Podcast Episode Summary
For the Labour Party:
BBC Sound Effects – Train Crash
And so to New Labour.
I thought long and hard about what song would best capture the momentum of the campaign. There were several strong contenders, e.g:
Wedding Present – “Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft”
Led Zeppelin – “Nobody’s Fault But Mine”
The Smiths – “I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish”
New York Dolls – “Personality Crisis”
and I came very very close to putting up 10cc’s “I’m Mandy, Fly Me”(!?)
But in the end it had to be “Train Crash”. Courtesy of a 1977 BBC Sound Effects LP called “BBC Sound Effects No. 16: Disasters”.
It’s a rather sedate crash to be honest – maybe that was state of the art in ‘77. Nowadays we expect a little more bloody and guts… and I think there will be plenty of that tomorrow night when the count starts. :-(
It’s been a fun election, but I’ll be honest, it looks like it’s gonna be a real train wreck of a result. But I could be wrong about that… we’ll see.
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Buy it here :: at Discogs on vinyl (not surprisingly, it hasn't been reissued on CD!)
File Download (0:31 min / 1 MB)
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