COPYRIGHT-INFRINGING AUDIO UPDATE – HEDGEHOGS WITH ATTITUDE ‘SUPERSONIC’
Here, after an EPIC and PAINFUL search for a way to embed audio clips onto the internet, and then a subsequent battle to make it BLOODY WORK, is the 1990s gem ‘Supersonic’ by Hedgehogs With Attitude. You may well think games are popular now, but we don’t recall Call of Duty 4 having a fucking SONG in the charts or being on Top of the Pops.
This is the 12″ mix. If “the floor” responds to this we’ll “drop” (upload) the 7″ and the instrumental. The video is not on YouTube. We remember a woman in a catsuit running down the Sonic 2 bonus level, but that may have been a fevered hallucination brought on by the excitement of it all at the time.
“I was clearing out my under-stairs cupboard last Sunday, (with a view to attaching some arris rail to stop the treads from creaking) and whilst doing so I came across this CD single from the early ’90s. It’s by a band called “Hedgehogs With Attitude” and although the track is mostly complete and utter bobbins, they have thankfully kept the melody from Green Hill Zone in the chorus” – Hampton.
OR JUST STEAL IT: If you want to just steal it, like in the good old days, the file’s here. We are not particularly concerned about being made to take this down. We doubt any record company would want to publicly claim ownership of this material.
“Hampton” also said he remembered seeing HWA on Top of the Pops.
filed in Uncategorized on Feb.13, 2009
February 13th, 2009 on 12:33 pm
There are no words to describe how awesome this is.
February 13th, 2009 on 12:35 pm
I nearly posted an Ebay link to this song yesterday. But I couldn't be bothered. It was on tape as well so it was better. Oh what the hell, here it is: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=320338164120
February 13th, 2009 on 12:52 pm
I like that better than some of the new over clocked remix stuff
February 13th, 2009 on 12:56 pm
Wasn’t Jeremy Healy some reasonably well regarded DJ back then? Also in Boy-George-a-like pop group Haysi Fantayzee?
February 13th, 2009 on 1:08 pm
This is awful. I am glad I missed it as a child (I suspect my parents are glad of that too).
February 13th, 2009 on 1:25 pm
I own this already. Not sure if that deserves a happyface or a sadface. I’ll opt for happyface :)
1992 was a great year for videogame chart remixes, although Nintendo were considerably more successful. SADFACE.
Mario – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ0guPjWh7E
Tetris – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc0JNt25GBM
February 13th, 2009 on 2:09 pm
Someone MUST have that TotP performance on VHS somewhere. I will personally pay to have it ripped and encoded to a modern file format.
February 13th, 2009 on 2:25 pm
Hampton = HWA
Cry for recognition
February 13th, 2009 on 2:33 pm
Yes, Jeremy Healy was “well cool” at the time. I remember seeing him DJ many times. I believe I may have even put my hands into the air like I didn’t care.
February 13th, 2009 on 2:59 pm
Ah, this brings back memories.
I lost my virginity to this song.
February 13th, 2009 on 2:59 pm
BIG TUNE
The word ‘anthem’ springs to mind.
I couldn’t get the audio to work but found it on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz7dCPbYEtc
February 13th, 2009 on 5:41 pm
Old news, in that it’s up at most places that have Sonic music (Retro or SonicStuff, for example). If you’re really interested in such things however, I could dig up my “Sonic the Hedgehog” (THEY CALL ME SONIC CAUSE I’M FASTER THAN SOUND I KEEP ON JUMPING AROUND) and super-rare Sonic the Hedgehog – remix (with 8 awesome SONIC CD remixes). Not that they’d be any less known on the internet.
February 13th, 2009 on 5:59 pm
“Wayne Brown/Writer Unknown”
Does that mean they couldn’t be arsed to finish Sonic the Hedgehog so they could give credit to Masato Nakamura for composing the Green Hill Zone theme?
February 13th, 2009 on 8:37 pm
Any reason they didn’t print this when I sent it a year ago?
February 13th, 2009 on 11:01 pm
Ouch. I actually remember that song.
Oh well, on the subject of awful Sonic-inspired music…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo4lu34F2lg
February 14th, 2009 on 1:11 am
Three or four people have sent this in over the years. Only this week did I have the energy to find out a way to stream it. Plus the CD case was particularly well scanned.
Sorry, everyone else who’s sent this in over the years.
February 14th, 2009 on 2:43 am
This must have served as some kind of life defining moment for the young Richard Jacques.
I can imagine him having a revelatory moment hearing this.
It changed my life. I kicked the crack and dedicated my life to a higher power after seeing it performed on TOTP.
February 14th, 2009 on 12:55 pm
Chuck the instrumental up. Who wants to hear it ruined by human voices?
February 16th, 2009 on 10:52 am
I put the cassette version of this on ebay a month or two ago….
0 bids.
February 16th, 2009 on 12:13 pm
Someone needs to make a midi version of this so it can play EVERY TIME I open UK:R and loop on endlessly.
February 16th, 2009 on 11:30 pm
Typo in link direct to file. It’s to ukresistance.co/uk no co.uk.
March 10th, 2009 on 5:06 pm
I used own this, I may still have it, somewhere.