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Journal heliocentric's Journal: Worst, singing, evah (Oh, Holy Night) 11

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So, my friend Rich sends me two Christmas songs. One was that one from The Waitresses, fine. It's no "Father Christmas, give us some money, we'll beat you up if you make us annoyed" from the Kinks, but okay.

The other thing he sent me was an unidentified male singer butchering "Oh, Holy Night."

This makes Shatner seem like Luciano Pavarotti.

Neophenix said he thinks it can shatter glass.

Be warned, be afraid, but turn up the volume and get an experience like that Maxell commercial a few years ago: play this song.

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  • If you listen past 2:20 do not hold helio responsible if your ears begin bleeding
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  • /me pours bleach directly into his ears.

    Ahhh... better...

  • feh. (Score:3, Informative)

    by mekkab ( 133181 ) on Friday December 12, 2003 @10:23AM (#7700208) Homepage Journal
    Why feh? He's doing it on purpose. Its pretty frickin' funny, but it isn't truly terrible, because he is completely conscious of what he's doing, from the faux-r&b warbling and stylings in the beginning, the "funny sounding" note holds, to the all out high range belting in the end- he knows his range, he hits notes far too frequently, stays in key, and there are times when instead of going up REAL high, he breaks it back down an octave... so I'm not convinced. With a very little bit of coaching, he could be good- and thats what tips me off. He stays WAAAAAAY too in-tune.

    In college I was in an a capella group (a fact that I am not very proud of. Its like riding a scooter- its fun to do, until your friends see you do it. My excuse? To get chicks. Shortly after joining- I "got" a "chick", so mission success! (Man, was that a digression!))- and sitting through try-outs with a straight face was impossible.

    I fondly remember this one chap who came in with all seriousness, and did the Star Spangled Banner- uhm, say what? But it got better! His complete and total lack of intonation ensured that he switched keys mid note! Now, this was hard to take with his bass voice, but then he broke out into high-tenor/ soprano(maybe he was a castrato), to "show us his range"- this was TRULY the funniest example of bad male singing I've ever witnessed. And you couldn't laugh, because he was 6 feet infront of you, trying to get into your group! ACK!
    This was also the same chap who tried out for out sketch comedy troup, but sadly didn't make it. I felt bad having to cut him twice, but, thems the breaks.
    • I was in an a capella group in college also...

      Hell, I thought it was fun. We even made a CD, that was a big deal for 1996. (atleast we thought it was, don't burst my bubble, please.) I went to a huge university, so it was possible to be in a singing group and not get harrased.

      Our #1 biggest accomplishment was singing the Star-spangled banner, at a Monster Truck Rally at the Civic Arena. Hey, we got in for free and it gave us a good laugh for a month.

      But you are right, you can hear some pretty bad
      • yeah, we made a CD (around the same time) and it was SUPA' cool, cuz the studio was actually decent (as opposed to all the punk-rawk cassette 4-tracking I'd been doing up to that point).

        Our crowning acheivment was singing the same "star spangled banner" at the opening of an Oriole's game (they lost). Actually no. Our crowning acheivement was getting our shit in shape for competition. We got second or third(not good enough to move on) but whatever- we were at our best. The arrangement was TOP NOTCH (an
      • I went to a huge university, so it was possible to be in a singing group and not get harrased.
        When I was in college, it was considered cool or at least 'not a bad thing' to be in the choir. Of course, we were really good, and sang jazzy upbeat things. It was not unusual to have people start clapping along, and we were given several standing ovations. We went to several churches and sang (I went to a Christian College, not that you could tell from the hundreds of parties per year.) and students would re
  • Damn...that's one of those carols that I don't even try to sing. Too much of a pitch range in that one for my vocal cords.
  • it was encoded at 32 kbps. anything encoded that low really exposes the flaws inherent in the mp3 compression codec.
  • I was at a friend's birthday party last night and while it was too late and should have been going, but just had to chat for another 30-45 minutes someone mentioned that Shatner is planning a new album, and he is going to have some famous people playing in his band.

    A couple of the people that he named that I can remember were Henry Rollins, and Ben Folds(?). (I'm not really crazy about either of them but whatever.) And he claimed that the people had confirmed they are going to be working with Shatner on th

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