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

[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 :)