Please feel free to browse around my links and songs. The music files are encoded using Lame MP3 Layer 1 at 32bits & 11Khz to keep the file sizes small.
Song Name
|
Original Artist
|
Performed By
| Notes
|
It's Not Unusual
|
Tom Jones
|
Rob & Fonda
| Rob does a good job of that low voice.
|
Take On Me
|
A-Ha
|
group
| You know THAT note is really hard for guys to hit. Well,
this is what happens when a bunch of guys tried... Plug your
ears!!!
|
YMCA
|
Village People
|
group
| This song is the worst all time mutilated songs that we ever
brutalized. It starts off normal but trust me we went right off
the deep end...
|
Song Name
|
Original Artist
|
Performed By
| Notes
|
Barbie Girl
| Aqua
| group
| Ok, this song had everything go wrong with it.
|
Fly Me To The Moon
| Frank Sinatra
| group
| Ok, we only really picked this because it is the ending theme
song for Neon Genesis Evangelion. But man, did we ever mess this
one up.
|
Glory Of Love
| Peter Cetera
| Rob, Dan, Chad
| This is what happens when Cartman (South Park) and Jar-Jar
(Star Wars) sing a song in karaoke.
|
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us
Now
| Starship
| Rob, Dan, Chad
| Ok, it started fine, but when we had to hit those hard notes,
they said forget it, and then the song deteriorated....
|
Phantom Of The Opera
| Andrew Lloyd Webber
| Rob, Anna
| This song was done really well. Anna's voice held up
with all the screaming!
|
Staying Alive
| Bee Gees
| Rob, Dan
| Ok, a rather better attempt to hit Barry Gibb's high
notes.
|
Forever Love
| X - Japan
| John, Anna, Rob
| This was a long ballad, but it was well done. Well, even
though they were goofing around during the instrumental solos.
|
| You Can Do Magic | America | William | I forgot how the song went and then I
couldn't get back on track. I thank Anna for helping me out. |
Song Name
|
Original Artist
|
Performed By
|
Notes
|
Don't Speak
|
No Doubt
|
William (Birthday boy)
| I was just going to do this song normally because I heard the
remix of it. As I was practicing the song, I just realized how
perverted the song is, or rather... could be... hehehe...
|
Toy Soldiers
|
Martika
|
William
| After botching up a song, I tried and do one right.
|
I Want You
|
Savage Garden
|
Megan
| She did a great job with this song, since the lyrics on the
screen are actually out of sync to the song so she sang most of this
song with her eyes closed.
|
Smooth Criminal
|
Alien Ant Farm (Michael Jackson)
|
James, Rob
| The MJ version is hard enough to do as it is with his voice,
now try and do it with a bit more punk!
|
Song Name
|
Original Artist
|
Performed By
|
Notes
|
Take On Me
|
A-ha
|
group
| One of the hardest songs to sing for a guy, because of that
one damn note.....
|
Shout!
|
Tears For Fears
|
group
| At Kobininya, the you order drinks with your room. It gets
really rowdy with a room full of drunks. (at least a few anyway...)
|
Living On A Prayer
|
Bonjovi
|
group
| One or the more easier songs for a group to do. Woow, Woow,
woow...
|
Careless
Whispers
|
Wham
|
group
| Brutal mutilation of a love song... Oh yea...
|
That's The Way
| KC And The Sunshine Band
|
group
| If it wasn't for the fact most of us did Dance Dance
Revolution....
|
Song Name
|
Original Artist
|
Performed By
| Notes
|
We Are The World
|
USA For Africa
|
group
| Alright, the song started ok when we started to alternate the
lines that each of the different artists were suppose to sing.
However, the song dragged on and on and on, and that is when we started
dying.... Oh, what a horrible death....
|
Song Name
|
Original Artist
|
Performed By
|
Notes
|
All Out Of Love
|
Air Supply
|
William, Elick
| Although, later Elick's voice gave out, he has a great singing
voice. Puts mine to shame.
|
Ole Ole
|
Ricky Martin
|
"Kentaro" Feron
| A "big" person with a great vocal strength and man, does he
have control even when he has to do the Spanish lyrics.
|
Bohiemian Rhapsody
|
Queen
|
James, Feron
| God, these guys know this song TOO well. They even got all the
lyrics that didn't come up on the screen.
|
Lucy In The Sky With
Diamonds
|
William Shatner (Beatles)
|
James, Rob, Feron, Chad
| Oh, yes, we have all been to William Shatner's Starfleet
School of Acting. "Jim, I'm a doctor not a singer!"
|
Don't You Forget About
Me
|
Simple Minds
|
Rob (birthday boy)
| He does a great version of this song.
|
You Can Do Magic
|
America
|
William
| This is actually my second time doing this song at Mike's.
This time I got it closer than my first time. Well, kind maybe.....
|
| Baby Hit Me One More Time | Britney Spears | Rob | Do you think Cartman from South Park
can sing? Yea, I didn't think so... |
Song Name
|
Original Artist
|
Performed By
|
Notes
|
Staying Alive
|
Bee Gees
|
group
| Not many people has got a voice like Barry Gibb. None of us
do... and you can hear how that sounds..
|
Beat It
|
Michael Jackson
|
Warren, William
| Heck, if Barry Gibb wasn't hard enough to do, Michael
Jackson's voice is even harder to match.
|
Pretty Fly For A White
Guy
|
Offspring
|
group
| Ah yes, rap songs like this and Eminiem are just mindless
reading off of the screen. It really shows why rappers need no singing
talent.
|
You Are Not Alone
|
Modern Talking
|
William, Victor (birthday boy)
| Ok, one of the few occasion, Victor sings. It is also an
example of how one just reads rap of the screen. Just babble and mumble
and ramble on.
|
I Don't Want To Miss A
Thing
|
Aerosmith (from Armageddon Soundtrack)
|
Warren, Hieu
| Ah, yes. How to mangle a love song.
|
Angel Queen
|
Dara Sedaka (from Queen of 1000 Years Movie)
|
William
| An incredibly obscure song, with video footage from Expo 86. I
was very surprised that they had it. Unfortunately, my vocal range is
beyond what she could sing.
|
Song Name
|
Original Artist
|
Performed By
|
Notes
|
I Can Dream
About You
|
Dan Hartman
|
William
| Sure it wasn't break dancing music but never the less it was
catchy and in a range I could probably hit. sort of....
|
China Girl
|
David Bowie
|
William
| Bowie has a nice deep voice in this song so I tried to keep it
low and close to the microphone.
|
True
|
Spandau Ballet
|
Rob
| Maybe it is because he is British he can do this song. This
has become one of his standards.
|
Song Name
| Original Artist
| Performed By
| Notes
|
Hello Sadness
|
Maison Ikkoku OP1
|
Daisuke, William
| The first of a number of anime theme songs we were to sing
this evening.
|
Gatchaman
|
Gatchaman (Battle Of The Planets)
|
Daisuke, William
| Fortunately, this was as sentai as we got.
|
Sasae-San
|
Sasae-San OP 1
|
Daisuke, William
| A very fun song.
|
Suki-sa
|
Anzen Chitai
|
Daisuke, William
| One of my favourite Japanese songs. One the best shots at a
Japanese song.
|
Mike's Karaoke
| Located in Metrotown, this is by far the one we most commonly
go to. It has the largest selection of English music and has the best
equipment. It also has a tape deck, for you to do recordings of your
sessions. Japanese and Chinese selections are quite extensive too.
Unfortunately, they closed up in 2002.
|
Kobininya Karaoke
| Located in downtown Vancouver on Robson Street on top of a
convience store, we tried this a few times. The equipment is kind of
old, not very loud and very midi sounding. The selection of music is
mostly Japanese but there is some English songs and actually, there are
some English stuff that a lot of other places don't. What impressed me
was how much 80's bands like Hall And Oates, they had. No tape
recording devices supplied. You also have to order at least a drink a
person for the room.
|
Da Di Da Karaoke
| Located in Richmond on top of a network gaming room, this
place has a rather slick computerized menu for their choices. However,
this made the browsing a little hard to do at the beginning. Also
Japanese songs were harder to access since they were Chinese-ized.
English selection was a bit lacking, but it did have a few really
obscure songs. Also no tape recording devices supplied.
|
Karaoke In A Closet
| Actually this is a nickname I gave it but it describes it
well. Made by a www.coinworld.co.kr,
they put a karaoke machine in a closet with a recording set up. The UBC
arcade and Space Rush Arcades had them. The one from Rush got moved
downtown to Lion's Lair. Again, midi sounding, and the recording on the
supplied machine has too much midi and not enough you singing. Mostly
Korean songs with some Japanese and some English. They have some more
obscure 80's bands but they have Heavy Metal bands like "Def Leppard"
and Eurodisco bands like Modern Talking, Baccara and FR David. The
recorder that is in the unit tends to record a high volume on the
background midi and a low volume of your voice. I just used another
tape recorder to record the opposite, high vocal with almost no midi. I
took the two tracks and merged them together.
|
Icon Karaoke
| A new venue that opened in Richmond. They had a great
setup on a computer but the TV screen was 50+ inches. Also had
quite of few songs that I didn't really see anywhere else, "In The Heat
Of the Night" and "Spaceman Came Traveling" were some of them.
|
Sing Sing Karaoke
| On Kingsway in Queens Plaza. It has changed ownership a few
times, and had incidents of gang violence. But in 2003, we had tried it
out again, and it has by far the best ANIME collection of songs of
anyone. Make sure you ask for the "DAM" book. (pun). Other than that,
there is also a rather fun scoring system which is also kinda funny.
Some of the updated books does contain some songs I haven't seen
elsewhere like Scorpians "Rock You Like A Hurricane" and Colin found
all the Linkin Park, and Rob found his Jamariqui. Unfortunately, due to
Asian gang bangers, the place closed down.
|
|
|
|
|