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Shadow
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Registered: Apr 2002
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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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Hermit
Registered: May 2008
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Shame on me I didn't listen Deep Purple a lot, however I heard a lot about them, and know Child in Time... I have to listen to more music from this band at last.
Many thanks for the delightment on Soldier of Fortune, I'll check it out.
Hermit Software Hungary
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Six
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 287 |
Some originals that I always thought were only SID tunes:
Enola Gay - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szIx2hOiVWs
Koyaanisqatsi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFnmH9a2RkE
I just heard "Living in Video" for the first time the other night, for years I thought it was just a MOD file made for that Kaktus & Mahoney demo on the Amiga. |
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Hermit
Registered: May 2008
Posts: 208 |
I love Stationary Ark which was remixed and was a music in Synth Sample. However I couldn't find the TV series which was somewhere said to be source for this tune..
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Hermit
Registered: May 2008
Posts: 208 |
'Zakplus' of Shogoon is an excellent cover of this great Scott Joplin ragtime tune called 'The Easy Winners':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCBT_VHnUk
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Jammer
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1289 |
Quote: 'Zakplus' of Shogoon is an excellent cover of this great Scott Joplin ragtime tune called 'The Easy Winners':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCBT_VHnUk
but you didn't think that c64 version was an original, did you? ;) |
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DeeKay
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 362 |
Haha, I've had this before, too! ;-D Thinking they stole the SID (again?), while it was the other way around...
Straight from the top of my head, the (well, for me) not so obvious ones:
JT42 / Jeroen Tel = Running in the Family by Level 42 (though JT only took the hookline and went from there, doing his own thing- better than the original IMHO! 8)
Soldier of Fortune / Page = Soldier of Fortune by Deep Purple
Some Last Ninja Tune (or IK?) = Traditional chinese folk song (Also covered by Modern Talking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Vg9EvaFv4 )
Delta / Rob Hubbard = Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFBijDU8PpE (near the end!)
Dutch Breeze Mix-e-load = Canon in D-Minor by Johann Pachelbel |
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STE'86
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 274 |
If u like oriental listen to this one:
at 2:15 all is revealed :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CwiSJh84Do&feature=related[/url]
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SIDWAVE
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_the_Yao_People |
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Playboy
Registered: Feb 2005
Posts: 20 |
This one: Shape
I am 100% sure it's a cover, but I can't remind the original song. Anyone? |
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DRAX
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Quote: 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
Actually Metal convered my XM module of the same name. Partially a cover with some improvised Lead from me. |
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