@whisht – this is a bit mischievous, because it’s not on your list of AG Who episodes. But we’ve all been watching Ghost Light from BG Who — and knowing what Ace did as a teenager to the house she later visits with the 7th Doctor in the Victorian era in this episode …
oh @whisht – the apocalypse has come. I was going to post Oingo Boingo’s ‘I Love Little Girls’ video either here or in the Rose & Crown for your delectation, and the NSA (or someone else without a sense of humour, or a knowledge of Los Angeles punk rock, and indeed such an idiot that they can’t fathom satire nor that Danny Elfman has gone on to become one of the biggest movie scorers in film history) has killed the sound. In every YT version I could find!
Funnily enough, they left the visuals in every version.
@bluesqueakpip – I have BT broadband. Obviously, you don’t. 😀 Now we know who has and who hasn’t got one of those ‘filters’ I’ve read about. But dare I say, the same filter is coming for you soon 👿 .
FFS, the song is a bleeping parody! Although in one of the YT links I tried, I saw the poster’s [vain] cry to the people posting comments ‘lay off the paedo comments, will ya?!’.
Ha ha @whisht – glad to see you back here in the musical thread! I’m also able to see ‘I Love Little Girls’ tonight, so it was obviously a temporary blip in service which has now been restored.
Anyhoo, ain’t being tall grand? We can reach all the top kitchen cupboards without aid of a ladder. (or even a short person on whose shoulders we could stand … 😀 )
@whisht – I bow down before your musical genius. That was indeed the most, like, totally (well, it was the 80s) perfect rendition of Ghost Light in music video form.
*crawls away to see if that was actually check-mate, or just, check*
… and all this talk on other threads about River being Clara’s mum, or various other permutations of Pond Family Life, put me in the mood for another classic …
oh, riiiiiigggghhhht Shazzbot, like that is it????!??
🙂
well, I was trying to think how your Squeeze posts were even vaguely on topic (I mean, if I was choosing a Squeeze song then I’d choose this (in fact I may have already) Someone Else’s Heart (“I read her diary…”)
but actually I was contemplating this instead – as I think you’ve been going off topic…. so…..
you’re modded!
But, I’ve done you the decency of choosing the original Mod classic, and as to its relevance to anything here…..? well, I can’t explain……
OK, @whisht, once again you’ve checked me in this chess game with your Squeeze offering. But … it’s still not check-mate. (*madly starts searching YT for something to trump him*) (yes, that was a game-changer from chess to Whist which I’m certain you are well aware of 🙂 )
And … ‘off piste’?!?! It’s the darn blasted music thread, for cripe’s sake. Nothing is off-piste.
(sorry, I’m temporarily distracted by a blizzard of moths who have decided that dive-bombing me is preferable to buzzing around the ceiling light)
@wolfweed@whisht – I might not be a ‘CAMRA man’ meself (well, if you get to London at the end of November, you’ll see I don’t have a ‘bloody dart’ “hilariously” protruding from my forehead, but I do love my real ale) – but I am a Doctor Who afficianado too.
@wolfweed – I saw ‘Once’ (I think on iPlayer) a long time ago. I didn’t know they’d made it into a Broadway show. And who knew Arthur Darvill could sing, play guitar, and …
Given that TATM was supposed to be on tonight, I had this in mind as an appropriate song for the episode. I was going to wait and post it next week instead but thought “stuff it, the Beeb may have cancelled their plans, it doesn’t mean I have to”.
You might’ve succeeded in changing me … I might’ve been turned around …
Other than the obvious title connection ‘Leaving New York’, that REM piece does deserve its place in the pantheon of episode playback videos for The Angels Take Manhattan.
Before I nip to bed, Phelim O Neil had an interesting column on the Guardian in the week (missed it) on music in TV, with shows who picked a good choon for a scene. It largely centered on the use of “Games without Frontiers” in Tha Americans, but having watched the series, I can assure you that you were bashed over the head by eighties tracks in the show just to remind you that you were in the eighties. It’s a good choice, but undermined.
I’ve always thought the best were unexpected and throw you a curveball. One of the posts points out a great sequence at the end of Season 2 of Millenium when one of the most empathatic of support characters is driven out of her mind by visions of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in a really disturbing scene. You may not get it if you haven’t followed the entire series but the choice of Patti Smiths “Horses” is inspired.
My own choice though is from Fringe. In a lonely and unforgiving future, Walter Bishop sits in a wreck, puts on a CD and re-evaluated life through the medium of a simple weed, and a remarkable track by Yazoo.
We really need John Noble in the WhoNiverse (this is an obligatory comment whenever I talk about Fringe).
After 10 years rummaging through the various rare/second hand record shops in Brum, this afternoon I finally found a copy an album I used to have which, sadly, got mauled by my now departed dogs (also sad). It might not be everyone’s ‘cup of tea’ but I’m just overjoyed by hearing it again I thought I’d share.
I hope the first verse isn’t about ‘Bonkers Theorising’ 🙂
There’s an awful lot of ideas coming thick and coming fast Some are stupid, some are dangerous, some are never going to last There are those which shock the senses and there’s some defy belief And there’s those which would be better if they’d never been conceived
@shazzbot – sleeping patterns more or less back to normal thanks 🙂 I’m a bit tied up at the mo’ so haven’t really got the time to watch SC on IPlayer – really looking forward to seeing it though.
Referring to my recent post about TATM – here’s one from 10000 Maniacs – City Of Angels
With no connection to Dr Who but simply because it’s beautiful Verdi Cries
@shazzbot – I hadn’t noticed that – but then I also missed the lyrical connection with ‘Leaving New York’ 🙂
I was lucky enough to see 10000 Maniacs at Wolverhampton Civic Hall on their last tour with Natalie. The venue was only about half full but it added to the sense of intimacy – something which is all too often missing from Arena/Stadium tours.
@phaseshift — I saw that piece and also didn’t think that the Games Without Frontiers sequence was all that. When talking about The Sarah Connor Chronicles, we previously talked about the great use of Johnny Cash’s When the Man Comes Around, which is always going to be a strong candidate for me.
Also loved that sequence in Fringe. It’s such an unlikely song to use so as you say it blindsides you. I also liked the sequence when they used Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World — can’t recall which episode but it’s a late-ish one.
There’s also a great sequence in Homicide Life on the Streets (a great pioneer programme for this kind of thing) and its use of (also) Gabriel’s No Self Control.
But for me the best one ever has to be the finale to Six Feet Under — if you’re not crying buckets at the end of this sequence then you’re not made of human parts. (Also needless to say it’s highly spoilerific if you happen to have not finished watching the show…)
@jimthefish – thanks for posting that. Six Feet Under was one of my must-see programmes. And the ending, as you said, is sobbing galore. But … we all have to go, in the end. That programme wavered majorly through its run, but pulled it back magnificently for those final scenes.
I’ve not seen it, but I’m sure he can tell us if its worth setting our recorders for (obviously we’ll all be out in dark sweaty venues, listening to four-to-the-floor beats. obviously).
[ahem]
well… I may be in, so may well just watch it without needing to record it…. [ahem]
@whisht – as luck would have it, I’m on holiday from tomorrow which means, access to a TV in the holiday cottage! (ooh, the luxury)
Depending on how much sleep I get tonight, I may be up still at the ungodly hour of 22:55 tomorrow night. I’ll check out Film4, thanks for the heads-up.
@whisht I’ve been a bit absent the last couple of weeks but was just drawn to check on things. My mother claims she’s a bit psychic. Everytime I call home she answers “I knew it’d be you”. The fact she has caller ID seems to have bypassed her logic circuits. Think I may have inherited the trait – the psychic bit I mean – not the bypassing of logic 😕 !
@whisht@craig – I was thinking last week about a wonderful Saturday I spent in London almost 10 years ago with a former work colleague – and then she emailed me two days ago . Yes, it does happen.
For all the Tim Minchin fans out there, two programs are being broadcast over the next few days. They’ve previously been on Radio2 but are making their Radio4extra debut.
First, ‘Strings’ is on tonight at 22:30-23:00 and on Saturday 14-Sep at 22:00 there’s an hour long show ‘Tim Minchin and Friends’.
To get you in the mood here’s Tim performing ‘My House’ from Matilda.
Ah @jimthefish, I missed that reply to me originally. I really must give Six Feet Under another try. I watched a couple of episodes just before my mother died, and it really lost any attraction about that time.
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