Oh, goodness, so much fun. Where to start?

@FatManInABox   Well played. Not just the lyrics, but the whole feeling of the music is very River!

@TheKrynoidMan   Love the Yardbirds. When I was young, I wanted to grow up to be a hippie.  🙂  I am still a very retro tree.

@purofilion    Yes, the Byrds! I actually have one of theirs to post, wh…[Read more]

Hi @Whisht — and thank you for the friendly welcome.  I will definitely try to give Colin Baker some love via the Face of the Doctors thread.  Honestly, I have a bit of a nostalgic connection to the 6th Doctor.  He was able to reel me into the show at a very young age, and I have to admire him for that.  I am glad I found my way to this site and…[Read more]

@FatManInABox    @Brewski
I’ve always thought (perhaps bizarrely) that she’s a regenerated Donna.     Oh, cool. It may be bizarre, but I like it. Maybe it’s just a reflection of my deep affection for Donna. She is my favourite AG companion, and I hated what happened to her. Somehow becoming enough of a Time Lord to be able to regenerate would be…[Read more]

@Whisht     Aren’t they wonderful? I listened to all of those this morning as a sound track for laundry sorting. And smiling, yes. And now, let’s tie together jazz, the harpsichord, and Doctor Who. What’s that? You doubt me? Ha! The power of the YouTube multiverse! (I’m really loving the Doctor Who Music Exchange, by the way…[Read more]

Bless you, @Whisht. I was not a brilliant organist, but I did love it. You could make the most amazing sounds while doing very little. But my timing was all wrong. A few years earlier and the sound was still mainstream; a few years later and it was making a comeback. But in the early eighties, everyone kept asking me if I had a DX7.  ☹

So I we…[Read more]

@Whisht, you have definitely been pushing all my buttons!  🙂   I believe that your Arvo Pärt link, although it doesn’t list details, is the same recording as the one that we have, with countertenor David James. Beautiful choice for Jamie! As @purofilion says, Pärt definitely has minimalist connections, and as he was a student of medieval musi…[Read more]

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By the way, isn’t YouTube fabulous? I love it that we can find all these pop culture memories from years gone by and revisit them. I share stuff with my son that way all the time, and it’s really wonderful that all of this stuff survives to be passed around.

I know that some people of my generation are down on YouTube and the…[Read more]

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Thanks for that Mark Ayres link, what a fabulous article. I hadn’t realized how many tiny variations were made on that music, especially since I only ever saw most of those early episodes once, and am dependent on my memory for details such as theme music.

Regarding Kraftwerk, weren’t you cutting edge? I didn’t know about them until well…[Read more]

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Unfortunately I think this will be her last season.

That sounds like your cold talking. 🙂

Moffat’s previous set of companions stayed for two-and-a-half series. I think it’s going to depend on whether Jenna Coleman works well with Peter Capaldi; if she does, I’d guess she’ll also stay for the two-and-a-half. That would take her to the…[Read more]

@Whisht     I’m so sorry you have a cold. Drink tea. Lots of tea. Lemon is nice (but I will go for lemon at any excuse!). Thanks, @purofilion, I am almost completely better now. Still a mezzo rather than the soprano I was born, but no longer an alto!

I listened to both of those versions, and for some reason I thought that the other one was the…[Read more]

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That sheet music is definitely someone’s piano arrangement of the theme, not exactly what was played. I found this link with the actual theme, because I knew that I had a lot of versions bouncing around in my memory.

To me it sounds more like the rubato in a Chopin piano piece, where the accompaniment stays…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip   You could be right, she has certainly been set up that way. It could also be only certain things that have been forgotten. Doctor Tennant forgot what kind of person he was, Doctor Smith forgot what he liked to eat. Who knows what Doctor Capaldi has forgotten!

@Whisht @cedarbranchtardis @purofilion

I wrote a little about the t…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip  @Whisht

I have fond memories of the Fifth Doctor walking around Castrovalva shortly after regenerating, telling people, “I’m looking for the Doctor.” He knew he needed to find the Doctor, but not who he was or why he needed to find him! Sadly, it only lasted until he’d had a good rest, which I guess was just as well. It might…[Read more]

@Whisht  @ScaryB    Ha!  😆

Well done on the Kinks link, I have a fondness for that song. Now you will laugh, because of the song that I had in mind to post last week (before I was sidelined by a completely uncalled for cold). For some reason, I have always associated this with David Tennant’s doctor, probably because he always seemed so mela…[Read more]

@Whisht – you know what would be a really funny plotline for Series 8?

If the huge regeneration power-surge needed to create a new cycle did affect the Capaldi Doctor’s memory. And he’s forgotten everything (including how to fly the TARDIS).

In fact, he’s, errrr…forgotten his name. Which is going make things a bit difficult for signalling the…[Read more]

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The words “puerile”, “Marvin Gaye” and “Let’s Get it on” should never be seen in the same sentence!  Any excuse to post a link to Marvin is always welcome 😉

Think I need a lie down after that.

Melted

<whew! fans face>

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Oh my goodness, thank you for this. I listened to some of the concert link as well as your original “Amy” song; just gorgeous. Like @nicelyuseless, I didn’t know the artist at all, but I won’t forget him again.

Talking about music for companions sent me off on another thought. I thought of this song in connection with the Doctor’s final…[Read more]

@Whisht What a beautiful song. And the lyrics! Is Mr. Rice a Whovian…?

I have never heard any of his work before, as far as I know. I will definitely investigate further. Thanks for posting this!

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I’ve just taken down mine, and have the sudden nagging feeling that the room is “missing” something that I get every year. Weird how something that you only use for a couple of weeks a year can have that effect.

@Whisht , on New Years resolutions, I made my last one on New Year 1987, which was “no more New Years resolut…[Read more]

@Whisht – yeah, it’s this evening. The deadline is midnight – that’s when Misrule officially ends.