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Shadow
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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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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=zz_p3DhoJDY
sounds like the JT track with extra drums, or JT managed to get so friggin close to the arcade music ? the speech sounds like the JT version tho. confusing piece. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
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Quote:
sounds like the JT track with extra drums
because thats exactly what it is =P
http://www.ocremix.org/info/ReMix_Changelog
OCR00783 - Turbo OutRun 'Slam the Gas'
* Reason: SID rip + drums. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
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wow, well I really havent expected some guy showcasing an old pc game will use a remixed sid tune as background music :) thank you.
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Tim
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Quote: 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
hehe no ;)
took me some years to realise that quite a few of TDMs tracks are covers, such as Live_in_Leningrad.sid or Eleanor_Rigby.sid .. hehe.
Another one most people will not know are the Spijkerhoek sids, of which Edwin van Santen's version probably is the best well known.. i loved this tune so much that I even bought the cd-single which is nothing else then a tune from a dutch tv-show back in those days :) |
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Rough
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As I grew up with pop music and 60s stuff as the Beatles or Stones I was often introduced to classical music first by playing all these old games 1982-1985 which often used classic stuff.
examples: Jet Set Willy, Gyruss, Friday the 13th, Sailing, Tales of the Arabian Nighs, Elite, Battle through Time
I still admire Rimsky-Korsakov. |
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
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TDJ .. I can understand with that specific song, out of all the songs it's not the best known of their work.
rough, as for classical , not like the original author could sue for usage, so they were easy target. It's like club'd to death by rob d (in the matrix) is a samuel barber tune =)
my favourite covers. .hhmm hypersports by martin galway /
l.e.d. storm by tim follin / venice in peril by ashley hogg (it's on the zzap sampler thing)
one of the first demos I saw ever was
The Bogg Collection Volume 1
but I didn't know all of tune songs.
there was a sample thing YEARS ago of "everyone was kung fu fighting" , I knew of the c64 thing before the actual song.
enola gay by OMD , I remember hearing on c64 first.
it's weird when it's the other way around .. e.g. lazy jones & zombie nation and the very obvious one thats going on at the moment. I wanted to know if anyone on here owns a sidstation, if so PM me, I'm just curious about a few things, thanks.
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
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sidstation is overpriced..
www.hypersynth.com is selling good sid synth, or use hardsid.. |
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elkmoose
Registered: Jan 2002
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rambones: neither sidstation nor hardsid are sold anymore |
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Jammer
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1289 |
i bet, hubbard didn't sign any agreements with the authors nor paid any royalties :P |
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MAC
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I just recently found out that Pie Tree by Ben Daglish is a cover of Rydeen by Yellow Magic Orchestra!
I've ever liked that tune. ;)
He has also covered La Femme Chinoise by Y.M.O.! Nice that they even has the album-art in the Here We Go-demo!
WE M.U.S.I.C. 5
I was quite amazed when i heard the originals! |
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