Amazing sound track

RoxySiren · **Joined:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:18 am **Posts:** 680

In the middle of watching "the secret life of bob monkhouse" courtesy of BBC4 ....

So far the soundtrack has comprised Beauty Queen, The Bogus Man, Bowie's Speed of Life, Eno's Sky Saw, something from Neu!

Juxtaposition? Or producers who really understood the darkness of a comedian?

Check it out on iplayer (UK ip address holders only I'm afraid )

Smudge · **Joined:** Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:26 am **Posts:** 1135

And the final episode of the ITV supernatural drama Lightfields last week featured a brief burst of Do The Strand playing on a radio...

Roxy · **Joined:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:44 am **Posts:** 1177

Smudge wrote:

And the final episode of the ITV supernatural drama Lightfields last week featured a brief burst of Do The Strand playing on a radio...

It was actually a tape playing on her cassette recorder, complete with leather carry case

Love is the Drug was also played at the Village Hall disco in the first episode.

Avondale · **Joined:** Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:46 pm **Posts:** 309

They made a mistake with LITD. That scene was supposed to have taken place at the start of a 6 week summer visit in 1975 but LITD was not released until the end of September of that year.

RoxySiren · **Joined:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:18 am **Posts:** 680

well spotted...but it's a great mistake to make

Roxy · **Joined:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:44 am **Posts:** 1177

Avondale wrote:

They made a mistake with LITD. That scene was supposed to have taken place at the start of a 6 week summer visit in 1975 but LITD was not released until the end of September of that year.

Yes, I thought that at the time and had to come to VRM and check the release date. I thought it was a bit too sunny for September/October!

DCJ · **Joined:** Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:58 pm **Posts:** 1031

Maybe it was taken from an acetate smuggled out of the recording session. Or if that doesn't fit the timeline properly, maybe it was smuggled out out Andy and BF's minds by a Dr. Who brainwave transfer. Or something like that...

Of course, this is why screenwriters hate historians because the latter are focused on details like chronology and ever so bothersome "facts" about the past. Sigh.

Nowadays it seems it takes an artist like BF (and plenty of others) three months to figure out what the guitar mix will be for one track on an album like Olympia, while back in the 70s entire albums were written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in three months...

I thought about this recently after reading obits for Phil Ramone and seeing how he was involved in the recording of Dylan's Blood on the Tracks back in the fall of '74. But as the release date approached, a not-quite-satisfied Dylan hooked up with an impromptu studio band in Minneapolis (arranged by his brother) and on two days (Dec. 27 & 30, 1974) re-recorded 5 of the tunes that were then inserted into the album in time for its release on Jan 20. 1975. Hell, nowadays it could take three weeks just to draft a press release!

Hard Rain · **Joined:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:49 pm **Posts:** 50

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Of course, this is why screenwriters hate historians because the latter are focused on details like chronology and ever so bothersome "facts" about the past. Sigh.

And let's not forget that the UK had a prolonged heat wave that year lasting from Easter until Hallowe'en.

DCJ · **Joined:** Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:58 pm **Posts:** 1031

Hard Rain:
It seems weirdly appropriate that you as "Hard Rain" would drop a little climatological history/knowledge on us! Nicely done!

Amazing sound track

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