SingStar

[mrph]

• NYE is not the right day to go shopping for songs to download for your PS3 SingStar game. Everyone else is trying to do the same thing, at the same time. It won't cope too well.
• SingStar really shouldn't allow you to do your own karaoke version of Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat.
• ...or Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart, for that matter.
• On the other hand, Falco's Rock Me Amadeus is a welcome addition to the catalogue. Although it's not the easiest one to sing...
• ...and if you really want to sing along to Auld Lang Syne, you can get Die Toten Hosen's version on one of the German PS2 releases. Might be a bit hard to find, though. :)

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I was rather disappointed that Robin didn't have anything I could or wanted to sing (not even the orignal 99 Luftballons) last night but with a PS2, you don't get the download option.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

PS3 offers the English version, but I'm far too used to hearing the German original at goth nights...

You can combine the PS2 versions with PS3 as well, but it's not the most intuitive way to do it - although possibly the general intoxication didn't help with that either... - so we were spared the PS2 Disney singalong, as we couldn't work it out and didn't read the manual. :-)

Two more downloadable songs worthy of mention -

The Pipettes' Pull Shapes, mostly just because I know a bunch of people who read Phonogram, which used it in the last issue...

...and Nick Cave's Ship Song. Another one I'm not entirely sure would make a good party song, much as I love it.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

You can download songs?! I am becoming dangerously close to owning and playing a computer game.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

You can for the Playstation 3 version; I think previous versions limited you to whatever was on the disc.

There are about 650 songs in the download store at the moment, with new ones being added more or less weekly. I think it launched with about 100, so they are actively expanding it...

Most of the ones they add are the predictable chart favourites - from Britney Spears to Robbie Williams, The Killers and Queen - but you do get some more unusual stuff as well (aside from the stuff I've mentioned, I think Hawkwind were perhaps the most unexpected find...).

There's a decent selection of 80s too - A-Ha, Starship, Duran Duran, Ultravox etc...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Cool but there was to much 80's pop/wave already (considering it was Robin's, not surprising) but not enough Classic Rock.

We found Thin Lizzy's "The Boys are Back in Town" extremely difficult because it's so fast (which you don't realise when you just listen to it).

I was well impressed when belaroo and devalmont went serious (rather than everybody shouting into two mikes) and sang a duet of [can't remember song], hitting almost every note spot on.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Elaine (WINOLJ) normally wins when we play, as most of us can't actually sing very well. However, it turns out that ehrine is also very good, so the NYE contest was a little more even than usual...

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for the female folk section :)

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I adore Die Toten Hosen!

[ladybirdintheuk.livejournal.com]

Oh, I must look again at some point. My most treasured download on there was Tomorrow by Silverchair. I managed to get "Singstar" rating the first time I did it. Which is probably a sign of a misspent youth ;)

[mrph.livejournal.com]

I managed to get Lead Singer on Duran Duran's Union of the Snake, which is better than I can do on anything else. Probably for similar reasons... :-)

[ladybirdintheuk.livejournal.com]

The only other one I've managed Singstar on was a U2 song I only knew because it was on the disk... so it's probably easy to sing or I have the right range for it or something.

I will have a look at some point and see what else I can find. One of the joys of being on maternity leave is that I can play singstar at 10am on a Monday morning if I so desire ;)

[jorune.livejournal.com]

I would dearly love to see some goth songs on there so I could see the reaction and performances they would inspire.

Lots of songs seem suited to a female pitch and tone, the thought of seeing people take on Laibach or Industrial standards seems highly amusing.