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Kylie! Cher! Whitney! STEPS!

Women and gay people of the world rejoice - Sony is planning to release a new instalment in the SingStar series that's specially for you.

SingStar Anthems features 20 music videos from pop's most glittering stars - "think Priscilla Queen of the Desert meets Kylie Showgirls tour", apparently.

Track list highlights include Laura by the Scissor Sisters, Candi Staton's Young Hearts Run Free and I Feel Love by Donna Summer. Not to mention Girls Aloud's Biology - quite possibly the best pop song EVER. And topping it all off there's a track by Steps - most definitely the best band EVER. Shame they've chosen Deeper Shade of Blue though, it's not a patch on Better Best Forgotten.

Anyway, SingStar Anthems - which certainly looks like being the best SingStar game EVER from where we're sitting - is out on August 4th, priced at Ł39.99 with two microphones or Ł19.99 on its own. Here's the full track listing:

Queen - Radio Ga Ga
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Take That featuring Lulu - Relight My Fire
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
Steps - Deeper Shade of Blue
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Bananarama - I Heard A Rumour
Pussycat Dolls - Don’t Cha
Leann Rimes - Can’t Fight the Moonlight
Donner Summer - I Feel Love
Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
The Weather Girls - It’s Raining Men
Ultra Nate - Free
Scissor Sisters - Laura
Kim Wilde - Kids in America
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Girl Aloud - Biology
Charlotte Church - Crazy Chick

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Locdog07 #1 6 years ago

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Best track list ever.
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JHuxley #2 6 years ago

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"Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart"

Oh god. Kill me now.
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speedjack #3 6 years ago

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Sounds like a hen night in hell.
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marilena #4 6 years ago

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"Not to mention Girls Aloud's Biology - quite possibly the best pop song EVER. And topping it all off there's a track by Steps - most definitely the best band EVER."

/goes to look for a sarcasm detector
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The_Aardvark #5 6 years ago

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Radio Ga Ga, Kids in America, Laura, I Feel Love, I Will Survive, You Spin Me Round.

Any of these songs on their own would be more than enough to compensate for the unmitigated shit.
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Tricky #6 6 years ago

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Yep, Ellie summed this one up perfectly - Women and gay people rejoice; everyone else, sulk. This is the first Singstar that has completely failed to entice me with its track listing.

Roll on Singstar on the PS3 when we'll be able to download whatever we like from the Singstore!
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reality_cheque #7 6 years ago

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I liked that Steps video where the girls were in the wedding dresses. The dark haired one looked lovely.

Oooh, that's made me think of the other pop video with a *mumbles to himself before running off to the bog*
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Ignatius_Cheese #8 6 years ago

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My LORD that is a purchase and a HALF! D
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jack_klugman #9 6 years ago

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Oooh, that's made me think of the other pop video with a *mumbles to himself before running off to the bog*

Pop piles!
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Sprak #10 6 years ago

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Seriously, just the fact that "Total eclipse of the heart" is on this makes it a must-have! This is what Singstar should be all about.
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/Was just a little sick at the prospect of two ugly fat chicks regimentally going through this track listing.
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sir_tripod #12 6 years ago

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SingStar: Camp it up!
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Bitkari #13 6 years ago

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Ł19.99 game only
Ł39.99 game and two microphones
Ł44.98 game, two microphones and bottle of Lambrini
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JediMasterMalik #14 6 years ago

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They should just release a single singstar and then charge for all the songs individually, they could come in like mp3's so that they are like legal song DL's, I hope that's how it works with the PS3. Oh and steps suxz0rs.
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tonynibbles #15 6 years ago

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OH WE’RE THE KIDS IN AMERRRICA! OH-WOOOO-OH!

YES!
This has made my day!
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coojam #16 6 years ago

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How can they call it Anthems and not put Bon Jovi on there?!
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Lagto_Soa #17 6 years ago

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That's coming on a later edition, 'Singstar: Arseplums'.
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NoCodeNed2 #18 6 years ago

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@Jedi - you might have trouble watching the videos that way
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Tricky #19 6 years ago

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@JediMasterMalik - Yes, that's exactly what Singstar PS3 is going to be like. I had a couple of sings on it at E3 - the interface is just superb in HD (as well as the videos) and rather than just the one "circle" of songs that you cycle through, as in the current Singstars, you've now got multiple "circles" of tracks that you move between by pressing the L1/L2 buttons.

One of those circles was made up of coloured labels that said "Singstore" on them, with different buttons for different genres. I assume that if you press them when it goes live, it allows you to browse a selection of songs for download - certainly that's how it looked on Sony's big screen in the short video presentation that Singstar got.
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jack_klugman #20 6 years ago

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Oooh, that's made me think of the other pop video with a *mumbles to himself before running off to the bog*

Pop poop?
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neuroniky #21 6 years ago

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Terrific track list. Gotta get this for the gf.
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JediMasterMalik #22 6 years ago

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Yeh NoCodeNed2, I just realised, i forgot they were videos, they could allow both mp3 and video DL's though. And thanks for the info Tricky. I haven't played a SingStar title yet, the PS3 version I may though because I can choose my own songs.
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kangarootoo #23 6 years ago

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Haha, I read "Women and gay people of the world rejoice" line and was going to write "Oi, I love Singstar and I am neither"

... but then I read the track list... and I kind of take your point.

Its SingStar though, so its all good (hood optional).
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Perry #24 6 years ago

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Headline mentions Kylie, but I don't see her in the track listing. My wife is biggest Kylie fan ever - is she or is she not on here?
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Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #25 6 years ago

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Best list ever!!!

Oh right, yeah, if you like that sort of thing...

/angry macho
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dloob #26 6 years ago

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OMG Bucks Fizz!
Where do I sign up.
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optimusprym8 #27 6 years ago

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I will be cloning myself and coming with every box to punch players whenever they try to select that frickin' Pussycat Dolls track.
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Mr_Whacker #28 6 years ago

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Pussycat Dolls crack me up. One of them looks about 40!
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Eighthours #29 6 years ago

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Only 20 songs? Bit stingy!
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LetsGo #30 6 years ago

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"Women and gay people of the world rejoice"

That comment is OUT OF ORDER Ellie!
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aine #31 6 years ago

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"women and gay people of the world rejoice"? pfft. as a gay person of the world i'm certainly not rejoicing. there are maybe five decent songs on there, the rest of it is bollocks. singstar rocks is still the best one, in my opinion.
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Tricky #32 6 years ago

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Totally right, aine - Singstar Rocks is far and away the best and I've only had a chance to have one go on it since I got it! Guitar Hero has been the only game I've played on the PS2 in the last month or so. That should change tomorrow night as I'm going over to my mate's house for a p*ss up.

As for there being only 20 songs... is that right? I mean they usually announce 15-20 songs initially and then announce the remaining ones closer to the release date.
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tonynibbles #33 6 years ago

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Fans of gay anthems and tracks sung by divas rejoice?

@Tricky - yeh - I think the remaining tracks are the localised ones, is that right? It can't be 20 quid with only 20 tracks. Normally its 20 quid for 30 tracks.

Edited by 1 at 25/05/06 @ 16:09
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thefilthandthefury #34 6 years ago

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Absolutely shockingly bad track list. The other Singstar games always have at least half of the list as gems, but I can barely find one song here that's worth it
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Jonathan_Kerr #35 6 years ago

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Saw an article on gamasutra.com and apparently males made up 47% of Singstar purchasers, so it's a bit baffling that they'd release Anthems geared so heavily towards women (but then again, Rocks! was quite male dominated).

More importantly - only 20 tracks in the full version? Aren't there normally 30 tracks?
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