The Cars - Drive Parody/Cover of sorts

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Re: The Cars - Drive Parody/Cover of sorts

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Current draft wrote: Who's gonna play you when
It's too late.

Who's gonna tell you SIDs
Are so great.

We can't go on, thinkin'
8-bit's wrong.
Oh
Who's gonna play with you, tonight?


Who's gonna fix you up
When you stall?

Who's gonna spend their time
On Wizball?

Who's gonna pay attention,
To your screen?

And who's gonna play you more
In their dream?

You can't go on, thinkin'
8-bit's wrong.
Oh
Who's gonna play with you, tonight?


(Commodore C64)
(Commodore C64)

Who's gonna boot you up
from your drive?

cuz' Sound Interface Device
is still alive!

You can't go on, thinkin'
8-bit's wrong.
Oh
Who's gonna play with you, tonight?


Oh

You know you can't go on, thinkin'
8-bit's wrong.
Oh
Who's gonna play with you, tonight?
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Re: The Cars - Drive Parody/Cover of sorts

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Remade some of the instrumentation, and robotified the vocals:
http://mordi.ziphoid.com/data/music/wor ... %20WIP.mp3

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Re: The Cars - Drive Parody/Cover of sorts

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Pro:
- Very close reproduction of the arrangement, good selection of instruments.

Cons:
- Snare drum and finger snap sounds appear too "clean"
- Robofication immensely hurts the 80s feel since that's rather a late 90s / 2000s thing

Matter of taste:
- Mixing and mastering is excellent but quite different from the original
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Re: The Cars - Drive Parody/Cover of sorts

Post by Analog-X64 »

Very nice, need to do something different with the vocals.
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