Introducing: The World Cup Of... TV Theme Tunes
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What is the World Cup of TV theme tunes and how was this episode set up?
Hello everybody, welcome along to the Rest Is Entertainment World Cup of Special. I am joined by Bella Hull. Hello Bella. Hello. Very nice to see you. And Ivo Graham. Hello Ivo. Hello Richard, thanks for having us. Just absolute full disclosure, we are recording this just before the England World Cup semi-final, which is why Ivo is wearing what he's wearing. That may age very badly. Wear it all year round. Who knows. Stopped clock. Listen, we all age badly.
Who are the guests Bella Hull and Ivo Graham and why are they on the show?
Okay.
Now, our World Cup this week is the World Cup of TV theme tunes. Okay, what we've done, we've sent a whole long list of TV theme tunes to our friends at Focal Data. They put all of those to the British public, and we have a list of the most popular ones in the world. We will draw various of these themes into four quarterfinals. We'll chat about them a bit. At the end, we will discover which... TV theme the British public thinks is the best. I warn you, as I always warn you, the public are pretty much always wrong.
Okay.
So we can talk about our own favourites as well.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Okay. Shall we take a look at our first quarterfinal? We must. Okay. It is this...
The Addams Family. Against... Against Peaky Blinders. Ivo. So two very, very different eras. Two very different songs.
But two in their different ways, quite sort of gothic. Yeah, quite scary, right? They're scary songs.
Mischievous.
How were the TV theme tune choices decided and polled by the British public?
Yes. They're more than just mischievous. They really are. They're both... The Peaky Blinders were full of mischief.
Yeah, they were mischievous. Is it mischievous or mischievous?
Mischievous, I think.
Mischievous.
I think you know that, but you also know how much more fun it is to say mischievous.
Mischievous.
You've made the right decision at every point. But they were really naughty.
Yeah, they were naughty boys, for God's sake.
Yeah, they really were.
They were deviants.
They really were deviants, to be fair. I'd have called that show The Naughty Deviants.
I'd have called it. I'd like to think that Nick Cave would not have granted permission for his iconic song Red Hand to be used in the show, The Naughty Deviants.
The Naughty Deviants of Birmingham.
So the Peaky Blinders theme tune, as you say, it's Red White Hand by Nick Cave. I think it's the only one of our quarter finalists that was like a song that originally existed. It's been covered by about a million different people. It's been covered by two of his exes. What? Yeah.
What do you think about that? Wow. God, he must have been amazing in bed.
Can you imagine?
Which themes appear in Quarterfinal 1 and why were they paired together?
Or I haven't heard the cover versions. Perhaps they're terrible.
Or terrible. I mean, I just don't know who I would have to go out with for me to want to cover one of their songs after the breakup.
I mean, a musician.
A musician, yes, would have to be a musician to start with. But also, I just... To honour someone after they've presumably broken your heart.
Yeah.
Well, maybe he really leaves footprints in people's hearts.
Or perhaps they split up with him. They were like, I gotta throw this guy a bone.
Either way, it's bad. I'll do a BBC Live Lounge style rendition.
Yeah, and PJ Harvey's thinking, do you know what, Nick? Yeah. I do feel bad, but that song you did, what's that song you did? Your... Always playing. Oh, my God. Yeah. Why don't I just knock off a version of that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or it's quite patronising. It's like redoing it. Have you thought about doing it like this?
Amy Winehouse went out with a member of the Zootons and said, you know what? I'll make you an insane amount of money singing Valerie as long as you never contact me again.
Let me deal with this. But it has also been covered by Jarvis Cocker and Snoop Dogg.
Wow.
Red right hand.
I think it feels very in line with the show. Do you think?
Yeah, I'm afraid so. I've not actually watched very much Peaky Blinders at all. It completely fits what I imagine Peaky Blinders is. Yes, it is exactly like that. But I'm coming at this from a very biased position because I think more than any other song we're going to be discussing, I'm obsessed with Red, White Hand. I hosted a Nick Cave-themed party last year where I hired, at not insignificant an expense, a tubular bell for the party so we could do karaoke to Red, White Hand and clang the bell.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the World Cup of TV theme tunes and how was this episode set up?
0:09–0:35
2
Who are the guests Bella Hull and Ivo Graham and why are they on the show?
0:35–2:08
3
How were the TV theme tune choices decided and polled by the British public?
2:08–3:08
4
Which themes appear in Quarterfinal 1 and why were they paired together?
3:08–7:04
5
What makes the Peaky Blinders theme 'Red Right Hand' distinctive as a TV theme?
7:04–9:59