My Music Memories : Everybody want to rules the world - Tears for Fears

Never being a big fan of Tears for Fears, "Shout" (from the same album "Songs from the Big Chair") was also a big hit, somehow its too poppy for a song called "Shout".
Check out "Twist and Shout" of The Beatles and you know what I mean. 
I listened recently to "Shout" and I still think it's too smooth, but what a great guitar solo! 
Even better than the one in "Everybody Wants To Rule The World".  
 
And that is the song I want to post about. I already posted a long time ago about the Mojo Jojo version from Cartoon Network and proves it doesn't matter how bad you sing it, the music will make it sound like you are a real popstar. 
The steady beat, spacey synths, and a funky guitar make the song unforgettable. 
I don't mind about other hits, like "Sowing The Seeds Of Love" or the duet with Oleta Adams, called  "Woman in Chains"
For me, there is only one song that counts, "Everybody Wants To Rule The World". 

I did a quick search for any remix and this one from Lorde in combi with Assassin's Creed the movie (not the game)  is the most impressive remix and movie of the song.
Even the trailers were boring and confusing, better watch all Cinema Trailers of the games.
And even a special Trump remix (don't worry,  he won't sing)
More DJs tried to improve the original, some fail, some are just outstanding.
Not only DJs want to mix this song, some other (unknown) artists covered the song very nicely, like Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Relient K  and Aron Wright or even acapella.

Ow, I forget the 8-bit versions, also a very important category in music on YouTube, some even with vocals! I also find a remix, with a video you will remember forever, take a look here.
I could not resist adding more good remixes,  cause I like music in a lot of genres.

112 MSX Basic games presents : SUPERHEL.GAM (63)

Another game from MSX gids magazine and another game with an helicopter.
My guess because heli's are much slower than airplanes, its easier to program in MSX Basic, high speed shooters with airplanes are nearly impossible without the help of a little machinecode. 
 


But this game tries and manage to create a really challanging action game with an heli.
It has some music, own characterset for the texts, good instructions, 7 different levels, nice intro screen and you could save/load your name and hi score! 
Just because I wanted 112 Basic games on a disk with a menu and not 111 games, I had to remove it and change the game a little so it has now the default hi score of 500 and as long as you play it, you can beat that easy. Yes, this game is not so easy, you must find out how every level works. 

Mr. Jansen made more very big MSX Basic games, like platformers and other shooters, those were just a little to slow to be playable for me. This one is good enough, if your reflexes are fast. It may be just a MSX Basic version of an commercial MSX game, I still think it original enough to be included in my 112 MSX Basic Games. Agreed?

Btw most texts were in English, except the manual. A bit weird,  but hey, more Dutch MSX programmers made the same fault. Or was it on purpose, I guess I never gonna know.

I assumed it was an easy game to translate, but in the end I created a training mode and better hi-score input routine. So it took me a lot of testing. However the game is worth it.


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BTW The screenshot shows my highest score, but due to a bug I was not able to fill in the hi score. This is my only proof.

112 MSX Basic games presents : BTTLSHIP.GAM (64)

This game was published in a Dutch MSX magazine called  MSX Gids. I was not a subscriber and only bought it when the listings interested me. I remember this magazine as the one that had the most listings, more than any other  magazine in the Netherlands. 

In Dutch the game is called Zeeslag, which is translated as Seawar, but the game principe 
is more common known as Battleship so I translated that way. 
I didnt want to change much in the intro screen, it's a lot of work drawing the long title "Battleship" instead of "ZEESLAG". 

What I did change was the manual,speed up the music, change the controls so you can use your joystick or cursors instead pressing some keys to go on. Ad Houwenaars did a terrific job, programming it. It's easy to read the listing and change it, its divided in labeled routines, not very common in MSX Basic games. Most of the time the listings are compressed to speed up the game. Well, Battleship is no action game, there is no timelimit or fast reponses needed. The purpose of the game is find all hidden ships in a square, by firing shots. If you hit something the game will let you know by showing the right colour. 

It could be made as a MSX-1 game,  but SCREEN 2 is not big enough to show all needed information, that is why mr. Houwenaars choose for the biggest MSX-2 screen, SCREEN 7. 
Now every info you need has a place on the screen, which made the game more playable and re-playable. So yes this is a MSX-2 ( and higher) game, with good reason. 
The biggest change I made, was let the player decide if he want to play or wait for the manual. Once you played the game, you know the rules and dont want to see the ever again. 

I inserted my highscore 241, it won't be easy to beat, cause you need a bit of luck too. 
The game is truely 1 player game,  you don't need to play again your MSX ( cause MSX won't play fair) or anyone else. Just get the highest score, thats all. And I like that. 

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TnC House Classics presents : I Love You... Stop! - Red 5

In my opinion Red 5 had only 3 hits, `I Love You... Stop´, ´Da Beat Goes` and 'For This World' 

I choose for "I Love You... Stop", because of the female voice and the nice picked violin sounds, the trademark of Red 5 
(I assumed). But if you use the same trick 3 times...after that I heard nothing special from them. 

Red 5 made lots of other songs (see list below), but only the 3 tracks I mentioned earlier are special. Still, I like this song, easy to humm or whistle.

Some made a megamix of all their hits, but the ones I find on YT were just not worthy to link to. I found out Red 5 was just another alias of Thomas Kukula
 
Maybe you know him better as General Base, another alias.
The red shark was the trademark of all Red 5 releases.

• 1997: Red 5 - I Love You... Stop!
• 1998: Red 5 - Lift Me Up
• 1998: Red 5 - Deeper Love
• 1998: Red 5 - Da Beat Goes
• 1998: Red 5 - Fiesta Fiesta
• 1998: Red 5 - Gimme Luv
• 2000: DJ Red 5 - Que Pasa
• 2001: DJ Red 5 - Rhythm & Drums 2001 ft. DJs@Work
• 2003: DJ Red 5 - Da Beat Goes - Reanimated
• 2010: DJ Red 5 - Da Beat Goes - 2010

Fan of Madness ???

Hey you ! Dont watch that. Watch this. This is the heavy heavy monstersound. The nuttiest sound of all. ONE STEP BEYOND ! ( or something like that)

 Do you still ? remember it? No ? I'ts Madness you idiot. These guys made ska music populair with hits like One Step Beyond, Nightboat to Cairo, Baggy Trousers, Our house and plenty more. I was in a period that I bought only "Best of" CDs of artists I knew from a couple of hits, but never bought any album of them. 
So I bought the "Divine Madness" which turned out to be more a single collection than a really the best of with only hits (I now found out it was the CD of the DVD with all their videos).
 
I didnt mind cause I discovered a lot of great songs I never heard of and even some ballads that were made more famous by other artists. Like My Girl and It Must Be Love. You have to listen to the lyrics, most of them are a bit cynical and sad, even in the most happy sounding songs like Baggy Trousers.

Years later, I saw a come back concert of Madness, no new songs, just a couple of teenagers of 40 years and older trying to be young again. 
What a waste, it was easy money for Madness members. 
For me time to switch the channel. 

My Music Memories: Mossels - De Mosselman

Another example of my bad taste in Dutch music. When house was coming up in the early 90s, everybody tried to create a new house-genre to make some money. One of them was De Mosselman. His first single Mossels was an example of "you get a famous Dutch song, put a housebeat in it and sell it as GabberHouse music" .

 
For a while it worked and many Dutch children songs, like De Mosselman got a second life as a GabberHouse tune. Like always, the first songs in a new musicgenre are really good, before everybody was copying it. De Mosselman was one good example of this GabberHouse genre, I still think its funny and a great dance track. 

Warning: Not all Dutch people will dressed a dance like the people you see in the videoclip. Sorry! 

After the succes of Mossels he continues with another great cover Opzij Opzij Opzij of the Dutch composer Herman van Veen. He had his own website (demosselman.nl) with photo's,  gigs and even some short songs never relased like Kruimeldief. He even sang a duet with Vader Abraham, a Famous Dutch singer of "The little café by the harbour" and Sieneke with a Gabberhouse version of her Eurovision Song Contest. ( I agree with the comments of some people in the Netherlands it was much better than the original (brrr).

But after a couple of years GabberHouse was dead, the site was closed and 
De Mosselman  (alias of Sander Scheurwater) is working now in a kitchen shop.

If you want to sing along with De Mosselman,  I translated the lyrics in English.  
Give it a try and you be the star of any Karaoke evening.

"Say you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
Say you know the Musselman, he comes from Skeveningen
 
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
Yes, you know the Musselman, he comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
 
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
 
Yes, do you know de Mosselman
Yes, do you know de Mosselman
Yes, do you know de Mosselman
 
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen

Mussels Mussels
Mussel mussel mussel
Mussel mussel
Mussel mussel mussel mussel mussel...

Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
 
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen"

Amazing short MSX-1 demo: Wintergatan Marble Machine by Guillian & WYZ

I was just browsing for diskmagazines on MSX Games World (yes, they have them too). Then I found a collection of known and unknown MSX demos. Including this one.

 "Wintergatan Marble Machine". The screenshots made me curious about the demo, 
so I watch the YouTube video. It was unbelievable, moving pictures on SCREEN-2 while playing PSG music ? 

 I did not believe it, so I downloaded the Rom and played in BlueMSX. Yes, it really played on SCREEN 2. How was this possible ? I still don't know. But the composer WYZ (see logo below) has a lot of stuff made on Soundcloud using only (MSX) PSG and SCC soundchips.

Of course the pictures were "borrowed" from the original YouTube video
 but it is still amazing how only 2 people, WYZ and programmer Guillian made this short MSX-1 demo.
The original song is much longer, but I guess the Rom had its storage limits.
There is also a maybe even more impressive Minecraft cover completly made with redstone and noteblocks. Enjoy.

MSX Highlights : MSX Diskmagazines

In the Netherlands, we MSX-ers had several MSX magazines with reviews, listings, and software on tapes or disks. However, as the goes by, MSX magazines disappeared from the magazine stores and subscriptions were canceled after a while. 

But many MSX groups filled that gap and released countless magazines on disk. Of course, the idea was stolen from Compile with their Disc Stations, but when BCF released a couple of their own Disc Stations, with demos, games and lots of stuff to read, every MSX club made their own Magazine on disk, some had multiple. To name a few Dutch Disk Magazines:

- BCF Disc Station
- Dragon Disk
- Quasar
- Genic Clubguide
- Sunrise Magazine 

- Future Disk

- Golden Power Disk

- Paradise

- Near Dark
- ROM
- Track

- D.I.S.K.

- MCCA  Infodisk

It was a great way to be more famous in MSX land, get some money and release small programs that nobody would buy if they had to sell it separately. For me it was a great way to know about the newest MSX software, see some demos and play some minigames.  

A couple of personal notes about some disk magazines:
* I was a great fan of the Golden Power Disk (always a yellow disc), sadly the stopped all sudden. 
* I had a subscription on Sunrise Magazine ( there was also a Sunrise Picture disk but my budget was not high enough to have both. 
* Later when the Sunrise Magazine stopped I got a subscription on the Future Disk, which kept going when almost every other MSX disk magazine had stopped. 
* As EMP-Soft we send a disk full of music files and some demos to MCCA Infodisk, when they ask for MSX software to put on their Infodisk. I checked and they put some of them on Infodisk 6/7/8/9.

At MSX.ORG they kept a decent collection of Dutch disk magazines, but there was so much more. My own collection is not that big, I only bought most of those disks on MSX fairs. 
And not every magazine was worth to subscribe. On MSX fairs I always wanted more to buy than just disk magazines, like music demos, new games, and utilities or new hardware. 


Anyway, most of these disks were made for MSX-2 computers, cause they were most common in the Netherlands,  so there was not much stuff made for MSX-2+ and Turbo-R. For this post, I will put my collection of some obscure Dutch disk magazines in 1 big zip file as a surprise package.

I hope you have fun with this collection even if most of the texts are all in Dutch. Mediafire / Pcloud 

For me, it was a real MSX Highlight, after nobody wanted to publish anything about MSX. The MSX scene itself stood up and created their own MSX magazines.