20th Century Pop! is a podcast where hosts Bob and Tim take a sociological look at the pop culture of the '80s and '90s.
Its after school in’ 82 so might as well head out to drop some change down at Flynn’s Arcade. Along the way you can rock your walkman with the sweet two sided cassette of … of … Buckner … and … ahm … and … well … Garcia … I think. Apparently they're the novelty act behind the retro video game album, PAC-MAN FEVER. And today Bob and Tim are wokka-walking through all eight songs to see if it holds any more meaning than vaper-wave nostalgia. So join in as they break out the Buckner and … who was it? Messina?
00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - an elusive concept
00:01:23 ARCANA OF THE ARCADE - and finally talking about video games… sort of
00:05:22 THE CD IS … PAC-MAN FEVER - or is it Memorex?
00:09:40 PAC-MAN FEVER - and Tim’s wrong about “Speedy”
00:15:58 FROGGY’S LAMENT - an epic endeavor of life in the 80s
00:20:51 ODE TO A CENTIPEDE - to play as antagonist
00:24:42 DO THE DONKEY KONG - why didn’t this play at school dances?
00:28:09 HYPERSPACE -and Bob doesn’t get songs
00:33:20 THE DEFENDER - soundtracking Tim’s toy box
00:36:50 MOUSETRAP - The Meow-phosis
00:40:42 GOIN’ BERSERK - teenage against the machine
00:43:40 DIVERGENT PLAYER ONE - does it transcend the novelty?
00:52:34 CLOSING - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase
00:57:01 SPECIAL BONUS AUDIO - The McGuire Twins
Contract trace the full 33 minutes and 12 seconds with the complete PAC-MAN FEVER ALBUM BY BUCKNER AND GARCIA.
Read what it was like to be in the hot zone of it’s inception with INTERVIEW WITH JERRY BUCKNER FROM BUCKNER & GARCIA: ‘PAC-MAN FEVER’ from rediscoverthe80s.com.
See how the rest of the world was dealing with this coin-op infection through CLASSIC ARCADES: EARLY 80S NEWS REPORTS as featured on arcadeblogger.com.
Go a little further than berzerk with HOW MANY PEOPLE HAS THE BERZERK ARCADE GAME KILLED? By Josh Wirtanen from retrovolve.com.
If you are interested, and if its still 2017, check out this link to PAC-MAN FEVER VAULT- THE BUCKNER AND GARCIA FAN CLUB (but maybe hold on to those quarters).
Hear a little more recent of a novelty song with “AS YOU WISH” BY AQUEDUCT.
Thrill to why you really came here today, here with BUCKNER AND GARCIA PERFORMING PAC-MAN FEVER ON SOLID GOLD.
Be where seven year old Tim wished he was as BUCKNER AND GARCIA PERFORM DO THE DONKEY KONG ON AMERICAN BANDSTAND.
And finally here’s the song you actually knew, WRECK IT, WRECK-IT RALPH BY JERRY BUCKNER.
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MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY’S EPISODE:
“Super Poupi ” (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org. Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.
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20TH CENTURY POP! will return next week to replay a greatest hit of great hits from Bob’s childhood cassette collection. .. and 2017.
