Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

As part of my list of prospective present purchases for the 2007 Christmas crush, I was on the lookout for some CD+G disks to supplement some DVD/karaoke equipment I bought for a family member. I stumbled across this selection while surfing Amazon and hemmed and hawed whether it would be worth the price. Fortunately the entire song selection was listed in the only review for the product (thank-you much to the reviewer "Southpaw"), but I still worried about the music quality, speculating at this good of a price, the quality must be pretty lame. Well, I hesitantly pressed the one-click button, ordered this, and it arrived in time for a nice holiday get-together and karaoke blow-out a few nights ago. And most importantly, I'm happy to report, I worried for nothing. I feared these would be a bunch of cheezy, "recorded-on-some-home-computer soundcard" quality songs, but they're not. They're at least as good as any I've heard used in bars or clubs, and some of the recordings are incredibly spot-on similar to the originals. Given the fact I bought 3 other CD+G disks for about $30 bucks (with 35-45 songs), and you get 400+ songs on this for $50, this is a no-brainer purchase. And the selection is diverse enough to cover quite a variety of tastes to boot. And the negatives? - A few of the tunes are repeated on multiple disks ("Margaritaville", Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind," among others) - Some of the tunes DO sound like they were recorded with someone's cheezy home computer soundcard and MIDI - There aren't that many newer songs nor any rap tunes...not a problem for me, but others might want to have some newer variety in the mix as well. But those are MINOR complaints. For the price, it would be hard finding another collection as cheap and diverse as this. WAY worth the price.