Link heaven with this article about the music for Children's TV programmes. The music of The Clangers was indeed homely and off-the-wall at the same time - we just didn't notice it at the time. Much of kids' TV these days is backed with unemotional noodling that I suspect comes straight off Cubase or any number of knocked-off applications from a PC to a CD in one easy lesson, stretched to fit the scenes to which it is applied by an automatic process akin to the harmonisers which allow the most tone-deaf of pretty boys and girls to become stars.
And now the breaking news of Barack Obama getting The Nobel Peace Prize. Against all my namby-pamby, wishy-washy leanings I would actually like to see some results before someone gets a prize. This seems a knee-jerk reaction to the euphoria of his election. Still it's better than Kissinger getting it. Funny old world
