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Thunderbirds Are Go: TV Theme for Grownup Kids

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I just closed my eyes and there they were again, the grey, green, orange, yellow and metallic spacerockets. The Thunderbirds were back. As if it was the sixties, every theme after that gave me a thrill: The wonderful theme of Aqua Marina sung by Gary Miller, those first big band notes from the Thunderbirds, You could almost see the Jet car from Joe 90 racing through the country. If you want to hear them all again, i think this is the best you can get.

I loved and still love most of these shows, so to get their themes on CD for under $10.00 seemed like a no-brainer. I must say though that are not by the original artists and listening to them gives me the feeling I'm listining to one of those K-Tel records from the 70's where they advertised all the latest pop hits on a record and when you got it, it was done by some lame band, not the original. While the bands here are pretty close to the original it just doesn't quite sound the same. Still it's a small investment so take a chance.

That's right, it's a fun record, British TV shows in general have good theme songs, case in point "Crossroads", a TV show I would probably never watch, but what a great theme. "High Wire" from the Dangerman/Secret Agent TV show (sounding a lot like David Bowie's "Lady Grinning Soul") sounds just great here, too.
One basic complaint: a lot of cool theme songs are conspicuous by their absence. If you're going to do puppet shows, where's the awesome "Supercar" theme? And you can't have "The Saint" and "The Avengers" without music from "The Prisoner". Oh well, maybe they were setting up a Volume II by holding out on those tracks. This is still a great and FUN record..