Soundtrack to Grand Prix Racing (F1 Songbook 2)

[ADx_Wales]

Reading the many wierd and wonderful suggestions of songs in the F1 Songbook posts, I noticed a few suggestions of actual songs that could be used in some kind of F1 Music compilation, I decided to look (its listen you eejit) through my own collection of .mp3s and .m4as that I have bought (and some swindled), and put forward a few suggestions, I should warn you that most of the tunes I own are not to everyones tastes, but stick with me on this one, as i try and describe the first suggestion, and try to translate it into something F1 worthy.

The First track I'm putting to your ears is:

Saturate
Chemical Brothers
Track # 4 from the album We Are the Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agb-oFZjuGM

Translation:
The tune is instrumental, much like the majority of the Manchester based duo's work since 1994, it starts off with a synthetic bassline pounding out several chords, then bringing in a kick bass drum, followed by a mono-synth tone.

This is the first 40 seconds of this song and it suggests an F1 venue in the early morning , with the teams arriving in their trucks, followed by the drivers, and then some additional people , possibly fans and the media.

43 seconds in and the instruments change to a different synth bass playing the same melody as the mono synth tone, into a pacey intricate instrumental repetition, almost suggesting the arrived teams are setting their cars up with techincal intricacy much like the instrumental repetition, this repeats until 1.12 where the synths change their tone and build up to 1.19 where the drums get busier, and the melody gets kind of livelier, as if to suggest the cars are now going around the track at speed, the Practice session has begun!

1.33 and the tune goes back to the singular synth base, the cars come back into the pits and the practice session is over
the intricate drums return at 1.40, even more changes to the car setup, the build up again, possibly more visualising of TV coverage, more VIPs appearing, and at 2.09 the qualifying session gets under way!

2.23 and another synth joins in, possibly suggesting that the qualifying session is over and the pole sitter is paraded in front of the press and a job well done, the teams go back to their motorhomes or hotels, the fans camp outside, its going to be a busy day tomorrow.

2.37, Sunday, Race Day. The crowd is large, the press attention is massive, the drivers are into their methods of getting into their overalls, trying not to think of anything other than getting their cars off the start line and do their best to get to the finish, 3.06 the kickdrum gets heavier, the heartbeat of the racing driver, in his car, finishing his warm up lap, getting onto the pole position, waiting for the others to join him 3.20 the lights start to flick on, (one light, two light three light etc. a-la murray) and at 3.33 the lights go out, its GO GO GO!!!!

as for the last minute or so, it retunrs to the heavily hit drums and finishing off the tune, to me this visualises the first two corners of a race seen from different angles, the drivers eye view, the tv coverage view, the view from the pitlane, and the view from the crowd, but thats only what I see in my minds eye whenever I hear this track, you may see things differently, you may even hate this tune and wish you hadn't listened, or you may even want to suggest your own sound-imagination.

Gentlement start your itunes.

[shinji]

Track 1, Side 1.

[DemocalypseNow]

Track 1, Side 1.

Over-rated.

For you I suggest Hype Boys by Sway. (Just you, not F1)

[DemocalypseNow]

http://f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=912&p=26729#p26729

[shinji]

Track 1, Side 1.

Over-rated.

For you I suggest Hype Boys by Sway. (Just you, not F1)

I disagree. Heartily.

[ADx_Wales]

The Chain, no matter how good, is a bit too obvious tho, and is probably not used as the theme music for most F1 TV shows outside of the BBC broadcasted channels around the world. I know that network ten used to use the same theme for the F1 shows as the V8 Supercar intro (which itself was a belter), however I think ESPN would still use their "speedworld" music, or is the SPEED channel a split-off from ESPN, much like Motors used to be on Eurosport.

If there was a BBC compilation of F1 music, the chain would DEFINATELY be the first track, followed by the Ivory Tower, and then possibly this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Jtdx93 ... re=related it was used as the driver's view of the circuits they were going to race on, for the first 8 rounds of the season, I dont know of the ones they used afterwards...

Next post: more links to tunes that sound "F1" worthy.

[thehemogoblin]

Speed is owned by Fox. For those of you not in America: Rupert Murdoch *shudder*

[DemocalypseNow]

The Crystal Method - Now Is The Time (New MIllenium Remix)
http://c.wrzuta.pl/wa5090/9bad6f040002437a49611351/0/the%20crystal%20method%20-%20now%20is%20the%20time%20%28millenium%20mix%29.mp3

No, this isn't spam.

[ADx_Wales]

The Crystal Method - Now Is The Time

Would this be from your F1 Epic known as "The boy who raced too much (working title)"

Having a look through your playlist "Hold your colour", by pendulum from the album of the same title, is a good choice, starts off ambiently, and then BOOM, the sound of speed lives within this tune good choice sir.

There are also a few that ive put on my iTunes "F1" playlist, that are taken from other soundtracks, Snakeblood by Leftfield from a novel-to-film "The Beach", is reminiscent of the races that take place in the regions that the film itself was also set, the sounds tend to suggest the far-east, unpredictable weather changes, and I picture the races in Shanghai, Sepang and Singapore using this piece of music for a montage, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18S-NEZjEj0

Another sports movie "Goal!" contains a soundtrack piece called "Blackout" by UNKLE, it appears when the main charachter gets his first training session with one of the "Big" teams, where he struggles, to be quite honest, I reckon UNKLE are the modern day soundtrack kings, they were given the oppertunity to recreate the theme tune from the X-Files in the recent movie "I Want To Believe", without overdoing it. Here is Blackout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZy_USDsho It could be one to get away with as an intro montage to an F1 movie, much akin to the "days of thunder" intro where the big NASCAR race is shown in the beginning before the plot begins. There are about ten tunes by UNKLE in my F1 playlist, I will link them without forcefeeding you all (that is if THIS isnt forcefeeding as it is )

[DemocalypseNow]

The Crystal Method - Now Is The Time

Would this be from your F1 Epic known as "The boy who raced too much (working title)"

Having a look through your playlist "Hold your colour", by pendulum from the album of the same title, is a good choice, starts off ambiently, and then BOOM, the sound of speed lives within this tune good choice sir.

There are also a few that ive put on my iTunes "F1" playlist, that are taken from other soundtracks, Snakeblood by Leftfield from a novel-to-film "The Beach", is reminiscent of the races that take place in the regions that the film itself was also set, the sounds tend to suggest the far-east, unpredictable weather changes, and I picture the races in Shanghai, Sepang and Singapore using this piece of music for a montage, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18S-NEZjEj0

Another sports movie "Goal!" contains a soundtrack piece called "Blackout" by UNKLE, it appears when the main charachter gets his first training session with one of the "Big" teams, where he struggles, to be quite honest, I reckon UNKLE are the modern day soundtrack kings, they were given the oppertunity to recreate the theme tune from the X-Files in the recent movie "I Want To Believe", without overdoing it. Here is Blackout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZy_USDsho It could be one to get away with as an intro montage to an F1 movie, much akin to the "days of thunder" intro where the big NASCAR race is shown in the beginning before the plot begins. There are about ten tunes by UNKLE in my F1 playlist, I will link them without forcefeeding you all (that is if THIS isnt forcefeeding as it is )

UNKLE I don't know so much...only two songs I have of them is a remix of Queens Of The Stone Age's No One Knows and a collaboration with Josh Homme with a song called Restless.

And that is the reason I chose Hold Your Colour for it...the slow ambient start followed by the 'boom' is refelecting his inital career path in the movie, surging up to F1 quick as a flash, Raikkonen style.

[ADx_Wales]

In that case i'd better link you the UNKLE stuff altogether then , Josh Homme also worked on a vocal version of "Chemistry" which was the first full track on "War Stories" the same album as "Restless", which also has Josh's vocals.

Chemistry (this is the instrumental)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HnQ8veZKY
Chemical (the vocal version of Chemistry) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8JaBxZo9bw
Restless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mng6E38Fa3E

Chemistry sounds like it should be a channel's own programme introduction to F1, if the scenario arose that "the chain" couldnt be used ("gawd forbid" i hear you cry) but this song is very F1 to me.

Restless has that "tense race" feel about it, where the race isnt boring but its going slow, and everyone taking part, or watching is on the edge of their seat, waiting for the inevitable.

Morning Rage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdZMC7dXGZA by its title suggests a practice session where something bad has happened beforehand.

Other tunes by UNKLE that could be F1 worthy:

Nocturnal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wgzNt-eBRI

Eye for an Eye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjpjHvs5sA8

Trouble in Paridise (Variation on a Theme) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B_r5rVU5rw
Its a rearrangement of Beethoven's 9th if anyone notices, call it ripoff if you must, but most ripoffs arent as majestic.

Reign (Feat. Ian Brown) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lEi0KolscM
The only off-putting moments are when the pre-drumbreak fill kicks in, its similar to the "im a celebrity get me out of here" drum.

Keys to the Kingdom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYL4VONKmm8

Lawless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG6mmDaMn50

Cut Me Loose had no URL to link to, neither did 24 frames, but if you want to look the albums that contain these songs and the ones above are on the albums "Never, NEVER, Land" "War Stories" and "End Titles.....Stories for a Film"