It's a stroke of marketing genius: just before any of the World Wrestling Federation's stars enters an arena, his theme music blares over the speakers. It's an amazing dramatic device for the story-line-fuelled "sports entertainment experience", and it drives the fans wild. It doesn't make for good songs, but that's not really the point--after all, the idea here is to get a distinctive 10 to 15 ...
Manufacturer: Koch
All that's missing from this World Wrestling Foundation-sanctioned compilation is a version of Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff". A shrewd marketing move and sometimes even good music, WWF Aggression collects rap takes on 13 theme songs from the televised extravaganzas that brought mega-fame to the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mankind, and even honcho Vince McMahon. The tone here is mostly ...
Manufacturer: Virgin
Who said musical comedy was dead? Was it you? Fools! There are more shining moments in each of these 39 zippy little numbers than in the complete score of any bloated Broadway dud today. Peppered with original dialogue, and seven renditions of "The Simpsons Main Title Theme" (including Australian, Big Band, and Afro-Cuban), this disc includes beloved originals like "Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart?". ...
Manufacturer: Rhino
Manufacturer: Universal Music TV
Hot on the heels of the highly profitable Queer As Folk comes Vol 2, another great collection of hi-NRG TV-tie-in floor fillers guaranteed to get you strutting your funky stuff. From the all-time classics like The Real Thing's "You To Me Are Everything" to more contemporary kitsch like the club mix of Shaft's "Mucho Mambo (Sway)" via the 1980s hell that was Rick Astley's "Never Gonna ...
Manufacturer: Channel 4
None of the bad guys ever really got shot. They had the most indestructible set of wheels on the planet, and with just a haircomb and tube of toothpaste they could convert it into a battle-worthy super-tank. Those 80s Musketeers The A-Team were renegades but fought for justice, and we loved them for it. The musical set-up stayed the same throughout: guitar, drum-set, and small strings and horn ...
Manufacturer: Silva Screen
Rather unusually for a comedy series, the soundtrack to series two of Channel 4's Trigger Happy TV isn't packed with upbeat pop numbers or novelty tunes. Instead, the songs on offer tend towards the more morose and thoughtful end of the modern musical spectrum. Bands such as Grandaddy, PJ Harvey and Shack have seldom produced music that could be described as "zany", "madcap" or "wacky". And ...
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
Manufacturer: Prestige
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 ...
Manufacturer: BBC Music
