Comments on: BBC trailer "mash-ups"

By: mike

mike — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:14 +0000

funnily enough thats the exact same feeling when i hear 99.9 % of todays music,

By: Andrew Webb

Andrew Webb — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:50:46 +0000

The Chain is back. Official confirmation from the BBC Sport Director on his Sports Editors blog.

Please the Original. They wrecked the Snooker theme smashing into the 21st century.

So to avoid pitchforks and an angry mob outside BBC TV Centre, lets have the original one please.

I liked ITV’s choices over the years but you cant outdo the Chain. (From an F1 Fan who watched F1 since it was on itv!)

By: Finn

Finn — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:13:08 +0000

To Martin … that is a great link/vid

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:35:48 +0000

That “Chain” example works for me, it’s spot on!

For one I hope they *don’t* use My Favourite Game because this was expertly used by ITV [ watch here ], I always associate it with that video and and it would be sacrilege to use it for anything else since the lyrics pretty much exactly matched the footage.

If they did move away from The Chain (I wouldn’t expect them to), a decent alternative would be the last minute or so of Tom Petty’s Runnin’ Down a Dream.

By: mike k

mike k — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:24:04 +0000

Fuel by metallica – quality suggestion…!!!!!!

By: HowardMoon

HowardMoon — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:36:45 +0000

I do think it ought to be The Chain for the first season at least, even after 13 years a huge number of people still see it as being synonymous with Formula 1.

After that who’s to say it can’t be changed. How about Fuel by Metallica? You’d be hard pressed to find a more appropriate song!

By: Darren M

Darren M — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:24:13 +0000

It’s a decent song, but people exaggerate quite how good it is. Presumably it just reminds people of how F1 used to be in the good old days, but for people like me who were too young too follow F1 during the first BBC era, it is far less evocative.

If they’re going to use it (and it sounds like they are), they need to update it a bit. I imagine it sounded old fashioned back in 1996, never mind 2009.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:16:06 +0000

The Chain is synonomous with f1 and will make a great change from the poor opening titles from the ITV’s F1 coverage from 2006-2008, you know the one with Moby. I really liked that song but it sounded rubbish on ITV F1 and what the hell were those opening titles about? Couldn’t ITV have gotten someone like Noel Gallagher to write a tune, like they did with Jamiroquay accompanied with great f1 action!?

By: Gianni Fasulo

Gianni Fasulo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:44:51 +0000

100% in favour of The Chain - The original. Brilliant then, brilliant now.James, where is this "mini-poll"? I may be going blind but I can't seem to find it! [ Perhaps you are using the WordPress blog or a feed. To see the rest of the site you need to use www.jamesallenonf1.com - Moderator ]

By: Finn

Finn — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:39:59 +0000

The Cardigans mashup you link to is far better than anything I could personally do …. but I think the images need to be faster to match the speed of the song. Great idea, just needs a lot more speed.

Wish the Beeb wouldn’t go for The Chain …. they need to move on.

I loathe all that old music. The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, etc they all give me the creeps.