MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

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MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

Song Information

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL's DanceDanceRevolution album art.

Artist: Love machineguns
Composition/Arrangement: Toshio Sakurai, Hideyuki Ono, Yuei Uematsu
Lyrics/Vocals: Thomas Howard Lichtenstein
Trumpet: Hideyuki Ono
Trombone/All Saxophones: Jimmy Weckl
Guitars/Bass/Drum Programming: Toshio Sakurai
Recording Engineer: Akira Goshima
BPM: 140
Length: 1:20
Genre: SKA PUNK
Movie: Unknown
First Music Game Appearance: GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX & drummania 2ndMIX
Other Music Game Appearances:

Lyrics

In the barrio you gotta learn how to survive 
Cause you never know when it's your turn to take a dive 

☆ 
So you go through each day 
With your eyes in the back of your head 
You never know if you'll be alive or be dead 

LITTLE JOHNYY SMITH, they nearly laid that boy to rest 
But he's still alive - thank God, he must be heaven blessed 

But you know that somewhere 
There's a bullet that says your name 
You can't avoid the danger it's part of this game 

★ 
That is why always have it 
You carry a midnight special 
Never leave home without it 
Always better with a midnight special 

In the dark on the street 
Never know who you're gonna meet 
No problem you got a midnight special 

☆ repeat 
★ repeat

Song Connections / Remixes

  • A long version of MIDNIGHT SPECIAL can be found on the GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX & drummania 2ndMIX soundtracks album.
  • An acoustic version of MIDNIGHT SPECIAL appears as a bonus track on the GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX & drummania 2ndMIX soundtracks album.

Trivia

  • MIDNIGHT SPECIAL received an unique, different video in the DanceDanceRevolution series.
  • In DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2, Dancing Stage Unleashed2 and DanceDanceRevolution STR!KE, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL's title and artist were capitalized as Midnight Special and Love Machineguns respectively.
  • Midnight Special can be automatically unlocked in DanceDanceRevolution STR!KE if you have save data of GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V CS on your memory card.
  • MIDNIGHT SPECIAL is currently the only musical appearances of both Toshio Sakurai and Yuei Uematsu on an arcade release of DanceDanceRevolution.

Song Production Information

None.

Video Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2. and from 1 to 20 from X onwards.
Difficulty for early GF/DM games rated from 1 to 10 stars. GF/DM difficulty for GF5/dm4 and beyond rated from 1 to 99. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

DanceDanceRevolution

Game Single Double
Beginner Basic Difficult Expert Challenge Basic Difficult Expert Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows 101 / 12 144 / 21 236 / 11 267 / 14 - / - / - 190 / 3 244 / 11 274 / 8 - / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2 / STR!KE / DS Unleashed2 2 4 5 7 6 7 8
DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA US/EU CS 2 4 5 7 6 7 8
DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA→SuperNOVA2 2 4 5 7 6 7 8
DanceDanceRevolution X→Present 3 7 9 10 7 10 12

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania

Original Series

Game Drums Guitar Bass Open
Basic Advanced Extreme Basic Advanced Extreme Basic Advanced Extreme Basic Advanced Extreme
Notecounts 346 534 663 269 269 269 312 312 - - - -
GF3/dm2 4 6 8 4 6 8 N/A N/A - - - -
GF4/dm3 4 6 8 ↑5 ↑7 ↓6 N/A N/A - - - -
GF5/dm4→GF6/dm5 37 71 86 48 51 54 N/A N/A - - - -
GF5/dm4→GF6/dm5 37 71 86 48 51 54 N/A N/A - - - -
GF7/dm6 ↓29 ↓50 ↓72 ↓12 ↓16 ↓31 N/A N/A - - - -
GF8/dm7 ↓21 ↓48 ↑74 ↑18 ↑21 ↑33 N/A N/A - - - -
GF8/dm7 power-up ver.→GF/DM V2 21 48 74 ↓16 ↓19 ↓32 27 36 - - - -
GF/DM V3→V8 21 48 ↓68 16 19 32 27 36 - - - -
GF3/dm2 CS 4 6 8 4 6 8 N/A N/A - - - -
GF/DM V3 CS 21 48 68 16 19 32 27 36 - - - -