Saturday Night Tunage XIV

By request, it's the return of Saturday Night Tunage with DJ Wonderduck!

Yes, "by request!"  At dinner this past Tuesday with Vaucaunson's Duck and his wife Geese, The Pond came up in conversation.  It turns out that both are avid readers of this little website, and she particularly liked Saturday Night Tunage... and wanted a return.  Well, I had been planning to do one last weekend, but the latest outage of Pond Central's broadband connection (caused by a van knocking down a telephone pole) put paid to that idea.

Knowing that someone out there actually wants it, here's the newest installment of Saturday Night Tunage, the catch-all edition!  It's music time!


SHE - Together

Acclaim Studios - Re-Volt Track #5
Re-Volt may have been the greatest racing game ever, but it certainly had one of the greatest soundtracks ever.  Everything was original for the game, and it was kickin'!  This one is probably my favorite of the nine or ten full songs on the PC version, and I think it still holds up well today.  And you can still play Re-Volt today, too... it's a win-win all around!

Hatsune Miku - Ievan Polkka
Because shut up, that's why.
Let's see, it's an artificial Japanese singer performing a cover of a Finnish group's cover of a 1930s-era Polish-style polka.  God, I love living in these times.

Morphine - Thursday
If any song can make you feel grimy and sleazy just from listening to it, it's this one.  I love it for its unusual sound... but then, how many groups can pull off this lineup: 2-stringed slide bass, baritone sax, and drums?  God, that's weird... and wonderful.  There used to be a motel called The Wagon Wheel about 10 miles north of the Old Home Pond; Rock-Con, the long-lived regional gaming convention, was held there a few times... good lord, this year's con will be the 39th?  MAN, I'm old... Vauc and I were at #8, if not earlier.

ABC - When Smokey Sings
You didn't honestly think you'd get out of here without some New Wave music, did you?  This is the single version, which hit #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1987, making it the biggest hit of ABC's long discography.  It's not their best hit, no, but... well, there you go.

Joe Jackson - Hometown
I'm always amazed at what went into the recording of the album this track is off of, Big World.  Joe Jackson wanted to capture the energy of a live performance, but without all the background noise an audience would impart to the recording.  So he did a tour, but asked the audience to make no sound whatsoever.  No clapping, no cheering, no coughing, nothing.  Violators were ejected, and the song restarted.  Each instrument and microphone were recorded separately and sent to a recording truck in the alley behind the hall, but there was no post-processing or remixing done to the result.  What you hear is exactly the way it sounded in the concert itself.  This video is from one of the three concerts involved in the session; I don't believe it's the version on the album.

And on that note, I leave you for another night.  This is DJ Wonderduck, signing off!

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