You’ll always find some sort of otherworldly artifact in your YouTube song mix if you let it run long enough.
I’m not sure how and why the algorithm decided to serve me up this recent banger from Egg Beatz that uses nothing but sound effects from Middle Age strategy game classic Stronghold Crusader to recreate Gorillaz’ legendary Feel Good Inc., but it almost makes up for the precipitous drop it has recently caused to many of my favorite creators’ view count.
(Almost.)
But back to the banger! While you’ll definitely get more out of the song if you have played any of the classic Stronghold games, you can appreciate the skill and effort on display even without any experience with the world of the Rat, the Snake, the Pig, and the Wolf.
Starting off with The Pig’s distorted, slowed-down laughter, and the Arabian Assassin unit’s classic voice line setting the tone, followed by a slow buildup of the ever-so-common “No change in the treasury, lord,” you just immediately know that you’re in good hands.
Then it goes on like this:
“Something is wrong with our hops, mylord
My master thinks we’re losing this war
Gird your loins, sharpen your steel
Failure is not an option, just keep your eyes peeled
I’ll be away from work for a fair while
No space in the stockpile
I heard a rumor, a message from your scribe
Bandits are operating near the castle, lordship.”
Again, all this is arranged to the tune of Feel Good Inc., and it works shockingly well.
The best part? This awesome arrangement is now also available on Spotify, courtesy of the team at Firefly Studios being good sports about such a truly transformative work. For my money, this has now surpassed the legendary Age of Empires 2 theme song remix with the unforgettable Wololo autotune.
Yeah, there are some great gems at the bottom of the internet if you are still willing to rep the classics.
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