Comments on: Typing Karaoke game http://boingboing.net/2012/10/25/typing-karaoke-game.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 05:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: The Life Of Bryan http://boingboing.net/2012/10/25/typing-karaoke-game.html#comment-1566403 The Life Of Bryan Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=189848#comment-1566403 My eighth grade English teacher used to do something like this on Fridays: he’s pass out a mimeographed page of lyrics with mostly blanks, and play a cassette with a single song looping for the entire hour. We had to fill in the blanks, and then write about the lyrics. I was introduced to some great music that way: 10cc, The Eagles, Steely Dan, stuff that wasn’t otherwise available as a cultural influence to me in that time and place (Hawai‘i in the late eighties). But also, Wham. I still haven’t managed to unlearn the words to Careless Whisper, and you could tell who worked fastest by noting the surprised giggles as they worked through Wake Me Up (Before you Go Go). My eighth grade English teacher used to do something like this on Fridays: he’s pass out a mimeographed page of lyrics with mostly blanks, and play a cassette with a single song looping for the entire hour. We had to fill in the blanks, and then write about the lyrics.

I was introduced to some great music that way: 10cc, The Eagles, Steely Dan, stuff that wasn’t otherwise available as a cultural influence to me in that time and place (Hawai‘i in the late eighties). But also, Wham. I still haven’t managed to unlearn the words to Careless Whisper, and you could tell who worked fastest by noting the surprised giggles as they worked through Wake Me Up (Before you Go Go).

]]> By: Ripcord2 http://boingboing.net/2012/10/25/typing-karaoke-game.html#comment-1565753 Ripcord2 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=189848#comment-1565753 Yay!  Reminds me very slightly of McPixel, which is totally underrated. Yay!  Reminds me very slightly of McPixel, which is totally underrated.

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