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Posted by blackcatwings (Member # 7077) on :
 
Normally when i'm driving by myself i turn on the radio and sing along. I know it's kind of dorky. (i'm afraid i'm not very good. ) Anyway, my cousin came back from TN for the holydays and we were going into town when I started singing to one of my favorite songs. She started laughing and I felt really stupid.

Does any one else sing to the radio?
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
hey......(yes but) you should be on that show Motor Mouth......than the U.S. could all laugh at you
 

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Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
While driving, I often sing, and play either keyboard, drums, guitar, or bass. And on the rare occasion, banjo or mandolin.
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
i usually play harmonica and trumpet at the same time while driving.....not an easy task especially while on the highway going 75 m/h
 

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Posted by Desdemona (Member # 7100) on :
 
Steve, you're not old enough to drive... yes, that's right, i'm a psychic. You're 14, am I correct?
 

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Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
 
I often sing along with the radio or my CDs. If I'm in the car with someone I know well, I'll sing with them there too (just usually not as loud as I do when I'm alone).

Are you dorky enough that you make up harmonies to go with the songs?

[ December 22, 2004, 09:17 PM: Message edited by: ludosti ]
 

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Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
 
I harmonize like crazy.
 

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Posted by Desdemona (Member # 7100) on :
 
Well,I'm not old enough to drive yet either, but I sometimes make up bass lines on my air bass guitar while sitting in the passengers seat... and sing them too And my brother in the back pretends to play his drums... and my dad sings (not well ) What can I say? We're a weird family. Of course, when my mom is in the car we're all silent
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
I always harmonize, too, sometimes harmony sometimes descant .
 

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Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
 
I do, but then, I'm a singer anyway. And yes, I sometimes harmonize. Especially if the song is by a singer whose voice is way too high for my range, like Stevie Wonder.
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
I just play with the octaves, Verily. Usually its those singers with the very low voices I have a problem with, so I just flip up eight notes for a few bars .
 

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Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
 
I do that, too. All depends on my mood at the time.
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
Naturally .
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
I used to sing while I drove, but now that I no longer have a car, I don't.

However, Hindi movies have a lot of singing and dancing. As in, oh, about a dozen songs per movies. Even the movies that are action movies or have a lot of violence or are about POWs locked up in a jail attempting their Great Escape. Serious songs.

And Fahim - who, I might add, can sing no better than I, and I'm downright lousy and off-tune - will sing right along with them. I laugh at him. But then, I also join in singing when I can. It's fun!
 

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Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
 
I am a singer, but my car is the only place I get to sing and the only place I get to listen to cds, so 99% of my music collection is sing-a-long friendly, and I drive as much as I can.
 

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Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
 
I don't sing..but I point and laugh at people that do.
Looks like you guys would keep me busy.
Too bad this place doesn't have a point-and-laugh smiley. How about just laugh?

[ December 23, 2004, 09:41 PM: Message edited by: Tater ]
 

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Posted by Desdemona (Member # 7100) on :
 

 

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Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
 
Tater
 

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Posted by IvyGirl (Member # 6252) on :
 
As some of you know, I love to sing along with the radio and/or CD! Especially if it's a really good song or one right in my range. Or if I'm in a good mood in general.

Tater.

Ivygirl
 

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Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
 
is that what that is?!?!



No way...
wow...
I always thought he was stabbing someone. I thought it was like a poke. Or a jab. Or an angry thrust of the finger. Hmph.

Heck, i deserve to be laughed at. Laugh away, little smiley. Me
 

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Posted by IvyGirl (Member # 6252) on :
 

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Steve, you're not old enough to drive... yes, that's right, i'm a psychic. You're 14, am I correct?

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Does any one else sing to the radio?

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Constantly. And anyone who laughs at me for it is simply pitied for having a life so devoid of interest that my car-singing habit is a subject of comment.

I dance and play drums on the steering wheel, to.

Dagonee
 

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Posted by Desdemona (Member # 7100) on :
 
At VBS he said he was only 7 in 1997
 

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Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
 
I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I wasn't singing while I was driving...

What DO you do? Just sit there in silence and laugh at the singers in other cars?
 

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Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 

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At VBS he said he was only 7 in 1997

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Okay, now you have me confused Desdemona. Do you know him IRL? What's VBS?

FG
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
But does anyone really know anyone?
 

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Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 
Well, sure, quidscribis!

We know YOU well, because you have all those lovely web pages telling us everything about you! In fact, we were reading those just last night because I was trying to remember exactly where you live (and look up Sri Lanka on a map.)

FG
 

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Posted by babager (Member # 6700) on :
 
Well I Sing and Dance ---I like to keep the pointers and laughers in the world busy.
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
Gee, Farmgirl! You mean someone actually reads 'em?

But seriously, I AM working on updating them. Many problems. . . FrontPage puked. . . Blog program hiccoughed . . . Anyway, working on it, will get it done.
 

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Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
 
VBS = Virtual Battleschool, another forum at Hatrack

In other contexts, Vacation Bible School.

[ December 24, 2004, 11:29 AM: Message edited by: Sara Sasse ]
 

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Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 
Yeah - that's what I was thinking - vacation bible school. That's why I was so confused.

And singing in the car -- I used to date someone who would direct the orchestra with both hands while listening to symphony in the car..

FG
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
Hey, I direct orchestras all the time! Well, until my hubby looks like he wants to lock me up in a padded cell. In which case I just slink away and bribe him with chocolate or something.
 

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Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
 
I sing along all the time, and loudly too.

I'm with fiazko and Dagonee.


 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
Listening to NPR frees one from most of these concerns (esepcially if you don't know Latin or German), but I do find myself "moving" to the music ... and I put moving in quotes because it's different from the way one might move to a pop song, but it's still very much movement.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
 
At home I dance in my seat and try to sing in Russian and Hindi and other languages I don't know.
 

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Posted by signal (Member # 6828) on :
 
I'm not a singer by any means, but I sing along in my car too. The way I see it is, if I'm singing, then I'm not yelling at the idiot who tried to run me off the road.

Then again, I sing along just about anywhere if I know the song. I do it in stores all the time. I even caught myself doing it a couple times while listening to my walkman on campus, haha.

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At home I dance in my seat and try to sing in Russian and Hindi and other languages I don't know.

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I try to sing along to stuff in other languages too. I've tried chinese, portuguese, korean, italian...to name a few. For some reason, when I'm listening to music, the words don't really have meaning, even in english, and they only register as sounds (unless I've heard it a million times or read the lyrics). I guess I kind of just imitate the sounds along with the song.
 

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Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
 
"frees one from concerns"?!?!

There is almost no feeling in the world as pleasant as I find singing on a day when my voice is in good shape! Not being able to sing along with a song pretty much relegates it to my "don't much like" pile.

-o-

Along the lines of what signal said, if it's late at night, I never fall asleep at the wheel when I'm singing. The same is not always true when I'm not.
 

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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
I love singing along with whatever I'm listening to, although it's usually a CD rather than the radio. I refrain from doing it if I have a passenger in the car, because I know it's not a lot of fun to listen to, but if I'm alone I'll happily sing away. I've had people laugh at me at stoplights and the like, but I don't quite get that. Most people enjoy singing along with music they like. How is it dorky to do that? In any case, I don't really care if some anonymous stranger thinks I'm a dork.
 

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Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
 
I think most people do it, but it looks really really funny to see someone rocking out when you can't hear the music. Mute MTV or VH1 sometime and see how dorkily intense everyone looks.
 

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Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
 
What I normally do, btw, is drive in the left lane when possible, and don't pull up right next to a car at a stop light--I try to come to a stop three or four feet ahead or behind the car next to me. Because I am self-conscious, and being self-conscious would detract from my enjoyment. And it's all about my enjoyment.
 

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Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
 
Trafficpalooza, coming soon to a car near you

I sing constantly in the car. When my family's aong, they'll sing with me (or, possibly, against me). And with a few friends who know the words, we'll harmonize. Here I'm thinking the Buffy musical soundtrack...
 

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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
See, when I pull up next to someone who is rocking out I smile, but in a "hey, that person is having so much fun, how great is that!" sort of way, not a "my god, you poor pathetic fool" way.
 

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Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
 
Sometimes I try to harmonize, but I wasn't really built for harmony--I'm more of a lead guy.
 

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Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
 
Yes, I am guilty at this one. I have a tendancy to sing along to my cd's (I hate radio, too many commercials). Thing is, is that I inherited my mother's musical ability.....none what-so-ever. I don't care. Most of what I listen to when I drive is NuMetal, or some other form of Rock so how good my voice is doesn't really matter.
 

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Posted by Lisha-princess (Member # 6966) on :
 
Do people NOT sing along? I thought it was just...something everyone did.
 

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Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
 
I do it. Especially angry music when I'm in that sort of mood.
 

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Posted by Chveya (Member # 2623) on :
 
My brother, not being able to sing at all, mumbles along to the radio with a low humming noise. He sounds like an idiot. It's great.

Cat
 

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Posted by larisse (Member # 2221) on :
 
Not only do I sing along in the car, I sing along to the music playing in grocery stores, department stores and the music that plays in the theater before a movie starts. Sometimes, I am quite boisterous to the chagrine of others. Most of the time the singing is contained to just under my breath. I also tend to beat out rhythms or tap out the music with my fingers on any surface they come in contact with.

Sheesh... the things you confess to the 'Rack.
 

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Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
 
Yeah, I sing along to the grocery store music, too.

I mostly listen to instrumental now. This is partially because that's what I'm liking at the moment, and partially because I take the bus and train everywhere. If I was listening to something with vocals, I fear I would sing along. Nothing wrong with singing along in a car or at the grocery store, but I draw the line at singing along to music while on the train.
 

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