"It sounds like the soundtrack of a bad medieval series"

October 25, 2018 12:12 AM

Songs in a major key are probably an old gimmick but nice gems love to be thrown off the vault. And this is indeed an old upload but I first met it today and like that comment in this link, "I'm smiling at the whole audio, while reading comments". They are priceless. So, this is how 'The Final Countdown' would be if it was envisioned by the Pet Shop Boys.

"The undiscovered Bach prelude in his early hair metal days"
"Sounds like an anthem for some country. It should be the anthem for Planet Earth"
"Sounds like the music to the opening ceremony of some 1980s Olympic games"
"Would be amazing as ending for movie Neverending Story"
"Sounds like something straight from an incredible end credits scene from a Cannon Films movie that never existed. Sylvester Stallone rides a motorbike on the beach as the cartoonishly Cold War-ish badguy's hideout blows up with all the hostages safe and taken back to their homes via helicopters"
"Ironically... this makes me sad like i'm losing someone close to me who was fighting a great battle but is finally making it to a better place (like heaven?)"
"I imagine clones of cats riding on unicorns going into battle"

posted by avi111 (26 comments total)

Sadly, the video is blocked in the US it seems.
posted by gusottertrout at 12:21 AM on October 25, 2018 [1 favorite]

Aw man, that's a bummer. I want to see this.

Literally some of my favorite things in the world are soundtracks to bad medieval series. All the instruments played on keyboards. Some sort of two-measure flute riff. Horn sounds in parallel fifths. Bad choir sounds.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 12:23 AM on October 25, 2018 [1 favorite]

Also blocked in Canada.

This link works in Canada.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 12:32 AM on October 25, 2018 [12 favorites]

It works in the US as well. Yay! Or should I wait until the video plays before saying that?
posted by gusottertrout at 12:35 AM on October 25, 2018

this is probably because the rights are of a european records company :(
posted by avi111 at 1:00 AM on October 25, 2018

It... just sounds the same.
posted by one for the books at 1:32 AM on October 25, 2018 [10 favorites]

If you're fond of this sort of thing, the game Dropmix does this all the time (and makes bits of different songs match each other in key, tonality, and tempo, making for strangely compelling/appalling mashups). And there's a Final Countdown wildcard for the game, meaning that you can not only listen to Final Countdown in a major key during the course of the game, but also listen to Call Me Maybe sung over the Final Countdown synths with the backing percussion of Bangarang.
posted by NMcCoy at 1:41 AM on October 25, 2018 [3 favorites]

Thanks for the North America-compatible link! Holy shit, it really does sound like the Pet Shop Boys.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 3:01 AM on October 25, 2018 [4 favorites]

If you didn’t tell me it was reworked I wouldn’t have noticed it was different from the original.
posted by rodlymight at 3:04 AM on October 25, 2018 [2 favorites]

@NMcCoy look at this promo :)
posted by avi111 at 4:07 AM on October 25, 2018

This is fantastic.
posted by uncleozzy at 4:33 AM on October 25, 2018

I don't know about the international link, but the US link only contains a small fragment of the song, and that makes me sad because I want to download it and play it in my car over and over and over again.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:35 AM on October 25, 2018

"This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

Boy, that didn't take long.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 5:00 AM on October 25, 2018

@Faint of Butt the international is the full song (5 min), and full songs are made for downloading
posted by avi111 at 5:21 AM on October 25, 2018

This is just the theme to Airwolf, isn't it?
posted by He Is Only The Imposter at 5:33 AM on October 25, 2018 [8 favorites]

@Faint of Butt the international is the full song (5 min), and full songs are made for downloading

Can someone hook me up with an MP3? MeMail me.
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:09 AM on October 25, 2018

Is this what you were looking for?
posted by evilDoug at 7:12 AM on October 25, 2018 [2 favorites]

this is how 'The Final Countdown' would be if it was envisioned by the Pet Shop Boys.

... a little ...? Just a little ...? IMO, there are a few moments where it really does sound like it's about to become a Pet Shop Boys song and that's delightful, but mostly it just sounds "poppier." Lacking the rhythms and syncopation that characterize PSB songs, I'd describe it more as "The Final Countdown" as submitted to the Eurovision contest. (Or as a score to a movie about clones of cats riding on unicorns going into battle.)
posted by octobersurprise at 7:45 AM on October 25, 2018 [1 favorite]

temporarily
posted by avi111 at 7:46 AM on October 25, 2018 [1 favorite]

From the Canada/US link comments:

"Sounds like a unicorn joined the band! EPIC!"
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:11 AM on October 25, 2018 [1 favorite]

Where did they get that name from, anyway? Europe?
posted by 2or3whiskeysodas at 9:45 AM on October 25, 2018 [1 favorite]

I think it sounds better than the original.

When intelligent life is discovered on other planets and we get together for the first Intergalactic Olympics, this is what’s playing when the Earth delegation marches in to the stadium.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 9:52 AM on October 25, 2018

temporarily

Thank you! I'll download it as soon as I'm home.
posted by Faint of Butt at 9:55 AM on October 25, 2018

"The undiscovered Bach prelude in his early hair metal days"

I think it's the minor version that sounds much more like the beginning of some big fugue by Bach for the pipe organ. The first little three-note phrase is a straight quote from the most famous organ opening of all time. (And the first phrase of both end on the same note as well. Bach just takes a few more notes to get there.)
posted by straight at 4:18 PM on October 25, 2018 [1 favorite]

The same guy has a version of Pet Shop Boy's Go West in a minor key if you want to take things in a slightly different way...
posted by ninazer0 at 10:59 PM on October 25, 2018

Ooh, I had to hear that: Go West in a minor key.
posted by Pronoiac at 2:41 AM on October 27, 2018 [1 favorite]