I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. I hope no one’s cell phone was stolen in a hipster coffee house. I hope no one’s laptop was smashed by a wheelchair. Those would not be fun things to happen during one’s holiday break. Trust me.
Moving onto more upbeat news, this year will mark the 10th anniversary of Lost Turntable. This fact BLOWS MY FUCKING MIND.
I want to plan something special for the anniversary month, which is this March. Although I really haven’t figured out what that would be. So if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
This has to be one of the longest running MP3 blogs at this point, right? I mean, who the fuck is left? Every blog that inspired me to create this blog is either completely offline at this point or hasn’t been updated in years. Quitters.
White Zombie
Thunder Kiss ’65 (Finger On The Trigger Remix)
Thunder Kiss ’65 (The Remix That Wouldn’t Die Remix)
Thunder Kiss ’65 (The Diabolical Ramrodder Remix)
Thunder Kiss ’65 (Swinging Lovers Remix)
White Zombie reminds me of Ridge Racer.
Okay, so here’s the thing.
When the Playstation came out there weren’t that many good games for it. One of the best was the original Ridge Racer. Now, I don’t know if this was an advertised feature of the game or something I just read in a magazine, but since the game loaded entirely to the system’s RAM, once it booted up you could take out the PS1 game disc and put in any old CD you wanted, which would then serve as the game’s soundtrack. For some reason, my go to CD was Astro-Creep: 2000.
I have incredibly vivid memories of racing along to “Electric Head” and using the track as an audio checkpoint – if I could get to one corner of the track before the chorus kicked in, I knew I was doing good. Why the fuck this memory sticks in my head and not, y’know, my boyfriend’s birthday, I have no idea.
Anyways, these remixes are by KMFDM and they hella sound like remixes of White Zombie songs by KMFDM. So your enjoyment of them will probably depend on how appealing that sounds to you. They just make me want to play Ridge Racer.
Madonna
GHV2 (Tracy Young’s Shake & Stir Club Mix)
Madonna does not make me think of any video game in particular save for this obscure Japanese arcade game that features a brief chiptune cover of “Like A Virgin.” I guess I could also associate her with the Turbografx-16 game Vigilante, as the protagonist’s kidnapped girlfriend’s name is Madonna for some reason. I doubt she endorsed that cameo.
This track is a megamix of tracks taken from her 2001 greatest hits album GHV2. There were several versions of this mix released, albeit none commercially – all were promo and DJ releases only. This one is one of the rarest, and is only on a handful of 12″ promo singles and CDrs. If I ever get around to finishing that mega Madonna singles guide, I’ll be sure to go into more detail there.
Thanks for do this so well for so long. I realize it’s a lot of work, but I appreciate it, and I sure a lot of other people do too.
10 years and I’ve been visiting here for at least 9 of those years. Haha wow… where does the time go? But yeah, I agree with you with most of the old mp3 blogs that I used visit based off your links to the left are dead and gone… so sad… I think…
Thanks for the White Zombie remixes. I have the US copy of the Thunder Kiss CD which only had 2 of the 4 Thunder Kiss remixes you posted and a remix of Black Sunshine which was also done by KMFDM which if you like KM and Zombie is a pretty good remix.
10yrs? Holy fuck, get a job ya bum!
you’ve been doing this right and you’ve been doing it for awhile. Thanks for sharing all the tunes over the years.
also those KMFDM remixes are killing me with the rigid 4/4. I keep wishing for a flurry of Amens and hoover bass to punch things up.
I’m pretty sure I’ve followed this blog for at least a decade. Damn. You’re right. MP3 blogs just… are gone.
Thank you so much. I always love reading what you have to say and I know there’s others who never speak up, but we’re here!