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TIL The famous 90s techno song "Kernkraft 400" is a cover of "Song No. 21" (Star Dust) from the Commodore 64 game "Lazy Jones"

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and this is a fantastic remix, the sport chant version
https://youtu.be/L8tb7ffIsyg
There's also this song which seems like a cover:
It happened then - Electronic Ensemble
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Hgf82hF3qj8
- I'd like some musician's take on this. It sounds different enough to me. It has the first 3 rising notes, but after that goes different. But I am far from musically inclined.
  
  The Wikipedia article only says that an undisclosed sum was paid for the use of the Lazy Jones sample.
- TIL This is even older. Lazy Jones was released in 1984.
- Wow, thank you this is utterly amazing.
Oh the hockey song.
- No, this is the hockey song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWU249BBFdk
- Also used in Shaun Of The Dead

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