It's back! Sunday Game Theme Tune

speaktofrank

The theme tune is back.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2008/0510/sundaygame.html?gaa

Yipee, at long last RTE have listened to the masses and done the decent thing.
It's makes me tingle everytime I hear it and the memories as a younger lad of going to the game then watching the Sunday Game every evening.

stepbar

link to the tune?

speaktofrank

Sorry forgetting my age, even though it was still around until 1998 I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tyENZOXdRo

stepbar

speaktofrank wrote: »

Sorry forgetting my age, even though it was still around until 1998 I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tyENZOXdRo

The remastered one. It's not going to be the exactly same at the one above.

blackbelt

The Sunday Game tune was around until 2004.I thought the tune from 2004-2006 was better than last years tune.I thought last years tune was a bit too tame and inappropriate and more suitable for a soccer show.It will be interesting to see the new show setup and listen to the re-mastered original tune tomorrow.

kram_araman

Its great that its back!

culabula88

great thats it back . hopefully the remastered version wont tamper too much with the original version.

john concannon

I actually preferred the last one to the spanish generic trance tripe.
A sad day for modern Ireland:(

smashey

About time.

icdg

Great to have it back...but is that chanting along to the music really necessary! Also the tempo's a bit slower than the original arrangement.

The original wasn't used the whole way till 2004 incidently - in the late 1990s they used a differnent arrangement (this was the version with the gold background and the huge GAA logo, and the BBC Sport-esq graphcis)

Lots of clips of old episodes in the last few minutes.

Talking of graphics, I see RTÉ have unvieled revised corporate style graphics today, similar to previous but given a be-leveled look.

Nalced_irl

Yea, not as good as the original one. When i heard the news i thought it would be the exact same as the original but still great to have it back anyway

blackbelt

A bit slow to be honest.Its like they mixed the background music for "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel with the Original Sunday Game tune and added in humming and chanting whilst slowing it down.

Don't know what to make of it.Might warm up to it then maybe not.

Mossy Monk

I was expecting the old one. What I heard today was awful. Can my vote be changed?

culabula88

Didnt like it much either. everything fine bar the chanting. 'remastered - eh no???.

Creamy Goodness

just heard it there, it's updated so much of been re-recorded.

gerocks

I want the original-original tune back!

juvenal

Interesting changes to the 2008 series of TSG.

Anthony Tohill doing some video/statistical analysis outside of the usual panel discussion, and also this 3D graphic that uses freeze frames to pause and look at incidents. Looks like it might be something like 'HawkEye' that's used in cricket and tennis.

Not sure about the funky camera angles; it reminds me of the French producers in RWC 2007!

icdg

I like the new RTÉ Sport graphics and studio (I presume these will be rolled out to other sport programmes soon, the All-Ireland (rugby union) League final today used the old graphics, didn't catch the Premiership). They're clearly an evolution of the previous graphics but are just implemented far better. The "noise" accompaning them on studio shots is just not needed though.

However the overhead camara angle used was just plain weird. We found out what it was for when they did Man of the Match but otherwise it seemed to serve no point. Meanwhile at one stage Joanne Cantwell looked like she was talking to a CGI-generated wall, only when the cameraman used a different angle did we see Anthony.

GAAman

Dont like it tbh it looks like its trying to be one of those (not sure which cos i dont watch them but have seen them) premiership programs and whats the craic with the seating? What was wrong with them all sittin on the one side? Looks like oul pat spillane is being given the spanish inquisition :eek:

A-Train

Great to hear it was coming back but then heard the remastered version its a big no I'm afraid.

megadodge

gerocks wrote: »

I want the original-original tune back!

+1

What the fuk is RTE's gripe with the original music ?
Why put a tinny studio version of the original in ?

JUST USE THE ORIGINAL JAMES LAST RECORDING !!!

aidan24326

This new remastered version is crap. It didn't sound right. If they were going to bring back the original at all, why not bring back the 'proper' original in all it's glory? That's obviously what people wanted. I'd happily have the new theme tune (from the last couple of years) over this.
Whoever reworked this new version isn't up to much if you ask me.

themont85

With TV3 having some GAA coverage now Rte must be really trying to remind the masses that they're the home of the championship so bring back the tune was a step in doing so. Remastering it gives it the feel of been contemporary yet modern I'd say is what they're after:rolleyes:. Marketing crap, I want the old tune.

father_ted9t9

Here is the new remastered theme!!

http://download.yousendit.com/4E62C3812965E7D5

Lisha

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