American Idol 2008: Top 10 Men Sing the Seventies

Posted on February 2nd, 2008 in American Idol by mynagirl

Top Ten Men

The men took on the seventies…

Michael Johns sings Fleetwood Mac for the Top Ten Men in American Idol 2008Michael Johns

Fleetwood Muck

Our Favorite Aussie does a bleennhh job with a Fleetwood Mac song.  Engineerboy hated it but I thought it wasn't too bad, just a bad song choice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jason Castro sings the Bee Gees in the Top 10 Men American IdolJason Castro

Charming but not sure yet if he's a singer

Our favorite dreadlocked whiteboy from last week sang the Bee Gees in a feelgood acoustic number that wasn't fabulous but would've been decently enjoyable were he playing at an outdoor festival or at a chilled out pub of some sort.  But I might have to agree with Randy — the whole package is reasonably charming but he may not actually be a stellar vocalist.  I personally don't care but I realize the American Idol producers want the pop singer (which personally I think might be short-sighted of them).  Hopefully he sticks around to get a chance to pick a better song next week.

 

 

 

 

Freddy Mercury rolls over in his grave as Luke Menard slashes a Queen songLuke Menard

On Her Majesty's Disservice 

Dude, he looks like Bruce Campbell's less successful younger brother whom you couldn't possibly imagine successfully delivering a line like "Gimme some sugar, baby".  Which then leads to the next point, which is that if he couldn't possibly deliver spoken words with any kind of panache, he certainly can't freaking sing QUEEN!!!!     Paula said it was great but it was HORRIBLE, nasally and weak and uninspired.  I mean he didn't screech through it but it it was awful.  He sang that almost too feminine-ly for a Queen song (uh… did I just say that?).  And as Simon said, he didn't have any charisma or charm… or the ability to carry off a song like Queen's Killer Queen. 

 

 

 

 

OmG who can sing Foreigner with a straight freaking face?! Robbie Carrico corns it upRobbie Carrico

ROFLMAO!!!! 

Oh my, Hot Blooded by Foreigner!!  Hahahahahaha!!!  I have a hard time admitting that I even know that song — I could never sing it straight-faced!!!!!!  And dude isn't nearly as sheepish as he should be when he belts out the line "Are you old enough… Will you be ready when I call your bluff?"  Bwahahahahaha… I can't even pay attention to what he sounds like as a singer, because anyone singing that song already sounds like a fool!!! HAHAHAhahah!  I'm still freaking laughing my butt off.  I have no review.  Hahahah!!!

HA!

 

 

Emo kid slaughters Karen CarpenterDanny Noriega

Go cry emo weasel!

I can't figure this kid out.  He seems to be over-confident as a coping skill.  The sassy head bobs aside, I can hardly listen to him sing because he's trying to imbue the whole performance with some kind of mystique.  Or something. 

 

 

 

 

Papa is a Singing FOOL! BRAVO for David Hernandez!!David Hernandez

Wow, like who's this dude that can sing so well?!

We had to pause for gales of laughter at the bow-chicky-wow-wow intro of the song, like, oh my gracious what cheesy piece of seventies crapsploitation music is this?  He's not actually singing SHAFT is he?!  But no, it was Papa Was a Rolling Stone (made famous by The Temptations).  If you'd told me this ahead of time I would've said, no way he could pull it off, and then I would've followed that with another thought… gee, I don't remember a thing about whether or not this guy can sing.

Well, he can sing.  That was freaking awesome.  HARD to pull off that song and he did it, he felt it, he sang the sh*t out of it.  Unbelievable.  Agree with Paula, he didn't overdo it or undersell it, it was just spot on.  Two sets of Donkey Ears enthusiastically up!!

 

Jason Yeager supplicates before the judgesJason Yeager

Nice kids falls way flat singing the Doobs.

Sorry to say it wasn't such a great performance.  Long Train Runnin' is a very recognizable song from that decade, so it's a great jam but not such a great Idol audition song.  It was boring, and it would be wince-worthy from a wedding singer.  Totally not up to Idol standards.

And special dishonorable mention for the choreographed outro with the guitar-jam-arm-jabs.  Barf!

Chikezie belts the sh*t out tonight!!Chikezie 

Great performance of a song I've never heard before 

So, am I just ig'nant?  I do not know that song.  Helluva performance, though!!  After the Orange-Suited-Overscripted-Weirdness from before I was so just waiting to slog through listening to this performance.   Well shut my mouth!  I would NEVER before have put this dude in the strong singer category, much less a 'belter', but that was pretty impressive.  This is his genre.  Damn fine.

That was something.

 

 

David Cook rocks the Bad CompanyDavid Cook

Bad Company cover was All Right (Oh c'mon, what other play on words was I gonna make here?!)

Wasn't impressed at first.  However, when I ignored the overall performance/hard-rocker/guitar aspect, etc… he actually gave a really strong vocal performance.  And he's one of the only singers we've seen that's given a performance where sing-along background vocals didn't overshadow his voice.  Not bad.

And he looks comfortable. 

I disagree with Simon that he doesn't have charisma, though.  I mean, we're not swooning here at the Donkey household, but I don't think he's just a singing doink.  And I don't think admitting he's a word nerd did him a disservice.  Pooh on Simon.

Wow. Brave.David Archuleta

Oh…my…god… John Lennon?

So here's a story.  The week after 9/11 Engineerboy and I were watching A Tribute to Heroes, and the opening chords of Imagine started playing.  We look up and see a cowboy hat bent over a piano, and Eboy says, his voice already cracking, "Who could possibly dare sing this song?"  And then it was Neil Young, and it became obvious, of course, that it was perfect for Neil Young to sing that song.

But you don't really have the same reaction to such a young kid taking on this song.  I mean, he's a baby.  He can't possibly understand it, can he?

But, wow, that was really something.  I am very ambivalent about anyone covering Imagine, much less changing it up vocally to the newer vocal run R&B style that's popular now.  But I can't really find much fault with it.  It did bring tears to my eyes.  I have to give him credit, I think he may have lived up to the song. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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