Manufacturer: BBC
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 ...
Manufacturer: Channel 4
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
A fantasy realm encompassing every form of make-believe is conjured up by The 10th Kingdom--another instalment in the grand Hallmark TV series. Switching back and forth in the equally fantastical New York City, the story required a score of enormous range. Fitted snugly onto an hour-long album, that score can seem peculiarly schizophrenic. A little re-programming would easily result in two ...
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
The third and final soundtrack to the last of Dom Joly's guerrilla style comedy series, Trigger Happy TV 3 is another great selection of downbeat music from the show. Joly, (self confessed "good white indie boy") delves into his own personal record collection again and comes back with both some classic and surprising selections. There are some tracks from the late 80s / early 90s which are ...
The Blue Planet, a BBC natural history series presented by David Attenborough, is accompanied by an appropriately sweeping score by George Fenton. After a bombastic main theme that fuses orchestra, electronics and synthesised choir into a 21st-century anthem, the remaining 15 tracks present an orchestral portrait of the world's oceans. Though folk-ethnic elements are incorporated into cues ...
Manufacturer: U.M.T.V.
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
It's amazing to realise just how many instantly recognisable themes Mike Post has been responsible for. It would be easy to brand him as the cop show composer with NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, Law & Order and The Rockford Files. But as this collection shows, he's had his musical fingers in just about every genre pie eaten by TV viewers. From the Chas 'n' Dave comedy ...
Manufacturer: Treasury
