I love this song, and happily admit to singing it when it comes on. It's also such an easy song to play on the keyboard too, with Alison Moyet once stating "You don't need to be a great instrumentalist to play it. It's a universal, everyman song".
Enjoy.
That was until a few years ago. It took me a while to finally track down the song, but thanks to the wonders of the internet, here it is, and I'm adding it to my list of favourite songs because a) it reminds me of my childhood, and b) it's such a great tune!
This is Sky - Europes Number 1
As soon as this song comes on in the car, the volume goes straight up!
A small bit of personal trivia - Blue Monday was one of the very first songs I attempted to 'track' on my Commodore Amiga in the early 90s due to its simplistic bassline.
Enjoy
Way back, before I got a Commodore Amiga in 1992, I used to look forward to visiting our family friend Colin who wowed me on each visit with his Amiga 500. He would show me the latest fantastic audio/visual demos on that computer. Remember, I still only had an 8-bit Commodore 64 at that point, so hearing (and seeing) a home computer play back music that featured realistic sounding instruments and effects was totally mind-blowing. These demos were part of the massive 'demoscene' that dominated the Amiga and other micros in Europe during that time.
At its peak in the late 80s to mid-90s, the Amiga demoscene featured some fantastic songs, many of them created using the freely available Sound Tracker software and saved in .mod format. Most were released during demoscene parties that took place all over Europe.
Countless .mod files were made for the Amiga, but one of my all-time favourites is a track called Space Debris, written by Markus Captain Kaarlonen. The song took part in a music competition during the Anarchy Easter Conference Party in 1991and came first place unsurprisingly. Besides having a fantastic melody, the song really pushed the Amiga and proved you could create incredible music with only 4 voices playing at the same time.
Sound Tracker made writing and composing music so much easier and accessible to people like me who had an interest in writing music, but not the skill of being able to perform or the money to buy fancy hardware and sequencers. Space Debris and many other mods are what got me into writing my own 'tracked' music.
Computer and VGM (Video Game Music) may not be everyone's cup of tea, but give it a listen if you've not heard it before. Remember, this was created on a computer that came out in 1987!
And if you think that version sounds a bit dated, then try this amazing modern remix by D4XX
Step into the driving seat of one of the most wicked stunt cars around as a Stunt Car Racer. It's now up to you to prove just how good you are and to see whether or not you can ultimately become Division One Champion.
With a super-quick, turbo-charged V8 engine that will power you to incredible speeds, and long-travel suspension that enables you to soak up the bumps, your car really is an awesome projectile. The tracks are totally out of this world. Banked corners that enable you to 'pull g', undulating bumps that throw your car uncontrollably from side to side and huge ramps that catapult you into mid-air. In fact, you seem to spend so much time airborne, you could almost qualify for a pilot's licence!
Battle it out on the track against other computer controlled rivals, such as, Dare Devil and Road Hog. Race and jump so fast that your car starts to break up under the strain and then accelerate even more. There's no prizes for being second best in this game — it's all or nothing.
Stunt Car is utterly brilliant and offers adrenalin-pumping, gut wrenching high speed action that'll keep you engrossed for months. C + VG.
Stunt Car Racer — do you think you could be up there with the best?
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