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Author Topic: Bands that sing songs about arcade stuff  (Read 1980 times)

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Bands that sing songs about arcade stuff
« on: July 13, 2006, 12:35:42 pm »
I'm not talking your Buckner & Garcia or Neskimos or Mini Bosses.

I'm talking about bands who sing cool songs that are about video games or pinball or whatever.  I always like it when I find a band like that.

Here are a few examples:
Marble- BK2K (Black Knight 2000) Williams Pinball, great song about him and his buddies hanging out at the laundry mat playing BK2K
http://allroy.bigdrillcar.com/marble/spin.html

The Pettit Project has a song called 99 Lives about how he's trying to get a girl and she's like a video game and he keeps trying and needs a stragagy guide cuz girls make no sense...got a lot of classic nintendo stuff in it
http://www.myspace.com/thepettitproject

I was glad to see Mario make an appearance in International Gamers Commitee (IGC)
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6703801/a/Print+Is+Dead.htm

I'm done making threads about what a dork I am for the day...but do you guys know any good arcade related songs like these?
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Re: Bands that sing songs about arcade stuff
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2006, 03:45:22 pm »
I've always liked the song "Little Mac's Confession" about the game Punch-Out
http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00605/


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Re: Bands that sing songs about arcade stuff
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2006, 03:57:13 pm »
Wierd Al's new song is great and is kind of about a video gamer, although its really just about a pathetic nerd:
you can get it here:http://media.thechrispirilloshow.com/mp3/yourepitiful.mp3
here: http://www.weirdalforum.com/private/yourepitiful.mp3
or a dozen other places linked from here: http://www.weirdal.com/

This song probably will not be on Wierd Al's next album because of legal reasons, which is why he made it free to download.
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Re: Bands that sing songs about arcade stuff
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2006, 12:05:05 am »

well, since we are in a retro world here, what about the aussie band Mi Sex- computer games? you probably havent heard it, but its from the 80s so you might like it


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Re: Bands that sing songs about arcade stuff
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2006, 11:49:07 am »
but I'm not talking about old bands necessarily, I'm talking about people who are around our age who are now writing songs with all kinds of video game references in them.  Another Pettit Project song says something like "I'm a Dreamcast, and he's Atari.  and I'm a dork for even using that analogy".  We grew up with/on this stuff.  It's only natural that it would influence other stuff.  like I Am 8 Bit.

AtomSmasher, I've been whisteling that damn mike tyson song for the whole weekend.  :)
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Re: Bands that sing songs about arcade stuff
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2006, 05:17:50 pm »
AC/DC - Who Made Who

Quote
The video game says "Play me"
Face it on a level but it takes you every time on a one on one
Feeling running down your spine
Nothing gonna save your one last dime cause it owns you
Through and through

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Re: Bands that sing songs about arcade stuff
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2006, 07:03:57 pm »
Machinae Supremacy did a few good ones and you can never go wrong with the stuff on www.ocremix.org - awesome game music remixes for free.

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Re: Bands that sing songs about arcade stuff
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2009, 12:02:52 pm »
Machinae Supremacy  is a band from Luleå, Sweden that combines modern heavy metal and alternative rock with chiptunes. Self-defined as SID metal, many of their songs use a SidStation that features the SID chip of the Commodore 64.

What a great band!

http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/

And you can listen to em here http://listen.grooveshark.com/

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Re: Bands that sing songs about arcade stuff
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2009, 06:10:22 pm »
http://www.myspace.com/thehangoutsrule

My friend's band did a song called Johnny Cool that's arcade related.



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Re: Bands that sing songs about arcade stuff
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2009, 12:56:35 am »
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