Song - Hit Drive
Artist(s) - Robin Gurin (composer credit only), Georgia Shapiro, Alec Williams (performer credit only)
Released - 1994
Primetime Usage - 1994-96
Contained on - FirstCom A29 (Power Net)
Featured Highlight - Falcons @ Panthers, 1995If you've been following this blog or are otherwise familiar with NFL Primetime music, you've probably noticed there's another song from the mid-'90s that sounds a lot like Power Cutter but isn't Power Cutter. Hit Drive is a little darker & edgier, but it still has the same repetitiveness and lack of real melody. It's often difficult to tell them apart if the Primetime clip you're watching has weak sound quality, too. It turns out this similarity is not a coincidence. Not only is Hit Drive on the same album as Power Cutter, it's actually the very next track!
A couple months ago, around the time I was doing the New Day post, I stumbled upon a website called "musiqneed.com". It seemed like it was at least partially foreign and also legally dubious, but it did have nearly every album from the FirstCom Action series available for streaming (along with a lot more music of all kinds). Most importantly, though, it had the FirstCom A-series albums that are missing from the FirstCom website. I was finally able to listen to these (except FC-A19, which was also missing on musiqneed) after searching for them for years. Unfortunately, Hit Drive is the only NFL Primetime song contained on the missing albums that I hadn't already identified. Double unfortunately, the musiqneed site has been down since early April. So the rest of you are out of luck as to listening to Hit Drive yourselves, at least for now.
This track has a lot of mid-'90s highlights to choose from, most of them lame. You could probably call Hit Drive "The Bill Pidto Special." Anyway, here are the Falcons (temporarily) choking away a playoff spot against the expansion Panthers.
