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Post by doricvision on Sept 30, 2011 19:55:26 GMT
I would love to see if anybody agrees with me about certain songs on Karaoke nights which make me cringe
The first is nearly always sung by a menopausal, dyed hair, middle aged mother, on her daughters henshine nightout who seemingly is wreaking revenge on her probably long departed husband with her anthemic version of ''I WILL SURVIVE.''
The second is usually sung by a drunken, overly tattooed geyser, with heavily gelled spikey hair and fake suntan who thinks he is Robbie Williams belting out ''ANGELS'' until he reaches the high intro to the chorus.
You probably have others that you may think have that same cringe worthy quality so I would love to hear them
Bigmike [going for a liedown now he's had his daily rant]
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Post by weeo on Sept 30, 2011 20:06:25 GMT
Mike you've just described the X factor.
And every other reality dross they put on telly now
(I'll see you on the soapbox in the corner) lol
Eddie
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Post by frankie on Sept 30, 2011 22:49:24 GMT
Your's pluss :-
Stuck In the Middle With You
The Gambler
Ring Of Fire
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Post by Tommydee on Oct 1, 2011 8:06:14 GMT
lets not forget Little Ole Wine Drinker and My Way
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Post by shyamwestwind on Oct 1, 2011 8:55:47 GMT
I can remember going for a couple of Karaoke nights and I dont think I'll ever go close to one again. The cacophony is unbearable and the murder of good songs warrants capital punishment !!,,,,,,,,, UGH !!!!!!!!!!
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Post by shanless on Oct 1, 2011 11:50:47 GMT
When karaoke first 'hit' N Ireland 20 odd years ago,Harry Bairds in Belfast ( the local guys will know who he is and where his shop is ) brought in 4 Arbiter Sony karaoke machines. Each machine came with 42 cd size discs in a 60disc holder jukebox style, 2 TV monitors, 2 mics, 2 peavey speakers, 6 books with all the song titles and all the leads...at a grand total of....remember this was back in the late 80's/early 90's...£10.000.........A friend of mine who was in America several years before this had seen karaoke there and told me that when it came to UK that we would buy one....we bought 2 of them..and we live about 2mile apart and another guy who lives 5 mile away bought one too.....that meant that there were 3 karaoke machines on the North Coast of N Ireland and one in Belfast....we advertised like crazy and started travelling the length and breadth of N Ireland charging £250 a night, 5 nights a week....we had them paid of in no time.....and I still have that original machine in pristine condition...you could put it back 'on the shelf' as new.....but getting back to the original post......CRAZY was the song most murdered by the girls and NEW YORK NEW YORK was what the boys chose to kill..( while thinking it was cool to swing the mic )....new discs would come out each month but the ''singers'' still went back to the old stuff every time....and another thing I hated was when I'd hand someone the mic they would ''whooo ooooo'' into it....I soon caught on to keep the mic off just before they were due to sing.
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Post by weegeo on Oct 1, 2011 12:12:27 GMT
Lol lol lol just 1 of the things Harry has to answer for,mind you he was always in front of the game in those days lol not just so much now.
When you think of how the music scene has traveled now really at the end of the day a large percentage of the folks in it now are basically just `karaoke`singers that depend solely on their backing tracks!! you can always `suss`these guys out by the way they `play their keyboards or guitars`lol they are always caught out when asked to `back`singers.
Just a few wee thoughts lol lol
weegeo
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Post by shanless on Oct 1, 2011 13:13:40 GMT
You're right weegeo....Harry has a lot to answer for.........I was in the shop a few weeks ago having a chat with Darren and Harry came in....he's still a real ol' character...he can still tell a good yarn
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Post by weegeo on Oct 1, 2011 16:06:48 GMT
He is a gentleman and a kindred spirit and in his day he helped quite a few struggling musicians
weegeo
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Post by geordiebennett on Oct 1, 2011 20:08:14 GMT
I used harry for years from when he operated out of the living room of a house before he got the shop,every bit of gear I have out here in Spain except for my keyboard was bought there,he's always been a very fair bloke and mate.I dislike karaoke and along with some of the above songs,there's few things worse than three or four women trying to sing Abba songs.
Geordie
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Post by weegeo on Oct 2, 2011 1:07:17 GMT
That has stirred a few wee memories Geordie [all good ones]i think from memory it was 24 brougham street and his partner was called Ray [surname escapes me]Ray was a bugger to deal with lol when he got excited he couldn`t put 2 words together. His engineer at the time was a very old friend of mine Jim Bruce he did nearly all Harry`s repairs lol he worked for BT and had basically no experience with amps at all but they somehow struggled by,they started to make their own PA cabinets and they brought in an old school friend of mine Alan Sugar [no not that one lol] he made the cabinets and did some fiddling about with `electrics`and eventually started doing repairs as well. All in all they where good days where we were all starting out i`m glad to say his shop is as busy as ever and he still charges crazy prices for repairs lol lol
End of my rambling lol but great great memories thanx Geordie for the kick start btw did you come from down round there???
weegeo
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Post by JC on Oct 2, 2011 7:17:58 GMT
Last time I went to a club with Karaoke was when the movie Titanic was still at the theatres so naturally every female in the room wanted to butcher "My Heart Will Go On"! and butcher it they did!!! The other one was "The Rose"
Problem with Karaoke people sing songs they like rather than songs they can sing!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by doricvision on Oct 2, 2011 17:20:16 GMT
JC You are so right with that last comment.
that sums up Karaoke in a nutshell
Don't get me wrong I have heard some terrific singers with great voices doing Karaoke but I can normally tell from the first few bars of the song.
I must however please excuse The Jaggy Thistle bar in Santa Ponsa from any of the above negative comments as it is a really brilliant place to be after midnight as it is full of most of the nearby caberet acts who have just finished their stints
Bigmike [going for a lie down in the dark corner]
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Post by frankie on Oct 3, 2011 11:59:27 GMT
I would love to see if anybody agrees with me about certain songs on Karaoke nights which make me cringe The first is nearly always sung by a menopausal, dyed hair, middle aged mother, on her daughters henshine nightout who seemingly is wreaking revenge on her probably long departed husband with her anthemic version of ''I WILL SURVIVE.'' ] I will Survive www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4RD4lai4oQ&feature=related |
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Post by geordiebennett on Oct 3, 2011 20:07:07 GMT
Yes Weegeo,at that time I lived in Duncairn Avenue,across the road from the top of the New Lodge which was a bit hairy at the time for an englishman which I am LOL. I am great mates with Alan Sugar,we did loads of gigs together over the years.
Geordie
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