Naturally, I don't really have anything dramatic to put here, this game does what it says on the tin. It is a singing game that is all about the UK's finest export (other than BritToid of course) known as Robbie Williams. For some reason totally unbeknown to me, karaoke games sell REALLY well in the UK and Europe.
We take some time to watch a very pretty German girl sing her heart out to a Robbie Williams ballad while we discuss how well these games sell and what they have done to make the game feel like more than "just a game with Robbie songs in it."
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Contest:
11:00 AM on 08.22.2010 | 
Robbie Williams is top 10 worst.
The Who
Amy Winehouse
Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
The Clash
New Young Pony Club
The Long Blondes
Damon Albarn
Laura Marling
Tunng
Pink Floyd
The Zombies
Depeche Mode
These are great UK acts. Who the fuck is this guy?
*whispers* don't forget the Beatles
Right, that aside, Robbie Williams has released a stream of excellent pop songs that have rather stood the test of time. No you don't have to heard of him, but there's no denying that he and his music are extremely popular and his earlier stuff (mainly that written with Guy Chambers) is pretty well reviewed too.
/is sick of people knocking pop music online because they like "real" music.
That said, I don't much care for La Roux.
That was too obvious. :P
I did forget Queen however. Shame on me.
@martynpie
I am sooo with you on being sick of people knocking pop music. In the immortal (and ever quoted by yours truly) words of Liz Enthusiasm "Pop music is not a crime."
@Hollie
Fuck yes La Roux! Fuck yes a million times over!
This should be filed under A Game That Would Have Been More Successful Eleven Years Ago.
But yeah, not seeing the point in this, especially when he just rejoined Take That. Was anyone ever that into Robbie Williams' solo career to begin with? He famously failed at first, after a couple of tries finally got a couple of big singles, blews his money on hookers and blow and has spent the last six years struggling to regain his dignity. I'm really not sure that now is the time to realse a game based entirely around his music.
I don't wanna rock, DJ
But your making me feel so nice
When's it gonna stop, DJ?
Cos you're keepin' me up all night
Benny Hill FTW...........Did you know Ernie drove the fastest milk cart in the west?
detax for your 'rents
overdose for Christmas and give it up for Lent
My friends are all so cynical refuse to keep the faith
We all enjoy the madness 'cause we know we're gonna fade away.
Wise words indeed. And not just because my iTunes library is filled with Pink, old Madonna and various other cheesy tunes. <_<
(I also have the entire Queen back catolgue, which makes me either cool or tragic, depending on your outlook. First three albums are awesome and underrated)
I'M SO NONCONFORMIST
Depeche mode would be good though.
He done goofed.
I'm with you, Nickelback are the finest thing to happen to popular culture since milli vanilli...
/retreats back into den, listens to Radiohead, broods.
Annnnd that's the kind of attitude that makes being a part of the music community so tough.
It's just music. Get over yourself and your taste. Winehouse and La Roux deserve their time in the spotlight just as much as LedZep and Maiden. I mean La Roux has been around for what, a year? Sorry if they're not legends. And Amy Winehous is just talented. I couldn't give a fuck your opinion of her as a person or the style of music she plays. She's genuinely talented. Deal with it.
And Pink Floyd, as great as they are in conception and in music theory, are really quite overrated in content. So yeah, I show no shame in putting the Floyd alongside Amy Winehouse.
@martynpie
Their first three albums are totally underrated. And yeah once I got over myself and dipped into pop my music catalog got...interesting. Before I really broadened my horizons I was really heavy into hardcore 80s punk and thrash. Nowadays anything is up for grabs. :P
Insult the Floyd? Must you break a heart on every thread?
But did anyone think that the title said We Sing Robin Williams? I was excited/confused.
Singing is the last thing I want to see him do with a mic.
My question was serious, regardless of your pop music persecution complex. Perhaps he was popular where you live, but I've never heard him. Never heard of Take That, either. If you have a problem with that, then I'm sorry.
Don't blame me if you've got a heart of glass.
Also, I too was hoping it was Robin Williams.
My mistake; I thought you were being a tool. My Internet sarcasm detector was clearly set to "be a spaz".
Both Take That and Robbie Williams have released some top pop tunes that are worth a listen if you're into that sort of thing :)
Sorry if I came across as something of a pillock; that's something I do try to avoid. Must try harder :)
The twilight sad
Arab Strap
Belle and Sebastian
super furry animals
radiohead
david bowie
Those are great british acts
not laroux, just no!
Oh god I'm so in love with you and your attitude to music right now.