Just don't spill your beer on my pants

Last week I was walking past a restaurant and heard "Southern Cross" playing. It made me think of songs that you just start singing and sit-dancing to when your friends are around, songs that make you lean toward your comrades when you sing them, songs that everyone knows the words to whether they actually liked the stuff or not. Usually they're songs you learned because your older brother and his friends were listening to them when you were a kid, or they came out when you first reeeeally liked a boy/girl in high school and that song just spoke to you, or when you were in college and had started drinking.

So I trolled friends to see what songs they thought fell into this category, and here are the results, for your jamming pleasure.

PAUL

• Roxanne
• Shout (from Animal House)
• You Spin Me Round Round

and personal favorites:

• Burning Down The House
• Don't You Forget About Me

KIRT:

• It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine).
  Don't ask me to remember all those words, though. I never did get all of that, so I just mumble along and occasionally shout out something like "LEONARD BERNSTEIN!"
• Psycho Killer by Talking Heads
• Rio or Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran.

and just because it's fun to sing cheesy songs...

• Open Arms or Oh Sherrie by Journey
• Photograph or Rock of Ages by Def Leppard

When you're drinking, a lot of bad music sounds great, so this could go
on forever. I'm having fun bouncing around Wikipedia, though. Remember
"Peek-a-Boo" by Siouxsie and the Banshees?

BLAKE

• Everybody Wants to Rule the World
• In the Air Tonight
• Black Water
• Born in the USA
• Sweet Home Alabama
• American Pie (but only the chorus, I can never remember the verses)

KEV (a karaoke king of Ozzieland!)

• Come On Eileen
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Ke-San (If you are an Australian)
• Billy-Jean
• Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang
• Hotel California
• Summer of 69
• Living on a Prayer
• Cocaine
• Sweet Child of Mine
• You Shook Me All Night Long
• ABBA Waterloo, SOS, Rock Me, Dancing Queen, etc. etc.
• Twist and Shout
• Twistn. Shake it shake it shake shake it, Baby (the blues Brothers)
• Am I ever going to see your face again? (another Aussie classic)
• Sweet Home Alabama (if you come from there)
• Rock Lobster
• American Pie
• Jack and Diane
• Black Velvet
• We are the Champions
• 2 out of 3 aint bad
• Paradise by the Dashboard Lights
• New York New York
• I did it My Way
• Time Warp
• Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
• Imagine
• Rebel Yell & White wedding
• Raw hide
• Proud Mary
• I'm a believer
• More than a feeling
• I was made for loving you, Baby.

CHRIS H
The Golden Girls theme song is the only song I sing while
drinking with friends.

Dana
The first time I ever got drunk, I sang that "Radio Ga-Ga" song
(can't remember the exact title). It was on MTV and I sang it at the
top of my lungs over and over again, annoying everyone at the party.

JEN M
Has anyone mentioned The Devil Went Down To Georgia?
Que Sera Sera? Or S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y Night by the Bay City Rollers?

KARLA
YMCA - Village People!

And to close the night out, Blake once again
The whole 'songs to drink by' email chain has been extremely enjoyable for me....bringing up loads of old and very funny memories.

There's another one...'Memory'