If you have been visiting the last weeks this blog, you might have noticed that you couldn’t enter the Comments area and also many of the iiner links didn’t work. I have been checking on this issue and did a few changes, and hopefully, it is solved. If you have any problem, please contact me at: xchange_music + yahoo.com (change + to @).

Regards
Fernando

TV themes... now that most TV intros are becoming shorter, they seems to be dissappearing but here are a sample of some recent shows that proves that there are still something to look for. And some old or unknown TV tunes too.

Here you will find these themes: Bones, Castle, Criminal Minds, Defying Gravity, Dollhouse, House, John Doe, Life, Medium, Midsomer Murders, NCIS Los Angeles, Psychoville, Saving Grace, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe, The Big Bang Theory, The Class, The Closer, The Forgotten, The Mentalist, The Unusuals and Warehouse 13.

This compilation contains just a few tunes that I have extracted from TV shows that I am watching now, but I am going to dig out other TV shows and compile another set of TV tunes. If you have a suggestion, just share it in the comments.

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Following the Bond topic, here is an the episodic music from Spaceballs The Animated Series called Fishfinger, the same way Austin Powers’s Goldmember was a parody from the iconic Goldfinger movie.

Here, the story is more closely to the Goldfinger movie, with all the Spaceballs characters and Mr. Bont as “Double-O-Sven.” The composer of Paul Buckley, and I’m afraid I’m not familiar with his work, but he did a good job with the Bond (John Barry) sound. Also, a couple of tracks from the Simpsons episode “You Only Move Twice” with a villain Scorpio that mimics all the Bond villains, specially Blofeld.
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After some months of leave, I’m back!
Well, not completely, I’m still doing just a few uploads from time to time, but I’m getting new ideas on what to upload.

I received the boxset for the Season 4 of Star Trek: Enterprise and watching again the last two episodes, I found the final episode anti-climatic. So instead of selecting that episode, I got the one before that ‘Terra Prime‘. It comes with music by veteran Star Trek composer Jay Chattaway, who did a great job on several episodes, specially on Voyager.
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As the end of 2008 is approaching, I just wanted to say thanks to all who have commented in the past and made me change my mind about closing this blog.

Try to comment on the entries so I know what you are looking for.

Let’s hope that the 2009 bring exciting TV and movies to listen music to!

Enjoy!
Fernando

As a follow-up of the recent Bond share, this time we have a compilation of some demos and alternative versions of the famous Bond songs. Not cover versions, but the real thing, or as close as it might be. Some were found in official releases, but some are not, so just enjoy it.
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This is the second pilot for “Genesis 2” from Gene Roddenberry or the second episode, if you want to see it that way. Again, the music was composed by Harry Sukman (Around the World Under the Sea, Genesis II, episodic music for Bonanza, The Singing Nun, The High Chaparral, Dr. Kildare).
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With the release a new Bond film I thought it would be a good idea to share this one. Is a compilation that I’ve been working on for some time now. It includes many reported Bond songs that never made it to the final cut. There are some reports that a few were actually considered as Bond songs, but for the rest, we can’t tell much. So, instead of claim that all of the songs in this compilation are actually rejected songs, I see them as Inspired by the movies.

Whenever possible, I have bought the original CDs or traded for the unofficial releases. You can have a clue of which ones were extracted from the actual CDs and which ones were downloaded as mp3 from several different sources from my Bond music list.

There is a more complete report in the document file included in the zip file.
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This new BBC Wales series is very entertaining, while it is strange to see a young Merlin who is younger than anyone else, including Arthur, Morgana and with Uther Pendragon still alive. The music is composed by Rob Lane who is well-known in UK with The Lost World, Longford and Jane Eyre, and in USA has scored HBO’s John Adams and Elizabeth I.

This share has some tracks with removed dialog and many that are not because the result was not very good, but it still very enjoyable. There is an enchantment at the end that has a singing quality that is quite charming, I wonder who the singer is…
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Another Doctor Who music request, Season 4 of the new series, Episode 11: Turn Left.
This is one of those ‘what if’ episodes, when Donna turns right and doesn’t meet again the Doctor and the whole future is changed.
Again, the music is composed by Murray Gold and I have been able to remove part of the dialog so this is better than the last share.
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