Dancing About Architecture

To celebrate my (late) discovery earlier in the week of the Dr Who theme remix site I offer you a chance to participate in PooterGeek’s toughest end-of-the-week challenge yet: The Instrumental Transliteration Tournament. Inspired by the Whovian musicians’ model I give you three examples:

Dr Who

EEEEEeeeeeeaouuuuw
WHOO-eee-OOO [bumbly-bum, bumbly-bum, bumbly-bum]
WHOO-eee-OOO [bumbly-bum, bumbly-bum, bumbly-bum]
Nee-naw nee-naw
Nee-na Naw
Bumbly-bum, bumbly-bum, bumbly-bum, bumbly-bum

The Twilight Zone

[as transliterated by DJ John Peel]

Mingle-mangle
Mingle-mangle [bwwarrr]
Mingle-mangle
Mingle-mangle [bwwarrr]

The Archers

[as transliterated by comedian Billy Connolly]

Tumpty tumpty tumpty tum
Tumpty tumpty tum, tum
Tumpty tumpty tumpty tum
Tumpty tiddley tum

Beethoven’s Fifth

[as transliterated by everyone]

da da da DUM

[see also this discussion]

Sadly, I suspect that wraps it up for easily recognisable conversions. But, if you know better, now is your chance to bask in global admiration.

By the way, this sampled orchestral version [MP3 3.3MB] of the Dr Who theme is rather swish.

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8 Comments

  1. wardytron
    Posted 27Jan06 at 14:00 | Permalink

    Pearl & Dean theme, or “Asteroid” by the Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra as the more cultured among us know it:

    Ba-BA ba-BA ba-BA ba-BA ba-ba-ba
    Ba-BA ba-BA ba-BA ba-BAAAAAA ba!

  2. Jo
    Posted 27Jan06 at 14:21 | Permalink

    Has someone been drinking too much coffee?!

  3. Matt_c
    Posted 27Jan06 at 15:17 | Permalink

    Buffy The Vampire Slayer:

    Buuuuuuum bum bum bum buuuuum
    buuuuuuuuum bum bum buuuum buuuum
    (drum roll)
    bum bum bum da bum bum da dum dum
    dum dum dum da dum dum da dum dum

    wooooeeeeooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
     DUM

  4. dirigible
    Posted 27Jan06 at 15:43 | Permalink

    Transmission, Joy Division:

    dum, dumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdum, dum-dumm

  5. PooterGeek
    Posted 29Jan06 at 11:08 | Permalink

    Matt_c, I (and, I suspect, Leasey) would argue that Nerf Herder’s Buffy goes more along the lines of:

    Derrr derr-der-derrr
    neeeeeeEEOW-dgErDgErDr!
    DERRR DERR-DER-DERRR
    DERRR DERR-DER-DERRR
    neeeeeeEEOW-dgErDgErDr!
    DERRR DERR-DER-DERRR
    DERRR DERR-DER-DERRR…

  6. Kibi
    Posted 30Jan06 at 10:16 | Permalink

    Oh, this morning I heard another one:

    Bad actor, bad actor,
    bad actor, bad actor,
    bada dada dada dada da

    (The Proclaimers - 500 miles)

  7. Steve K
    Posted 30Jan06 at 12:59 | Permalink

    Ba ba BAA ba ba ba ba BAA
    Ba ba BAA, ba ba ba ba BA-baa
    Bababa BAA ba, bababa BAA ba
    Bababa babababa, ba ba ba ba

    Surely an easy one to guess.

  8. Matt_c
    Posted 30Jan06 at 14:03 | Permalink

    I was doing the schmaltzy version on Once More with Feeling…. no, you’re right. My onomatopoeiac creativity wasn’t feeling that strong.

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