Disc Mfg And Series - Rate Them!

[danny_g]

Originally Posted by Flipeoke

Well, I'll add my comments to the list, hold on this could take awhile... ALL manufacturers are hit-or-miss... From what I have found every maufacturer has some songs that more closely matches the original song... While some are more consistant in quatily (i.e. Sound Choice, Top Hits Monthly) they rarely have entire discs that are perfect... You give me any manufacturer and I will give you an example of a really bad track...IMHO (as I don my flame retardant suit) disc manufacturers intentionally use less than perfect renditions for some of the songs on their discs. A good example of this is Sound Choice... SCG8207-3 Faithfully (one of my personal favorites to sing) good sound quality, good lyrics and timing... but if you happen to get the Journey disc from Sound Choice, SCG2269 you would think that the same version is used on both, not so, while the music is the same, there are wrong lyrics, and poor timing on SCG2269. I feel this is so SC can sell more discs to those of us who desire the best quality for the songs we have... however if they put all of their best tracks on the one disc, I would only buy that one disc... Aside from this, getting back to the original topic at hand, I don't rely on any one manufacturer to have the best versions of songs, nor do I rely on 2, 3, or 4, I am one of the lucky people who can go to my Karaoke distributer, and listen to the discs/songs before I buy them...and most of the time get the best version of a song... and while I do quite often end up with multiple versions of a song on different manufacturers discs, when you have done this long enough, you get to know which version most closely matches the original artist. The majority of my discs come from Sound Choice, and Music Maestro, yes MM, while some of their songs really blow chunks, many of them are very close to the original song. Others that I use are as follows in no particular order:

Top Hits Monthly
Pop Hits Monthly
Pop Hits Today
DK
Pioneer
Backstage
Pocket Songs(good for broadway stuff as well as others)
Top Tunes
Monster Hits
Sweet Georgia Brown
Legends
Nikkodo
Sunfly
StarDisc
Chartbusters
Priddis
NorthStar
Dangerous
All Hits
Amerising


and probably a few I am forgetting... While some of these manufacturers I only have 3 or 4 discs from them, I feel my selection would be lacking without them. I guess what I am saying is this: every manufacturer has good songs and bad songs, some have more good than bad, others have more bad than good, but their good ones are usually superior to other manufacturers... I miss not having the Pioneer laserdiscs... many of those were some of the best versions around...

Peace...

Mike

Hate to disagree with you on the Faithfully issue. The first version 8207-03 lyrics were way off in he verses and at the end funny I have never heard Steve Perry sing lost tonight faithfully. No the best version of that song is on Amerising which also kicked butt on when you love a woman. will sya this as Sound Choice redid Faithfully while some might feel the audio slipped their lyrics got better as I have sung the foundation 2 version and only found one mistake in lyrics.

[Garry A. Leslie]

Hello All,
Just a couple of thoughts.
First as far as lyrics are concerned, I think a lot of lyrics are transposed by people who don't have English as their first languge (I don't mean Americans he! he!)
Incidentally how good are lyrics in say, Spanish?
I often have a good chuckle over some of the more obvious errors.
Perhaps a few examples could be posted.
Being English I often buy CD's with tunes by artists unknown in the UK but hits in the US, just never made it this side of the pond.
So it's gratifying doing different versions of songs rather than sticking slavishly to the one original. I realise this is sacrilege to the Elvis or Frank singers.
I also think using a UK disc adds a different slant when sung in the US.
I love it when people ask about a certain artist or song they have never heard but which has been big in the US.
As I've said before as long as Karaoke is sung, everyone is going to have their favourites and hates.
Just as well we're not all the same.
Regards from across the pond,
Garry

[mikedomi]

I know there are not a lot of kj who use as much as we do but here is the plus side to this
we put everything we have out there for people to sing
I don't care if its a bad version to me or not and here is why we do this

don't you as a kj or even a singer get tired of hearing the same song sung by the same singer

so here is what we have been doing say some one sings my way we have it 15 times
so this is were the fun starts we have a place were people don't try to be stars so this works there
each week the singers sing a diff version of the same song it kind funny
they have funny with this it my be a little slow or a little deeper then what they are use to so they sing deeper every gets a kick out of this
some time the singer will ask us to step it up 2 keys so they sing like chip monks
this one show is such a fresh show to do because every one does not take it
like this is star search
and the funny part about this is 75% of the singers are dam good singers
this bar has the rep of having the best singers in Washington
but they come there and have a ball its not who can sing the best
but who can sing the funniest
and still sound good

that is the flip side to putting all your songs in hoster and not just the ones you the kj think should be in there

and out off all the singers each one has found a diff version that they like better then the one they sing all the time
maybe a little faster or diff key that works for them

so in a nut shell who is to say what is better or not it should be up to the singer to pick the version they like to sing
and the only way they can do that is to sing them all

now I know you guys say the book gets to big to put it all in

we are about to change all that for you in the near further
you will never look at a #### again

see ya mike

[gduns - with the Lord]

Mike,
wanna really have a lot of fun, Get a digitech Vx400 and out it on a mic We have a lot of fun with this. the audience loves it.

Bu the way, I just got the new bpm studio, and it isnt too bad. this version actually plays .wma files as well as mp3's. I have 32,000 wmas, and didnt want to have to reload them.

[Nitecat]

If this hasn't been said before, Radio Starz are great for Garth Brooks songs.

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