Two bits of trivia for Virtual On and Goemon.
Feb 22, 2008 2:07:04 GMT -5
Post by TheGunheart on Feb 22, 2008 2:07:04 GMT -5
Okay, one nitpicky thing missing from the Goemon article is that Ichiro Mizuki performed I Am Impact. I know DBZ is more well known the the U.S., but Mizuki was responsible for the majority of 70's super robot theme songs that Impact parodies.
youtube.com/watch?v=FfGmTzabFM8
Not his best work, but it's similar in structure to I Am Impact (the Dash Dash refrain, the children singing in the background, working attack names into the lyrics).
And for Virtual On, a rather obscure detail is how the computer voice at the end of OT and Force both qoute mangled versions of song lyrics.
In OT's case, it's from the second verse of The Republic song "Everyone Everywhere".
gh.ffshrine.org/song/1747/14
"At the end of the show, the people cheered, but you don't falter. We have to do it this way. This is no time to shiver, so get off the seat. You were once the main attraction, but now that's in the past."
Now compare those to the lyrics of the song. I'd provide a sample, but sadly, it's fairly obscure: I have it on iTunes, but I don't know where a sample could be found.
Force seems to have two, but I can only find the Mp3 of one.
gh.ffshrine.org/song/1744/23
"We'll never leave the Earth. Let's stand here together. And when space are quite, we'll walk out in the silence".
This is a pretty mangled version the refrain from Ultravox's "Just for a Moment". Again, I can't provide a sample: the only version of the song I've heard is from an Internet radio broadcast. The lyrics are still easy enough to find to compare, though.
The other one I found in this video, but I can't find it on the soundtrack...
youtube.com/watch?v=-ngnZA68w2g
This one was a pain, but I pieced it together:
"I feel the silence
I feel the signals
I feel the strain
calm before the storm
tension in my head
well, what more can be said..."
It's from the King Crimson song "Model Man", albiet slightly rearanged.
I know these tidbits probably can't be fit in articles, but I just felt like sharing after researching them. Heck, the site that clued me in on Virtual On's references doesn't even seem to be around anymore (I honestly thought it was telling me to get out of the arcade machine in OTs case).
youtube.com/watch?v=FfGmTzabFM8
Not his best work, but it's similar in structure to I Am Impact (the Dash Dash refrain, the children singing in the background, working attack names into the lyrics).
And for Virtual On, a rather obscure detail is how the computer voice at the end of OT and Force both qoute mangled versions of song lyrics.
In OT's case, it's from the second verse of The Republic song "Everyone Everywhere".
gh.ffshrine.org/song/1747/14
"At the end of the show, the people cheered, but you don't falter. We have to do it this way. This is no time to shiver, so get off the seat. You were once the main attraction, but now that's in the past."
Now compare those to the lyrics of the song. I'd provide a sample, but sadly, it's fairly obscure: I have it on iTunes, but I don't know where a sample could be found.
Force seems to have two, but I can only find the Mp3 of one.
gh.ffshrine.org/song/1744/23
"We'll never leave the Earth. Let's stand here together. And when space are quite, we'll walk out in the silence".
This is a pretty mangled version the refrain from Ultravox's "Just for a Moment". Again, I can't provide a sample: the only version of the song I've heard is from an Internet radio broadcast. The lyrics are still easy enough to find to compare, though.
The other one I found in this video, but I can't find it on the soundtrack...
youtube.com/watch?v=-ngnZA68w2g
This one was a pain, but I pieced it together:
"I feel the silence
I feel the signals
I feel the strain
calm before the storm
tension in my head
well, what more can be said..."
It's from the King Crimson song "Model Man", albiet slightly rearanged.
I know these tidbits probably can't be fit in articles, but I just felt like sharing after researching them. Heck, the site that clued me in on Virtual On's references doesn't even seem to be around anymore (I honestly thought it was telling me to get out of the arcade machine in OTs case).
