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BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?

GUEST,ron 13 Dec 04 - 09:51 PM
flattop 13 Dec 04 - 11:16 PM
Cluin 13 Dec 04 - 11:28 PM
Bert 14 Dec 04 - 12:31 AM
GUEST,Clint Keller 14 Dec 04 - 01:03 AM
Cluin 14 Dec 04 - 03:57 AM
Dave Hanson 14 Dec 04 - 05:20 AM
Splott Man 14 Dec 04 - 05:28 AM
Jeremiah McCaw 14 Dec 04 - 05:31 AM
GUEST,Mingulay 14 Dec 04 - 06:12 AM
GUEST,Paul Burke 14 Dec 04 - 06:22 AM
Clinton Hammond 14 Dec 04 - 07:03 AM
GUEST,KB 14 Dec 04 - 07:57 AM
GUEST,milk monitor 14 Dec 04 - 08:23 AM
Dave Hanson 14 Dec 04 - 09:00 AM
ToulouseCruise 14 Dec 04 - 09:02 AM
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Bill D 14 Dec 04 - 10:13 AM
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Subject: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST,ron
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 09:51 PM

Is Karaoke a ligitimate form of music?
does any one have any experience of it here, I think it is great!
I am looking for Karaokee
songs that can be made from any sourceany help

thanks

ron


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 11:16 PM

Not great - the greatest. Just stay sober enough to find the mike and the monitor. If not, sloshed friends can turn you in the right direction and prop you up. Drink lots. Smoke dope outside in the night frost. You don't have to practice. You don't have to tune instruments. Listen to those backup singers. Listen to those wonderful musicians. Listen to that punchy recording. Can't sing in key? Good for a laugh. Sing, "You ain't woman enough to take my man," before she does. Totter off the foot high stage. Twist you ankle. Get carried to a table by fellow inebriates. Dance watching her body shouting to strange woozy men. Watch her dance a slow one with an old flame after you trudge off angrily. Punch your cousin in the face. Smash her glasses.   Wake the bouncers. Give them good reason to beat the crap out of you. Make them laugh, put their arms around you and walk you outside to sober up. Fight family and friends in the parking lot. Swear at the drug-dealer before he gets killed with a baseball bat. Slash tires. Piss by the front fender of the car. Let her overhear you saying, "Do we have to drive that bitch?" Then tell her "You're ok, not really a bad person." Make her wonder, "Who said I wasn't ok? What the fuck are they saying about me?" Chase after your drug-crazed mother in your mini skirt and heels. Confuse the gray-haired man's Chrysler with a taxi. Jump in the front seat. Drive off drunk. Turn up the radio until the speakers fart. Listen to her rant all night when you want to sleep. Tell each other you had a great time. Get that urge to sing again as you sober up.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 11:28 PM

I sung a bit of Karaoke once years ago. I did it as a bit of a joke. And that's how I still think of it.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Bert
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 12:31 AM

It's not my scene but it is a step foward to just sitting there listening.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST,Clint Keller
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 01:03 AM

Juat about any kind of music is a legitimate form of music.

Maybe not commercials. Or "Jingle Bell Rock."

clint


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Cluin
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 03:57 AM

Sure, and heating up a Swanson's is cooking.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 05:20 AM

Karaoke is for sad twats that can't sing or play proper music.

Let battle commence.

eric


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Splott Man
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 05:28 AM

It's become a bit raucous over the years (though I admit it's great fun if you're amongst friends and family), but in it's original Japanese form, it's more gentle and low key, giving an opportunity for non-show-offs to perform songs they love amongst a small group of supportive people.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 05:31 AM

Geez, Splott, you make it sound like a . . . a . . . (gulp) folk club!


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 06:12 AM

Once spent a holiday in Malta in an apartment located next door to an almost all night karaoke bar. Our arrival coincided with its opening and the opening of the bar doors onto the street so that they could spread the "musical happiness". After about a week the local residents had had enough of the racket and managed to get the doors closed, the volume down and the hours curtailed. We no longer needed to catch up on sleep during the daytime , bliss.

Karaoke obviously has its place, the bottom of the Marianas Trench comes to mind.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST,Paul Burke
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 06:22 AM

Karaoke is music in the sense that painting by numbers is art. It's music in the sense that putting a frozen meal in the microwave is cookery, in the sense that building an MFI flatpack is woodwork, in the sense that spending a fortnight drinking in Ibiza is travel. In the sense that watching Big Brother is life.

Worse, by limiting what is acceptable to perform in public to pale imitations of commercial music, it reinforces the idea that only music marketed by entertainment companies and paid for by the consuming public is legitimate.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 07:03 AM

Karaoke sucks!


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 07:57 AM

It is the devil's tool. I HATE it. The sound is all fuzzified so that the worst excesses aren't too painful - but that means that good singers sound crap. SO the bad singers make twats of themselves, the good singers make twats of themselves. My little soul cries out "don't do it", as the legions step up to the cringe-athon.
WHY would ANYONE want to do it? euchghghg-hawk-spit.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 08:23 AM

Spookily enough I am currently trying to find a dj/karaoke host for a nightclub in Greece. Has to be really cheesey and eager to work seven nights a week during May 2005 to Oct 2005. As well as being able to fend off ouzo'd up female Mancunians singing 'I Will Survive.'
Accom thrown in at bargain price, two mins from the beach and guaranteed sunshine.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 09:00 AM

What is the pay?

eric


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 09:02 AM

Okay, first a quote...

"Comparing live music to karaoke is like comparing Picasso to paint-by-numbers" -- Me.

Secondly...
I enjoy karaoke. Yes, it's true. I am in an acoustic duo that covers a lot of different types of music, but not every song I enjoy singing. Also, it does allow both good singers and hackers a way of getting to be on a stage and having fun, and showing off some (occasional) talent. It gives an opportunity for myself to learn some new songs to cover as well, and to see how my range compates to the original. Finally, it gives people a chance to poke fun at themselves with no harm done, except for a few disrupted eardrums. hell, I've won $300 bucks a couple months back for singing one song -- a lot better per song pay than my regular shows, I'll tell ya!

(By the way, we have a couple of companies in this city that host it at various venues that have very professional equipment, so the sound (if not the singing) quality is quite good)

Brian.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 09:04 AM

There would be enough time to make an informed decision following some in-depth research


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 09:16 AM

Pay will be about £20 per night (no less)....depending on experience etc. Which sounds low, but outstrips bar staff rates and the cost of living is minimal there.

Accom would be an apartment behind the club, also owned by the club.....so could be free. Drinks would be flowing your way all night and eating there is next to nout.

Hours are 8pm to 2am. Club is air con and all decks provided. You could have all day on the beach and be fawned over all evening.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 09:40 AM

Karaoke is the logical extension of Talkin' World War III Blues – now that Bob's lost the melody. It's folked up music, folks. But you got to go for quality, not to Japan where jaded workers try to forget their long office hours by assassinating their livers. Come to Cape Breton where singers are often unemployed, rested, in fine voice and drunkards just for the fun of it. No, I wouldn't trade one quality Karaoke night with Phil Kasouf at the Radio Club in Glace Bay for all the Al Lomax LPs in your collection (and I've only Karaoked at the Radio Club twice.) I wouldn't trade any of the Northside's finest inbred Karaoker for your entire population of moonshining, cousin-kissing, banjo picking, Appalachian crooners – not even Hank Williams the 47th.   It weren't just ground up record labels in the black vinyl making those awful noises. You should hang down you head Tom Dooley, they replaced your scaffolding, or was it a tree they hung you on, with the Statesville Plywood and Veneer factory.   They changed your fiddle into a banjo. Besides, you should have a better cover story when you stab a woman that many times. (Have you noticed that some mental illnesses don't interfere with our writing – you loquacious bastards? OK, I'm going for treatment.) I'll let you be in my dreams if I you'll let me in yours. He said that. He said a lot too. Perhaps, too much.

Sounds like a worthy gig, milky.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 09:45 AM

I remember my number one daughter known here as 'sweetfia' jumping up on stage when she was about nine years old, and singing 'A horse with no name' along with a karaoke machine. Aaaaaaaaah, she used to be so cute, what happened?


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 10:13 AM

"Karaoke obviously has its place, the bottom of the Marianas Trench comes to mind."

isn't that a bit extreme? I'd think the middle of the Gobi desert would suffice....unless you were within 200 miles & downwind.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Mooh
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 10:36 AM

Man, you should hear me sing along with Led Zeppelin! Well, no you shouldn't, but I sure do enjoy bonding with the home stereo!

As for karaoke as a performance phenomenon, I hate it, and I don't get it. It should be burried beside lip-sync competitions in the cultural cemetery.

Peace, Mooh.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 11:35 AM

The Gobi desert is much too near civilisation, besides it would upset the camels. No, I think that an ichthyological gerfuffle is much more suitable. "KARAOKIST SAVAGED BY ENRAGED MUSIC LOVING DENIZEN OF THE DEEP". What a lovely headline that would make.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 11:57 AM

No takers then...even with ear plugs and copious quantities of Metaxa?


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 11:59 AM

Sorry Milk Monitor, can't give up the day job. Besides I'm too old.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 01:35 PM

Hey, if you don't like it, don't go there. We don't want anybody hanging around who isn't having fun, anyway.

I have very little karaoke experience, but it's been loads of fun when I have attended/participated. No, it's not serious high-quality performance, but it's FUN -- assuming, of course, that one is with a group of friends and everyoneis suitably inebriated.

The most enjoyable karaoke session I've been to was part of a "younger-generation" wedding weekend earlier this year (where my older son was best man.) After separate bachelor and hen parties, the entire group met at a karaoke venue, aleady suitably sloshed. My favorite moment was witnessing my boy with his buddy the groom and a half-dozen others singing *all* the words (including all the Pips' background interjections) with Gladys Knight's version of "Midnight Train to Georgia" -- complete with enthusiastic but stumbling amateur-hour choreography. Hilarious! (Well, ya hadda be there, I guess.)

I think Flattop's posts (above) capture the spirit very nicely.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Cluin
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 03:45 PM

It ain't about exposing the talented. It's almost always about laughing at those willing to make fools of themselves.

Come to think of it, that's kind of like my regular bar gigs.... DOH!


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: bengi
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 04:32 PM

Karaoke is fun , don't you think so Flattop?


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Once Famous
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 06:00 PM

I agree with Poppa Gator's common sense answer.

It seems the ones who hate it are the most threatened by it, quite possibly some insecure musicians.

People go to a karaoke bar to have fun. sounds a lot better than going to watch some depressing and warbling folksinger contemplate his naval fuzz.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 07:31 PM

thanks for the out put

I am 71 ye old man and started last year in Fl
I go 2 times a week and hear some very good singers

I sing only Irish music

slan


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: beetle cat
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 07:42 PM

anyone know the history of it?

i find it fascinating, how its become so popular.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 08:29 PM

Definately bengi. You could win a prize.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 08:57 PM

It can be high-quality performance GatorPopper. If you heard Lenny sing Here In The Real World or He Stopped Loving Her Today, you'd bawl in your beer. Can't go to karaoke tonight, got some reading to do.

Found a couple of National Enquirers on top of the recycle. They seem to have stories other publications missed. For example, the November 1st issue has a story "Jealousy Gone Mad, Woman Chains Up Lover Like a Dog."

He was working two jobs. She, thinking he was away from home too much, whacked him in the head with a crowbar, chained him, dragged him down the basement and locked the chain to a metal pole, left him there. Fortunately, it was a bicycle lock which he was able to break to make his escape.

Why haven't we heard of this story in the mainstream media? Why can't I find it in the wwww? Is this a coverup by FBI or NBC?


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 12:48 AM

I saw it in a TV show. A fictional one.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Splott Man
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 07:51 AM

As far as I know it originated in Japan and literally means "empty orchestra"


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:11 AM

http://www.bartleby.com/61/51/K0015150.html

ETYMOLOGY: Japanese : kara, void, empty + oke(sutora), orchestra (from English orchestra).


http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=43316&dict=CALD

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Definition
karaoke   [Show phonetics]
noun [U]
a form of entertainment, originally from Japan, in which recordings of the music but not the words of popular songs are played, so that people can sing the words themselves:
a karaoke bar/machine/night

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 09:03 AM

I'm actually rather surprised (and pleasantly so) that there have been a couple of favorable comments on here re: this... I guess there has been a slight bit of thread creep though. To get back to that, I would say that Karaoke is music, insofar as a key component is music-based, the same as going to a dance with a DJ is music. I would not say that it is live music, despite the live component of it.

Brian


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 09:32 AM

KARA OKE in Yorkshire = CACK

eric


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 04:47 PM

I'm intrigued by the notion of "original" karaoke as practiced in Japan. In the movie "Lost in Translation," a small group is in a little private room, entertaining each other with karaoke singalongs -- quite different from the mob scene at the Cat's Meow on Bourbon Street (most prominent karaoke venue in New Orleans).

What I like *least* about the karaoke venues I've witnessed is when the MC hogs too much performance time, e.g., every other song. Power to the people!

I know that it's not always about bad/laughable performances -- sometimes there are very good performances. I've seen duos and trios with very carefully worked-out arrangements, singing with great and infectuous enthusiam. And, when done well, I'd say that karaoke singing is indeed worthwhile "live performance" -- of course, you have to take the good with the bad (and the ridiculous) over the course of an evening.

Of course, any time that *I* have participated, it's been absolutely first-rate :^)

Flattop, I can see that you fully understand the etymology of my psuedonym! Can I assume that you've popped a few gators in your time, too?


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:00 PM

We don't have em in the great white north, PoppaGator. The wild things up here have fur on them.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:01 PM

We've got wolverines.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Metchosin
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:26 PM

It can also be a useful and delicious form of blackmail. I have a recording of a family member, the musical antithesis of sweetness and light, singing Don't Worry Be Happy and every time I've ever listened to it, I've ended up ROTFLMAO.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 09:16 PM

The Phantom of the Karaoke acts more bizarre than the Phantom of the Opera.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Metchosin
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 09:31 PM

well at least with karaoke, no matter how mediocre your voice, you don't have to f**k the composer in order to get on stage.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Once Famous
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 09:38 PM

I disagree with ToulouseCruise.

It is live music. At least the singing is. It is not the same as a DJ playing music. There is definately a performance and artistic element to it.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 08:05 AM

Wolverines Cluin? Well - they'd mostly be an improvement. Get 'em to step up to the mic.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Gervase
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 08:13 AM

Remins me of my legendary Schmidas Touch. Back in 1979 I was approached by a bloke in Great Yarmouth who dealt in band equipment to see if I was interested in joining him in marketing a new Japanese gadget - the Singing Machine. No call for it, I thought, and turned him down.
Lucky sod went on to make a packet around the clubs and bars and kick-started the karaoke craze in the UK. Mind you, could I have lived with the guilt at sharing responsibility for all those lousy renditions of 'My Way'?


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 08:32 AM

I don't blame you for disagreeing with me, Martin, as I sort of disagree with myself... here I am, strictly a vocalist (the only thing I play is the CD player and the radio back home), saying that the singing component doesn't count as music.

I hereby sentence me to 12 hours of continuous karaoke, to be followed by the expected period of mourning for my eardrums.

Brian


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 09:08 PM

Karaoke could easily have come from the Japanese translating greek words like, charis opis (grace and awe), into Hiragana. You know, with accents, Ls & Rs and all that. Grace and awe would fit with the finest of Karaoke, creme de la karaoke.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Peace
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 09:17 PM

WHAT DOES KARAOKE MEAN?
Karaoke is a word formed from putting two Japanese words together. "Kara" that comes from Karappo and means empty and "Oke", shortened from Okesutura meaning "orchestra". So Karaoke means "empty orchestra"

From a google of   

karaoke, history


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Peace
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 09:21 PM

In 1965-6 I worked basket houses with a gal named Barbara. She had had a pianist tape his stuff and she did show tunes with the tape recorder for accompaniment. Never thought it was strange, because basket houses didn't pay enough to afford a piano player--and besides, none of 'em had pianos. Barbara was very good, She was working her way through university or college (I forget). That was karaoke.

However, the tripe that happens in bars is just that. Ranks up there with 'air guitar'. Jaysus. Do that in your living room, alone--or with shitfaced friends. Not in public. IMO.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:24 PM

Hey brucie, yesterday I posted, up in the thread, a simple etymology similar to yours. A day later, I'm uneasy with it and wonder if it can be whole truth. Tomorrow, you may be uncomfortable with your etymology.

You see, Karaoke, at least in spirit, probably started in ancient Greece, like many other cultural advances. You don't think Apollo, who won several contests singing delightfully while playing his lyre, would have passed up a chance to sing Cold Cold Heart, if he'd stumbled across a Karaoke machine and a microphone? After all, Apollo didn't seem to be as unreasonable or as snobbish as you are. Sure, when he won the contest against flute player Marsyas, who had agreed that the winner could inflict whatever punishment he pleased on the loser, Apollo may have gone a little overboard by today's standards. He flayed Marsyas alive and nailed his skin to a tree.

Aphrodite, on the other hand, might have been more reluctant to sing Karaoke. She had been caught trying her hand on a loom and she had been told, in no uncertain terms, that her only divine duty was to make love. Aphrodite apologized and thereafter avoided working with her hands. I suppose, if she used a mike stand with one of those reliable Shure 58 mikes and sang 'I Will Always Love You' in an arousing voice, she could fulfil her divine duties.

And, please, pray tell, what are basket houses?


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Peace
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:37 PM

Basket houses are homes built from--have you ever read "The Three Little Pigs"? Well, they are the houses built by the middle pig after oragami classes--but classes that used straw, not paper.

BHs are places where would-be musicians/singers could play and then pass the hat. That's how they earned a living or supplemented their incomes.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:50 PM

Thanks brucie.

A guy in Toronto begged at the subway with
a hat in his hand and a toilet plunger on
his head. He made more money than your
average beggar. Goes to show that creativity
pays off even with the dirtiest of tools.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Peace
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 10:59 PM

Welcome, flattop.

Not a bad idea. Don't have to worry about a hat anyway.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 12:43 AM

Welcome to you, brucie.

Ron, at the top, asked a couple of questions. Now that we've established Karaoke as the music of the gods and that many mudcaters secretly envy Karaoke singers making their exquisite music, we should look at the second issue.

If you have a PC, can download a Karaoke player (and become a closet Karaoke singer) at:

http://www.vanbasco.com

The site has links to sites with karaoke file that the player can play but many files off the link are midi files, not Karaoke. Hymn & Christmas carol collections seem to work better than most – they don't have copyright issues.

I tried this player last week. My brother sings regularly at a Salvation Army drop-in center for seniors and he often wants me to accompany him. We've usually use guitars but they wanted Christmas carols last Friday. Carols tend to have too many chord changes, some of them change every quarter note. Neither of us wanted to practice extensively. We spent three practice sessions with the vanbasco player then performed Friday afternoon. The seniors sang along and enjoyed it.   

Some midi programs, like PG Music's PowerTracks, allow you to create your own Karaoke files. I haven't tried it but it looks like you could load midi files, add lyrics and save them as Karaoke files. You can find many great midi files out on the web. (One of my favorites is a midi of Brian Wilson's song Love and Mercy.)


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 12:53 AM

I don't mind karaoke if the singer(s) is good. But getting loaded and becoming the hottest thing since grilled halibut ain't my idea of music. Even of grilled halibut.

That's a neat idea, flattop. Very neat.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 05:33 AM

It's not music it's SHITE.

eric


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 05:38 AM

I agree with everybody. but I really don't care. In my isolated experience Karaoke is for attempting songs you thought you knew well.


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 09:20 AM

Do you have a fecal fixation eric the red arse?


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 11:31 PM

Have an incredible karaoke Christmas, ye who still know how to have fun!


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 24 Dec 04 - 02:16 AM

I think you are confusing me with Sir jOhn of Hull, and why do I suspect you are a karaoke singer ?

Do you like line dancing also ?

Happy christmas, eric


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Subject: RE: BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?
From: flattop
Date: 26 Dec 04 - 11:21 PM

Nothing makes jOhn's Crohn's act up like a hot curry at karoake. Line dancing? More like dancing in the line to the crapper.


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