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.