Among its other fine qualitites, Moon Patrol has one of the
funkiest little tunes as its
background music.
Low C, Low C, High C
Bb Bb G Bb Bb B C
(put in a
12 bar blues pattern)
This is a great little
bassline for people to improvise off of. I don't know how many hundreds of times I'd play it on my
tuba with or without my fellow
pep band members joining in. It also makes a for good background to
Blues Scale improvisation.
Remix.Overclocked.org has two decent
remixes of it. The
a cappella "Shanecappella VoxBeat" version probably gives the best idea of the original.
Also, the arcade game seems to be one of the first uses of
parallax scrolling.