I know that if anybody reads this I'm going to be in big trouble. But
let's face it: everything Gerry Anderson produced is crap. Sometimes
it's fun crap. But mostly it's crap we liked because we were too
young to know any better.
This became especially obvious to me as I rewatched his live action
series UFO on DVD recently. And what struck me is that
Anderson's human actors were about as believable as the ones on
strings, that by trying to create something darker and more relevant
than his children's shows, he demonstrated his own limitations.
And yet the shows are fun, especially if you make no attempt to take
them seriously. They're good in the so bad they're...
sense. And part of what makes them so light and so much fun is Barry
Gray's music. (Ah, at last he gets to the point.) This album has
some of the themes Gray created for Anderson: from
Thunderbirds; from
Captain Scarlet; from
Stingray, complete with cheesy vocals; from
Joe 90,
sadly a show I missed. Not as good a collection as the
F.A.B. CD I found in London years ago. But as good a way as
any to bring back a few fond memories of stuff that remind us
that having a good memory isn't nearly as important as having a
convenient one.
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