Topic: Donkey Konga controllers..?

[Caliban]

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
The general consensus is that the DK Rap SUCKS

What's wrong with DK Rap? I like it quite a bit and I see no reason to say that this is a bad song considering there are other songs in this game that should have been substituted with something else, but then again I almost only listen to video-game and anime soundtracks so me not liking most of the mainstream songs in this game is quite obvious.

[Ian Sane]

"What's wrong with DK Rap?"

It's kind of hard to explain.  How does one decribe why a song sounds bad?  It's just really cheesy and lame.  The quality of the lyrics is pretty poor as well.  To me the whole thing reaks of some NOA exec suggesting it to be "hip" with the kids.

That doesn't mean that there aren't other songs in Donkey Konga that are worse.  But of all the DK related songs to pick the DK Rap is probably the worst.  There are tons of songs from DKC that would work well in it's place that are pretty much universally loved by all.  Plus why pick a song from Donkey Kong 64 instead of Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2 which are WAY more popular with the fans?  Like if you had to pick one song from a Mario game which game would make more sense?  Super Mario Land or Super Mario Bros 3?  Picking the theme song from the least popular DK game just doesn't make any sense.

[Bill Aurion]

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"It's got the DK Rap from DK64 and SSBM. If that's a good thing or a bad thing is entirely up to you..."

Why does Nintendo keep unearthing that thing?  It's the only track on the SSBM soundtrack that people complained about.  The general consensus is that the DK Rap SUCKS so why keep re-using it?  Considering the general backlash against DK64 you figure they would make an effort to try not to make any references to it in the hope that we'll all forget.  But then this is the company that has Krystal in Star Fox Armada and has kept Yoshi in his Yoshi's Story look so maybe they have some weird obsession with any of their titles people hate.

I happen to like the cheesiness of the DK Rap, I like Krystal, and I love the look of Yoshi's Story...Stop generalizing please...

[Caliban]

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"What's wrong with DK Rap?"

It's kind of hard to explain.  How does one decribe why a song sounds bad?  It's just really cheesy and lame.  The quality of the lyrics is pretty poor as well.  To me the whole thing reaks of some NOA exec suggesting it to be "hip" with the kids.

That doesn't mean that there aren't other songs in Donkey Konga that are worse.  But of all the DK related songs to pick the DK Rap is probably the worst.  There are tons of songs from DKC that would work well in it's place that are pretty much universally loved by all.  Plus why pick a song from Donkey Kong 64 instead of Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2 which are WAY more popular with the fans?  Like if you had to pick one song from a Mario game which game would make more sense?  Super Mario Land or Super Mario Bros 3?  Picking the theme song from the least popular DK game just doesn't make any sense.

Now that seems like a better way to explain why they would be doing a better choice other than DK Rap.
I know that the lyrics aren't that top notch but then again when I listen to music I listen to it as a whole and not just the lyrics or just the tune, i.e. the vocals I hear are interpreted as a tune just as if it was an instrument playing.

[Pale]

I dunno, DK rap has become a SSBM song to me...  I don't picture crappy DK64 at all, I only picture beating people up with Sheik.  =P  So the song is all good in my book.

[joshnickerson]

Eh, the DK rap was actually the best part of DK64. It's so bad it's good.... kind of like, you don't watch the Adam West Batman movie because it was an Oscar winner, you watch it because it's so campy and fun.

[Caterkiller]

Hi folks I havn't posted anything in some time due to my own computer being busted and me saving to buy a new one soon. But guess what happend to me last night? Well yesterday while at work I picked up Donkey Konga with the drums at the largest EB in the world at Universal City Walk. And I had my GameCube in my break room at the time and we would play in between shows. Boy did I have a good time, then later that night I traveled over to my girlfriends house and we played there. Then on my way home walking down the street from the bus stop, I was held at gun point and my drums as well as my wallet and every credit card and ID I had were all stolen from me. But jokes on them I only had 30 bucks in my wallet and had they looked in my back pack they would have found a GCN with 4 controllers, Soul Calibur, Mario Kart, and Smash Bros. I refuse to play the game with out the drums, and i'm very sad. But it is a great game though.  

[Rob91883]

"What do apes do with bananas other than munch ' em? They juggle them of course!How many bananas can you get within the time limit?"

sorry about hearing you losing $30, that's like 3 pizzas dude.      

[couchmonkey]

Jeez!  That's some mugging...glad you're okay.

I'm quite sure Rare intended for the DK Rap to be corny.  I mean, the monkeys are getting into all kinds of stupid slapstick antics all the way through the "video" at the beginning of DK64.  I thought it was funny, in a somewhat embarrassing way.
But mostly, I bet that the Japanese devs that keep bringing it back just don't see it our way.  They probably don't realize how bad the lyrics are (and it's really the lyrics that break that song - the song would be kind of boring without the lyrics, but it's not downright terrible until you add the lyrics in).