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- ADORING ODES TO COMMODORE
- Songs by Robin Harbron
-
-
- I was browsing through ancient
- issues of LOADSTAR when I came across
- a review by Fender Tucker of a music
- CD from Robin Harbron. So I wrote
- Robin: "Would you mind if we ran the
- lyrics in LOADSTAR?"
-
- "No problem," Robin replied. And
- here they are:
-
-
- HISTORY
- -------
- Lyrics/music/guitars/bass/vocals:
- Robin; Drums: Darren
-
-
- This song is simply telling the
- true story of how I ended up owning
- and using a Commodore 64.
- Incidentally, "Acid Rain" is the name
- of a game we loved to play on the PET
- way back when. I've managed to find
- copies of the other two games I
- mention there, but not even a mention
- of "Acid Rain". I'd appreciate any
- leads you folks could give!
-
-
- When I was 10, I became obsessed
- with video games and the like.
- I dreamed of Donkey Kong,
- Pong and then
- Space Invaders through the night.
-
- At school we had a Commodore PET
- we wore out the "A" key.
- Acid Rain, Weather and
- that Dungeon game filled the screen
-
- Then I bought a Timex Sinclair
- I begun to learn how to hack
- but I couldn't get it to save or load
- so I promptly went to bring it back.
-
- Then I went to Duluth
- and was about to buy
- a VIC-20 when my mom or
- my dad said the wisest ever thing
- "Why don't you buy a C-64?"
-
- Oh yeah!
-
- So I got my 64.
- I adore my 64.
-
-
- REMEMBER WHEN
- -------------
- Lyrics/music/guitar/BGVs: Robin; Lead
- Vocals: Darren
-
- Remember when...
-
- The screenshots on game boxes said
- "Commodore Version"?
-
- You could find double-density
- 5 1/4" disks?
-
- Disks weren't preformatted
- for IBM's?
-
- You could buy 9-pin joysticks?
-
-
- Remember when...
-
- Printers came with instructions
- on how to program them?
-
- Microsoft wrote programs
- for our computer?
-
- You could buy disk notchers?
-
- 64k was more than enough?
-
-
- Remember when...
-
- People didn't laugh when you said
- "I own a Commodore 64"?
-
- People laughed at games on an IBM?
-
- An operating system was 8k?
-
- Basic only took another 8k?
-
-
-
- SUMMER OF 64
- ------------
- Music/some lyrics: parody of "Summer
- of '69" by Bryan Adams; original
- lyrics/guitar/bass/vocals: Robin;
- Drums: Darren
-
-
- In a way, this is a continuation
- of "History". "Ahil" is short for
- "Ahileas", the name of a school chum
- from years ago.
-
-
- I got my first real computer
- bought it at the Target store
- Played it 'til my eyes turned red
- The first summer with my 64.
-
- Me and some guys from school
- Made some games
- and we tried real hard.
- Ahil quit, Ron went Amiga
- I should of known we'd never get far.
-
- Oh, when I look back now
- That summer seemed to last forever.
- And if I had the choice
- Yeah, I'd still want to be there
- Those were the best days of my life.
-
- Ain't no use in complaining
- When you've got a job to do
- Coding in C on Intel's
- Give me my old CPU!
-
- Coding on my 64
- Playing games 'til 3 a.m.
- My pals SID and VIC
- Oh, I remember when
- Those were the best days of my life.
-
- Back in the summer with my '64.
-
- We were flying high
- We were young and structureless,
- spagetti coding time
- I guess nothing can last forever -
- forever, no!
-
- And now times are changing
- Look at everything
- that's come and gone
- Sometimes when I play that old 8-bit
- Sit and wonder
- thinking what went wrong...
-
- Coding on my '64
- Playing games 'til 3 a.m.
- My pals SID and VIC
- Oh, I remember when
-
- Those were the best days of my life.
-
-
-
- PERSPECTIVE
- -----------
- Lyrics/music/guitars/bass/vocals:
- Robin; Drums: Darren
-
-
- It couldn't be a PSW release
- without God being mentioned somewhere,
- could it? I thought this song was a
- necessary statement just in case
- anyone thought I was too nutty
- (writing a bunch of "love songs" about
- a 17 year old computer is pretty
- weird, I admit), this song is about
- what I really like and love, and where
- the C64 fits in it all.
-
-
- Not more than my wife,
- not more than my life,
- not more than the Maker
- of heaven and earth.
- Not more than a friend,
- not more than the end
- when He comes
- to take His children home...
-
- But more than my house,
- and more than my car
- and more than the fridge
- that's breaking again
- And more than those bills
- and more than the thrill
- of watching Gone With the Wind.
-
- ----
-
- I thank Darren for the drumming
- and encouragement, Carla for putting
- up with the noise and my absence,
- Rianna and Heidi for being cute little
- daughters, and God for everything.
-
- Robin Harbron (aka Macbeth)
- Darren Foulds (aka Shroom)
-
- Copyright 1999 PSW Pseudo-Sound Works
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