I'd say that Megablast is still as catchy as hell; although most of the credit for that goes to John Carpenter, and his version has aged rather more gracefully.
I have a feeling the John Carpenter bits were sampled from an electro cover of Carpenter's theme from Assault on Precinct 13. I also have a feeling I used said electro cover once in a mashup - but I can't bloody remember what it's called or even who it's by! It's probably Afrika Bambaataa but beyond that I have no idea.
Anyway Megablast is a very cleverly-put together track - most of the samples are in key as well as in time, which was pretty unusual for that kind of track in 1988 when producers didn't have the luxury of timestretching. I think it's aged better than a lot of similar tracks of the time - I was listening to Beat Dis, Doctorin' The House etc. yesterday on a mixtape and much as I love them they almost sound like novelty records now.
I have a feeling the John Carpenter bits were sampled from an electro cover of Carpenter's theme from Assault on Precinct 13. I also have a feeling I used said electro cover once in a mashup - but I can't bloody remember what it's called or even who it's by! It's probably Afrika Bambaataa but beyond that I have no idea.
Yup, Bambaataa's Theme. Great track! :)
For the record, that whole Bomb The Bass album (Into The Dragon) is excellent.
I don't think it's much of a secret that I like several slices of cheese with my music...I've not been able to post any vids until now as I've been viewing WOS on the Xbox for the last week, but (un)luckily for you lot, I've got back on the PC now.... :D
I like Spanish Train - it was on a casette I had but for some reason not on the identically titles CD collection I later bought. At least it doesn't suffer from phrases like 'light-years of time' :roll: Who does he think he is, Han Solo? :lol:
I don't think it's much of a secret that I like several slices of cheese with my music...I've not been able to post any vids until now as I've been viewing WOS on the Xbox for the last week, but (un)luckily for you lot, I've got back on the PC now.... :D
I had a feeling you'd post some Mistral! :-D I'd never heard of them until you mentioned them here yonks ago. I absolutely love Starship 109! :)
I must admit that I do have something of a nostalgic soft-spot for Modern Talking. They were massive in Spain during the 80s, I used to hear it loads when I went there as a kid, and so it always reminds me of summer holidays in the 80s, along with Pretty Poison, C.C. Catch and Sandra. Good times! :)
The full extent of my foreign holidays as a child were a couple of excruciatingly early starts for a drive to Dover for maybe 7 hours ashore in a French port town. :cry:
I was 28 before I got to go properly on the p*ss on Amstel and Mythos by the Med. Still trying to make up for it.. 43 days to Corfu and counting... :lol:
The full extent of my foreign holidays as a child were a couple of excruciatingly early starts for a drive to Dover for maybe 7 hours ashore in a French port town. :cry:
I was 28 before I got to go properly on the p*ss on Amstel and Mythos by the Med. Still trying to make up for it.. 43 days to Corfu and counting... :lol:
We only went to Spain a lot during that time because my folks are Spanish. My family all live out there. :)
First proper p*ss-up holiday abroad for me without any family in sight was a couple of years ago, to Hamburg, with the ex. I was 32. :lol:
I'm going on holiday again this year. To Spain. To see the family. :lol:
I had a feeling you'd post some Mistral! :-D I'd never heard of them until you mentioned them here yonks ago. I absolutely love Starship 109! :)
Can't have a cheesy thread without Mistral! Starship 109 is my fave too! :D
This thread actually inspired me to go on a cheese hunt on Youtube last night, and boy, have I found some beauties! :lol: I do actually love a lot of these, but find some of them awesome mainly because of the videos! I've decided to thrill/torture everybody on Facebook with them over the course of this week, but you guys can get a preview! ;)
The full extent of my foreign holidays as a child were a couple of excruciatingly early starts for a drive to Dover for maybe 7 hours ashore in a French port town. :cry:
I was 28 before I got to go properly on the p*ss on Amstel and Mythos by the Med. Still trying to make up for it.. 43 days to Corfu and counting... :lol:
I'm not jealous! Honestly!
Haven't been to Greece for 9 years... my local supermarket sells Mythos now, but it's not quite the same :lol:
I'm desperate to go back, but need to scrape ?240 together for passports before I even start! Two hundred and forty quid, for what? To prove I'm not a terrorist? FFS :mad:
Sort of on-topic, no speakers so can't hear it but assume this is the Zorba the Greek (it's certainly got a whiff of feta about it)
Haven't been to Greece for 9 years... my local supermarket sells Mythos now, but it's not quite the same :lol:
Really, which one? Although it's probably export strength, which is not the same... Sorry, I don't mean to make anyone jealous. I'm just about scraping by with EasyJet and Booking.com this year, and doing my own transfers on the local buses. You can save quite a few quid if you know roughly where you're going, but you've no back-up.
But letting the passports lapse is a bad start - considering they last 10 years. Try getting one or two now, then look at the cost of a trip the following year. Also look to fly with EasyJet to Corfu and you can still get accommodation from the likes of OlympicHolidays - if you're willing to travel around this time of year (kids in school notwithstanding), and you remember to book the flights as soon as they're released in January, as it's dirt cheap. Even with kids, the half-term holidays are better than summer. If the tour operator prices go up, then see if the prices are cheaper locally by using something like Booking.com.
In the meantime, buy yourself a thin block of Jarlsberg; cut into big triangles; mix some flour and water in a saucer to a paste with a pinch of dill or parsley and smear the cheese in it; fry both sides until brown in olive oil; sprinkle on a pinch of oregano and some fresh coriander and lemon juice and tuck in. Or chuck some pasta twists or spaghetti in the bottom of an oven dish; cover with fried up onion/garlic/mince/tomato/mushroom/oregano/parsley and a pinch of cayenne, an upper layer of penne pasta or macaroni, topped with a mix of white and cheese sauce (instant), grated cheese, breadcrumbs (grated brown bread), a pinch of nutmeg (if you have it) and a drizzle of olive oil on top and stick in the oven for as long as you can stand to wait.
Meanwhile, put Yannis Markopoulos on loop with a bit of Pios Plironi Ton Varkari...
Also for a Greek caf? style omelette, make it thin with only eggs, use olive oil in the pan, and don't keep stirring it - just keep swirling it so it climbs the sides of the pan. Turn it over briefly to cook the top then back again. With it still in the pan, crumble on some Feta (or any crumbly white English cheese like Wensleydale or Cheshire - you're not sweating all day so you probably haven't a taste for all that salt anyway) so it just starts to soften, chop a tomato in half then cut into half-slices and arrange on top, and then sprinkle on some oregano. Just be warned that from the moment you smell the warm oregano to the moment you're looking at an empty plate may all be a bit of a blur. Is there a smiley for drooling like one of Pavlov's dogs?
Tesco. It's 4.7% according to the website but I'm sure it was 5% when they first started selling it.
Thanks for the tips and the recipes :)
Looks like the real thing. Have to try my nearest Tesco then.
Those are the easy ones to do, Saganaki, Pastitsio and an Omelette. You can't really screw them up; you can only do them 'differently'. Although I've had something called Pastitsio in an Italian restaurant and it was rubbish. The usual Italian excuse of dipping some spaghetti briefly in some sort of tomatoey sauce, shaking most of it off again, and serving it up as a 'meaty' dish.
Not a cheesy song, but as any fan of The Guild knows, the song 'Do you wanna date my avatar?" is great.
And if you don't know what The Guild is, it's an online comedy show about a group of socially disfunctional gamers, and is very funny. It's written by Felicia Day, the redhead who plays Codex and begins each seven-ish minute episode talking to her video-diary.
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I have a feeling the John Carpenter bits were sampled from an electro cover of Carpenter's theme from Assault on Precinct 13. I also have a feeling I used said electro cover once in a mashup - but I can't bloody remember what it's called or even who it's by! It's probably Afrika Bambaataa but beyond that I have no idea.
Anyway Megablast is a very cleverly-put together track - most of the samples are in key as well as in time, which was pretty unusual for that kind of track in 1988 when producers didn't have the luxury of timestretching. I think it's aged better than a lot of similar tracks of the time - I was listening to Beat Dis, Doctorin' The House etc. yesterday on a mixtape and much as I love them they almost sound like novelty records now.
Yup, Bambaataa's Theme. Great track! :)
For the record, that whole Bomb The Bass album (Into The Dragon) is excellent.
That'll do for now I think...
The song is made more powerful by listening to the follow-up:
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*Edit* Oh...and this! :)
I like 'A Spaceman Came Travelling', I would post it in this thread but I think I'll leave it for seven months.
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I had a feeling you'd post some Mistral! :-D I'd never heard of them until you mentioned them here yonks ago. I absolutely love Starship 109! :)
I must admit that I do have something of a nostalgic soft-spot for Modern Talking. They were massive in Spain during the 80s, I used to hear it loads when I went there as a kid, and so it always reminds me of summer holidays in the 80s, along with Pretty Poison, C.C. Catch and Sandra. Good times! :)
I was 28 before I got to go properly on the p*ss on Amstel and Mythos by the Med. Still trying to make up for it.. 43 days to Corfu and counting... :lol:
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
That lot is almost polomint level!!!!!
We only went to Spain a lot during that time because my folks are Spanish. My family all live out there. :)
First proper p*ss-up holiday abroad for me without any family in sight was a couple of years ago, to Hamburg, with the ex. I was 32. :lol:
I'm going on holiday again this year. To Spain. To see the family. :lol:
Can't have a cheesy thread without Mistral! Starship 109 is my fave too! :D
This thread actually inspired me to go on a cheese hunt on Youtube last night, and boy, have I found some beauties! :lol: I do actually love a lot of these, but find some of them awesome mainly because of the videos! I've decided to thrill/torture everybody on Facebook with them over the course of this week, but you guys can get a preview! ;)
Steady on, nobody's posted YMCA yet!
Quick, lock the thread before he notices! :-P
I'm not jealous! Honestly!
Haven't been to Greece for 9 years... my local supermarket sells Mythos now, but it's not quite the same :lol:
I'm desperate to go back, but need to scrape ?240 together for passports before I even start! Two hundred and forty quid, for what? To prove I'm not a terrorist? FFS :mad:
Sort of on-topic, no speakers so can't hear it but assume this is the Zorba the Greek (it's certainly got a whiff of feta about it)
Really, which one? Although it's probably export strength, which is not the same... Sorry, I don't mean to make anyone jealous. I'm just about scraping by with EasyJet and Booking.com this year, and doing my own transfers on the local buses. You can save quite a few quid if you know roughly where you're going, but you've no back-up.
But letting the passports lapse is a bad start - considering they last 10 years. Try getting one or two now, then look at the cost of a trip the following year. Also look to fly with EasyJet to Corfu and you can still get accommodation from the likes of OlympicHolidays - if you're willing to travel around this time of year (kids in school notwithstanding), and you remember to book the flights as soon as they're released in January, as it's dirt cheap. Even with kids, the half-term holidays are better than summer. If the tour operator prices go up, then see if the prices are cheaper locally by using something like Booking.com.
In the meantime, buy yourself a thin block of Jarlsberg; cut into big triangles; mix some flour and water in a saucer to a paste with a pinch of dill or parsley and smear the cheese in it; fry both sides until brown in olive oil; sprinkle on a pinch of oregano and some fresh coriander and lemon juice and tuck in. Or chuck some pasta twists or spaghetti in the bottom of an oven dish; cover with fried up onion/garlic/mince/tomato/mushroom/oregano/parsley and a pinch of cayenne, an upper layer of penne pasta or macaroni, topped with a mix of white and cheese sauce (instant), grated cheese, breadcrumbs (grated brown bread), a pinch of nutmeg (if you have it) and a drizzle of olive oil on top and stick in the oven for as long as you can stand to wait.
Meanwhile, put Yannis Markopoulos on loop with a bit of Pios Plironi Ton Varkari...
Also for a Greek caf? style omelette, make it thin with only eggs, use olive oil in the pan, and don't keep stirring it - just keep swirling it so it climbs the sides of the pan. Turn it over briefly to cook the top then back again. With it still in the pan, crumble on some Feta (or any crumbly white English cheese like Wensleydale or Cheshire - you're not sweating all day so you probably haven't a taste for all that salt anyway) so it just starts to soften, chop a tomato in half then cut into half-slices and arrange on top, and then sprinkle on some oregano. Just be warned that from the moment you smell the warm oregano to the moment you're looking at an empty plate may all be a bit of a blur. Is there a smiley for drooling like one of Pavlov's dogs?
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
Tesco. It's 4.7% according to the website but I'm sure it was 5% when they first started selling it.
Thanks for the tips and the recipes :)
hmmm, no relation to this I assume? :lol:
As has this, if you want to play the "promote your own tune" game :-P
Oi! What you trying to say? :p
Too late... Now, where'd I put the cheese, :D
I hope the cheese is not in orbital's arse.
Those are the easy ones to do, Saganaki, Pastitsio and an Omelette. You can't really screw them up; you can only do them 'differently'. Although I've had something called Pastitsio in an Italian restaurant and it was rubbish. The usual Italian excuse of dipping some spaghetti briefly in some sort of tomatoey sauce, shaking most of it off again, and serving it up as a 'meaty' dish.
Another classic. Not very Mediterranean though. Unless he's off somewhere with the au-pair again... :lol:
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
And if you don't know what The Guild is, it's an online comedy show about a group of socially disfunctional gamers, and is very funny. It's written by Felicia Day, the redhead who plays Codex and begins each seven-ish minute episode talking to her video-diary.
Season 1 is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSC2TMwyqzg, and if you like it then there are another five seasons for you to enjoy.
Owwh sorry love.
I was getting my Young One's episodes mixed up. Neneh was in Rip Rig + Panic,
Hadn't heard this for 25 years, until recently. I'm a sucker for a house piano.