MUSIC FROM SPACE: '80s computers - BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

You won't exactly be banging your head to it Wayne's World style, but this version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, as covered by YouTube user bd594 employing a pile of dusty '80s desktop tech (a scanner, floppy drive parts and Atari & TI computers,) is a work of geeky genius. Watching these elderly machines spark to life one more time, all their little parts whirring and oscilloscopes spiking and falling as they struggle to play us a song that was old when they were new, is nostalgic fun with a melancholy aftertaste. It brings back memories of my own summer afternoons spent indoors in a stuffy bedroom - pale, sickly little me, trying to coax my TRS-80 to croak out the Doctor Who theme and my heart swelling with pride when those first few notes came crackling out of the speaker. When I think back to it, it's kind of a miracle I ever lost my virginity. (Click the image at left to buy Queen's 1975 CD, A Night at the Opera.)




(Via Retro Thing.)

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