So we have this, compiled by @equinox and hosted on WoS: Spectrum references in popular music. But it's not been updated for a while, so here's a thread where we can add stuff like this.
As @clebin just posted elsewhere, 'Letter from Hampi Mountain' by Snapped Ankles includes a recognisable snippet of Jet Pac loading, which the band sing along to:
Then there's 'Good Looking Boy' by Bristol-based band Schnauser, from 2012. You can hear the Manic Miner screen attributes loading at the start, and the video features loads of Speccy references - a loading screen, some custom animations and the band wearing Speccy-inspired T-shirts.
Speaking of Bristol, I always thought this trip hop/breakbeat B-side had Speccy data in it, although I suppose it could come from anywhere (35 seconds in)
Any more?
More Spectrum references in popular music
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An aside: Lee, I ditched the idea of "having a home page" in 2014, but I didn't want to lose all the useful stuff I had accumulated. That included (as far as the Speccy scene cares) 1. my list of Easter eggs in games, 2. my list of Speccy references in music (to confirm which I bought some awful singles). I "donated" both of those to WoS, which was of course a single unifying scene thing at the time (Mr Heide), and not forked and fragmented as it is now.
(Oh yeah, a guy also took my "Jet Set Willy II map for the BBC Micro" which is one of the more obscure things I ever published online. He's a clever stockbroker and wouldn't talk to me now if I begged.)
However when a page is archived you can't update it. I've got a couple of updates myself... haha... Actually last week I was talking to Dok of United Minds, and he told me some stuff I didn't know about... you put it in the text file, and "if anyone ever puts the page back up as MORE than an archive, I will send it"... At least a forum allows this kind of thing, as one can go back and re-read the posts. Or a bloody GitHub issue tracker.
Wikipedia deleted their CSSCGC page (and a good thing too), but clearly we know today that individual home pages (if there were any left) never survive, and the likes of Archive.org might keep a cock-teasing home page but not the linked data. The community (whatever and wherever it is) must maintain these things. We still miss Mr P but we filled in the RZX hole.
Re: More Spectrum references in popular music
Hi,
If you want any changes made to ZXDB (the database that powers SC and other sites), please use the ZXDB Fixes sub-forum otherwise they are likely to be missed.
You could put a summary there, and link back to here if it's easier.
If you want any changes made to ZXDB (the database that powers SC and other sites), please use the ZXDB Fixes sub-forum otherwise they are likely to be missed.
You could put a summary there, and link back to here if it's easier.