Red Dwarf theme tune covers

[Jawscvmcdia]

This is a topic to discuss the various Red Dwarf theme cover versions circulating around.

Neon Frontier – Red Dwarf Theme (Cover):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u-oX3JubsE

Red Dwarf Theme Guitar Solo

Red Dwarf Theme Tune (Metal Version)

Red Dwarf Theme on Laser Harp

Ian Hu & Mark Lambert version:

http://amzn.eu/9H5mi7L

Docker’s Guild version:

http://amzn.eu/dk1jduI

Katie Campbell version:

http://amzn.eu/8x2zqVz

Jlk version:

http://amzn.eu/dgPbi1G

Dominik Hauser version:

http://amzn.eu/3RPjjuU

The London Theatre Orchestra version:

http://amzn.eu/cFYYHsf

Retro Crowd version:

http://amzn.eu/3Qr9gBU

[Pete Part Three]

Ok, you start.

[Ridley]

Why did you combine three separate people’s opinions into one though?

[si]

You’ve missed Danny’s version from the Tongue Tied single.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

A shame most of them seem to be covers of the Hu and Lambert cover.

[Ben Saunders]

There’s a horrible shitty version of the theme they keep playing at the cast’s convention appearances with the most unconvincing guitar solo you’ve ever heard. Breaks my heart. I’d refuse to appear unless they sorted it out.

[bloodteller]

when will Jawscvmcdia actually DISCUSS any of the things in the topics he starts? he just does the OP and then fucks off

[Ben Saunders]

It’s the Hu and Lambert version I was talking about, hahaha. Shite.

[Seb Patrick]

There’s a very simple test: if you play or cover the Red Dwarf theme and it includes the Hu/Lambert extra lyrics, you should not be allowed to play or cover the Red Dwarf theme.

[Ben Saunders]

I quite like the “you and me and the galaxy” line, that’s not in that version is it? It’s better than the shite extra verses Howard showed us on the VI DVD.

[Pete Part Three]

>I quite like the “you and me and the galaxy” line, that’s not in that version is it?

It is and it’s shite. The extra (fake) lyrics don’t make any sense within the context of the song. The song is about someone dreaming of being on holiday in Fiji, not a jolly romp about traversing the galaxy.

Goodall’s extra lyrics may not have been great, but they continued the idea of the song, rather than completely contradicting the first part of it.

[Ben Saunders]

Well I didn’t care about any of that when I was 9 and downloaded the “extended theme” from Kazaa

[Seb Patrick]

It is and it’s shite. The extra (fake) lyrics don’t make any sense within the context of the song. The song is about someone dreaming of being on holiday in Fiji, not a jolly romp about traversing the galaxy.

Yes, this. To say nothing of the fact that Lister is three million years away from “the galaxy”.

Basically, whoever wrote those lyrics thought they were writing Hitchhiker’s Guide.

[Jawscvmcdia]

I also think that there are some similarities between the Red Dwarf theme and the Z-Cars theme from the 1960s. What do you think?

[Ian Symes]

Very much so. My first exposure to the Z Cars theme tune was watching an Everton game on TV (their players run out to the song, for some reason), and as a nipper I could have sworn it was the latter part of the Gunmen end theme.

[Pete Part Three]

Oh, ditto.

[Ben Saunders]

It’s just a major arpeggio so it’s going to sound like anything else that uses a major arpeggio

[Toxteth O-Grady]

The Hu/Lambert version, that’s the one they played on University Challenge recently. Oh how I hate it!

If the BBC can’t even manage to source their own original version of the theme, and use this piece of garbage instead, it’s not surprising that conventions don’t get it right either.

It’s seemingly the most commonly stocked version of the tune, comprising about 99% of the world’s music titled ‘Red Dwarf theme’.

They’ll be using it on the actual show next.

[Hamish]

> They’ll be using it on the actual show next.

Timewave Remastered perhaps?

[Taiwan Tony]

Because of Eddie Izzard, I can only hear Kumbaya when I think of the music to Z Cars. And vice versa.

[International Debris]

Just found the Hu/Lambert version on YouTube. So THIS is the shit I downloaded when I first got Napster 17 years ago.

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