Classic 1980's Gaming Chuckie Egg!

I moved at from my parents over 10 years ago now and I now live a good distance away a few counties south. So I don't get home all to often, but on a recent visit I found myself in the loft digging through boxes of my youthful belongings. Its amazing what you find and forget what you owned. So under my extensive stamp collection and next to a box of early nineties cassette tapes I found Chuckie Egg an old game for my Atari. 

I spent a huge amount of time playing this as a young man! The cover makes it look better graphically than it was. It took about 10 minutes to load, so you really had to want to play it if you invested your time in loading the damn thing. 

Who Knew German 1980s Electronica was so Good? I DIDNT! (Except for Kraftwerk)

I was wasting away my day yesterday watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (not really my cup of tea but kind of getting in to it) and was loving the theme tune, it sort of reminded me of something by the Offspring and was intrigued  to see who it was buy. As it turns out it was not the Offspring but written by a guy called Nerf Herder an American Pop Punk band that I had not heard off.




When reading up the song/band I came across a comment stating that the theme sounded similar to a song from a German group called DOF. So of course I went looking for it on YouTube. The song is called Codo and when you listen closely you can here a slight similarity.



After listening to this I started clicking onto the related/suggested videos and  went of a little adventure into the world of 1980's German electronic music. And I loved it. Its all in the luck of the first selection, if you manage to pick that song of that genre and you like it! I did and picked Eisbar by Grauzone.




I have become slightly obsessed with this song since I heard it, the art work for the single is brilliant too. Next up came a song called Der Mussolini by D.A.F., which again is another amazing song,

 

Alot of people know of Kraftwerk, the mega stars of German electronic music, who brought it into the mainstream of western music. I just never considered that there would be other amazing German bands, as it is very rare that we hear any German music here in the UK. Grauzone however have really got me hooked and I have added many of there songs to my playlist. I will leave you though now with Kraftwerk's amazing DAS MODEL!