10-05-2024, 11:46 AM
I preferred the original BBC golf theme over the modern version, but they don’t really have any golf to play it on nowadays. (Open and Irish Open highlights is all that’s left I think?) but I digress.
RTE had previous had an awful rearrangement of the Sunday Game theme they used between 1996-97 but they reverted. You think they’d have learnt from that, but then they went down this road. The 2004 titles (which you can watch in the article linked to) didn’t help with their general cheesiness (Celtic warrior looking around, wacking something with his hurl) and only lasted a season, but RTE seemed determined not to bring the old theme back despite the predictable backlash and kept the new theme for three years (with different titles for the latter two), then changed to a more conventional title sequence in 2007 that had a rather forgettable tune. Finally in 2008 they brought the original theme back, in another rearrangement, but one much closer to the original (as I say slightly slower and with added chanting) than the disastrous 1996 version. Oddly enough it fit the 2007 visuals perfectly….
RTE had previous had an awful rearrangement of the Sunday Game theme they used between 1996-97 but they reverted. You think they’d have learnt from that, but then they went down this road. The 2004 titles (which you can watch in the article linked to) didn’t help with their general cheesiness (Celtic warrior looking around, wacking something with his hurl) and only lasted a season, but RTE seemed determined not to bring the old theme back despite the predictable backlash and kept the new theme for three years (with different titles for the latter two), then changed to a more conventional title sequence in 2007 that had a rather forgettable tune. Finally in 2008 they brought the original theme back, in another rearrangement, but one much closer to the original (as I say slightly slower and with added chanting) than the disastrous 1996 version. Oddly enough it fit the 2007 visuals perfectly….