(From Clear single; 1983)
Yeah, Juan Atkin's Cybotron is cool but have you ever heard Martin Slavin's Cybermen theme from 1960s Doctor Who? True story: it was #actually a piece of stock music called Space Adventures Part 2 which Doctor Who's producers at the BBC licenced throughout the late 1960s to soundtrack the Cybermen in scenes like this. Imagine hearing some crazy space shit that don't make no sense like this as a kid in 1966 or 1967! To paraphrase Juelz Santana, this shit sound like it's from another galaxy. The BBC stayed terrifying children on multiple levels, not all of them noncey.
(From various Doctor Who episodes; 1966 onwards)
Martin Slavin had 60's electronic shit more John Blaze than Karlheinz Stockhausen and ain't shit recognised by blokes who read The Wire magazine.
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Early Cybermen were legit creepy. The avant-garde electronica soundtrack really suited them.
Have you seen Aleyna Tilki's Sฤฑr music video?
Soundtrack for the Tim Westwood workexperience scheme.
That video was... unexpected. Especially for a Turkish lass.
i need a coven of witches to resurrect Ecstacy so Whodini can reunite to rap over this, fuck me
Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron supposed to bubble.
It's cool when you watch 60s Doctor Who and hear some stock music which was later used in Hollywood movies. I was watching Web Of Fear and heard that creepy music which was later used in The Shining and Ready Player One.
Agreed.
Hollywood pulled a similar stunt when using the twist motif from The Twilight Zone in the toilet flushing scene from Alligator (1980).
Damn, well spotted.
After watching The Tenth Planet, I should add Mondas mans sound a lot scarier than their other cyber bluds, imo.
One of my favourite Doctor Who moments ever: "Who the heck are you?!?"
Also watched Genesis of the Daleks recently. Davros selling out the Kaleds to the Thals was a complete revelation. Daleks executing him being an even bigger one.
One of the best Who stories ever. Michael Wisher's take on Davros in that just looks and sounds better than every future incarnation.
One of the kaled officers was played by the same actor who was Lt. Gruber from ‘Allo ‘Allo! ๐
Thankfully he isn't as infatuated by the Doctor as he is Rene ๐ฌ
Caught 'Earthshock' over the weekend (laters, Adric!)and loved Malcolm Clarke's synth music for March of the Cybermen.
That pillock Ian Brown swaggerjacked his whole look from selfless Adric.
The BBC's music department always seem to bring their A game when scoring Cybermen stories.
Adric the O.G Modfather ๐.
Tegan deserves a mention for being a forerunner to the Aussie cultural invasion in eighties Britain. Big fan of her new wave look in Resurrection of the Daleks, too.
+ Turlough who looked like the singer of Franz Ferdinand 20 years too early.
Have you seen that new Ruins of Skaro figure set?
At forty quid, it's way overpriced. They also did McLaren dirty by leaving him out as a Movellan.
I hadn't. Fair play, pretty cool.
Embarrassingly I bought the 1963 to 1996 Doctor Who toy figure guide last year. To paraphrase Grandpa from The Lost Boys, read the toy guide, you don't need the toys.
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