What Song Are You Listening To Now?

[Ves]

kk cruising from animal crossing

[MegaMutt]

I feel like I'd been caught listening to this one before  ... No regrets, it's amaaaaazing. 

It's specifically the Zippers Hyper mix of Go Speed Racer Go - A.K.A the credits roll tune from the 2006 Wachowski Sisters movie - did anybody else watch Speed Racer as a kid? I felt old when I heard they'd taken it off of TV here in 2005 - I felt that I had been watching it much later than that on the telly    -- The original mix of this song is by Ali Dee and the Deekompressors (ha) -- which sampled in turn the original themesong, alongside some of the English Language voice clips. Cheesy? Yes. AMAZING? YES! It's a trip down memory lane in general, because this Hyper Mix was featured on an album I had used to have on my flip phone (Speed Revolution Vol. 1) -- Which also had such 2008 remixes as 'We are the Champions', 'Waka Laka', and 'Koko Soko' 

Hyper Mix; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEY12FXvSvg

Movie Version; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqTi_TNdqfM
(Though if you wanted to see one of the last Live Chimpanzee actors in film, you could also look up the one with the Credits Roll from the movie... HA! No, seriously; shortly after the film made its' debut, the use of live non-human primates in cinema was harshly and heavily restricted... For good reason - one of the chimp actors had both gripped the breast of the poor actress for 'Trixie' and left bruising, and had supposedly harmed the actor of 'Spridle', being hit upon the head to let go. The poor thing; he wasn't meant to be in this enviromnent. There were two chimpanzee actors, but I believe it was 'Willy' who was the biter and grabber. Somehow, as well, despite featuring the most strangest CGI pirhannas I had ever seen in a film, five real pirhannas had died in the making of the film?! Perhaps, er, this is why they went for CGI, on second thoughts. What a bizarre set of circumstances. It was ruled as no foul play and a freak accident, if I remember - I had looked up the cert itself - and the film was ruled as 'no animals were harmed'. They'd just let you do anything in 2006)

For good measure...
Original Japanese Intro; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YTq7AJm_GI
Well, I can't help but laugh every time at the way that a car flings itself off of the track and explodes. Really, this original Japanese anime, Mach GoGoGo, Gou Mifune must have had such a high kill count... HE did that, mind! Watch it yourself; he rams into a car, and it goes flying off and explodes. He does this a lot in the Anime. I guess that street racing was just different in 1967, right? -laugh-
Check that crazy turn-around at the end, too. I always loved that turntable spin - you have to imagine that in the 1960's, that was hand-drawn. I can't say that all of Speed Racers' animation holds up well, but I have to say - it sits with Casshern (also by Tatsunoko Productions) as something which used to really inspire me as a kid. I would sit in awe when it was on the television and wonder, 'how did they do that?'

English Intro; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvc11BYryk0
AAAH... Yup; everybody who grew up with this one is going to have this stuck in their head forever now. Which is, coincidentally, how I had come around to re-visiting it... I really had this English Intro stuck fast into my mind. I'd be walking around with the partner, and I'd be humming to myself, "He's a demon on wheels..."
He still take a car out in this one... And it still explodes violently! Ahaha! Good times.