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Post by admin on Mar 4, 2008 20:03:23 GMT
I'm a blood-soaked old Mongol warrior, so I really wouldn't lay any great claim to being sophisticated, but those "rider jingles" that tracks seem to insist on playing when a given rider wins strike me as being embarrassing and tacky.
And most of them are hardly imaginative - oh, an Australian wins, time for Rolf Harris to tie his kangaroo down again. I mean, hardly imaginative, is it?
To me, all it does is perpetuate the impression that speedway is caught in a sad time warp - and a time warp that taste forgot.
What are the thoughts of others?
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Post by Genghis on Mar 4, 2008 20:09:18 GMT
What was the Weirdity's tune at Berwick last season - no, wait a minute, you never got to hear that one, did you?  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2008 20:35:59 GMT
Work ok if they get the right tune and use them properly without talking over them, but they rarely get any part of that correct. However, Sullivan chose the Foo Fighters, Learn To Fly and that turned out to be always linked to great memories for Panthers fans. So to sum up, I'm just about for them because they're better than bugger all or some other drivel eminating from the PA and a gem is always possible.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2008 20:45:36 GMT
I'm with Sub . It makes me bloody cringe . When we had Paul Bentley at Glasgow - we had to listen to fucking" Please Mr Postman " every time he won a race , thankfully by 2005 his ability had faded so we never had to endure it much .
But it is something very tacky and tasteless and really only should appeal to the " xxxspeedwaybabexxx" fraternity .
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Post by Genghis on Mar 4, 2008 20:54:18 GMT
I'm with Sub . It makes me bloody cringe . When we had Paul Bentley at Glasgow - we had to listen to fucking" Please Mr Postman " every time he won a race , thankfully by 2005 his ability had faded so we never had to endure it much . But it is something very tacky and tasteless and really only should appeal to the " xxxspeedwaybabexxx" fraternity . Paulco - IMHO it only tends to work with fairly meaty music - give each of the seven riders one of the intros from "Fat Of The Land" by the Prodigy and it would be OK. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2008 20:56:45 GMT
When we had Paul Bentley at Glasgow - we had to listen to fucking" Please Mr Postman " every time he won a race A fine example of getting it totally wrong. |
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Post by schumi on Mar 4, 2008 21:06:13 GMT
What was the Weirdity's tune at Berwick last season - no, wait a minute, you never got to hear that one, did you? What are you on about, genghis? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2008 21:10:36 GMT
I take it there's no objection to Bomber Harris' "Dambusters", air raid warning & "Sex Bomb" jingles.
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Post by admin on Mar 4, 2008 21:15:15 GMT
I take it there's no objection to Bomber Harris' "Dambusters", air raid warning & "Sex Bomb" jingles. Depends whether you like uninspired tackiness or not. Personally, I think they're dreadful. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2008 21:47:11 GMT
I take it there's no objection to Bomber Harris' "Dambusters", air raid warning & "Sex Bomb" jingles. Cov's jingles last seaspm were that of 1970s naff commerical radio....even if that upsets someone...I am sorry...but they are fecking awful. That's fecking 500 miles tune.... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2008 22:16:45 GMT
VERY Tacky! And don't forget the 'let's wind the opposition up' ones... The people involved seem to think they're the ultimate in wit....but when you've had 'Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?' played 100 times as your team comes out it really loses the miniscule amount of humour it MAY have had! Or there's the equally 'piss your pants' option of 'Who let the dogs out?' - that one has them rolling in the aisles! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2008 22:24:46 GMT
VERY Tacky! And don't forget the 'let's wind the opposition up' ones... The people involved seem to think they're the ultimate in wit....but when you've had 'Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?' played 100 times as your team comes out it really loses the miniscule amount of humour it MAY have had! Or there's the equally 'piss your pants' option of 'Who let the dogs out?' - that one has them rolling in the aisles! But who does it really amuse? Nobody really, does it? Surely it doesn't. Football is about as cringe-worthy with the 1950 tunes every club seems to play. I just want some kind of music to fill in the gaps and to make sure I don't hear what shite the two Daily Mail reading Coventry City supporting plonkers are speaking about next to me. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2008 23:32:11 GMT
There's no doubt they are tacky in the extreme, and Coventry seem to be the worst perpetrators..........having said that, I do like the idea of teams marching onto the parade with a 'theme' music playing, and I think Lakeside should use 'Revolution' this year!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2008 9:03:29 GMT
For the home team it works. Look at Football with Everton and Z-Cars, Wolves - Hi Ho Silver Lining etc.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2008 9:55:43 GMT
were that of 1970s naff commerical radio... You mean they've got better on commercial radio since then?  |
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