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Overcoming one-hit-wonder status is difficult enough, but it's nearly impossible when the hit happens to be a novelty song. So when Buckner & Garcia, the duo responsible for the 1982 hit single "Pac-Man Fever," were asked to do a full-length, they accepted their fate as historical footnotes, offering up an entire album's worth of arcade-inspired pop music. Certainly the video-game craze was one of the defining movements of the '80s (maybe we were shallow back then?), so it's no surprise that Buckner & Garcia sing as passionately about Donkey Kong as Rage Against the Machine do about Leonard Peltier. Best of
Overcoming one-hit-wonder status is difficult enough, but it's nearly impossible when the hit happens to be a novelty song. So when Buckner & Garcia, the duo responsible for the 1982 hit single "Pac-Man Fever," were asked to do a full-length, they accepted their fate as historical footnotes, offering up an entire album's worth of arcade-inspired pop music. Certainly the video-game craze was one of the defining movements of the '80s (maybe we were shallow back then?), so it's no surprise that Buckner & Garcia sing as passionately about Donkey Kong as Rage Against the Machine do about Leonard Peltier. Best of all for purveyors of Pac, each song includes sound bites from the original arcade game, adding considerably to the nostalgia factor. --Jerald Graff
Album Description
This is a digitally re-recorded version of the original Pac Man Fever album released in 1982 on CBS Records. The album contained 8 songs featuring lyrics and sound effects from the top video arcade games. The new version contains the 8 original songs, original arrangements, original artists (Buckner & Garcia) and original production sound. It also contains a copy of the much desired pattern cheat sheet from the original album packaging. This is the first time this classic album has ever been available on CD.
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Release date: 1 June 1999
EAN: 0656817111127 UPC: 656817111127
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