Video Game References in Pop (or un-pop) Music

[Kroogah]

This is almost a RRM thread (I started one like this at the old Ezboard but I couldn't find it...dammit) instead of hijacking the Pac-Man Fever thread I decided to start a new one...

Akrobatik - "Exterminator"
"Dinner's Served like pressing all 4 Turbo buttons"
an NBA Street reference, in case you didn't know.

GZA/Genius - "Investigative Reports" (i think...)
"I'm playing a deadly game with just 1 man left"

Raekwon - (I don't remember the song)
"I'll stomp your ass like that cat Blanka"

Ice Cube - "Doing Dumb S**t"
"A little punked-out kid playing Space Invaders" (talking about himself ^^)

Public Enemy - "What Side You On"(?)
"Good enough to grow no endo/threw it out the window/along with the Super Nintendo"

Deltron 3030 - "3030"
I can't remember it exactly, but there is a part where Del raps about being "blessed with Espers"

Ice Cube - (I don't remember the song)
"It's on like Donkey Kong" (cheap, I know, but it's something ^^)

Freezepop - Amplitude(?)
Freezepop's new song in the game Amplitude thanks all their fans (since most people became fans due to "Science Genius Girl" in FreQuency) notable is the line that says "You made your FreQ so chic!"

Whose Line is it Anyway...Wayne Brady sang a song to the editor-in-chief of Gamespy about video games...he managed to use Pong, Donkey Kong, Jungle Hunt, Sega, Super Mario, and a few other things.

[chadtower]

Jump Around - House of Pain
"Tried to play me out like as if my name was Sega"

Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - Human Video Game
<no quote, the whole song is about arcades and specifically Donkey Kong>

Ludacris - Roll Out
<something about a ps2 up in the ride>
(I don't know much of this guy, just that I hear this song on the radio too often)

[tynstar]

I think it is an Outkast song that says "sorry like Atari and cousin to Coleco"


Limp Bizkit has some sound effect that I swear sound like the music in Streets of Rage II

[Eternal Champion]

MR. BUNGLE: Slowly Growing Deaf, eponymous debut LP (I could be wrong about which song, but it's in there)--Sample from Nintendo's "Baseball" (NES)

MR.BUNGLE Live San Francisco Jan. 1991: SMB Main Theme and Dungeon Theme--I shit you not, it's REALLY AWESOME!! I have a boot of that gig.

[tynstar]

MR. BUNGLE

I didn't know anyone other than me listen to them.

[Eternal Champion]

Quote:
MR. BUNGLE


I didn't know anyone other than me listen to them.

GOOD LORD! Have you ever been to their shows?! Guaranteed sold out. CRAZINESS!
Unfortunately saw the first show of their Disco Volante tour at First Ave., they weren't happy about the tech. difficulties. Same tech. difficulties for California tour, BUT AWESOME SHOW. I'll never forget it. I'm seeing Tomahawk on May 12th... \^_^/

[digitalpress]

Allow me to bust out some rhymes here in this exclusive:
Santulli's ATARI EDITION

Sigue Sigue Sputnik (really over-the-top electronic rock band "from the future" in the 80's) had a great song called "Atari Baby".

There's a band out there called "Atari Teenage Riot", and they have lots of songs with Atari references in 'em.

The Fugees "Fu-Gee-La":
Fake bullets can't scar me
I can smell the weak out like safari
Play you out like Atari
Sacrifice you Hari Kari

Big Daddy Kane "On the Bugged Tip":
Touch the young ladies make their blood pressure boil.
I got the ...hmm...hiccups, excuse me, sorry.
Score a 100 Gs every time I play Atari.
Put a hole in the Old Gold, blast the Bacardi.

Outkast "Skew it on the Bar B":
The common denominator the nigga numerator
Never know who the hater niggaz cater to your ego
I'm sorry like Atari whose the cousin to Coleco.. Vision

Pink, Mya, Lil Kim, & Christina Aguilera "Lady Marmalade":
Disagree?
Well that's you and I'm sorry
Imma keep playing these cats out like Atari

Jay-Z "Never Change":
The streets robbed me, wasnt educated probly
but fuck yall i needed money 4 atari
was so young my big sis still playin w/ barbie

Poison Clan "Low Life Muthafuckas":
You can't play me like Atari
Motherfuckers tryin' to will be sorry
'Cause Debonaire's far from a sucker
Another low-life motherfucker

Dream Warriors "The Master Plan":
He knew the scooop on everybody from me
To Geraldine Ferraro
First love was a Ferrari
He played more games than your average Atari

Lil' Wayne "Loud Pipes":
Lamborghini sittin on broaders
With two more in my garages
Plus a blue and black ferrari
With nintendo and atari

La The Darkman "What Thugs Do":
Sorry, I'm the lion in this concrete safari
My Niggaz been in and out of jail since Atari

[chadtower]

Big Daddy Kane "On the Bugged Tip":
Touch the young ladies make their blood pressure boil.
I got the ...hmm...hiccups, excuse me, sorry.
Score a 100 Gs every time I play Atari.
Put a hole in the Old Gold, blast the Bacardi.

That was on a Big Daddy Kane album but it wasn't Big Daddy Kane who said that... I forget the guy's name.. Scoob Lover? Scrap Lover? Something like that.

[Keir]

I started one like this at the old Ezboard but I couldn't find it...dammit

That's because I started it! :P
http://pub103.ezboard.com/fretrogami...icID=265.topic

[Keir]

Ani Difranco "Self Evident":
cuz take away our playstations
and we are a third world nation

[NE146]

Limp Bizkit has a song (I dunno the name) but they use the very recognizable Williams sound from Defender where a humanoid is picked up.. i.e. the "distress call".

[Sinistarr]

Limp Bizkit has a song (I dunno the name) but they use the very recognizable Williams sound from Defender where a humanoid is picked up.. i.e. the "distress call".

I think that's in the radio/TV friendly edit of N2gether Now. Clever way of bleeping obscenities.

Shifting genres a bit, BT uses a whole slew of classic arcade samples in Movement in Still Life. The only one I recall off the top of my head is the sound from Galaga when the green baddie tries to trap your ship, but there are a lot of others used as well.

[toddst]

There use to be a ska band out of Austin called Gal's Panic. Now, they have gone more punk and are called Missle Command

[josekortez]

@ Captain Yashiro - the name of the Genius/GZA song is "I Gotcha Back."

Rap music has a lot of references to video-games:

Notorious B.I.G. - "Juicy" - "Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis/ When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this..."

Crookyn Dodgers - "Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers" - Jeru the Damaja says, "chips that power nuclear bombs power my Sega..."

Monie Love - "There's A Better Way" - "Well at least I got to be his friend though/ after I convinced him Turbo-grafx beat Nintendo..."

Philly's Most Wanted - "Street Tax" - "The game changes every year/ Like EA Sports..."

My favorite has to be Shay holding the Dual Shock on the cover of the N.E.R.D. album (my favorite VA hip-hop artists), and all the beats on Del the Funky Homosapien's last album were sampled from PS1 games.

Oh, and the Street Fighter movie soundtrack had a bunch of songs about Street Fighter 2.

Incidentally, my interview with Keith Murray and Joe Budden about their appearance in Def Jam Vendetta finally got published today, so I'm happy.

[digitalpress]

Incidentally, my interview with Keith Murray and Joe Budden about their appearance in Def Jam Vendetta finally got published today, so I'm happy.

What's this?

show me show me show me

[josekortez]

@digitalpress - I cover urban music and I do reviews for the Game Time section of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which is a middle-market newspaper in this area. The interview with Murray and Budden made it into the printed version. I'd have to snail-mail it. Unfortunately, only the review made it onto the on-line edition, but you can check out my review of Def Jam Vendetta here:

http://www.timesdispatch.com/weekend/MGBGTPLV5FD.html

@the room - Also, I remembered Cocoa Brovas sampled the SMB theme song on "Super Brooklyn."

[petewhitley]

There are a couple of hip-hop compilations under the name "Game Over" where most if not all of the songs are said to feature some samples/riffs/themes based on games. I've got the first one, and while for the life of me I can't identify anything game-related in half of them, it's got an absolutely killer Eminem song using the Soul Calibur theme.

[Six Switch]

Other than just the name of the band and song,in The Ataris song Up up down down left right left right b a start it says "hung out and played Galaga all day".

[Dahne]

Ani Difranco "Self Evident"

Somebody besides me has heard this song? Wow.

I've got nothing to add, except that I swear that little bleepy sound in Rammstein's "Du Hast" is from somethng.

[TRM]

Mark Wills' 19 Something mentions Pac Man.

[Kroogah]

@ Captain Yoshiro -

Call me YAshiro, damn you! ^_^

the name of the Genius/GZA song is "I Gotcha Back."

That's right...I'm ashamed that I don't remember that. Liquid Swords is such a damn good album...

and all the beats on Del the Funky Homosapien's last album were sampled from PS1 games.

Both Sides of the Brain? (grabs a late pass, then runs out to buy album)

And just for the Hell of it, I'm throwing the Beatmania theme song in here (by DJ Hiro)

I can't do it so do it with me
You are the DJ, hit the key
Play and scratch,(?) bend your brain
Feel the beat, let's do it again

[digitalpress]

@digitalpress - I cover urban music and I do reviews for the Game Time section of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which is a middle-market newspaper in this area. The interview with Murray and Budden made it into the printed version. I'd have to snail-mail it. Unfortunately, only the review made it onto the on-line edition, but you can check out my review of Def Jam Vendetta here:

http://www.timesdispatch.com/weekend/MGBGTPLV5FD.html

@the room - Also, I remembered Cocoa Brovas sampled the SMB theme song on "Super Brooklyn."

That's awesome.

Now, to quote my friend Sara: "You'd think I'd have more to say about this, but strangely I do not".

Thanks for sharing that.

[Kid Fenris]

Deltron 3030 - "3030"
I can't remember it exactly, but there is a part where Del raps about being "blessed with Espers"

Del drops a lot of game references in his lyrics. I think that he's also sampled stuff from Tekken 3, Guilty Gear, and other games.

And let's not forget the Pixies' Theme From Narc. It's not a reference, but a great cover nonetheless.

[josekortez]

That's awesome.

Now, to quote my friend Sara: "You'd think I'd have more to say about this, but strangely I do not".

Thanks for sharing that

No, thank you, Joe! When people ask me who my video-game writing influences are, I always say Joe Santulli...

...and Seanbaby - I'm sure that will create some discussion in this thread.

[kevincure]

Sinistar...I guess I'm a more modern gamer, but BT is my favorite musician, and I've never noticed the game samples. The guy is a genius. If you're into him, check out the new single "Somnambulist" - it drops May 20 with a wicked hot remix by Sander K (got a wub-wub thing like Dooms Night by Azzido de Bass). The new CD is out in August; I've only heard two of the tracks (som and "Love in the Time of Thieves") but both are hot as hell. BT rocks.

As an aside, as the "PSX guy", I guess I hafta mention "My Console" by Eiffel 65 (you know, he did the "I'm blue, dabadee dabadaa" song).

"We gonna play the game, the playstation all day
with metal gear solid to tekken and
from omega boost to resident evil
just play for the fun, cuz we got it goin on
P L A Y STA T I O N
Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Gran Turismo
Omega Boost, Bloody Roar, XFiles, All over the World
C'mon! Ridge Racer, Oddworld,
We gonna live it, the game on the Playstation"

My one question is...X-files!?