It must drive Huey Lewis nuts some days…
Posted on April 30, 2007
The Japanese love Ghostbusters, or at least, they love the theme song, as it seems to end up on a lot of their rhythm games - case in point above, where someone posted the video that runs in the background when you dance dance your butt butt off off in the Japan-only PS2 title, Stepping Selection (video game reviewers love the song too.) Another example would be Beatmania IIDX Gold, a Japanese arcade drumming game. At least, I think it’s drumming.
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wow, i aint afraid of no ghosts, but
this
is
disturbing…
where the hell did they find those creepy ass kids???
wow, that is oddly scary.
Why would Huey Lewis go nuts? Do you mean Ray Parker Jr.? lol
No - Ray Parker Jr. still makes money off this song. In theory, Huey Lewis does too, now, but given how he contends it sounds like his own music, and fought it in court, that it still pops up EVERYWHERE must be a subtle kick in the shins all the time. That’s why I said it must drive him nuts.
It almost serves Huey right… the song he contests RPJ ripped off was pretty boring, if the song (Ghostbusters) hadn’t become such a hit things would likely have worked out differently.
Chris
I think you linked to the wrong page for the review. Right now it points to an image page with no images. Perhaps you meant this page (though it only mentions GB in terms of being one of the songs in the game):
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/steppingselection/review.html
As for Huey Lewis, some have contended that the shared (or “ripped-off”) bassline of both songs is similar to “Pop Musik” by M, which pre-dates Huey’s “I Want A New Drug” by a few years. Personally, I think the roots of the bassline could by traced back to Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” which is from 1964. So if anything, Huey Lewis’ composition is derivitive of earlier works. At least that’s my theory until I gather the evidence to support or dismiss that.
Scratch that. Is this what your intended to link to?
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/image_viewer/frame_lead.php?pid=198811&img=2
Never mind. You linked to the correct page after all. It was my browser acting funky (it wouldn’t initially display the section of the page with the thumbnails). You can delete my erroneous second post above. Sorry.