September 8, 2004

Alt-Rock Karaoke 2004

Posted September 8, 2004 by Andy Baio

Last year, I wrote an entry about karaoke songs on Usenet, focusing on the oddball subgenre of indie and alt-rock karaoke. Well, a year later, not much has changed… Here are some of the recent hipster hits found in alt.binaries.sounds.karaoke:

Modest_Mouse_-_Float_On_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Yeah_Yeah_Yeahs_-_Maps_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Franz_Ferdinand_-_Matinee_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

The_Streets_-_Dry_Your_Eyes_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

The_Streets_-_Fit_But_You_Know_It_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Snow_Patrol_-_Spitting_Games_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Jet_-_Cold_Hard_Bitch_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Badly_Drawn_Boy_-_Disillusion_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Which raises the question, is there a big overlap between karaoke fans and indie-rock fans? I can understand requesting Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” at a karaoke bar, but Franz Ferdinand?

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