Now! Thumbcast, my four themes for the weekend

The Thumbcast are looking for recommendation for “Now That’s What I Call The Greatest Thumbcast Album Ever“? Here’s four from me.

The “Pre-roll” Thunderbirds fanfare

Not The Thunderbirds theme, but the bit that rolled over the “here’s tonight’s show in 30 seconds”. It’s the bit between “Thunderbirds are go” and the slower paced “dum, dum, dum, dum.” Pace, intensity, smash cuts, all rolled into one. And it’s still not fast enough for today’s youth…

The Black Hole Overture.

It’s John Barry. ’nuff said.

The cars approach the F1 Grid, BBC F1.

No, not The Chain. Although Fleetwood Mac get all the credit, there’s one other piece of music that reminds me of F1 – the backing track played as Murray Walker read out the grid as the cars lined up. It’s about the only decent thing to come out of “The Never Ending Story.”

Grandstand.

I’m not going to even attempt to find a tenuous cult link to Keith Mansfield’s masterpiece, because it stands out proud as the greatest track to Air-Drum to in the universe.