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There are people who actually believe that MIDI is a headache and just plain sucks. They obviously prefer RealAudio or MP3, but the sound quality of RealAudio files often leaves a lot to be desired - not to mention the player, it's just too liable to stop in the middle, and then you have to start from the beginning again - and MP3 files are huge, to say the least. Also, they're most often illegal. MIDI's are different - for one, they are not a genuine copy of the song, they are their own creations and exist for the sole purpose of reminding us of a song (plus you don't have to hear the artist sing :-). That is, if you only have QuickTime - or even worse, the Microsoft Media Player (it sucks like a tornado). With some extra equipment, your MIDI files can be made to sound almost like recordings. For the second, a MIDI doesn't contain any sound in itself, only instructions to the machine how to play it. Your computer does the whole job. Therefore, copyright is a tad different for MIDIs, to the benefit of everybody. Of course, it's not inexistant.
These MIDI's are from various sources on the net. If someone holds copyright on some of these, please let me know.
Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen Jr. - Theme From Mission:Impossible (yeah, I know...everybody has one :-)
Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO) - Ain't seen nothing yet FMM recovered by: Phil Yardley
The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
The Beatles -
Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is
Bryan Adams -
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Charles & Eddie - Would I Lie To You?
Chicago -
Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind
The Cutting Crew (or Counting Crows, whatever) - Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Earth, Wind & Fire - September
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
Enya -
Eros Ramazzotti -
Everything But The Girl - Missing
Fleetwood Mac -
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Foreigner -
Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me
George Michael - Careless Whisper
Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square
Johnny Hates Jazz - I Don't Wanna Be A Hero
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi (the Amy Grant version) (FMM)
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Level 42 - Running In The Family
The Love Affair - Everlasting Love
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Patrick Hernandez (or Juvet) - Born To Be Alive
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Pet Shop Boys -
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise
The Police -
REM - Losing My Religion
The Rembrandts - Just The Way It Is, Baby
Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
Rush - Run To You ...the awesome version!
Seal -
Simply Red -
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Smash Mouth - Walking On The Sun
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Supertramp -
Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellites
Taylor Dane - Tell It To My Heart
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
U2 -
Undercover - Baker Street
Vangelis -
Van Halen - Jump
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds
Karaoke section
There exist MIDI's where the person who made them consiously or unconsciously - whichever - omitted the melody, or at least it's very hard to hear. These MIDI's are a disaster to those who don't know the melody, but perfect for people who know both the melody and the lyrics and want to try and sing it only with background music. That's the reason why I've separated these from the rest. This doesn't mean, though, that they are the most suited for .KAR-files - that's a matter of taste. There are probably melody versions to the more common of these songs, in which case I've either been to lazy to look for them, or found the me lodyless version to be of better quality.
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - The Time Of My Life
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Fleetwood Mac -
Fools Garden - Lemontree
Foreigner -
Janet Jackson - Go Deep
Don Henley - End Of The Innocence
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Ricky Martin - Copa De La Vida
Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are
U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Movie and TV music section
The Addams Family
Alf (Though it really doesn't do the original justice)
The Muppets Show Theme (quite frankly, they were a lot better in their earlier years)
Mystery MIDI:s
It happens, that you come over some really interesting stuff, but you just don't know what it's called or who made it, and that's sorta irritating! If you think you know who made these files and/or their names, please mail me, so I can credit the makers. My goal is, with your help, to make this section gradually disappear. See it as an intellectual challenge! (And thanks to M for coining the term!)
??? - Sugar Plum (and it doesn't seem to be the dance of the Sugar Plum Faires, I have that in the "Classics Section" below...)
??? - Israel...no, not Desmond Decker (sad to say)
??? - Every Step (no, it's not The Police!)
??? - Bladerunner...or something
??? - Vienna (no, not Ultravox)
Classical music
Camille Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre (FMM)
Claude Debussy - Arabesque No.1 Andantino con moto (Deux
Arabesques) (FMM)
Frederic Chopin - Etude Op.10 Nr.5 in Gb major, usually
known as "Black Key's Etude" (FMM)
Holst -Mars from "The Planets", sequenced by Jack Hines (FMM)
Tchaikovsky - The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies from "The Nutcracker Suite" (FMM)
FMM, by the way, means "former mystery midi". Thought you'd like to know. Thanks to M, Larry, BFK, Carrie Lamb and Stefan Queitsch (and all those I know I've forgotten :-) for helping to recover them!
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