Karaoke

For over a year now, I've been on a real tear about karaoke. That's about the time I started to think about buying a karaoke machine, which led to my turning my laptop INTO a karaoke machine, and has culminated in my receiving a karaoke video game called Lips for my Xbox. Now, what I learned is that this is no ordinary karaoke game. Yes, it has "Video Killed The Radio Star" and "Hungry Like The Wolf" (which, we learned, one can sing perfectly even if they've never heard it before), and yes I did pay to download "Baby Got Back".

Most importantly, however, it allows you to import songs and then sing OVER them. No on-screen lyrics, and it can only reduce the actual vocals so much, but I don't care because it's awesome. My roommate and I each made a playlist to import. Here's mine (I'll post his later):

1. Ben Lee - "Catch My Disease"
2. Billy Joel - "Only the Good Die Young"
3. Blitzen Trapper - "Furr"
4. Blue Scholars - "Joe Metro"
5. Blue Scholars - "The Ave"
6. The Dandy Warhols - "Bohemian Like You"
7. Danko Jones - "Lovercall"
8. Danko Jones - "First Date"
9. David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust"
10. Death Cab for Cutie - "Crooked Teeth"
11. Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing"
12. Harvey Danger - "Flagpole Sitta"
13. Harvey Danger - "Wine, Women, and Song"
14. Hey Marseilles - "Rio"
15. Pavement - "Cut Your Hair"
16. The Presidents of the United States of America - "Peaches"
17. Queen - "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy"
18. Skee-lo - "I Wish"
19. Stellastarr* - "Freak Out"
20. The Tallest Man on Earth - "King of Spain"
21. XTC - "Statue of Liberty"

What's playing

Little Hoodrat Friend - The Hold Steady
Chips Ahoy! - The Hold Steady
Infinity Guitars - Sleigh Bells
Paul Valery - Blue Scholars
Good Morning (Haters) - Chamillionaire
Fuck You - Cee-lo Green

Criminal - The Pass

The entire Best of Bootie 2009 mix.