Smashing Drive: Night Owl (Track 3)

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Music from Smashing Drive, a video game developed by Gaelco and published by Namco in 2002. Can anyone decipher the lyrics?
Composed by: Joan Sanmarti & Tomas Lorenzo.

[@Koronuru]

Remember that you can climb up the Empire State Building and push King Kong up to the sky?

[@shitpost-o-matic7469]

That was hilarious XD

[@yoshihirogamer]

LOL😂😂

[@ForlornCrown]

Yep

[@diarykeeper]

Thru the evelator we gooo :p

[@bigmama4845]

My favorite part of the game

[@xvx4848]

The other car's your enemy Driving through the speed of sound Cab take me through the streets And smash this town The other car's your enemy Step upon the yellow sun Take me through the crowded streets And smash this town We, and the city alone Fighting together See, giant towers of stone Witness forever We play a dangerous game Spinning wheels of burning flames Win the game of this to feel Our destiny to be Oooooooooooo Oooooooooooo Oooooooooooo Oooooooooooo We in the city alone Feeling emotion Watch in the twilight alone Feel the emotion The other car's your enemy Driving through the speed of sound Cab take me through the streets And smash this town The other car's your enemy Step upon the yellow sun Take me through the crowded streets And smash this town The other car's your enemy Driving through the speed of sound Cab take me through the streets And smash this town The other car's your enemy Step upon the yellow sun Take me through the crowded streets And smash this town

[@FCIV63]

The other car's your enemy Other than that, I think you got it!

[@alexk8792]

@@FCIV63 "The other car's your enemy" I think it's referring to that CPU taxi cab

[@FCIV63]

@@alexk8792 I believe that is the case. As to why there is an identical cab trying to beat you to your destination, no idea. The game has literally zero explanation outside of telling you how to play.

[@Lightblue2222]

@@FCIV63 the arcade ver at least shows the passengers you pick up. That's not on my xbox ver.

[@FCIV63]

@@Lightblue2222 Nor does it show those small cutscenes on my GameCube version. The only reason I can think of as to why they removed the cutscenes was so they didn't have to pay the voice actors.

[@rejisha]

Childhood fragment found

[@looSePicksl]

Same dude

[@zyndi]

Aa same toooo

[@freefall742]

Collect all 84 to get a better ending

[@mastersteve29]

In my opinion, this is the best theme

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

Agreed as it has the most comprehensible lyrics compared to Rush Hour or Early Bird's lyrics.

[@expendableround6186]

*UP & RUNNING*

[@expendableround6186]

Poble *END OF ROUTE*

[@gametjeHeartfeltMessages]

BONUS

[@definitelykirby8643]

*T I M E O U T*

[@HazardousPuma02]

RECORD LAP

[@ForlornCrown]

Sonic On

[@alessandrocantelmo3368]

Who will win? A 25.000 kg giant gorilla or *a taxi?*

[@laith_iris]

Rolling around at the speed of sound

[@brookie1141]

Got places to go gotta follow my rainbow

[@zeldadahedgehog]

cant stick around gotta keep moving on

[@yoshihirogamer]

Smashing drive came out in 2000 in arcades , SA2 came out in 2001 before the port of smashing drive releases trought gamecube and Xbox only in Northamerica way back by the year in 2002

[@CaptainLansing]

This should be on itunes

[@ichigo-kurosaki1991]

CaptainLansing Well, it would be great of Gaelco and Joan Sanmarti makes a complete vocal video game soundtrack from 1998-2005.

[@yakao_twa2762]

@@ichigo-kurosaki1991 we need a sequel of radikal bikers or smashing drive 😭😭😢😢

[@VWDAWGXP]

"Step upon the yellow sun" when it's clearly nighttime.

[@striker7793]

Destroy the sun with your foot.

[@tino9117]

It also plays during dusk and wired wheb it's day

[@HazardousPuma02]

I can't stop listening to this, this soundtrack is amazing

[@moguera1272]

This will forever be stuck in my head

[@moguera1272]

I used to play this non stop

[@blackshotfans205]

Who's still rocking this in 2021?

[@slowdive5783]

2024

[@Lightblue2222]

I love the keyboard synth on the chorus

[@XxStarFoxWolfFalcoxX]

Lol in the arcade version has a cutscene where ya have to take a customer to Time Square and when ya attack King Kong from climbing the building then when your in the end after the two guys got out then the cab left and finally King Kong fall off on the two guys while escaping and died by King Kong landing on them XD

[@TheeTrollKing]

The other car’s your enemy Driving through the speed of sound Cab take me through the streets And smash this town The other car’s your enemy Step aboard the yellow sun Take me through the crowded streets And smash this town We and the city alone Fighting together See, giant towers of stone Witness forever We play a dangerous game Spinning wheels of burning flames Win the game of this to feel Our destiny to be Woooooo-ooooo-ooooo-oooooh We in the city alone Feeling emotion Watching the twilight alone Feel the emotion The other car’s your enemy Driving through the speed of sound Cab take me through the streets And smash this town The other car’s your enemy Step aboard the yellow sun Take me through the crowded streets And smash this town The other car’s your enemy Driving through the speed of sound Cab take me through the streets And smash this town The other car’s your enemy Step aboard the yellow sun Take me through the crowded streets And smash this town

[@elliotthefennekin6506]

I know where that pfp comes from, how? U-um... I just know, yeah!

[@pingasbomb]

i love this arcade game I've been playing it since i was 7

[@Gamefan74]

Thanks for uploading these, one of my favorite arcade games of my childhood. Also thumbs up for the great audio quality.

[@peepeerogers]

This brings me back to 2004/2005

[@GBAT3n]

"The other cars your enemy" - Sonic saying that he is better than cars due to being way faster. "Driving through the speed of sound" - What Sonic is known for. "And Smash this town" - Sonic snowboarding through cars, destroying them.

[@virom4]

Yo ive been looking for this song forever and a day., Thanks for the hook up

[@kirillassasin]

Remember that you need to drive on the head of Statue of Liberty so dude can film twin towers

[@Elemento-bm9kf]

Buenos recuerdos de cuando era niño

[@RaposaCadela]

Really feels like Daytona USA 2!

[@RaposaCadela]

back 3 years later, man this rocks pretty good

[@ShinkuKaioken]

Police smash your taxi at the second section of this level.

[@giovanniiurilli6667]

So much nostalgia

[@1976P]

Cheesy lyrics but the keyboards and guitars are quite good for a simple checkpoint racer.

[@DVTHEFOX]

The adrenaline rush when playing these at the arcades, only to reach the END OF ROUTE with 00 secs...And you pray to reach the line itself XD "You'll hear from my lawyer!.."

[@tino9117]

The audacity of that fare complaining that you were late after you destroyed half the city a mile over

[@deaddeade]

@@tino9117 Average day in new York

[@kemikamiku375]

The band recording from New York City

[@MasterExploder61]

From a Papaya Dog inside New York City on their iPhone 7.

[@alexsayskmk]

Anyone have the OST for Gaelco ATV Track ? It has good songs too even it's more instrumental.

[@777Abrams]

This is the only game that i play at the arcade(sigh) good times.

[@MasterExploder61]

This has Daytona schlock to it.

[@imanolox137]

😱

[@yeetithceetith]

Sounds like Enjoy

[@lori2637]

The song sounds nice... until the lyrics arrive.

[@billmore6486]

Would love an instrumental version

[@ecjsindustries2024]

my best music ever

[@definitelykirby8643]

*ARCADE MODE*

[@mothimas]

Every car's your enemy Driving through the speed of sound! The cab will take me through the streets We're gonna smash this town. Every car's your enemy Step upon the yellow sun! Take me through the crowded streets We're gonna smash this town. We, have this city alone Fighting together. See, giant towers of storm Witness forever We play a dangerous game ??? That's all I got :L

[@sumdood8563]

The ??? Part says “spinning wheels of burning flames’.

[@NDHFilms]

Sounds a bit like Joe Jackson (Stepping Out) with a harder tone.

[@SigmaRho2922]

Gianni Ricciardi covered the game’s music for the GBA version of the game.

[@RyanTheAccuser]

Can we get a metal version of this? The lyrics are about smashing shit up with a speeding car and it sounds like a sub par sonic song.

[@tino9117]

The calm energetic feel contrasting the "let's smash this town" lyrics I believe adds to it, like it really is just about doing what comes natural

[@naphtali4926]

i could imagine this being a billy idol song.

[@yoshihirogamer]

This song had a referrence to City escape from SA2

[@mattwolf7698]

This game predates SA2 by a year unless this song was unique to the console versions

[@kalrotskompott]

@@mattwolf7698 It's in the arcade version as well.

[@giovanniiurilli6667]

W soundtrack

[@AqueousHexia]

Yeah me too.

[@pitersr739]

2019 ?

[@HazardousPuma02]

hey

[@HazardousPuma02]

hey

[@Elemento-bm9kf]

Yoo

[@ShermanCommander60]

Wats the name of this song?

[@robinherrera4264]

Night owl

[@SgtMarcusEagle]

Lyrics

[@jul3249]

seriousely who tf did they hire to do this music?? Can't stop laughing it's so bad. 16 yo kids do better with an Ipad.

[@TailsGaming1999]

The chorus is pretty catchy tho...

[@jul3249]

@@TailsGaming1999 yeah if we agree that it's a "so bad it's good" phenomenon. And what the fuck is "making pass" supposed to mean?

[@TailsGaming1999]

@@jul3249 I don't think it's so bad it's good I just think it's good overall.

[@TailsGaming1999]

@@jul3249 making pass means.... going past another car.

[@jul3249]

@@TailsGaming1999 well. I've never heard that expression.

[@Thatsthemixup]

[@MysteryEzekude]

This is easily the best track in the entire soundtrack despite the vocals being somewhat sub-par. This feels like a homage to the arcade opening theme for Radikal Bikers which I played on arcade a few times abroad and then later on PS1.