It’s easy to download some home-made clip and laugh at how others suck compared to the real singer, but have you ever tried it yourself? Most people roll around in a protective shield of self-dismissal, with a "I can’t sing" but then proceed to take the piss out of those who give it a try, despite their limited abilities. I was one of those but thanks to encouragement from friends and all, I have been enlightened – We are bad singers but can still sing!
This is why karaoke is one of the best friend-bonding activities around. It forcefully removes one’s act-cool facade, and forces everyone to come to terms with their inner voice. You can get laughed at, and in turn, you get the chance to laugh at people. Some people just love to stand behind in a safe spot where they can snipe others and still escape unscathed – such people we call "hypocrites" and these will not be able to get any presents from Santa.
I have a group of friends, aptly named the First Otaku Battalion, since we were all soldiers (we were soldiers, stand or die, lol). Together, we created an anthem, which is set to be changed monthly. This month’s instalment, the inaugural one, is Colours, the OP of Code Geass , so well sung by Flow, and not-so-well sung by six members of the battalion.
In no order of volume: ME (Tj), LianYL (the troll who waged war with Darkmirage), Kokanaden, Analitez, Xak (who you can see on the School Rumble forums) and CH. We recorded this individually at home and then compiled it as one mp3 file with the karaoke track of Colours.
ENJOY! (it’ll bring joy and laughter to the land)
Oh and I submitted a rather hilarious entry for Hung’s competition. Look forward to it! The choice of song was spot on.
FInally, MERRY COMMERCIALISED CHRISTMAS!
I died.
I managed to listen to the song for 5s … then I died too ~~
oh lawd I lol’d
i managed to listen through half of it before getting bored and going back to what i was listening to previously. Still, good effort!
im flabbergasted
Eh, rather than good, I’d say it’s so funny XD
No offense by the way, I always respect people with effort
(Suzumiya-sama has teach us, right? ^^ )
I salute the 1st Otaku Battalion and must say, that was a good effort. Karaoke is always heaps of fun. Also when you do it a a group, there’s always someone bound to sing louder than you so they’ll drown out your voice.
sounds pretty good… not joking… sounds pretty good… coming from a ex choirester, i got to commend on the almost blending of the voices, the beginning was a little off though…Keep up the good work
Your 500th post
Managed to survive the whole song. Lawl though
OMG… I didn’t dare to continue listening after 14s. But aye this is combined, that’s why it comes out funny.
N00bs. It’s good.
WHAT THE FUCK LOL
Hahaha, you guys are so gorgeous. The bad singing ability is so stunning. XD
u missed my name U.U
I totally agree with you about the “laughing at pepole, then getting laughed at”. Probably the true meaning of karaoke, lol.
Anyway, you pepole sing awful. Can’t wait until the next song comes out.
Good gracious me. You just gave me hope.
I played this on loop and it’s not funny anymore =( boo hoo.
GAH! Can’t seem to get the thing…only plays a couple of seconds…I’ll try using another computer…
Oh, and looks like you’ve hit post no. 500!
THANKS FOR THE GOOD FEEDBACK. NOW WE WILL SING MORE.
Actually Rdrake, I have less than 500 since every draft counts in the number as well and I have a lot of halfwritten drafts.
Sasa: Bad singing guys are sexy right.
Forwho: If you think combined is funny, you should listen to us with the individual wav file. You’ll probably gain abs from laughter.
jinyamato: So you one of those choir dudes who make us look bad? Anyway, the reason why the voices seemed to blend was because.. we are all tonedeaf and low voiced.
@tj_han: ex choir dude.. no longer in choir for 2 yrs alrdy.. voice now sound not as good as before.. u all not actually tone deaf, just need a little more practice… and just a question, how did u get a cam in NS???
Btw, the first chorus was pretty bad but the later part of the song, we became better. So hang in there lol.
How I got a cam in NS? I work for the media unit. My title is Combat Camera Crew.
@tj_han: how to get into it?? looks and sound interesting.. entering NS next yr… meaning anime watching will be hindered, i think
You email me.
Merry Christmas!
maybe people can vote for the next song for 1OBn to sing?
That was hilarious!
Merry christmas tj and good luck with the new year. =-)
I find my re-synched version much better.
LAWL.
Actually, it sounds like one of you is in tune and in time and the rest of you are slightly behind and singing in a different key.
Either that or you’re singing along to the non-karaoke track ^_^
Applauds the effort though
I think I suffered a seizure from the first 5 seconds…Owww…my ears…
The rest was better, just needs some tuning…
Eh…how do you say this.
You guys can sing (seriously), but it would have been better if everyone wasn’t singing all at once like that. You know, one person does one line and the other does the next, etc…
aurabolt: That’s a good idea. We’ll try to implement it into our next anthem.
Rdrake: Yeah the first few seconds were a mess.
Yuribou: I suspect we used different versions of the song. Like I got mine from a Japanese torrent while the rest were Nipponsei or Gendou. But yeah, the key is completely off and different.
be what u all need is some practicse.. maybe u all could come together and sync ur timings.. the the key does not matter, if ur keys are rightly off, it should sound nice
lol excellent. Some record company marketing guy is gonna come across this and think “Genius! An otaku boyband! We’ll have the leader (oniichan/siscon), the shy one (hikikomori), bad boy (lolicon/pedo), the i’m-not-gay-really one (shotacon, for the yaoi fangirls) …etc. They’ll be huge!”
nice effort lol
I lol’d. Hard.
To tj_han,
Oh goddess.
Are you going to sing this??!?
http://riuva.com/?p=207
That would be…
amusing.
XD
From
Waterfall
@LianYL: Yup, your version is WAAAYY better. The 1st version makes me hope that I never step closer than 1km from the K-Box the First Otaku Battalion is currently wreaking havoc at.
Great effort. There’s a guy who obviously is very enthusiatic in singing. Lol.
Oh mah GAWD.
That made my day right there.