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You know the bit when the programme-makers just want the pictures to do the talking but they don't want silence or 'field' noise so they essentially stick on their favourite records, appropriate or otherwise, as a backing track...? Well, what's the most 'out-there' record you've heard in that situation? most unexpected? most beautiful? most inappropriate? etc etc

― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

Sonic Youth, the other day.

Actually, Hi-5's Tim (programme is a kind of S-Club 7 for teenies with stories, music, activities, fun yougetthepic) had a Sonic Youth sweatshirt on this morning.

― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

There was a bit of "Trout Mask Replica" on something the other day - but I can't remember the song or the programme! Oh hold on, I think it was a programme about art with Vic Reeves and Jenny Le Clair and others... so the music was probably "Dali's Car"

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

Blimey, Sonic Youth!? what was the programme? the song? Did it work?

There was a time when the BBC used loads of New Order in its sports coverage. I can distinctly remember hearing the opening bars of Age of Consent to soundtrack, I think, a piece on rowing.

― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

HGTV uses a lot of drum&bass. For reality shows about home renovation and such.

― abanana, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

I think it was "Teenage Riot" and yes it did work.

― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

any desert scene: Paris, Texas soundtrack by Ry Cooder
any human drama: The Host Of Seraphim by Dead Can Dance

― StanM, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

A thread inspired, incidentally, by hearing the Ah Ah bits from Jarvis Cocker's feisty Fat Children on Dragons Den last night on BBC2, as a background theme for the antics of the eccentric Chinese woman who turned down the investors' money. Worked beautifully.

― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:05 (eighteen years ago)

There is a brief (doll)snatch of The Fiery Furnaces' 'Straight Street' in the sixth episode of Nathan Barley. I was very happy to have noticed it!

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

... and "I Want More" by Can

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

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