What's the hardest song you've ever tried to learn to sing?

[Solaris]

Right now I'm trying to learn "Home" by Marc Broussard---and let me tell you, it's a stone cold bitch to try to sing. Dayum. Such a soulful, down-home, groovin' song, and practically everybody sings along with it on the radio... you'd think it's easy, right?

HA!

Try singing the song sometime, in his style, WITHOUT hearing him sing it with you. He takes lyrics that are awkward for rhythm in places... and makes them sound utterly natural to sing the way he sings them. So you try by yourself, reading them off a sheet---and suddenly your mouth is full of marbles and an oversized tongue... not to mention that in each verse he's altering the melody.

If I can get this down, I'm gonna totally blow the guys away at karoke. :D

[Flamebird]

probably Alice's Restaurant.

I always screw that up when I get to the "round". :(

[Red Jack]

Danny Boy.

If you start too high, the last verse KILLS you.

[Solaris]

Another kind (which is different from "Home"'s difficulties) that's tough to sing are songs where there's just craploads of words done very fast... like in REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It." Never could get that one down, though at least the words are all rhythmic. I think "Modern Major General" fits this category also. :)

[Infra-Man]

"This Charming Man" by The Smiths, only because I was trying to sing it while playing the guitar part at the same time. Really tough, pretty much impossible for me.

[stealthwise]

Just about anything that Chris Cornell (Audioslave, SoundGarden) does.

[John Hays]

Something French. Wrapping your mouth around all the vowels can be tricky.

[Tuppence]

Passages from Arthur Honegger's Le Roi David. Friggin' neoclassical composers. Also, Stravinsky's Symphonie des Psaumes was no joy, but I've improved musically since I had to sing in it.

(Symphonie des Psaumes and Le Roi David? Yep, I should definitely stay away from the neoclassicals. Give me neoromantic or neotonal anyday.)

[Eliseu Gouveia]

That Pirates of Penzance one.

[LewisH]

The first is Dylan's Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again just because there are SO many verses. The other is Duran Duran's Ordinary World because the pitch changes and rhythm are just outside my vocal range.

[KevinTBrown]

"Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" by John Michael Montgomery.

I defy anyone to "keep up" with this song.....

[hellokittykat]

My Immortal-Evanescence. Weird key changes.

[The Mutt]

The Star Strangled Banner.
:eek:

[Gladiaria_Alata]

So Long and Thanks for all the Fish. :p

Admittedly I didn't try and learn, I only sang it several times with my sister.

And very very badly, at that.

[Pink Bat Max]

The Star Spangled Banner. It's without peer in difficult to sing songs.