We’ve a brand new entry in the TV Cream Songbook.
Harnessing the combined talents of the TVC Symphony Orchestra, various bits of metal, a steam locomotive, a Rick Wakeman-esque keyboard wobbly thing, a choirboy and Sir Jim’ll Savile himself, we proudly present an extended arrangement of the leaf mulch-defying, motorist-denying and era-defining British Rail promotional epic, ‘This is the age of the train’.
You can download the four-and-a-half-minute track, or you can listen to it right now by clicking below:
[podcast]http://www.tvcream.co.uk/media/thisistheageofthetrain.mp3[/podcast]
Robert
January 23, 2011 at 12:50 am
This is marvellous! I especially love the use of the voiceover at the start.
Still prefer the 1988 BR corporate ad over all others, mind.
Jim Moon
January 23, 2011 at 10:53 am
Fantastic work fellas! Will Clunk Click Every Trip be getting some breakbeat treatment?
Chris O
January 23, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Brilliant. That’s the only word for it…
Glenn A
January 23, 2011 at 6:37 pm
An alternative version, had a British Rail pork die that almost caused me to die.
johnnyboy
January 23, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Nice stuff. Very Fairlighty, Korgy, Yamaha..er..y electro-pop there. Who was the voice at the beginning? Ralph Richardson??
Aidan
January 24, 2011 at 7:45 am
Sounds like The Orb when they used to be good. Top stuff.
John Rivers
January 24, 2011 at 8:53 am
Superb! Reminded me of the Avalanches. It’s a ‘Hit’ from me.
TV Cream
January 25, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Cheers for the comments, folks. Glad you enjoyed it. Not sure who that is at the start, beseeching us to “remember Monica”, but it’s a charming advertisement. “InterCity brings something good into their lives: you.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPdq-KJaa8Q
B
October 15, 2014 at 9:29 pm
Could you make a version of this without the Jimmy part because well… recent news, I like the backing track but not so much the Jimmy dialogue parts…