Supercharged (with video this time!)

Song - Supercharged
Artist(s) - Derek Austin
Released - 1983
Primetime Usage - 1988, 1990
Contained on - Amphonic AVF16 (Supercharged), Amphonic AVF64CD (Hit the Heights)
Featured Highlight - Cowboys @ Redskins, 1990

 

Last year, I posted what was believed to be the only NFL Primetime highlight to use the song "Supercharged" by Derek Austin.  That San Francisco/New Orleans video from Week 1 of 1988 was unfortunately blocked by NFL copyright bots, so I had to go with an audio-only post.  As it turns out, that 1988 clip was NOT the only one with Supercharged attached.  ESPN brought it back in Week 3 of 1990 for the Dallas @ Washington contest.  The highlight itself is relatively uninteresting; the Redskins unimpressively got revenge after giving Dallas their only win of the season in RFK Stadium the previous year.  It's still the only known NFL Primetime clip to use Supercharged that isn't blocked by the NFL, though.  This also marks the only instance of a Primetime song that debuted in 1988 ever being used again after the 1988 season (of course, it was only 1 time each).  So… I hope you get even more enjoyment from listening to this song with actual visuals attached than you did watching a still picture of the original NFL Primetime logo for 5 minutes.

Also, the Amphonic album(s) with this track only seem to be streamable on YouTube at the moment.  The later CD release was on Nichion, but—again—Nichion has now been down for some time.

NFL Primetime Music - Supercharged

Song - Supercharged
Artist(s) - Derek Austin
Released - 1983
Primetime Usage - 1988, 1990
Contained on - Amphonic AVF16 (Supercharged), Amphonic AVF64CD (Hit the Heights)
Featured Highlight - 49ers @ Saints, 1988 (audio-only)

Early in the Unknown Song run in 2017, I tried to post the first NFL Primetime highlight of 1988 because it used a then-new track that I hadn't identified.  The game featured San Francisco and New Orleans, the two best regular-season teams from 1987 (both were upset by the 8-7 Vikings in the playoffs), in a tight and entertaining contest.  Unfortunately, the NFL copyright blocked the entire video when I had no other clips with the song.  As a result, the song from this video was unofficially known among the Primetime Music community as either "Unknown Song #0" or "Unknown Song A."  Thanks to Godzfire's use of an Audio Fingerprinting program, we now know the song is "Supercharged" by Derek Austin.  It's housed on an Amphonic library album that is hosted by Nichion in the above link (EDIT - Nichion is down, so I replaced it with a YouTube post of the original Amphonic LP).

The NFL is still blocking the video, so I had to go audio-only with this one.  I guess I could've done that back then, but I was holding out hope the copyright block would expire or something.  Anyway, special thanks also goes to Godzfire for cleaning up the sound and making it louder.