Back before mainstream pop started sampling video game music willy-nilly, The Pixies went a step further and wholesale covered a VGM composition: the theme from NARC, a 1988 arcade game. This says as much about The Pixies as it does Brian Schmidt’s great soundtrack for this game, and in the scope of Singing Mountain’s series looking into the intersection of VGM and mainstream pop music, it’s an outlier in that the latter isn’t screwing over the former. This episode’s show notes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/winners-dont-use-drugs-podcast Listen to all VGM+POP episodes: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain Track listing: 0:07: Krak Street (Main Theme) / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 2:09: The Bridge / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 4:12: The Junkyard / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 6:04 The Pipeline / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 8:53: Sunset Strip / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 9:41: Where Is My Mind? / The Pixies 10:08: Velouria / The Pixies 11:01: Sunset Strip / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 11:38: Theme From NARC / The Pixies 13:23: Skyhich’s Nursery / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 16:32: The Nursery / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 17:30: The Inner Sanctum / NARC / Brian L. Schmidt 20:10: Title Theme / Black Knight 2000 / Brian Schmidt, Dan Forden and Steve Ritchie Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe