Nothing dates me faster than a conversation about video games. The P and I have a Wii that we use here and there, and I spent an obscene amount of time playing Sega hockey in the mid-90s, but the height of my video game fixation came in the early 80s, with the Atari 2600. Pitfall, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Missile Command, Joust – these were the things that my summer days were made of in 1983. And the most awesome soundtrack for whiling away perfectly sunny afternoons indoors, killing things on a video screen, was without a doubt Pyromania. The cartoon explosion on the cover only added graphic emphasis to the grim job of slaughtering aliens and protecting mother earth. This album is a hard rock classic, but it doesn’t sound the same without the blips and beeps and audio carnage of a day well spent…
Listen: Rock Of Ages
Tags: Atari, Def Leppard, Pyromania
3 August 2010 at 7:21 pm |
No listen to option?
3 August 2010 at 8:25 pm |
Just for you, I’m adding ‘Rock Of Ages’…
4 August 2010 at 7:31 am |
Thank you. It will remind me where I’ve been.