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Today FM Last Word theme tune?

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  • 04-11-2004 9:33pm
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    ifconfig
    Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭


    I am trying to figure out what the TodayFM Last Word (with Matt Cooper)
    interval tune (intro guitar riff) is ...

    It's a 90's (perhaps late 80's) indie tune riff played on guitar.

    somewhere along the lines of
    dang-dang-dang-dang-dang-dee-dang ....etc

    I'd create a midi excerpt if I had the time but I'm sure someone
    here will name it in a jiffy.

    I am drawing a blank on it and it is not an obscure indie tune - It is
    just that I can't place the band or track name (it had a lot of airplay
    when it was current). Any ideas?

    --ifconfig


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    mike65
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    I'd nearly forgotten that its a proper tune rather than a theme! Its late 80s/early 90s alright and I know it but just can't recall who by or what its called.

    Mike.


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    Pacifico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭Pacifico


    Its the Stone Roses - Love spreads


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    ifconfig
    Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭ifconfig


    I should clarify.
    That is indeed the startup theme tune but they play a snippet of
    a different indie tune (a brief undistorted guitar riff from a different
    tune) just before each advert break.

    I think it is relatively new. I have only recently started to listen
    to the programme again after a while away from it.
    Do you know the tune I mean ??

    --ifconfig


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    ifconfig
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    via some deep soul searching...
    It is Smashing Pumpkins, "1979" from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    (release 1995).
    I am about 99% sure it is that...
    Sorry for answering my own question...!! Anyone confirm I am right?


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    D-Generate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    Yeah I am pretty sure that Today FM plays 1979 going in and out of adbreaks also. 90% sure.


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    BaZmO*
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    D-Generate wrote:
    Yeah I am pretty sure that Today FM plays 1979 going in and out of adbreaks also. 90% sure.

    I'll see your 90% and raise you 10%.

    It is 1979 by the SM's.

    B.


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    magpie
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    Today FM is where indie greats go to die. Expect to hear 'Leave them all behind' as the theme to a gardening programme some time soon.


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    ifconfig
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    I guess it is the generation of the presenters. Matt Cooper and his
    stand ins, Tom Dunne, Ray D'Arcy, etc...
    I think I heard Matt Cooper do a sort of desert island disc slot
    on either RTE or TodayFM once and his playlist included
    Radiohead and also (nice one) Spirit of the Radio from Rush.

    --ifconfig


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    SprostonGreen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


    magpie wrote:
    Today FM is where indie greats go to die. Expect to hear 'Leave them all behind' as the theme to a gardening programme some time soon.

    Indeed and "Freak Scene" for the weather reports.


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    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    Indeed and "Freak Scene" for the weather reports.

    Looks like you're firmly part of the 'McGonigals Generation' along with my good self.

    Kids these days don't know what they're missing out on. When I were a lad it were indie discos, girls in enormous baggy wooly jumpers and DMs and bottles of Black Tower if you were feeling flash. And you had to go to Virgin to buy Johnnies in the unlikely event of scoring. These days what have they got? high disposable incomes, loose morals, scantily clad girls, readily available drugs... oh, hang on a second....

    Curse you 1990s!


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