Music on Top Gear

[pleds001]

I've been trying to figure out what a couple of songs are on Top Gear, but because its the ones shown on Dave, all the forums only talk about the BBC broadcast ones!

One is on the episode with the Tractor Challenge, and during the drag race, it plays as you first see Jeremy towing the aeroplane.

The other is on the Botswana Special when African Stig walks out of his shed.

Any help would be much appreciated because these songs are awesome!

[mybrainhurts]

Can you hum it...?

[SDxsi]

Let me fire the laptop up and i'll let you know in 5 mins.

[Dave^]

Shazam, there's an app for that...

Or just dial 2580...

[Shaw Tarse]

Dave^ said:

Shazam, there's an app for that...

True but PH tends to be more reliable

[Dave^]

You're kidding right?

I've never has a false/unknown reply...

Or am I a lucky one?

[dougc]

No idea but if it helps:

Tractor race at 1:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvGIcJqBNhs

African stig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6CSU5lxNvI

[SDxsi]

Unfortunately my music recognition software doesn't know either of them. sorry

[Shaw Tarse]

A couple of times I've tried Shazam, when people have asked & got a "not known"
PHers then will give an answer, as to who performed the track,will personaly know the composer, what car they drive & have pics to prove it

[Davidos]

For the Botswana episode apparently:

Mark Mancina - Revenge

Full list here for the episode: http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gear-episode-songs...

[FunkyNige]

dougc said:

Tractor race at 1:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvGIcJqBNhs

Sounds like something by Ennio Morricone to me (think Spaghetti Western), guess that's not really much help though.

[anonymous-user]

OT but how odd was it when they were doing the US road trip in muslce cars and James turned on the radio to hear the theme tune!

[Mutt]

pablo said:

OT but how odd was it when they were doing the US road trip in muslce cars and James turned on the radio to hear the theme tune!

Not that odd.

Edited by Mutt on Tuesday 8th June 17:14

[Uriel]

Does this help?

http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gear-episode-songs...

[Brian Fantana]

I bet it's M83...they use LOADS of his stuff.

[B0LLIKS]

hi, i have been down this road too, luckly PHs came up trumps. the thing is with 'dave' they use any old royalty free crap so as to avoid paying artists huge sums of money to use their music, so some of the music is by some totaly unknown artist/group that might take some finding. there are albums out with just this kind of music which is used in a lot of progs.

[timlongs]

Brian Fantana said:

I bet it's M83...they use LOADS of his stuff.

Yeah I've noticed that too. Also use a fair bit of Bloc Party.

I did hear Rage Against The Machine a few times as well!

[captainzep]

pleds001 said:

The other is on the Botswana Special when African Stig walks out of his shed.

Its actually not this, -but its close.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f25I4q14410&fea...

[djmck30]

B0LLIKS said:

hi, i have been down this road too, luckly PHs came up trumps. the thing is with 'dave' they use any old royalty free crap so as to avoid paying artists huge sums of money to use their music, so some of the music is by some totaly unknown artist/group that might take some finding. there are albums out with just this kind of music which is used in a lot of progs.

Is that right? Do they use different music on the 'Dave' repeats to avoid royalties? Can't say I ever noticed, will need to keep an eye out for that.

[Progressive]

Alot of the music used is UNKLE. Even if not one of their album tracks, they often have UNKLE produced tracks or associated acts. Richard Ashcroft, M83, DJ Shadow etc.