56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Sigh- another expensive coaster, March 4, 2000
This review is from: Karaoke Sing-Along Vol. 1 (DVD)
At the time of this writing, the Amazon description for this DVD makes you think you are getting recordings by the original artist. Eg: From the song list: "Burning Love (Elvis Presley)". Presley didn't write it, so surely Presley is credited because he is the performer? No- it is sung by an impersonator. I don't think Amazon is to blame- they probably just copied some misleading promotional description from the vendor.
It doesn't hurt repeating that this karaoke like most others do not have recordings by the original artists. Don't get duped by misleading descriptions. Unless it explicitly says that the songs are performed by original artists, assume they aren't. No songs on this DVD are. It would be nice if Amazon could do a thorough check of the backs of the boxes of all Karaoke DVDs. Though some vendors play semantic games, it doesn't take a rocket scientist or a playing of the DVD to learn the truth.
I had the misfortune of buying 7 karaoke DVDs, betting that at least one would be useable. Like the others, I shall use this for a coaster. To be fair, this one was the least awful. It had a bonus DTS track along with the standard track 2 with music only, and track 3 with music in the left channel and vocals in the right. Many of the music tracks are cheesy one man synthesizer and drum machine pieces you would expect on a low budget production. If you have a 5.1 system, be sure to listen for the sonic intricacies on the DTS track. Quite sincerely, the vocalists generally gave strong professional performances, but it's not much of a plus since if you are using it for karaoke you probably will mute them anyway.
The video transfer and production values were ok, but this made no difference since the themes of the videos make no sense whatever. There is so little thought put into them, that noone would be able to tell if the songs where mistakenly recorded with the wrong videos. For example, "On the radio" offered the producers at least an easy linkage to radio as a theme, but even that was out of their reach. No attempt was made to even establish connections between the scenes. At least for continuity sake they kept the actors the same. We are catapulted from a scene in a gallery, to the slides at a water park, then inexplicably to jogging, then to a carriage ride. With all that variety, you would think that random chance would produce some relationship to the song, but the producers couldn't even rely on luck.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
WORST DVD I HAVE EVER BOUGHT, March 10, 2001
This review is from: Karaoke Sing-Along Vol. 1 (DVD)
I bought volumes 1 and 2 at the same time and I feel cheated out of my hard-earned money. These are two of the worst purchases I have made EVER!!! I would give NEGATIVE 1000 stars in rating if I could. Most of the songs are song by people who would have a hard time getting gigs at Holiday Inn lounges. The videos themselves have nothing to do with the lyrics of the songs since the director thinks that all of of the songs can be summarized visually as "bimbos in cheap bikinis (or other forms of revealing clothing bought at K-Mart). Not that the director could have done much with the actors. The girls look like strippers at a low-class country strip clubs and have the same level of acting ability. The guys look like Sears catalogue models who are either semi-nude or are wearing tacky and cheap cloths and they have the same dopey "I am posing for the underwear shoot" expression no matter what they are supposed to be doing in the video. You will be terribly disappointed if you buy these terrible DVDs.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Best Seller?, October 14, 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: Karaoke Sing-Along Vol. 1 (DVD)
I can't say why this is number 1 on the Amazon Karaoke DVD best seller list. I'd rate it fair, as I find Pioneer much better that the VuTech, from menus to video content and music. The vocals seem about the same quality. I bought it for some of the songs and out of curiosity. I was disappointed with Don't Cry for me Argentina as it was the disco version rather than the one Madonna sang on the balcony in the movie Evita.
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