BS: Karaoke,isnt this music?

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.

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

Karaoke sucks!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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