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Anyone else think the composer was listening to The Police a lot when he came up with this one?

@Renegade466isback The arcade machine used the YM2151 (essentially a DX7 synth on a chip with 8-voice polyphony), plus a custom Sega PCM playback chip (for the drums and the sound effects), all controlled by a Z80. The MegaDrive/Genesis used the YM2612, which was a cut-down 6-voice version - als...

How Miami Sound Machine didn't slam Sega with the lawsuit from hell is beyond me... ;)

@ucla4eva Not at all - he regrets it because it was a bloody stupid idea that he was goaded into by EMI. Morning Glory was the 2nd of a trilogy and Great Escape was the 3rd, so there was more filler on the latter. The acid test came in 1997, when Be Here Now failed to deliver and "Blur" complet...

There exists a radio interview with Kurt where he mentions hearing a song he liked that went "there's no other way...". Damon didn't hear that until after Kurt died, and you never heard him say a harsh word about Nirvana since. Grunge was as much a reaction to the sterility of the Reagan years ...

@StrummingSparrow Keith Cameron - as it says on the video. ;) He was an NME staff writer in the '90s, and actually managed to piss Kurt Cobain off quite impressively (read Azerrad's "Come As You Are" for the full story) - though given that Everett True avoided the same fate largely by kissing Co...

@driftz0r Really? I thought it was generally regarded as one of their best! OK, it's a B-side, but that was just Noel trying to prove a point (namely that he could put a song like that out as a B-side). I often wondered if he regretted that decision around the time he had to include "She's Ele...

RIP Richard Joseph (1953-2007)

@FilmRanter1993 Are you seriously suggesting that "Digsy's Dinner" and "She's Electric" are up to the other songs on those albums? Sales are not necessarily an indicator of quality - if they were then Boyzone, Westlife, Take That and Steps would be considered the best musicians of the '90s. I s...

@athleticguyUK You see, this is what happens when people get exposed to "live" performances with AutoTune to a prerecorded DAT backing for too long. Blur are a *very* good live band, but the sound guys seemed to be asleep at the desk and you can see Damon trying to get his mic cable back from a ...

@tararora First I've heard that - what they said at the time was that Paul simply burned out in the middle of the US leg of the "Together Alone" tour and didn't want to do it anymore, so he just walked. Neil took this personally and was furious, but they'd clearly rebuilt bridges by the Sydney f...

@thegrapegeek It's a nice thought - but given the utter shock Neil seemed to be in when news got back to him in the UK, I honestly don't think he had a clue. By all accounts Hessie was very good at hiding his feelings behind jokes and clowning around a lot of the time. It's always special when ...

What I love about this is how the story comes full-circle in more ways than one. OK, you can riff off bringing Butch and Krist in being the acceptance of the past yadda yadda, but if you listen to the first Foos album (which was all Dave) you can hear he's picked up some bass tags from Krist. N...

No need for US/EU willy-waving. The fact is that in the mid-'60s the two projects every engineer aspired to be on were the Apollo programme and Concorde. The former sent several groups of men to the surface of the moon, and you can't argue that wasn't very cool. However the latter took thousan...

@bristolyoutubization *dons NHS specs and bri-nylon kecks* - In actual fact, the only limitation the Amiga had regarding sample length was the Chip RAM, limited to 512K on the A500/1000/2000. The A500+/600 had 1MB of Chip RAM, so you could store roughly double the length, and the A1200/3000/4000...

@RetroManCave I meant the CD-ROM end of things rather than the Amiga. The drive itself was single-speed, the interface was kludgy and proprietary - as a technology demo it was exciting, but as a product there was no real market for it. It would have made sense use the CDTV to generate interest,...

@Harrysmom2008 Maybe not, but on the other hand I can't see a British copper tasing a disabled person or a child - things I know for a fact have happened Stateside - and I'm glad of it. This guy was a steroid-abusing psycho, for these officers it simply wasn't their day - and no, UK traffic offi...

@Hornet0biker The term "failed state" doesn't mean "no government", it means "government that the Foreign Office doesn't like". In this case they're talking about Puntland, an independent but internationally-recognised state. They certainly have the resources to track a fugitive on land, but la...

@TruckTurner74 Wow - chill pill required, methinks. If you read what I wrote, you'd see that I'm saying that the book and play have the events narrated by an *older* Mr. Kipps, whereas in the TV movie Mr. Kidd is killed, thus we're seeing the events as they happen rather than narrated from memory.

@Doommaster1994 That'll be interesting - good luck to him!

@N330AA "I'm not a Labour voter but David really really should have been the Labour leader."

Well, of course you'd say that because you'd like to see Labour lose!

(and that's precisely why the PLP didn't elect him leader...)

@musicmaniac1965 It's not a "mistake" so much as not the same as the arcade music. I had the same MIDI file back in 1999. :)

Studio monitors aren't designed to "improve" the music, they're designed to help you identify issues in the mix, either with as flat a response as possible, or a speciall...

@Holden308 Nah - the SD1 chassis was a better, more modern design than the XJS and, when tweaked, could put the power down more consistently. The shell was more aerodynamic too. That said, the only time I've ever seen a touring car season where the drivers' bloody-mindedness could not overcome ...

@BelovedCaptain *CONTAINS SPOILERS* In the book and play, the Woman In Black died of a wasting disease several years after the death of her son in the accident. In the 1989 TV movie (i.e. this version), the plot is simplified slightly and both are supposed to have perished in the accident itself...

@ma049 Musically they were always far more interesting, but the "feud" was just record industry bullshit (EMI vs. Sony). Blur grew and changed with every album - even the "Life" trilogy - and were willling to sacrifice popularity to keep their music relatively fresh. Oasis didn't really expand t...

@discocreator76 No, he sounds like a Swede.

So riddle me this. BMW *bought* Rover Group (and Land Rover) *outright* in 1994. When the one director who championed Rover as a whole fell out of favour, BMW sold it off for a pittance (and LR to Ford as a separate entity). The only logical reason for buying would be to copy the LR technology ...

@symonh2000 Everyone's experience is different, but I tried a lot of R8s over the years and found the K to be the more consistently torque-y of the two engines. I'm not saying the Honda unit was bad by any stretch of the imagination, but it had a short shelf-life once the new emissions regs came...

@PatSharpsNastyMullet The KV6 is actually a good unit, having been redesigned for the 75. The straight-4 1.8 is more of a mixed bag, but that's not the fault of the engine design itself, but the fact that they didn't properly understand the design when they increased the displacement from 1.4. ...

*If you haven't seen the film in it's entirety - do not watch this scene in isolation in a small YouTube window - it won't work. Close this tab and go watch the whole thing on a big TV in the dark!*

Most scary scenes aren't that scary when you watch them in isolation like this - it's the hour o...

@frumzion The Freelander problems were with the straight-4 1.8L K-series, not the KV6. Proof that Ford didn't understand the design was that they spent lord knows how much replacing engines under warranty and publicly rubbishing them, when all they had to do was move the thermostat switch from t...