If you can't get enough of that wrestling stuff, this is the box set for you. Four CDs include music by wrestling's old-school 1980s stars (Hulk Hogan, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Captain Lou Albano), heavy-metal hits (on Full Metal: The Album) and volumes 2 and 3 of the WWF: The Music compilations. WWF fans will recognise the entrance themes for most of the turn-of-the-millennium's hottest ...
Every episode of hit television series Spaced had a magic musical moment in its first season, and here's the proof. The pilot's montage of Tim and Daisy rehearsing personal details to share a flat is via David Holmes' upbeat "Gritty Shaker". Opening the next was Japanese loungecore group Fantastic Plastic Machine's first of many appearances, here remixing the Eurythmics' classic "There Must ...
Howard Goodall's Big Bangs, the album, is part of a modern phenomenon: a multimedia project centred around a television series and encompassing a book of the same title. In isolation, the album might appear strangely random, yet it affords the opportunity to hear in full pieces which could only be presented briefly on TV. Unusually for an anthology, nine of the 19 tracks were specially ...
Picking straight up from Volume One, the Pertwee years and the transition into the scarf-wearing Baker are covered. It was perhaps the greatest period of change for the series: colour, Earth-bound setting, a greater sense of continuity and behind-the-scenes, a ceaseless experimentation to be at the forefront of electronic music and sound design by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop. Chiefly ...