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Aug. 29th, 2009 01:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Twig's five being excellent suggestions, I shall not attempt to better them. But the intersection between music and feeling is something that has always interested me. Because the two are not often related, I know someone who thinks Gloomy Monday is not only beautiful but who is made happy by it.
I have my own quirks when it comes to music, things I can't be rational about. Like Oasis. When the anti-Oasis backlash started, I couldn't join in, because What's the Story (Morning Glory) was the soundtrack to the summer when I was 11, and it was all sunshine and friends and that first glimpse of the terrors and delights of adulthood, and when I hear things I think of the memories rather than the music.
For instance, She's Electric (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04hcZwqYVpI) and Champagne Supernova (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cJauX_q6wI) are all of us (a group of 7 of us) listening to this in Laura's backgarden, chilling, playing catch, running from the park keeper of the park we used to trespass in.
The whole album is Graham (one of the 7) getting off the yellow bus at Granada Studios into the sunlight and that, for that one moment, everything was sunny and beautiful and yellow, and there's no resemblance of what I remember to the music, but every time I hear it, I think of them.
That's why I have a terrible problem with vids, because normally what the vidmakers see and hear and connect bears no resemblence to what's going on in my brain.
What I do love, however, is a lot of the intros and outros to sports programmes where they play sport x footage over music.
One of my favourites was the use of Fauve's Pavane for the Dead Infanta for the 1998 World Cup - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSchQjLdd-0
Bonus find was Des Lynam reading Rudyard Kipling's 'If' over the footage and it going into the Pavane. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjuihw2q_Ts&feature=related
I've heard it since, but all I get is this footage (11 years on and it's still fresh as a daisy in my mind) and that glorious French team and saying goodbye to so many of my heroes (Polster, Herzog, Petrescu, Stoichkov, Hierro) and penalty shootouts and the Bergkamp goal that isn't even in the highlights.
A more recent one would be Kings of Leon's 'Sex on Fire' being used for Formula 1, which works because of the driving power of the music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyTMYvFNZAc&feature=related
Here's one of 2003 to 'Enter Sandman' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAUVYswYXPw&NR=1 (From Dutch TV, I think, guessing from the accent)
Formula 1 does, of course, also feature the ultimate use of music and sport, which is Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain'. People were happier about this being back when F1 came back to the BBC than they were about there being no adverts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyn_mi1jHoE&feature=related
(I'm sure our household was not alone in cheering the first time we heard it.)
That being said, I didn't mind the ITV one to Moby's 'Lift Me Up', including David Coulthard doing a damn good James Bond impression.
Why do I mention this? Because Sunil at the BBC who is doing this job for the F1 this year is a genius and should be big-upped at every opportunity.
Malaysian GP highlights to a cover of 'Umbrella' by Biffy Clyro - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuFBh9y31p0
I did prefer the Australian one to 'Times Like These' but I can't find it.
The Silverstone intro (the GP is moving to Donnington) is worth a watch too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhOEKb0GSJk
Music from 'The Road to Perdition'.
I have my own quirks when it comes to music, things I can't be rational about. Like Oasis. When the anti-Oasis backlash started, I couldn't join in, because What's the Story (Morning Glory) was the soundtrack to the summer when I was 11, and it was all sunshine and friends and that first glimpse of the terrors and delights of adulthood, and when I hear things I think of the memories rather than the music.
For instance, She's Electric (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04hcZwqYVpI) and Champagne Supernova (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cJauX_q6wI) are all of us (a group of 7 of us) listening to this in Laura's backgarden, chilling, playing catch, running from the park keeper of the park we used to trespass in.
The whole album is Graham (one of the 7) getting off the yellow bus at Granada Studios into the sunlight and that, for that one moment, everything was sunny and beautiful and yellow, and there's no resemblance of what I remember to the music, but every time I hear it, I think of them.
That's why I have a terrible problem with vids, because normally what the vidmakers see and hear and connect bears no resemblence to what's going on in my brain.
What I do love, however, is a lot of the intros and outros to sports programmes where they play sport x footage over music.
One of my favourites was the use of Fauve's Pavane for the Dead Infanta for the 1998 World Cup - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSchQjLdd-0
Bonus find was Des Lynam reading Rudyard Kipling's 'If' over the footage and it going into the Pavane. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjuihw2q_Ts&feature=related
I've heard it since, but all I get is this footage (11 years on and it's still fresh as a daisy in my mind) and that glorious French team and saying goodbye to so many of my heroes (Polster, Herzog, Petrescu, Stoichkov, Hierro) and penalty shootouts and the Bergkamp goal that isn't even in the highlights.
A more recent one would be Kings of Leon's 'Sex on Fire' being used for Formula 1, which works because of the driving power of the music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyTMYvFNZAc&feature=related
Here's one of 2003 to 'Enter Sandman' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAUVYswYXPw&NR=1 (From Dutch TV, I think, guessing from the accent)
Formula 1 does, of course, also feature the ultimate use of music and sport, which is Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain'. People were happier about this being back when F1 came back to the BBC than they were about there being no adverts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyn_mi1jHoE&feature=related
(I'm sure our household was not alone in cheering the first time we heard it.)
That being said, I didn't mind the ITV one to Moby's 'Lift Me Up', including David Coulthard doing a damn good James Bond impression.
Why do I mention this? Because Sunil at the BBC who is doing this job for the F1 this year is a genius and should be big-upped at every opportunity.
Malaysian GP highlights to a cover of 'Umbrella' by Biffy Clyro - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuFBh9y31p0
I did prefer the Australian one to 'Times Like These' but I can't find it.
The Silverstone intro (the GP is moving to Donnington) is worth a watch too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhOEKb0GSJk
Music from 'The Road to Perdition'.
