"The biggest unanswered question is ..."

andreas · 14 April 2006, 02:55

"...where is the money?"

This line is most remembered from Blood Money, but it also appears in the track "System of Survival" by Earth Wind & Fire, published in 1987, two years before the BM release.

Since Ray is with us, may I ask what is the ORIGINAL source of the sample?

Maybe a CNN news?
Would be a plausible idea...not?

BTW: @Ray: On usenet, I found an old post saying part of the BM music is not by you, but by Tim Wright. That true?

Slayer · 14 April 2006, 04:21

woo blood money...

my brother and I completed that in two player mode...

gotta love that reversal heading towards those towers

StarEye · 15 April 2006, 22:41

the biggest unanswered question is: what IS the secret of Monkey Island?

Mick_AKA · 16 April 2006, 04:31

the biggest unanswered question is: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood?

BippyM · 16 April 2006, 12:56

and an even bigger question is.. How much would could chuck (norris) chuck??

anyway lets stop the hijacking of this thread :P

Mick_AKA · 16 April 2006, 14:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by bippym

hijacking of this thread

??

Ray Norrish · 17 April 2006, 01:29

Here is the what I know regarding the sample. I bought 3 sample cassettes in the mid/late 80's from a DJ friend of mine for £75. Somewhere amongst that, was this sample. I shall now ask him about it, and he may be able to shed some light. I seem to remember he had some albums with "clean" samples (like the BBC sfx albums) and these had those hard to find and popular samples used at the time. My guess is that it comes from some 60s tv show?

Ray Norrish · 17 April 2006, 01:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by andreas

"...where is the money?"

BTW: @Ray: On usenet, I found an old post saying part of the BM music is not by you, but by Tim Wright. That true?

No, it's all by me, shame that it is. Don`t forget that this "music" was the first thing I ever made in Soundtracker, in about 3 hours one afternoon. I once got mixed up with Dave Whittaker in a magazine, and I pestered them to change it / appologise, as it affected my future contracts in a negative way.
I`m sure that Tim would never "claim" that music anyway

alewis · 20 June 2006, 11:48

Just seen this..

actually, the earliest I can trace it to is a [American?] radio broadcast concering the Sex Pistols, circa 1978. It features on the album "Flogging A Dead Horse", hm, or was it "Some Product" I imagine it predates even that, as such soundbites are very very rarely original.

mr_a500 · 20 June 2006, 12:23

Quote:

Mick_AKA wrote:
the biggest unanswered question is: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Hey! That's exactly what I was going to say.

(..well it is a big unanswered question)

BippyM · 20 June 2006, 14:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray Norrish

No, it's all by me, shame that it is. Don`t forget that this "music" was the first thing I ever made in Soundtracker, in about 3 hours one afternoon. I once got mixed up with Dave Whittaker in a magazine, and I pestered them to change it / appologise, as it affected my future contracts in a negative way.
I`m sure that Tim would never "claim" that music anyway

I don't know why you are so negative regarding the track.

It is fantastic IMO and I actually had it on tape and drove my parents nuts with it back in the early 90's.

Blood Money is also the first game I ever brought for my Amiga and the gfx/sfx blew me away and caused a friend of the family to buy himself an Amiga

Ray Norrish · 20 June 2006, 20:17

I suppose.. but as long as it's taken in context for the time period, and the game music about at the time... of course I`ll be more critical of it, because it's not very good technically, but at the time it could be described as "refreshing" ?

Coagulus · 20 June 2006, 22:44

Well, I liked the music in the game too,!

snyp · 21 June 2006, 22:55

the in-game music for blood money was cooler. hendrix in slow-motion.

BippyM · 21 June 2006, 23:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by snyp

the in-game music for blood money was cooler. hendrix in slow-motion.

Indeed..

It was also used in Tower of Souls.. which is a bit disappointing really...

andreas · 21 June 2006, 23:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by alewis

Just seen this..

actually, the earliest I can trace it to is a [American?] radio broadcast concering the Sex Pistols, circa 1978. It features on the album "Flogging A Dead Horse", hm, or was it "Some Product" I imagine it predates even that, as such soundbites are very very rarely original.

1978?

That's very early, and would disprove my assumption that it was taken from the early 1980s ...

snyp · 22 June 2006, 03:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray Norrish

No, it's all by me, shame that it is. Don`t forget that this "music" was the first thing I ever made in Soundtracker, in about 3 hours one afternoon. I once got mixed up with Dave Whittaker in a magazine, and I pestered them to change it / appologise, as it affected my future contracts in a negative way.
I`m sure that Tim would never "claim" that music anyway

eeeeheheh,

oi yoou! SHAT your mouth and lookamy WOOHD

Ray Norrish · 22 June 2006, 20:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by bippym

Indeed..

It was also used in Tower of Souls.. which is a bit disappointing really...

eh?

BippyM · 22 June 2006, 21:48

The Blood Money ingame music was used in the game Tower of Souls!

Ray Norrish · 22 June 2006, 23:09

Really? I never knew that...

14 April 2006, 02:55	#1
andreas Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Germany Age: 50 Posts: 5,857	"The biggest unanswered question is ..." "...where is the money?" This line is most remembered from Blood Money, but it also appears in the track "System of Survival" by Earth Wind & Fire, published in 1987, two years before the BM release. Since Ray is with us, may I ask what is the ORIGINAL source of the sample? Maybe a CNN news? Would be a plausible idea...not? BTW: @Ray: On usenet, I found an old post saying part of the BM music is not by you, but by Tim Wright. That true?

20 June 2006, 11:48	#9
alewis Monochrome and 8 bit Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Underbarrow, Gods Country Age: 57 Posts: 600	Just seen this.. actually, the earliest I can trace it to is a [American?] radio broadcast concering the Sex Pistols, circa 1978. It features on the album "Flogging A Dead Horse", hm, or was it "Some Product" I imagine it predates even that, as such soundbites are very very rarely original. Last edited by alewis; 20 June 2006 at 11:53.

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17 April 2006, 01:29	#7
Ray Norrish Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Cheshire, UK Age: 56 Posts: 322	Here is the what I know regarding the sample. I bought 3 sample cassettes in the mid/late 80's from a DJ friend of mine for £75. Somewhere amongst that, was this sample. I shall now ask him about it, and he may be able to shed some light. I seem to remember he had some albums with "clean" samples (like the BBC sfx albums) and these had those hard to find and popular samples used at the time. My guess is that it comes from some 60s tv show?

20 June 2006, 20:17	#12
Ray Norrish Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Cheshire, UK Age: 56 Posts: 322	I suppose.. but as long as it's taken in context for the time period, and the game music about at the time... of course I`ll be more critical of it, because it's not very good technically, but at the time it could be described as "refreshing" ?

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snyp 'Difficult'. Join Date: May 2006 Location: No fixed abode Age: 46 Posts: 105	the in-game music for blood money was cooler. hendrix in slow-motion.

22 June 2006, 21:48	#19
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