I decided to give Remix Hits a proper go, and bought The Final Countdown stems. I also have the Rock Band (?) mogg from years ago. Comparing the three versions:

- the original song has a duration of 5:11

- the mogg edit ends on the 5 minute mark.

- the Remix Hits stems keep going past both durations and end at 5:31, with Joey Tempest belting out extra lead vocals

"it's the final countdown, yeeeah - the final countdown, final countdown ohhhh"

before ending with a definitive guitar stab.

Which indicates that these are not merely the bootleg stems a lot of people seem to think, but the original full length lossless studio stems supplied by Sony/Epic.

And they. Are. Awesome.

  • 5 drum stems & 1 complete drum track
  • 1 bass stem
  • 5 guitar stems & 2 grouped guitar tracks
  • 2 keyboard stems & 1 grouped keys track
  • 1 FX stem (intro rumbling)
  • 1 lead vocal stem
  • 1 BV stem & 1 grouped vocals stem


Just my 2c.