Why can't karaoke joints feature some cooler songs?

Dan Jones, Mobile Editor

September 14, 2007

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Your Skin Is Like Vinyl

6:00 PM -- I think I might like to do Roxy Music's In Every Dream Home a Heartache as part of my next karaoke binge (not yet recognized as a medical condition, BTW). If I can find a place that's cool enough to actually have the track, that is.

I believe I may even be able to do the song more justice than Roxy Music did, good as their version is. After all, a pean of love and obsession for a blow-up doll will sound much more convincing coming from the mouth of a fat, balding thirtysomething than it ever did when Bryan Ferry sung it.

— Dan Jones, Feathers and a Boa; Not a Good Look, Unstrung

About the Author(s)

Dan Jones

Mobile Editor

Dan is to hats what Will.I.Am is to ridiculous eyewear. Fedora, trilby, tam-o-shanter -- all have graced the Jones pate during his career as the go-to purveyor of mobile essentials.

But hey, Dan is so much more than 4G maps and state-of-the-art headgear. Before joining the Light Reading team in 2002 he was an award-winning cult hit on Broadway (with four 'Toni' awards, two 'Emma' gongs and a 'Brian' to his name) with his one-man show, "Dan Sings the Show Tunes."

His perfectly crafted blogs, falling under the "Jonestown" banner, have been compared to the works of Chekhov. But only by Dan.

He lives in Brooklyn with cats.

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