| Author | Message | ||
     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Why have I got the Tom and Jerry theme running constantly in my head today on an endless loop? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
Ah, what they call a 'worm'. I had "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" going around my head all day early last week... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
It's a meme. Only the most infectious flourish, like a virus. They can only be replaced by something even more annoying. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
Whom did you say Zed was going to replace? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Me! Me! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.7.118 |
I can take care of that for you, Weber. Just go here, and it will be instantly replaced: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsc84LmZ6QE | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
And if that doesn't work, Weber, this ought to clear it up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwFDN0ikfbY Hoots mon! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
...aboot this hoose! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
Craig - I loved the Miss Marple theme - I recall as a lad using a cassette recorder and taping the theme music from our tv speaker! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
What gets me about these things though is that a tune gets stuck in my mind, even though I've not heard it for a long time; it's never because I've just heard it on the radio. Wonder what kicks it off... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Is that the Ron Goodwin theme for the 1960s movies with Margaret Rutherford? Mick - I did the same! Now I have the CD soundtrack, which weirdly couples it with Force 10 From Navarone | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
Is that the Ron Goodwin theme for the 1960s movies with Margaret Rutherford? It is indeed - it's the one that's running through your mind now! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.9.83 |
"Hoots Mon" makes me want to kill someone. I do love the Miss Marple theme song (and all 4 movies rock, too!). And speaking of great "catchy" theme songs, and Agatha Christie - the theme song to MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS is another one, instantly catchy and mood-lifting and grand.... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Typical American ignorance... Only 4 miss Marple movies???  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.9.83 |
Do you mean the fifth one she made a cameo in, THE ALPHABET MURDERS?... I don't count that one.  | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.10.193.63 |
There are only four: Murder She Said, Murder at the Gallop, Murder Most Foul & Murder Ahoy. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
Murder Ahoy was the only one not based on a book by Christie, and (presumably not coincidentally) the weakest of the series, although the others only have tenuous connections, I believe, as is the way with many films. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.10.193.63 |
Murder She Said is meant to be 4-50 From Paddington but yes I think the others are pretty tenuous | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.86.41 |
MURDER AT THE GALLOP is based on a Hercule Poirot novel, actually (blanking on which one). And MURDER MOST FOUL is Christie's A Murder is Announced, though I may have that title wrong.... The titles of the books were changed when they hit America anyway, where we know 4:50 From Paddington as What Mrs. McGuillicuddy Saw!. Changed in the movie alone, because it's not Mrs. McGuillicuddy that sees the murder - it's Jane Marple herself! (btw: this is considered one of the very best of Christie's novels, fwiw....) | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.83 |
Murder at the Gallop is based on Christie's 'After the Funeral'. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
...but very, very loosely so... | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
That Miss Marple theme could make a sane man open fire in a 7-11 if played for long periods of time on a constant loop. I can't imagine a scarier theme (other than the 'It's a small world' theme which would drive any sane human being nuts.) | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
4 Margaret Rutherford (not counting her appearance in a spoof Poirot) 1 Angela Lansbury. 1 Ita Ever 2 with some other woman whose name I can't remember. According to Wikipedia | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.137.195 |
Not forgetting Jessica Marbles, as played by Elsa Lanchester, in Neil Silmon's MURDER BY DEATH! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.247.38 |
There was also the TV series with Joan Hickson - who has a cameo in MURDER SHE SAID. The Lansbury character from TV's "Murder She Wrote" is clearly based on some conception of Miss Marple (isn't her name "Jessica," too?). Or her movie version of Miss Marple. That movie's frustrating, because it could have been so much better.... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.137.195 |
Going back to the original theme(!) of this thread - I have Annie Lennox's 'orrible version of Ash's "You are a Shining Li-ight" going through my head now. Argh!!! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
It's the Bangles "Walk like an Egyp-ti-an" today. At least that's a half decent tune. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
I had Ash's 'Girl From Mars' playing in my head for years. I don't know the musical term for a crash chord that plunges down through the pit of your stomach and nails your groin to the depths of the earth while lifting your eyes to a suddenly dazzling vista of eternal light, but that was what I was hearing.  | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.198.238 |
Joel, I have it from reliable sources that this chord is known as the 'groin nailer'. I'm a sucker for the groin nailer 7 suspended 4th, myself... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
Haydn puts one of these near the beginning of the second movement of his 'surprise' symphony. He'd observed that the audience tended to fall asleep at this stage. He was determined to be heard. It's 200 years since he died. An underrated master. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
He might not be underrated if he weren't Haydn. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.198.238 |
Yes, it's about time he made a comebach. Sorry, I'm not very good at this. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
He needs to stop chopin and changing. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Like mos'art, puuns are tricky to get the hang of. so I'll retire with a shy-cough-ski and keep out of this one | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.198.238 |
I wonder if the lack of recognition made him lisztless? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.126.55 |
Perhaps someone Borod'im. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
Look, just STOP! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.193.9 |
You won't get us to stop bartoking to us like that, Mick. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.243 |
You're all a load of pendereckis! Haydn - underrated master? Strange words 'underrated' and 'overrated' - are they opposites? Or can they be used of the same thing or person. I make no secret of the fact that I think Haydn to be seriosuly overrated. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.232.239 |
Penderecki rules! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
I'm not sure Haydn's underrated; we all know of him... Penderecki's the dog's! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.243 |
Xenakis concert is on Radio 3 as I speak. (if you like Pendererecki) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.143.187.46 |
I always feel as if he's always in Mozart's and Beethoven's shadows. And Schubert's. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.243 |
Hiding? Did anyone listen to the Xenakis just now? Magnificent. (I was replaying 'Bodying Forth' in my mind during the last piece and it was all rather effective). | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
Xenakis? Only got one piece by him - he's the fellah that sounds like half a dozen drunks falling over a load of dustbins for thirty minutes, isn't he? | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.236.173.94 |
It's tolerable if it's a tune you like: right now I have an obscure Morricone melody worming through my brain matter--"Noi Lazzaroni." When it's stuff like "Gilligan's Island," then I begin to feel desperate. http://www.redroom.com/member/thomas-burchfield | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.243 |
Yes, he can be very noisy sometimes. But inspiring at others. The Barbican audience tonight on the radio certainly seemed to like his music. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.243 |
Sorry, posts crossed. My last post was about Xenakis. | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.236.173.94 |
Actually, isn't that reason they couldn't find Beethoven's music teacher? Because he was Haydn? I know I know . . . get off my bach. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.243 |
Or perhaps they didn't cross! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.39 |
Some say he was a foot fetishist but in fact he was just a Schumann..... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.243 |
Give me a Xenakiss! | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Here's another one to stick in your head, Weber! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGGtSkyasNA&feature=related | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
It's Alice Coopers Poison today. At least I know all the words to this one. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.243 |
Webern and Weber. I prefer the music of the former and the posts of the latter. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
His book about the Protestant revolution is pretty good too. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
You've obviously never heard me sing | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.235.201 |
Hey, seriously now? This one definitely sticks in your head - but it's not even for that: what a great mini-horror flick this is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bsXOcK9_Cw (How did they shoot this?!?) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.120 |
Craig - that's brilliant! Thanks for posting it. Zed's gonna love it... |