frexpt Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Don't know whether anyone will feel the same as me about the new tv advert for Sky Sports, called "The Word", featuring Eric Cantona?The ad wends its tangled way for 30 seconds or so, as most things involving M Cantona do, but in the background a certain piece of music is building to a crescendo.It was with absolute horror that I realised that it was the same piece that Brittany Ferries used a while back to wake you..........usually just after you have finally managed to drop off to sleep, on the overnight ferries from Portsmouth!A beautiful waltz by Shostakovic, spoiled forever, by the thought of yet another marathon drive through France, feeling half-dead!!!!For those who have not seen the ad, here is a link.........http://www.tvadmusic.co.uk/2010/08/sky-sports-the-word-by-eric-cantona/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cendrillon Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 I miss the Brittany Ferries wake-up music (Gabriel Fauré's Pavane) even if it was always a little too early in the morning.[:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 frexpt - I love that music, just because it was BFs alarm music - another great holiday in store [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frexpt Posted August 12, 2010 Author Share Posted August 12, 2010 [quote user="Russethouse"]frexpt - I love that music, just because it was BFs alarm music - another great holiday in store [:)][/quote] Ah....the ability to turn anything into a positive..a rare gift[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony F Dordogne Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Music to make you cry ............Last year I found the original films online of British and Australian POWs being rescued from the Pacific Ocean, September/October 1944, 3 days after the ships they were on had been torpedoed by American submarines, the rescuers being the submariners who had torpedoed them.I've met some of the survivors and the submariners, all of whom were so effected by this that it has informed many of their lives subsequently.Link to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tVPux2y3f0&feature=relatedThe reason it makes me cry ........One of the men being rescued is my father ..............And every time I hear Carole King sing it now, it really makes me well up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Not surprised it makes you cry, Tony, the music combined with your father's rescue. That film is so moving.You've got a Friend is one of my favourite songs too, though I prefer James Taylor's version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony F Dordogne Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 The second song on the clip is 'Lean on Me', now that one can be a real weepie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frexpt Posted August 12, 2010 Author Share Posted August 12, 2010 [quote user="Tony F Dordogne"]The reason it makes me cry ........One of the men being rescued is my father ..............[/quote]Well, I guess that puts the rather flippant title of my post into perspective!My own father, a couple of years younger than Tony F's was a young Merchant Navy engineer on the Atlantic convoys during WW2. He had stories of allied ships in front and behind his being sunk by U-boats. Also recounted picking up survivors (and no doubt bodies), not only from the allied ships, but also crew members from the U-boats that the Royal Navy managed to sink. Bound to have a profound affect....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 The theme to Schindlers list always does it for me, and Bruch's violin concerto....And having lost my brother and brother in law, 'He aint heavy he's my brother' is another one......Oddly they are all on my ipod which must show a really masochistic streak....[Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessie Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 RH - snap -'He ain't heavy...' - played before my younger brother's funeral - (he was 40) - that gets to me every time I hear it...'Danny Boy' - 'Blow the Wind Southerly' - my mother's funeral.Elgar's 'Nimrod' - no reason just does...'The Lark Ascending'....Last Sunday's Telegraph colour supplement - article about memories truggered by summer hit songs - what about 'Summer in the City' - 'Summertime Blues'....oh the heady days of summer and youth...!!! (Sorry - post-swerve - but a bit of counter-balance !!)Chessie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Concrete and Clay - the summer that was out I was having so much funDon't Stop me Now by Queen - my sisters wedding!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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