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LeafStorm

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-05-20

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The Pacman Song

I was trying to think of a lyrical way to contribute to the community, so here it is - the Pacman song.

Pacman - A parody of "Pacman" by Weird Al Yankovic
Released under the Creative Commons BY-SA license

I used to be an apt-get freak
Load thirty packages a week
Now I use pacman
Yeah, it's the pacman

It's not the game 'bout eating dots
A package manager that rocks
And it's called pacman
Yeah, it's the pacman

About Arch they say / just for the hard core
But pacman's the best / yeah it really soars
The Arch Build System / gives us even more
We've got binaries / and then we've got source

pacman!

Because it's pacman
Yeah, it's the pacman

I use it several times a day
(pacman -S everything)              -- pronounce "pacman dash ess ev'rything"
I owe it all to Judd Vinet
(pacman -Syu)                       -- pronounce "pacman ess why you"

I'm using pacman
Yeah, it's the pacman

No RPM or Emerge here
(pacman)
Dpkg has something to fear          -- pronounce "dee package"
(pacman)
And that is pacman
Yeah, it's the pacman

And it's all coming by FTP
(pacman!)

I hope everyone enjoys it.  Maybe someone could actually record it, as my recording equipment is limited to a voice chat headset, an integrated sound card, and gnome-sound-recorder.

EDIT: I forgot two lines. That's kind of important in a song.

Last edited by LeafStorm (2009-06-03 17:43:49)

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Thanks,
Matthew Frazier

rebugger

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 229

Re: The Pacman Song

awesome. and i would love to hear a recorded version

Verminoz

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Registered: 2008-08-17

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Re: The Pacman Song

I can record it in my studio! Ok the equipment is not state of the art but the recordings I've done so far are not bad at all! The problem is I don't know the music to it...

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rebugger

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 229

Re: The Pacman Song

ignore the video, just listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=941ssF8yIr8

Dieter@be

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Re: The Pacman Song

haha. looks good.

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hatten

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From: Sweden, Borlange

Registered: 2009-02-23

Posts: 736

Re: The Pacman Song

haha, awesome! Arch have the best community ever!

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: The Pacman Song

For history's sake, here's the song Weird Al based his on - Taxman by The Beatles.

rebugger

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 229

Re: The Pacman Song

The Bea - ... who? ^^

tlaloc

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From: Lower Saxony

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 359

Re: The Pacman Song

Some mushroom-heads, I suppose ...

jelly

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 714

Re: The Pacman Song

Awesome idea , this should be an dep of pacman !!! ( then we would get bloated )

I play guitar i bet there are many other ppl playing music instruments . so go out and rock !!

You want to base the music on taxman . beatles ?

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: The Pacman Song

Weird Al chose Taxman by the Beatles - so LeafStorm didn't really have a choice.

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

Re: The Pacman Song

would be great as a community project. everyone who's able to play and record an instrument can contribute his part to the song :>
even herman li from dragonforce can emulate the pacman sounds on his guitar :>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1sOP0TemVM

Last edited by arch0r (2009-06-04 20:42:10)

Themaister

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From: Trondheim, Norway

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 652

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Re: The Pacman Song

I can play keyboard :'3 The song itself (.ogg-file when that time comes ) should be made as an AUR package! xd

Last edited by Themaister (2009-06-04 20:42:14)

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Exitium

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From: Helsinki, Finland

Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 202

Re: The Pacman Song

I could sing it.

Or not, albeit I can sing. Great lyrics.

LeafStorm

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-05-20

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Re: The Pacman Song

I'm glad everyone's enjoying the song so far. I was watching the Pacman by Weird Al music video on YouTube one day, and I'd always liked the song, but then I thought, "Hey! The Arch package manager is named pacman! I can parody a song about that!"

So, this is my first published parody. I was trying to do one about Conficker as a parody of It's The End of the World As We Know It, but I didn't finish it before Conficker turned on and absolutely nothing catastrophic happened.

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Thanks,
Matthew Frazier

Chokkan

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Registered: 2009-04-06

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Re: The Pacman Song

I made a myspace account just to try singing this version using the karaoke thing they have.

The I realized I left my mic at school.

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Wra!th

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Registered: 2009-03-31

Posts: 342

Re: The Pacman Song

Stop copying OpenBSD

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