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Shadow
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 355 |
Covers that you thought were original C64 tunes..
Back in the eighties/early nineties I was a HUGE nerd that never went 'out' or listened to music or whatever the cool kids did (OK, all of the aforementioned still applies, but.. :D)
That meant that pretty much the only music I listened to came from the glorious SID chip. In the years since there has been many occasions where I've heard a tune on the radio/TV/mp3 and gone "WOW! They made a cover of the tune from demo X" and then a second later "Uhmm.. wait a minute.. it was probably the other way around".
Some notable examples:
* Domino Dancing / Pet Shop boys. I thought this was a C64 original up until I heard it on the radio a couple of years ago :D
* The tune from some Success demo, turned out to be a Koto cover
* The superb introtune from Partytrap. It was not until I read the comments here on CSDB that I realized it was a cover.
OK, am I the only one who has experienced this? :D |
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Angel of Death
Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 211 |
Quoting NecroPolo- Some reverse case, any help is appreciated: Yo/NP. I heard this song in the radio back in the '80s once and never again. It stuck in mind and made a SID of it (not my best moments I must add), but never found out what the original was. For identification, any help is appreciated ;)
Songtitle you are looking for is "Girls" by the Beastie boys from 1986 album "licensed to ill".
Nice cover, by the way, concerning it is made just from memory. (like the detuned solo-sounds. exactly like the original)
Have some more STIL info that could be put in but i'm just too lazy... |
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Angel of Death
Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 211 |
Quote: ian_coog:
chameleon from PRI is muuuuuch beter.
Oh and i realy thought it's PRI's composition untill I've came across Urbanator's (polish acid jazz band) version... later I found out it was from herbie hancock (which in original sounds really lame :P)
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I totally DISagree with you.
But that's just a matter of taste.
:)
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Cresh
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 354 |
"Rosanna" by Toto.
There are at least two sid versions, by Scortia and Johannes Bjerregaard. |
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NecroPolo
Registered: Jun 2009
Posts: 231 |
Quote: Quoting NecroPolo- Some reverse case, any help is appreciated: Yo/NP. I heard this song in the radio back in the '80s once and never again. It stuck in mind and made a SID of it (not my best moments I must add), but never found out what the original was. For identification, any help is appreciated ;)
Songtitle you are looking for is "Girls" by the Beastie boys from 1986 album "licensed to ill".
Nice cover, by the way, concerning it is made just from memory. (like the detuned solo-sounds. exactly like the original)
Have some more STIL info that could be put in but i'm just too lazy...
Thanks, man!!!! :D
I was searching for that one, well, for ages :)
Quite weird thing, I like Beasties, still succesfully missed this album as well as the song, just heard once :)
I'll add this to my STIHL #54 entry.
I go now, found the song on YouTube, I can listen to this song after more then 20 years again :) \o/
Thanks again! :) |
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Digger
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 427 |
Madonna covers from Dane are sweet. I always thought Pick Up The Pieces from PRI was SID original... then heard that funky tune on the radio one day... shocked! ;-) |
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Cruzer
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048 |
JT 42/Jeroen Tel |
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Hermit
Registered: May 2008
Posts: 208 |
I had the same experience with Domino Dancing and Suburbia of Petshop boys... I've first heard them on SID.
There is one thing that I recently discovered, it's Grooving High (by Metal), which is a Cannonball Adderley jazz tune from around the '60s... at least the main phrase comes from there.
I'm thinking about remixing Soldier of Fortune (by Page) one time, but I wonder if it was a pop tune as the melody resembles a singer's vocal very much, and the other parts too sound kinda popular music...
Hermit Software Hungary |
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Zyron
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2381 |
Soldier of Fortune is by Deep Purple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4GVm9adaU |
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Sander
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 493 |
Quote: Soldier of Fortune is by Deep Purple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4GVm9adaU
Until today i thought it was an original. Though, it was really outstanding in that heineken demo compared to the other songs. Should've been a hint ;) |
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lemming
Registered: Oct 2009
Posts: 44 |
I'm really surprised at how people don't know about Deep Purple :) it's like Jarre, every scener has to know it imho
Back to topic; the tune in the final part of New Dimension by Triad (1987). Some years ago I learnt what the original song was but I've forgotten it again.
The SID is a bloody brilliant fat track anyway, like the whole demo actually.
Some 20 years ago I was surprised to find out that parts of International Karate by Rob Hubbard are from Do or Die by Human Leage. (another superb track:)
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