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chopper 
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:24 |
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Did anyone see this new Steve Coogan comedy last night and can tell me what the theme music was? It sounded familiar to me, possibly early Jethro Tull as it featured a flute?
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Snow Dog
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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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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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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 07:30 |
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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The Hemulen
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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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Snow Dog
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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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chopper
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:39 |
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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. |
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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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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Snow Dog
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 07:56 |
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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..?? |
I don't know the Focus one.........sounded like Tull to me though. I'm sure someone definitely knows.
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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...... |
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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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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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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 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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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 13:29 |
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^ Thats the one....Thank you Tonymator!
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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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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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Jim Garten
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 03:29 |
chopper wrote:
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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