tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499949614093219266.post6691910362155113362..comments2024-03-18T23:41:33.320+00:00Comments on Left and to the Back: Carpetbaggers - Sorry/ Beautiful Gas23 Daveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341570374606412042noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499949614093219266.post-32572056670937556572020-01-29T16:08:27.937+00:002020-01-29T16:08:27.937+00:00Thank you so much for posting it! Love both sides ...Thank you so much for posting it! Love both sides - instrumental is very dreamy (and I simply love those early 1980s not overproduced electronics), and the song is very nice. If Russell sang in this register more often, I'm sure I'd have liked Sparks more.Vlad The Chart Collectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02787337456748193986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499949614093219266.post-43552600531646452752019-05-22T23:24:49.133+01:002019-05-22T23:24:49.133+01:00I remember seeing the ad which featured the 'B...I remember seeing the ad which featured the 'Beautiful Gas' theme on a VHS tape on which some relatives of mine recorded with some British comedy shows from the 1980s (Three of a Kind, The Goodies, and Ronnie Barker in "Porridge" if you must know). I was always fascinated by the electronic score and also the almost clinical depiction of the kitchen and cooking in the ad, and have always wondered who the composer was. Googling it, although Roger Greenaway did turn up as the composer for some British Gas ads, the musical style was much more conventional, so I assumed it was someone completely different who'd done the electronic score.<br /><br />Long story short, I finally ripped the ad from the VHS tape last night, and put it up on Youtube, and also a reference to it in a forum I frequent. Another forum member with better Googling skills found your blog page shortly after.<br /><br />Finally, here is the music in its original context, with the one minute advertisement for British Gas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7zjGyNWQg .Ricardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05841625270931906684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499949614093219266.post-397086831433489652019-05-22T00:13:46.778+01:002019-05-22T00:13:46.778+01:00Thank you so much for this post! I was on the hunt...Thank you so much for this post! I was on the hunt for the composer of the music to this ad and FINALLY ended up here. You not only wrote about it, you even posted the music itself. So cool. Thanks again!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12171167255491680247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499949614093219266.post-60008495721383458922016-02-20T11:24:19.499+00:002016-02-20T11:24:19.499+00:00Grune Weg more or less translates as "Green W...Grune Weg more or less translates as "Green Way", which is a cycle trail running close to the East / West german border....or maybe it's being used here as a pseudonym for Roger Greenaway!Arthur Nibblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11547006132533866220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499949614093219266.post-85443818813976715992016-02-17T22:18:37.776+00:002016-02-17T22:18:37.776+00:00I don't get it! My limited German is failing m...I don't get it! My limited German is failing me, I'm afraid. 23 Daveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06341570374606412042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499949614093219266.post-37712494670446705252016-02-17T22:09:33.575+00:002016-02-17T22:09:33.575+00:00"Gavin de Grunweg"? Ho, ho. (Translate &..."Gavin de Grunweg"? Ho, ho. (Translate "Grunweg" out of German and you get...)Klepsiehttp://www.donutsh.comnoreply@blogger.com