Mission Mission

Numbers-wise it’s only a handful more than the time I sang 45 songs in the month of May 2014 alone, but I sang a lot of good stuff in 2015.

It started with a pair of songs at the first Karaoke Underground party in San Francisco, and grew and grew from there. Highlights (besides the KU stuff) included “96 Tears” which was surprisingly awesomely fun to do even though it’s real simple, “Diane Young” because the baby-baby-babys are so fun, “Surf Wax” because the audience loooooved it so hard, “Honey Bunny” because I mean c’mon GIRLS, MAN, and “Police on My Back” because it was my final song of 2015, on New Year’s Eve in Shibuya and it was awesome.

The point of this list and this post is to encourage everyone to do more karaoke! I got into somewhat late in life, like when I was 28 or something, and I hope to help others avoid this pitfall. Karaoke is killer and it will improve your life, I promise. Here’s the full list:

1. Christina – Oblivians
2. I’m Not An Animal – The Blind Shake
3. Brandy You’re A Fine Girl - Looking Glass
4. Conquest - The White Stripes
5. I Don’t Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant
6. Go West - Pet Shop Boys
7. Victim of Love - Erasure
8. Motherless Children - Eric Clapton
9. Back to the Shack - Weezer
10. Seasons - Future Islands
11. Fall Back Down - Rancid
12. Girl U Want - Devo
13. Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again - Angels, The
14. 96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians
15. You Might Think - The Cars
16. What Do All the People Know - The Monroes
17. Diane Young - Vampire Weekend
18. Don’t You Want Me - The Human League
19. Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
20. Surf Wax America - Weezer
21. What Ever Happened? - The Strokes
22. Army - Ben Folds
23. Annie Waits - Ben Folds Five
24. Veronica - Elvis Costello
25. You’re My Best Friend - Queen
26. More Than A Woman - The Beegees
27. Rivers of Babylon - Boney M.
28. Next to Me - Emeli Sonde
29. Take Me to Church - Hozier
30. Dance the Night Away - The Mavericks
31. End of the Line - The Traveling Wilburys
32. Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe
33. She’s Got You - Patsy Cline
34. Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
35. Rasputin - Boney M.
36. Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney
37. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles
38. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John and Kiki Dee
39. Someday - The Strokes
40. Oh Yoko - John Lennon
41. Getting By - The Rentals
42. Honey Bunny - Girls
43. Rich Girls - The Virgins
44. Myth Takes - !!!
45. Blank Generation - Richard Hell
46. Marquee Moon - Television
47. Someday - The Strokes
48. Undercover of the Night - The Rolling Stones
49. Living for the City - The Dirtbombs
50. Don’t Pass Me By - The Beatles
51. Shoop - Salt ‘n Pepa
52. Take Me Back to Your House - Basement Jaxx
53. Relax, Take It Easy - MIKA
54. Police on My Back - The Clash

I particularly recommend, if you’re looking to do karaoke in San Francisco, doing karaoke at DJ Purple’s world-famous “Dance Karaoke” party, every Thursday at Slate Bar in the Mission

[Photo by The Karaoke Underground]

I mean, to look exactly like that, you have to be Luke Spray, which… we can all dream…

But seriously, whatta view!!!

Last week we mentioned how our pal Jeff Seal has been pissing on Mast Bros since long before news of their fraud made it cool to piss on them.

Well, Jeff got at us on Twitter with three fine pieces of further proof of his deeds:

1.)

@missionmission https://t.co/5eCGelTOkx

— Jeff Seal (@JeffOSeal) December 24, 2015

2.)

@missionmission https://t.co/54XeH2N3Wj

— Jeff Seal (@JeffOSeal) December 24, 2015

3.)

@missionmission I use the word literally literally. https://t.co/ZHBmz5XaGO

— Jeff Seal (@JeffOSeal) December 24, 2015

Thanks, Jeff!

Follow Jeff Seal on Twitter, everybody!

[Photo by Nico, via It's Always Sunny in San Francisco]

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[Photo by Corinne, via It's Always Sunny in San Francisco]

Yes.

(But let’s not forget the mimosas. They make the best mimosas in the Mission.)

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Now please enjoy our excellent post about the eternal debate Boogaloo’s vs. St. Francis Fountain

Some more fine work by Primo Pitino.

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Formerly local comedian Chris Garcia just made a very important sociological breakthrough:

Thanks, Chris!

Now please enjoy some other great Chris Garcia stuff…

Our pal Ben commented these on one of our Facebook posts about this guy. Thanks, Ben!

Now please enjoy the originals…