Tim: You know what we don’t have enough of, Tom? TV game show theme tunes.
Tom: Hey, let’s not forget the Casualty garage remix that got to number 1. Actually, yes, let’s forget it.
Tim: Yes, let’s. This instead would make a good one.
http://soundcloud.com/oriononline/orion-follow-the-lights-ft-1
Tim: Well, bad bits first: it goes on longer than it really should, the chorus doesn’t quite hit the heights it should and to be honest it pales into insignificance in comparison to some of his other work.
Tom: That’s quite harsh. I can’t disagree with anything you say, though: that chorus is far more downbeat that it really should be.
Tim: I don’t mean it to be harsh – his other work really has been very good indeed. However, I’m not sure why, but within thirty seconds of this starting I was put in mind of the Treasure Hunt music and from then on I couldn’t stop thinking of it as a theme tune. The bouncy strings underneath work both to build tension and to give a ‘you can do it’ boost, parts of it are quiet enough to work as a bed to talk over and as for the lyrics, well, “Follow The Lights” is a perfectly good framework on which to build a contest.
Tom: You’ve basically just demoted this to stock music. Again, quite harsh, but not entirely unjustified.
Tim: Yeah – this really wasn’t intended to come across so harshly, but it just fits. So I say let’s make it.
Tom: If you want something that sounds like Treasure Hunt, though, try Muse’s MK Ultra.
Tim: Oh. Oh wow, that really is quite impressive.