tribute to that song.

Speaker 1: 31:57

Yeah, this is not the song. This is not the song. I make that very clear.

Speaker 2: 32:03

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 32:04

And the song sounds.

Speaker 2: 32:05

nothing like this song, the greatest song ever sounds nothing like this song, but it's such a theatrical one. So if you can go out there, especially with a pair, you know, with someone else, to kind of do this with you, to play the other voices, like the double voice for example a lot of fun, you can get a crowd kind of going. It might be just that I hang out with nerdy people and that's why this works.

Speaker 1: 32:29

But I agree with you.

Speaker 2: 32:45

This is offbeat enough that if you get a couple people who really commit to doing it like it, would be awesome, it would bring down the house. I agree that we're going to talk through, but for this one we finish with Ice, ice Baby by Vanilla Ice, which has actually been on our show before with Mary Padian's episode, episode three. If you've not listened to that, go check that one out. She's got a great set of music, so tell us why it made the mix again.

Speaker 1: 33:07

Yeah. So I feel like kind of in the same vein as the Gambler, like this one again, you don't have to have a great voice because it's a rap song, right? So everyone knows the lyrics to this one and so you're going to get up there. You're not going to stand there and read the monitor the entire time, because you're going to instantly remember the lyrics as you go along, because you probably have sang it a million times.

Speaker 2: 33:29

Right.

Speaker 1: 33:30

And then the whole crowd's going to get into it again. Again, that's the running theme here is that if you're gonna do a karaoke song, do something with a lot of energy that people can get into, and I think this definitely falls in that category I agree.

Speaker 2: 33:42

Um, I will say though my experience, because I did try to, I did try to sing all of these songs on this as I ran through them, kind of, uh did my own little one-man karaoke.

Speaker 2: 33:52

These are sometimes like, if you, if you're really trying to commit to the verses, like they are deceivingly hard to sing some of them, um, to sing them in time, right, like because he does move like fairly fast, um, at least you know, unless you're like a just an expert rapper, which that would be awesome, but I am not, and so I end up kind of just feeling breathless at the end of it. And then you're like I say you know, like that's always how it ends up going, but it's a great one.

Speaker 1: 34:17

Everyone does know the chorus and like that's all that, everyone's going to sing, basically well, and everyone and everyone's going to get excited once that, once it kicks in like people are going to be into it too, which, which is also key, people recognize everyone knows that, yeah, that opening riff, which also is very confusingly like, it's like, is it?

Speaker 2: 34:35

is it officially sampled from the role from um under pressure?

Speaker 1: 34:40

um, I think they did eventually lose that lawsuit, right? Yeah, they really fought it tooth and nail and it's like one of the greatest moments in like behind the music history. As vanilla ice is trying to explain why it's different, because he's like theirs goes ding, ding, ding, ding ding and ours goes ding, ding, ding, ding ding he's like it's not the same and he like says this deadpan into the camera and it's like you just did the same thing twice, like I don't either way, yes, it's an amazing opening to that song.

Speaker 2: 35:15

Everyone's gonna know it and they're gonna get really excited. It's on it that's right.

Speaker 1: 35:20

Uh, all right. So there you go, uh, 12 tracks for your ultimate karaoke mix, your super awesome karaoke mix. Um, so, check us out on social media at super awesome mix, but, more importantly, go to super awesome mixcom and check out our events page yes, the um.

Speaker 2: 35:40

We are live now, fully live, with our events package. What that means is that on your next event, if you really want to, like, make a mixtape for someone, but you don't want to go and print a whole bunch of cassettes and like who's really got a cassette player anyway? And you don't just want to give people a spotify link, because a lot of people may use apple music or they may use title or they may use youtube music and all these other services, but you really still want to give them a mixtape and kind of explain, like we do, why every track is on there and personalize it, um, and bring back the joy of what it was to give people, you know, like a moment in time through music. Well, we've got you covered. So go onto our events page, click on events it's in the very top left of our website, um or click on the make your mix button to learn more. Um, fill out a quick little form.

Speaker 2: 36:23

We've got some really affordable packages and prices for you and you will be able to hand out like physical mixtape cards. They've got a link to our, to a site where you've got all your tracks, your notes for every track. You've got links to all the different major music providers so your friends can listen to the mix and enjoy it in the way that they choose to. It's a lot of fun. Really excited about getting this out there. It's really awesome. It's basically like our app idea come to life. That's really what makes it so cool.

Speaker 1: 36:52

That's right, and still, just like the app, very eco-friendly, right, you're just handing them a card. It's not using a bunch of plastic or anything like that, and let us do the work. Right? You're not sitting there burning CDs all night, right, we'll take care of it for you.

Speaker 2: 37:06

So yeah, check that out.

Speaker 1: 37:08

Superawesommixcom is the website and the events page. But there you have it. There's another super awesome mix for your collection, and we will be back next week with yet another one. And so for Samer, this is Matt, and we will see you then.