songs matt can sing for remainder of series

bohemian rhapsody

Saw that Bedingfield track on VH! or something yesterday and thought it sounded very similar to Matt.

Would like to mention the Mac Davis song, but I daren't

Twinkle Twinle little Star.

Small Town Boy or Tell Me Why, Jimmy Somerville
Loving You - Minnie Ripperton

anything by The Stylistics or The Chi-Lites

Sylvester - You Make Me Feel Mighty Real

what about the Bee Gees

Mika - Love Today
I Believe in a Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
I Wish I Could Fly - Keith Harris and Orville.

The Korgis - Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime

anything by Simon Climie/Climie Fisher

or Scritti Politti

Crystals -Leader of the pack
Cindy laurpa -girls just want to have fun
spice girls-any song
dion warwirk(written by Bee Gees)woman in love

all these would suit Matts style as he is
the guy who refuses to do a guy song.

All these would be perfect for Matt.

1. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyonce
2 . Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
3 . Man I Feel like a Woman - Shania Twain
4 . Respect - Aretha Franklin
5 . Walking on Sunshine- Katrina and The Waves
6 . Dancing Queen - Abba
7 . Ladies Night - Kool and the Gang
8 . Independent Woman - Destiny's Child
9 . It's Raining Men - the Weather Girls
10 . Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
11 . I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
12 . This One's For the Ladies - Martina McBride
13 . It's My Party - Lesley Gore

Coldplay The Scientist

This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

Big Girl Don't Cry or anything else by Franki Valli and the Four Seasons for that matter

I Will Survive is a good call

Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves - Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin

I Don't Feel Like Dancing or Comfortably Numb  - Scissor Sisters

Matt could do this one if he makes the final.
To show he is versitile and can do a 'mans' song

Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick- Ian Dury and the blockheads

The duck bits in the Orville song

Good call George.

Helmuthian Folds Joined: 02 Oct 07
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I Wish I Could Fly - Keith Harris and Orville.

Ahem?

Dont let that Brush fella steal my thunder![;)]

Again I never read your contributions HF

Ok then,  the hamster bits in the Hamster Dance

Let me guess, you have a pad in front of you with several names written down and you ignore all their posts?

I ignore everyone except you-know-who HF

I understand, you are in a relationship with him after all!

Matt  did the pubs and clubs for 7 years.
Now he tells everyone he deserves to win now he only does girlsd songs.
And Keith Harris and orville will be his swan song when he says
he wins in the final.
Should we call it his duck song.
Good luck Matt boring the viewers and your fans with all
the girls songs you sing.

Keith and Orville would be his duck song surely not his swan song?

spurs are on their way to wembley - ossie ardiles and crew
it feels like i'm in love - kelly marie
she sells sanctuary - the cult

Easy  ... Lionel Ritchie

From a Distance ... Bette Midler

she sells sanctuary - the cult

tuuuuuuuuuuune!!!!

maybe on reflection she sells sanctuary has got mary's name all over it

Surely that would be 'She Sell Sanitary Towels'?

REM - Losing My Religion

or 'she smells skanky'

Everybody Hurts ;-)

Bridge Over Troubled Waters would be a goodun' I wreckon.

^^guaranteed snoozefest^^

good song, but not for x factor.

Perhaps I should have underlined "I Wreckon"

First time I ever saw your face....... Hes good at that one

I agree with George Brush. Everybody hurts would be a brilliant song choice for Matt. I am not sure anyone on xfactor has ever sang this song which is even better and many of the viewing punlic might never have heard this song before which is even better again.

Songs with a sombre element are the real vote winners if you can pull it off. If Matt could pull it off with everybody hurts on the final week and can bring one of the judges to shedding some tears he would win in my opinion.

Yes good song GB/Paddletoe.

only song was bleeding love that he sang that wasnt all low keys and he showed his vulnerabilities

I would love to see both Aiden and Matt sing everybody hurts. Would be interesting to see who would give more feling to this great song.

Oh i was wrong about it not being sung on xfactor before. Diana Vickers sung it. However, it was far too dark and sombre song for her.

Actually, forget everything i said.

I got the song mixed up. I was thinking of the song "Hurt" by nine inch nails and then johnny cash. Thats the song for Matt and Aiden.

Everybody Hurts was REM wasn't it?

aye

Yes I think Matt would put that across well but there's so many songs they could all do it must be hard picking just one.

Everybody Hurts has been done to death by now though.  Out again not so long ago as a charity record.  I think doing obvious songs like that just seems a tad cliched.

Okay what do you fellas think about this song for Matt which he could play with the guitar. I reckon the audience would go mad for it, stomping their feet and yahooing.

Its called Galway Girl by Steve Earle. Here is a clip of Gerard Butler singing it in a movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDX7cApv934

can't be bothered to look atm but is it the one from some of the old Magner's ads ?

Dont know squares, its from the film ps i love you.

pretty certain it was used in Magner's ads.  XF will never go down that route.  It's cliched old poodle rock all the way in general.

4 songs that would bring the house down

maggie may - rod stewart
i dont wanna talk about it - ebtg
the drugs dont work - verve
night owl - gerry rafferty

I chose Everybody hurts because it's a going home song actually

Here's a serious suggestion though....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOGp4XXjLVQ

The voice hardly compares with Paul Buchanan, but to be fair the falsetto does

George

A couple of things:

1.  You do like a dirgy tune don't you.  There must be better songs than that surely.

2.  There isn't no falsetto in it.  I listened to it on youtube (never heard it ever before) and he doesn't sing falsetto at all.

if he tried the bedingfield song he would fail miserably because there is no way he could compete with the shane ward version, which was the highlight of his winning year if i remember rightly

I wasn't around for the Shayne Ward year so I dunno.

In Buchanan's more limited range the high notes would count as falsetto Lou. You like an argument don't you

Matt could certainly sing them in falsetto

And yes, I love a dirgy tune.

I'm beggining to realise most of the forum were brought up on the NOW albums

George

That's not falsetto full stop. He would have a limited range especially compared to Matt, who wouldn't but he's still not singing falsetto in that song believe me.  If Matt sang it in a higher key he may well have to do it in falsetto but that key would be easy for him to hit.

I prefer the THEN albums (wink)

Everybody walk the Dinosaur is contemporary according to you [;)]

nowhere man - the beatles

Smalltown Boy

fighting butterflies - steve brookstein

caught by the fuzz - supergrass
what a waster - the libertines
cocaine - jj cale

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Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
I Wish I Could Fly - Keith Harris and Orville. 

I only put up four songs and thats two you 'copied'.

Either great minds think alike or fools rarely differ! [;)][:D]

I was first to suggest Smalltown Boy

Squares,

Surely that makes us the three wise men then?

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Live Forever - Oasis
Spirit Of Radio - Rush
Will You - Hazel O'Connor
When A MAn Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - a la Lou Rawls

Roger

Prefer The Animals doing DLMBM myself but good song like.

Will You is a great song and evokes such memories of teenage angst it makes me think it would be a good one for Aiden.

will you is a beautiful song and would be amazing for aidan

Think he could manage Rocket Man next week with acoustic slant

red red wine - simply red
anything by steve brookstein he has much the same long term appeal
matt can easy win this 1/1 is about right imo, but he is just over hyped rubbish