MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

Song Information

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL's jacket.

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL's DanceDanceRevolution jacket.

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: 182
Length: 1:20
Genre: SKA PUNK
Movie: Unknown
First Music Game Appearance: GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX & drummania 2ndMIX
Other Music Game Appearances:

• DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA
• DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2
• GITADORA OverDrive

Lyrics

Game Size

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 

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

Long Version

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's banner.

Midnight Special's DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA banner.

• Until GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL's BPM was shown as ??? BPM.
• MIDNIGHT SPECIAL received a unique, different video in DanceDanceRevolution STR!KE.
• In DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2, Dancing Stage Unleashed2, DanceDanceRevolution STR!KE and DanceDanceRevolution X2, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL's title and artist were capitalized as Midnight Special and Love Machineguns respectively.
  • DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA capitalized the artist as Love machineguns.
• Midnight Special can be unlocked in DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2 by playing any 20 songs.
• 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.
• MIDNIGHT SPECIAL is one of the unlockable songs of the ULTIMATE FESTIVAL!! ULTIMATE GATE event of GITADORA OverDrive.

Song Production Information

None.

Video Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2. and 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.
GF/DM XG and GITADORA difficulty rated from 0.00 to 9.99. (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	-	-	-	-
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	-	-	-	-

XG & GITADORA Series

Game	Drums				Guitar				Bass
	Novice	Regular	Expert	Master	Novice	Regular	Expert	Master	Novice	Regular	Expert	Master
Notecounts	240	485	662	-	228	269	269	-	188	312	312	-
GITADORA OverDrive→Present	3.10	5.40	6.75	-	3.50	5.40	6.75	-	3.30	5.20	6.70	-