Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Mindblowing thing I've just noticed about the Opening Theme… Search for: This topic has 109 replies, 46 voices, and was last updated 4 years, 1 month ago by (deleted). Scroll to bottom Viewing 10 posts - 101 through 110 (of 110 total) 1 2 Author Posts November 24, 2016 at 6:52 am #218620 Pete Part ThreeParticipant Strange. I always heard it as “Velocity” too. See here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTEpiFcn0wI Google reckons it’s “Where I’ll Succeed….” , mind. They’re both shit, obvs. November 24, 2016 at 9:57 pm #218640 KatydidParticipant That opening synth sounds fucking terrible, especially since I’ve just heard the wonderful high-quality version of the real thing on the OST. November 24, 2016 at 10:57 pm #218641 pi r squaredParticipant > I was pleased to see in the Howard Goodall DVD feature that he wasn’t responsible for those shit lyrics, and even had a second verse of his own. Whilst I have no doubts about the genius of Howard Goodall, I would argue that the “shit” lyrics of Ian Hu’s alternative version are still better than some of the additional verses that Goodall wrote, according to the same DVD feature. Can you honestly say that the Hu lyrics are worse than: I’d like to have Red blotches on my face Make a mess Of my nose I’d love to peel In every awkward place Fun, Fun, Fun in the Sun, Sun, Sun ‘cos, you know… they’re kind of dreadful lyrics that barely even scan properly, November 25, 2016 at 1:15 pm #218644 Seb PatrickKeymaster Well, “where I’ll succeed” rhymes with “time warp speed” and “velocity” doesn’t. Also, “where I’ll succeed at time warp speed” makes sense as a sentence, whereas “velocity at time warp speed” doesn’t. Given how completely and utterly shit and point-missing the added lyrics are, though: “velocity” is probably, therefore, correct. November 25, 2016 at 1:31 pm #218645 DaveParticipant Well, “where I’ll succeed” rhymes with “time warp speed” and “velocity” doesn’t. “I’m all alone” doesn’t rhyme with “more or less” either. Nor does “drinking fresh” rhyme with “mango juice”. November 25, 2016 at 1:45 pm #218646 Toxteth O-GradyParticipant I just meant I was pleased that Howard Goodall never wrote *those* synth-version lyrics. I probably should have put a full stop before mentioning his second verse. Yes, his second verse lyrics are terrible too, but it seems apparent to me that he wasn’t taking them seriously, and likely knew they would never be recorded. RD wasn’t his first theme tune, so he probably knew just one verse would be plenty for the end credits of a sitcom. The additional verse may just have place-holder lyrics that he never bothered doing a second draft of. Then again, if you look at the normal 1st verse lyrics written down, they’re not exactly Wordsworth either. I think the singer’s performance brings a lot of credibility to them. Maybe if Jenna Russell sang Goodall’s 2nd verse it would have have been half-decent. Who knows? All I know is I hate the Hu & Lambert version, and the additional lyrics are only part of that hatred. That ending with the repeated chord, alternating between channels, is just atrocious. November 25, 2016 at 3:27 pm #218648 (deleted)Member I’ll stick up for the unused words – the Goodall lyrics are deliberately naive, childlike and idiosyncratic, as they are based around Lister’s speech to Frankenstein which is also as such. Combining them with music that is a turbo-powered, sophisticated, well-produced classic pop parody is a deliberate clash designed to contrast the dreams versus reality of Lister’s Fiji plan. The watertight slickness of the finished song represents how Lister’s plan sounds in his own head. The unused verses present more of the same. If the lyrics – used or unused – were self-consciously witty/clever it wouldn’t work as a piece. November 26, 2016 at 5:50 am #218658 Pete Part ThreeParticipant >Well, “where I’ll succeed” rhymes with “time warp speed” and “velocity” doesn’t. “Velocity” would be drawn out…so “Ve-loci-teeee at time-warp speeeed”, but as Dave says the lack of a rhyme isn’t a deal-breaker. That said, I’ve flip-flopped. I’m hearing “Where I’ll succeed” now. I’m of the opinion that the singer has a minor problem pronouncing v and w as “ultraviolet rays” sounds like “ultrawiolet rays” to me too. November 26, 2016 at 5:58 am #218659 GlenTokyoParticipant Where I’ll exceed /beat/ time warp speed would be better I think. This a comment aimed at the past haha December 23, 2016 at 7:17 pm #218923 (deleted)Member http://blog.timespace.com/2016/12/artists-and-composers-reveal-their-top-5-plug-ins-of-2016/ In his own words… Author Posts Viewing 10 posts - 101 through 110 (of 110 total) 1 2 Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In