As an addict to the arts of karaoke and inane goal-setting, I've endeavored to sing in excess of 400 karaoke songs in the year 2017. (I hit about 200 in '16.) And to keep it interesting, I've promised that for every song sung, I will donate $1 to The American Civil Liberties Union. Now I ask/invite you to join me by matching (or exceeding) my donation. Click here to donate to my karaoke marathon.

Today is… DECEMBER 30
it is done!!!!
MY CURRENT 2017 KARAOKE TALLY: 400 SONGS
(NUMBER OF UNIQUE SONGS: 166)

Follow me on Twitter, where I tweeted every song as I sang it: @Noah Tarnow 

EVERY SONG I'VE SUNG THIS YEAR
(each has been sung once unless otherwise noted)

"All My Loving" – The Beatles; "And It Stoned Me" –  Van Morrison (4); "And Your Bird Can Sing" – The Beatles; "Angst in My Pants" – Sparks (2); "Another Nail for My Heart" – Squeeze (5); "Another One Rides the Bus" – "Weird Al" Yankovic; "Antmusic" – Adam Ant; "Autumn Almanac" – The Kinks (2); "…Baby One More Time" – Britney Spears; "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" – Johnny Cash; "Basket Case" – Green Day (5); "Beauty School Dropout" – from Grease; "Behind Blue Eyes" – The Who; "Behind the Wall of Sleep" – The Smithereens (3); "Bicycle Race" – Queen; "Big Shot" – Billy Joel; "Billy Hunt" – The Jam (4); "The Book of Love" – Peter Gabriel (2); "Born to Run" – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (2); "The Boys Are Back in Town" – Thin Lizzy; "Boys Don't Cry" – The Cure (5); "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" – Looking Glass (5);  "Breaking the Law" – Judas Priest (5); "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" – The Greg Kihn Band (6); "Buddy Holly" – Weezer (4); "Bus Stop" – The Hollies (3); "California Über Alles" – The Dead Kennedys; "Call Your Girlfriend" – Robyn; "Careless Whisper" – Wham! (3); "Chantilly Lace" – The Big Bopper (2); "Dare to Be Stupid" – "Weird Al" Yankovic; "Da Vinci" – Weezer (5); "Dead Man's Curve" – Jan and Dean; "Devil in Disguise" – Elvis Presley (4); "Disco 2000" – Pulp; "Don't Change" – INXS (2); "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" – Johnny Cash; "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" – Culture Club; "Easy Lover" – Philip Bailey and Phil Collins; "eBay" – "Weird Al" Yankovic; "Echo Beach" – Martha and the Muffins (3); "867-5309/Jenny" – Tommy Tutone (5); "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)?" – The Buzzcocks (5); "Fish Heads" – Barnes and Barnes; "Friday I'm in Love" – The Cure (4); "Gee, Officer Krupke!" – from West Side Story (2); "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" – Bowling for Soup (5); "Girl from Mars" – Ash; "Good Girls Don't" – The Knack (4); "Good Morning, Good Morning" – The Beatles (2); "Green Shirt" – Elvis Costello and the Attractions; "Hanging on the Telephone" – Blondie (4); "Hate to Say I Told You So" – The Hives; "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" – The Smiths (4); "Help!" – The Beatles (2); "Here Comes Your Man" – The Pixies (3); "Holiday in Cambodia" – The Dead Kennedys (3); "Holidays in the Sun" – The Sex Pistols; "Hooked on a Feeling" – Blue Swede; "The House of the Rising Sun" – The Animals; "I Am the Walrus" – The Beatles (4); "I Don't Like Mondays" – The Boomtown Rats (3); "I Fought the Law" – The Clash (4); "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts; "I Saw the Light" – Todd Rundgren (5); "I Want You to Want Me" – Cheap Trick (2); "I Was Wrong" – Social Distortion; "I Won't Back Down" – Tom Petty (4); "I'm a Man" – The Spencer Davis Group; "I'm Alive" – The Hollies; "If You Wanna Be Happy" – Jimmy Soul; "In a Big Country" – Big Country (2); "In My Life" – The Beatles; "Incense and Peppermints" – The Strawberry Alarm Clock; "Inside Out" – Eve 6; "Just Can't Get Enough" – Depeche Mode; "Kiss Off" – Violent Femmes; "Lady Madonna" – The Beatles (4); "Listen to Her Heart" – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (3); "Lookin' Out My Back Door" – Creedence Clearwater Revival (5); "Love Is the Drug" – Roxy Music (2); "Love Song" – The Damned (3); "Magnet and Steel" – Walter Egan (5); "Mellow Yellow" – Donovan; "Mexican Radio" – Wall of Voodoo (2); "Midnight Confessions" – The Grass Roots; "A Million Miles Away" – The Plimsouls (2);  "Mr. Roboto" – Styx; "Mr. Spaceman" – The Byrds; "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) – Billy Joel (2); "My Back Pages" – The Byrds (5); "My Bologna" – "Weird Al" Yankovic; "My Perfect Cousin" – The Undertones (4); "A New England" – Billy Bragg (4); "New Rose" – The Damned; "Oh, Boy!" – Buddy Holly and the Crickets (2); "The Old Apartment" – Barenaked Ladies (4); "On Broadway" – The Drifters (2); "One More Minute" – "Weird Al" Yankovic (2); "Opposites Attract" – Paula Abdul and MC Skat Kat; "Orgasm Addict" – The Buzzcocks (2); "Personal Jesus" – Depeche Mode; "Photograph" – Weezer; "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" – Tom Lehrer; "Pork and Beans" – Weezer (6); "Promises" – The Buzzcocks (5); "Punk Rock Girl" – The Dead Milkmen (6); "Queen Bitch" – David Bowie; "Radio Radio" – Elvis Costello and the Attractions (3); "Reelin' in the Years" – Steely Dan (2); "Rock 'n' Roll High School" – The Ramones; "Rock Around the Clock" – Bill Haley and the Comets (3); "Rockaway Beach" – The Ramones (2); "Rock the Casbah" – The Clash (5); "Runaround Sue" – Dion (4); "Santeria" – Sublime (3); "Say It Ain't So" – Weezer (4); "Say It Isn't So" – Hall and Oates; "School's Out" – Alice Cooper; "The Seeker" – The Who (3); "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" – Journey; "Since U Been Gone" – Kelly Clarkson; "Somebody Told Me" – The Killers (3); "Sorrow" – Bad Religion (2); "Spicks and Specks" – The Bee Gees (2);  "Spinning Wheel" – Blood, Sweat & Tears (5); "Stand and Deliver" – Adam Ant; "Starman" – David Bowie (3); "Start!" – The Jam (2); "Strawberry Fields Forever" – The Beatles; "Stray Cat Strut" – The Stray Cats (5); "Suburban Home" – The Descendents; "Summer in the City" – The Lovin' Spoonful; "Sunshine Superman" – Donovan (5); "Switchin' to Glide" – The Kings (2); "SWLABR" – Cream (3); "Tainted Love" – Soft Cell (2); "Talk Dirty to Me" – Poison (5); "Talking in Your Sleep" – The Romantics; "Teenage Dirtbag" – Wheatus; "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" – The Smiths (4); "These Eyes" – The Guess Who; "Turning Japanese" – The Vapors (3); "20th Century Boy" – T. Rex; "Victim of Love" – The Eagles (2); "Virginia Plain" – Roxy Music; "Wait" – The Beatles; "Walking Contradiction" – Green Day (4); "Walking on the Moon" – The Police; "Watching the Detectives" – Elvis Costello (2); "The Way" – Fastball (4); "We Are the World" – USA for Africa;  "Well Did You Evah!" – Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop; "What Do I Get?" – The Buzzcocks (3); "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" – R.E.M. (3); "When the Sun Goes Down" – Arctic Monkeys (3); "When You Were Young" – The Killers (5); "Where Is My Mind?" – Pixies; "Whip It" – Devo; "William, It Was Really Nothing" – The Smiths; "Windy" – The Association (2); "Yer So Bad" – Tom Petty (2); "You May Be Right" – Billy Joel (4); "You Only Live Once" – The Strokes (4); "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" – Dead or Alive; "Ziggy Stardust" – David Bowie (6)

PLACES/EVENTS AT WHICH I'VE SUNG THIS YEAR
(all locations are in San Francisco, CA, unless otherwise noted)
(numbers indicate how many songs at each location)

Baby Grand (NYC) (8); Bar Fluxus (Karaoke with Dana) (8); Bar Fluxus (KJ Paul Karaoke) (10);  Bender's Bar and Grill (Punk Rock and Schlock Karaoke) (19); Botanica Bar (NYC) (5); Butter (Punk Rock and Schlock Karaoke) (1); Cape Cod's Irish Pub (West Harwich, MA) (Cover Story Live Band Karaoke) (4); Classic Cars West (Oakland) (Punk Rock Karaoke Benefit) (1); The Contented Cow (Northfield, MN) (2); DoReMi Karaoke Studio (Eagen, MN) (10); Doremi Music Studio (4);  Encore Karaoke Lounge (10); A friend's apartment (1); Ginger's (8);  Hill Country BBQ (NYC) (Rock Star Karaoke) (1); Karaoke One7 (NYC) (17); Laughing Monk Brewing (Punk Rock and Schlock Karaoke) (35); Maggie McGarry's (Punk Rock and Schlock Karaoke) (35); Mango Dome Community Center (Mango Karaoke by KJ Alletron) (5); Martuni's Piano Bar (2); The Mint Karaoke Lounge (37); Nick's Lounge (Oakland) (2); O'Flanagan's (NYC) (The Human Karaoke Experience) (2); OMG (Karaoke with Dana) (58); Pandora Karaoke Bar (6); Phil's Sliders Karaoke Night (Berkeley, CA) (4); PianoFight (Beatles Night) (9); PianoFight (Kaeli-oke with Kaeli Quick) (2); Planet Rose (NYC) (2); The Residence (KJ Paul Karaoke) (29); The Riptide (Punk Rock and Schlock Karaoke) (4); The Rite Spot (Beatles Night) (5);  The Roc (Karaoke with Dana) (14); The Roc (KJ Paul Karaoke) (11); Sing Sing Karaoke (NYC) (4); White Horse Inn (Oakland) (2); YamaSho Japanese Restaurant and Karaoke (12)