Nice to hear some new singers at Chatswood. Only one performance loud enough to make ears ring til Sunday. I'll just have to be careful next time. I don't boo this but have the right to put cotton in my ears. Maybe people think that the ear is like a muscle -ie- if you're young & exercize it regularly with loud music it'll get stronger. Somehow I don't think so. If you want to risk your hearing on that theory, good luck. That's why workers now wear earmuffs when using heavy equipment. In the bad old days they'd have been considered sissies. Same as people who complained about smoking. Now that is finally being dealt with by law. People are coping without their ciggy's and the rest of us have clean air & don't have to dry clean our shoelaces.

I noticed no one took up the issue raised by el barto re: who do you think are the toughest acts to sing at karaoke? He cited Adam Levine of Maroon 5, Hall & Oates, Jefferson Starship, and George Michael. It got me thinking. Maybe at one end we have songs which are inherently difficult and at the other those that are so simplistic that the difficulty lies in doing anything with them. For example, we have the opera songs at one end. If you can do these at all decently it is impressive. At the other end there is A Tisket a Tasket, which Ella Fitzgerald managed to make into a standard. But I can't imagine doing much with that one. The ones el barto listed seem challenging if one is trying to sound like the distinctive original vocalist. The songs themselves don't seem inherently challenging if one adapts the key. Any discussion?
Submitted by Tom on 25-06-2007

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