Next, there’s Rotersand’s “Exterminate Annihilate Destroy,” an industrial track that samples Dalek vocals. Watch The K Foundation Burn a Million Quid from nils wommelsdorf on Vimeo. The awesome thing about “Doctorin the Tardis” was that it was the conceptual basis for “ The Manual,” The KLF/K Foundation’s quasi-satirical philosophical and technical treatise on “how to have a number one the easy way.” It also provided the cash that was set alight in the (again quasi-satirical) performance art piece documented in “The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid”: The song is predominantly a mash-up of the Doctor Who theme music, Gary Glitter’s Rock and Roll (Part Two) with sections from Blockbuster by Sweet and Let’s Get Together Tonite. The first one makes the KLF/JAMMs connection pretty visually evident, and even features Gary Glitter. Here’s the video, but these Top of the Pops performance are better. Second, this theme inspired the KLF/JAMMS’s big pop music coup, The Timelords’s hit “Doctorin the Tardis.” Basically, it’s a mash up of Gary Glitter’s “Rock n Roll Part 2” with the melody of the Dr. The gf just sat me down to watch Doctor Who for the first time and i jogged my memory so now tried looking it up, but couldnt find it.
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If you want to read and learn more about her career and her work on the Dr Who theme, check here (for an amazingly well-stocked website full of interviews, work, photos, etc), here, and the latter part of this documentary. Request: Doctor Who theme song + Depeche Modes 'Personal Jesus' + Gary Glitters 'Hey' Back in the early/mid 90s I heard it on a station out of Cleveland and it blew our minds back then. Who on Holiday, a remix of the Green Day song Holiday, in American Edit, a mashup album based on Green Day's American Idiot.With the 50th anniversary fete this weekend, I thought a quick post on Doctor Who and (mainly pop) music was in order.įirst, the arrangement–and the signature sound–of the original theme song was performed by none other than the amazing Delia Derbyshire.
Other appearances ĭoctorin' the Tardis was itself used as part of the mashup Dr. It was also been used during BBC Radio 2's Tardis: Who? documentaries and Doctor Who Confidential during 2005.
At the video's climax, Ford Timelord hits and smashes the Daleks. Crude approximations of Daleks roam the area, with Ford in hot pursuit. The "Doctorin' the Tardis" music video features Ford Timelord driving around the countryside.
I mixed and matched some tunes we all know and love, got some mates down and made this record. The band claimed that the car had spoken to them, revealing its name as "Ford Timelord." The record itself was credited to Ford Timelord, and the sleeve featured the text "Hi! I'm Ford Timelord. For the release of this song, a fictional backstory was created for the car. The band had a 1968 Ford Galaxie police car which had featured in some of its videos and promotional artwork. There are also samples of dialogue from: a Dalek and Davros in TV: Genesis of the Daleks. The single was panned by critics but became a commercial success, reaching number 1 in the UK Singles Chart and charting in the Top 10 in Australia and Norway. The song is predominantly a mash-up of the Doctor Who theme, Gary Glitter's " Rock and Roll (Part Two)" with sections from " Blockbuster!" by Sweet and "Let's Get Together Tonite" by Steve Walsh.
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