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chopper 
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 Posted: June 21 2006 at 09:02 |
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Thanks for all the info guys, I slept easier last night knowing that it was Focus. I guess that TV programme must be where I remember the song from as I don't have any Focus albums, although I don't remember watching it.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 03:29 |
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I found it was quite subtle humour on the whole and it won't appeal to everyone. I liked the musical references e.g. "Peter Frampton's vocoder". |
It certainly won't appeal to everyone - referring to his new assistant's Nirvana t-shirt "any band who'll acknowledge Iommi's mastery of the fret are OK by me..." Face it, that line would have gone way over 99% of the wobbling class's heads.
Promising start to a series, though.
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Blacksword
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 14:23 |
Snow Dog wrote:
Porksword is correct. I just downloaded House Of King, and that is the one on Saxondale!
I've heard this before and always thought its Tull. So now I know!
Youes sincerely, an older and wiser and humbled doggy! |
To be honest I assumed it was Tull, until I bought a Focus album a few years back.
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Blacksword
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 14:19 |
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Yeah, thanks Tony for that trip down memory lane! I knew I heard it on the box when I was a nipper..
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Snow Dog
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 13:29 |
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^ Thats the one....Thank you Tonymator!
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Tony R
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 13:27 |
DON'T ASK
ME (1975-9)
YORKSHIRE 
UNASHAMEDLY TACKY popular science, featuring
David Bellamy, Magnus Pyke, Miriam Stoppard, Colin Welland, Marion
"How" Davies, Maggie Makepiece etc. loading up on bizarre
demonstrations, cruel audience-baiting techniques and insane models
by way of enlightenment. Similar type shows include BODYMATTERS, THE
SHOW-ME SHOW, FUN AND GAMES etc. Now an extinct genre, it
seems. Wonderfully harsh flute-driven theme was 'House Of The King' by Dutch rock band Focus; B-side of chart hit 'Sylvia'.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 13:18 |
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^ I think you'rer right, I seem to remember a programme with that theme in the 70's.
Edited by Snow Dog - June 20 2006 at 13:28
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The Hemulen
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 12:11 |
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Interestingly, I seem to recall reading that Focus' "House of the King" was originally recorded as a TV theme for something else anyway!
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Snow Dog
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 10:31 |
Porksword is correct. I just downloaded House Of King, and that is the one on Saxondale!
I've heard this before and always thought its Tull. So now I know!
Youes sincerely, an older and wiser and humbled doggy!
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Blacksword
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 08:14 |
^  Who you calling intense??  
I'll watch it next week. The FOCUS!! track on the trailer should have got me interested, but I was in bed by the time it started. I had to be up before the rest of the human race this morning...
Edited by Blacksword - June 20 2006 at 08:15
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 08:08 |
I hear in the next series there's a sketch about the......errrmm.......shall we say "intense" guys on A Certain Music Forum, who only listened to the start & finish, to settle an argument about the theme music..... 
Actually, I caught most of the show.......except the beginning & end, so have no idea on the theme........I thought it was promising - many good in jokes (and thus, by definition, many more I didn't get......  ).........I particularly liked the cringe-inducing change of pace in the middle where he & his GF get very intense towards each other........"You rock my world........".......a moment which out-Offices even Gervaise...... |
"Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS 
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Snow Dog
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:56 |
Blacksword wrote:
The music used on the trailer was 'House of the King' by Focus, which does sound alot like Tull. I didn't see the show, though.
Sure you're not confusing Focus for Tull..?? |
I don't know the Focus one.........sounded like Tull to me though. I'm sure someone definitely knows.
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Blacksword
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:53 |
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The music used on the trailer was 'House of the King' by Focus, which does sound alot like Tull. I didn't see the show, though.
Sure you're not confusing Focus for Tull..??
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chopper
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:39 |
Trouserpress wrote:
Missed, it (foolish me). My comedy-geek chums gave it mixed reviews but overall it sounds like it was light on the joke front, but that's only to be expected of an establishing episode. |
I found it was quite subtle humour on the whole and it won't appeal to everyone. I liked the musical references e.g. "Peter Frampton's vocoder". And the bit at the end where he shot the animal rights protester in the leg. 
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:32 |
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Just listened again....pretty sure it is now.
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:32 |
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Missed, it (foolish me). My comedy-geek chums gave it mixed reviews but overall it sounds like it was light on the joke front, but that's only to be expected of an establishing episode.
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chopper
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:30 |
I'm pretty sure it was Tull. Anyone else see it?
I definitely heard a bit of "Time Was" from Argus in it.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:28 |
chopper wrote:
Blimey! I thought I knew that song fairly well. Obviously not.
Thanks Ian. |
At least, I think it was. ..I'm having doubts now!
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chopper
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:27 |
Blimey! I thought I knew that song fairly well. Obviously not.
Thanks Ian.
PS - can you reply a bit quicker next time. That took you almost 1 minute.
Edited by chopper - June 20 2006 at 07:28
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:25 |
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Twas Jethro Tulls "Living In The Past"
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