12th January 2005, 8:22 PM
@ DJ Silly girl. Gamespot, gamespy, UGO, cube-europe, Gamepro, CVG, and, well, just about every game site that actually touches on the subject confirm that they used cover artists in Donkey Konga. Again nice try, but you've fallen flat on your face once again.
Quote:I do have trained ears and so called perfect hearing so that I can tell what key a sound is in, it's something I use in music and sound effect engineering. It could very well be that the songs in Donkey Konga are made by different artists emulating the original artists. When I had the game here for a few days I never just listened to the music, I was always playing along with the conga. But what I do remember hearing must have fooled me really good. My grandfather evens has an LP of Louie Louie that was recorded by the original artists but in the song he pronounces all the words so you can actually hear what he's saying and that version is in Donkey Konga as well.
There are pro-voice actors that emulate other well known actors, some of them emulate what they look like as well. But I had never heard of emulating a song so it sounds as close as possible to the original version with even the vocalists emulating speech patterns and in some cases the dialect and accents of the original artists, like with Willie Nelson. It's just weird...
After hearing the vocals in that Queen song for just a few seconds I could immediately tell that it wasn't Freddy Mercury. Now I can't personally vouch for the other songs since I only really listenend to the Queen one, but according to every decent review site all of the popular songs are done by cover artists. If your excuse for not being able to tell that it was actually Queen playing because you were concentrated on the gameplay is true, then try playing the tracks without playing the game and compare the song to the one you have on your cd. If you still can't tell the difference then perhaps your ability to differentiate between different keys in sound isn't as good as you think. ;)