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Theme Music Appreciation Thread - Blubatt - 12-08-2021
I was doing research for my online RP, when I stumbled across the BBC's Decision '79 election coverage, where the famous 'King Arthur' music first made its debut. I now believe it to be one of the best pieces of theme music ever used on Television. And the original is the best one, because it sounds like its a cut off of a prog rock album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsKfRi6kKkc&t=38s
With that, what are some of your favourite soundtracks to TV Idents, Shows, Packages, Test Cards, et al.
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - Stuart - 12-08-2021
I love the 'Decision 79' logo. As iconic as platform shoes and flared jeans.
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - PD - 12-08-2021
I never get bored of this.... https://youtu.be/3cdMh_SqsFo
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - lobster - 12-08-2021
A few of my favourites from over the years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc9v1vfBlHs
(I just love that synthy sax sound)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txW7l78yLB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1ECbXCS70&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlPDFn8Z00k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh3udfNkPZQ
https://youtu.be/ZuL3phYLuzE?t=148
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioh7TXHCLYw
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - Fanoftv - 14-08-2021
There are some brilliant choices here, Lobster, I love all of your choices, and was surprised at the inclusion of the 1993 Eastenders and 1996 Noel’s House Party over the originals.
Some from me:
https://youtu.be/kKhnVvHWJ3A
https://youtu.be/2TxiEFTq1Sc
https://youtu.be/2bJrQSh15rk
https://youtu.be/GWcCYu8glNo
https://youtu.be/3_vgOj8SQnc
https://youtu.be/-isrjFPkH00
https://youtu.be/Kdg6aVAeXm0
https://youtu.be/JivPEYjYd20
https://youtu.be/9yulGicUzS4
https://youtu.be/y5Hl0vjSBrQ
I’ll stop now, but there are many others that I love.
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - Meridian MR - 14-08-2021
Central News (2000)
https://www.tvark.org/?page=media&mediaid=94175
Grange Hill (1990 version)
https://youtu.be/zwuJfJLtusg
Neighbours (1999 version)
https://youtu.be/EyMTVSuEncI
The Munsters Today
https://youtu.be/WWA9tUh6duM
Ox Tales
https://youtu.be/xrqV0PG0Haw
Sesame Street (1993 version)
https://youtu.be/2nL3e08KBkA
Noel's House Party (1991 version)
https://youtu.be/ZXET0S4EftU
The Upper Hand
https://youtu.be/-rqV2cokJK8
Wish You Were Here...?
https://youtu.be/MYMqsrCAteI
This Morning (2009 version)
https://youtu.be/mRmLBFD3Iks
High Road (1994 version)
https://youtu.be/6oQm90Va9FM
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - Neil Jones - 14-08-2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09S3Ght5DAs
And Oliver Sacker's recreation of the closing theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7UodoGnMWE
Elsewhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOeD6zAOV2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52khlKOl1do
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - EeveeSparkles - 14-08-2021
Here are my personal favourites, both old and new (Sorry if this is too long):
Roland Rat: The Series (1986)
https://youtu.be/XwqFYzzRveI
Pokemon: Indigo League
https://youtu.be/6xKWiCMKKJg
Shaun the Sheep
https://youtu.be/GTXW3cIHQOw
Doctor Who (All versions)
https://youtu.be/QNszKKAtEwU
Rainbow (1973 version)
https://youtu.be/j6KxYyJPees
The Basil Brush Show (BOOM BOOM!)
https://youtu.be/8-ooZMyp0ZI
Arthur
https://youtu.be/7zkX6kfnWbk
Animaniacs
https://youtu.be/P43dphUwpzo
Futurama
https://youtu.be/Bj0GqMr2jj0
The Simpsons
https://youtu.be/XNzoJqzA6zM
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - Stanley Matravers - 14-08-2021
Wish You Were Here / The Carnival is a massive favourite of mine, [mention]Meridian MR[/mention]
Genuinely surprised to be the first person to mention The Journey (ITV Schools on 4)...
https://youtu.be/xeRetHcktXM
Glad that I'm not the only person who likes the sax-y EastEnders theme, [mention]lobster[/mention]. Although I'd still rather eat dirt than actually watch SouthernButtocks™, regardless of its theme tune.
I may be alone in favouring the Dominic Glynn version of the Doctor Who theme (used solely for Season 23 / The Trial of a Time Lord), though...
https://youtu.be/_xMkDIRG_fU
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - Nigel - 14-08-2021
The a tomorrow People theme… use to scare the pants off me as a young child.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ei7i7RFvrUM&feature=share
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - Blubatt - 14-08-2021
Really liking these themes. I forgot another one of my favourites from the pre-me times (anything before 1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5WGx1LvSuY
Much more arresting than the current bleeps
https://youtu.be/BaiqtM1id8E?t=67
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b57XMgf7B7I
Just solid
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - Lewser - 15-08-2021
Still my ringtone on my phone!
https://youtu.be/II1c8wNu0zA
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - London Lite - 15-08-2021
London Tonight (1993), which for me made the regional ITV bulletin sound big.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6n82CM39UU
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - Stanley Matravers - 15-08-2021
Blubatt post_id=34333 time= user_id=1559 Wrote:Really liking these themes. I forgot another one of my favourites from the pre-me times (anything before 1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5WGx1LvSuY
Much more arresting than the current bleeps
Amen to that.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star would be more arresting than the current beeps, quite frankly... ?
In fact, part of this 1990s theme for ITN *did* sound like something out of a nursery rhyme...
https://youtu.be/0irFla1e6GM
How the blithering flip was that ever deemed to be "news"-appropriate?! It makes me think of either the White Rabbit in Disney's Alice in Wonderland singing "I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date..." and/or the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz singing "The house began to pitch, the kitchen took a slitch, it landed on the wicked witch in the middle of a ditch..."
Bizarre.
How fantastic and revolutionary the David Lowe "drumbeat & pips" style themes originally were has been ruined by a combination of sheer longevity and the endless subsequent tinkering.
Newsflash: Nothing will still sound "fresh" after more than two decades! ?
I fantasise about some sort of updated version of the old Nine theme that you've posted becoming the basis of a totally new generic sound/look for all BBC News output. Fat chance.
You never know, though. Somebody in 1999 decided that orchestral themes were passé, and that percussion was the way to modernise. Somebody now deciding the exact opposite, is precisely the kind of thing that often happens. Trends tend to go in such cycles. So maybe, just maybe... ?
It could even be argued that the increasing layers of "strings" ? etc that have been slapped onto the David Lowe themes as they've been Trigger's Broom-ed™ (a.k.a. Sugababes-ed™) to death over the years, means that we've been slowly edging back to "orchestral" for ages anyway.
Theme Music Appreciation Thread - Roger Darthwell - 15-08-2021
This is my favourite, also from pre-me times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxOWiksvti4
Ah, I'll just throw in the whole lot, I like them all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDXpyvEB6go