Classic Doctor Who theme

[vilakins]

After several people saying that the sound of drums is from the classic theme, I searched for a vid of it.

And they're right!

That so took me back to my childhood.

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just listened to that, too, for the same reason. Well, not because I had to check, but because, y'know, it was there, and I'm obsessed. And then I listened to three other versions of the theme tune that were on my iPod. Because I'd apparently played That Other Song enough, finally.

And now I keep tapping out the drumbeat. I think I might need some kind of psychological help. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I know who you voted for then.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I did! I went to his website (http://www.votesaxon.co.uk/index) and somehow found myself clicking in a "yes" vote!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I am too late. All I get is a popup that says:

Vote Saxon

How will you be voting on Election Day? Will you be voting for Harry Saxon?
1. Yes
25404 votes
2. No
31212 votes
Total votes: 56616
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion

They obviously didn't!

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose some of those were from non-citizens and don't count, anyway. :)

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

How sad of me is it to know that it's the Troughton version? Season 5 if I'm not mistaken. The hissing/swooshing sounds give it away:).

Me, I think The Sound Of Drums is obviously the sound of the massive centrifugal force Roger Delgado's coffin must be now experiencing,...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I don't think I saw any Troughton, so it can't be so very different to other seasons. I did see some of the B&W originals with One a few years ago; they ran them after the B7 reruns that seduced me, but then stopped.

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay, that icon!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

One of redscharlach's wonderful DW ones. :-)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Is it just me being nostalgic, or is it better - both aurally and visually - than the curren t version?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I like it better; it's more Who-y. :-)

Here you go: the original Hartnell version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnhtmFXqjVQ)! Very cool and rather creepy graphics, even now.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Even before I look, I can see those graphics in my mind's eye.

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

It's the orchestra, they sap at the unsettling electronic goodness. At least the middle eight, or whatever it's called, is back in the closing version. I wish they'd put the Doctor's face back in the title sequence too.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I think my main complaint about the current version is that it's too fast. I supposed it's all tied in with the idea that the production team seems to have that frenetic pace = excitement.

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

Yes! I do like some of the string sequence though, and it still gives me goosebumps, but not to the same extent the original and the Orbital versions do.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Yes to all of that.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

As the oldie here who watched DW on original broadcast, may I say that isn't drums going "bump, di-bum" in the classic theme. It's a ruler being twanged on a table to give the notes which were then spliced together to give the continuous beat. The radiophonic workshop was good at using noises in those days.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought they just used a synthesiser.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

They hadn't invented synthesisers way back then.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

As the oldie here who watched DW on original broadcast

You aren't the only one. :) But I didn't know that they used a ruler.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

It's amazing the trivia you can pick up from Radio Times.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough it doesn't sound right as just a drum beat because to me its not a discrete sound.
The rhythmn might be the same but I'm hopeless at that.
Speaking of "Who" theme tunes I like the way John Barrowman singing it (David Tennant though is picking out the "drum" beat in the background too - evidently "the sound of drums" was having an effect before the episode was even made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtdGwiMtZ08&mode=related&search=