Just watched a scribbler get driven around the Melbourne circuit in a Veyron. All through the clip they had loud rock music. WHY DO THEY DO THAT! Fair enough on clips meant for the general market but when the clips are directed to keen motor fans it really ANNOYS me. I want to hear the car's engine not bloody ACDC or Rage with the Machine or what ever. Even Top Gear do this. WHY! There was a kiwi program featuring exotic cars a few years ago with Lambo's and Ferraris etc but all the road sequences had loud rock music. P####d me right off. I want to hear the bloody engine! Anyone else feel that way! Sorry rant over.
purple666,
Dec 19, 4:40am
Couldn't agree more, same goes for that Red Shift motoring program, and heaps of youtube clips.
rsr72,
Dec 19, 5:46am
Same when a Spitfire or any WWII aircraft is filmed flying here by NZ TV channels, the plonkers.
bwg11,
Dec 19, 5:53am
What a wonderful topic - everybody agrees - me too.
dr.doolittle,
Dec 19, 6:06am
Yep, we get old warbirds fly over home here, quiet low, & I have to be honest, I run outside like a school boy, Yelling to the wife & kids, "QUICK, COME LOOK AT THIS!". I get a huge buzz every time. love that noise. Full credit to the people who restore & fly/drive old junk.
socram,
Dec 19, 6:26am
It is the essence of performance cars.Noise, sight, speed and smell. Take any one away and it loses a lot of it.Take two away and you miss the point.Take three away and you may as well not bother.
gammelvind,
Dec 19, 6:38am
Just an aside, that restored Mosquito just flew over our place twice, gawd does it sound beautiful, almost brought a tear to the eye seeing and hearing it.
mm12345,
Dec 19, 6:38am
I watched that.For AUD$2.7 million, I could have a hell of a lot more fun than that.The reporter actually had no material, hence the video - and the car itself, is a great big bore - of technical interest only.
rsr72,
Dec 19, 6:45am
Yes, and TV ruined it's flight by playing music over it's flypast when it first flew. It's the most magnificent thing.
harry353,
Dec 19, 6:50am
Absolutely!
zephyrheaven,
Dec 19, 7:07am
+1
I get all goosebumpy
gypsyguy,
Dec 19, 7:11am
As for me.spine-shivery tinglingness hearing and seeing this sort of stuff!
pnp,
Dec 19, 7:14am
I still even rember as a kid, a rare occassion when a rally commentator (Tony someone I think)actually shut up & said "just listen to this!" All you heard was the scream of a BDA escort & gravel pounding the underside of the car body like bullets!I was glued to it!
tigra,
Dec 19, 8:48am
Just bet it was Steppenwolf
hawat,
Dec 19, 9:54am
I love smoke on the water. or Hush when I listen to music. But when I watch video clips on cars I want to hear a v12 Daytona or a v8 Dodge Challenger not bloody Jimmy Barnes.
Because 'sex' sells. Top Gear needs to appeal to the masses to coax TV channels to purchase it. End of story.
mike1345,
Dec 19, 7:36pm
Yep, that's why I don't have a stereo in my car.
tgray,
Dec 19, 7:49pm
1200BHP, 0-100 in 2.4 secs, no sound track required!
smac,
Dec 19, 9:02pm
Ya every year they bring the Harvard's here for art deco weekend. When the 5 fly over slowly in formation the first time every single person simply stops and stares. To think in the 40's people would have been looking up at hundreds at a time is mind blowing.
ksam,
Dec 19, 10:30pm
Rage Against The Machine.just sayin.
hotrodtodd1,
Dec 20, 12:13am
Sorry guys, but you need a history lesson on why the music is there.
Back 40 years ago, the greatest car movie of all time was released - . American Grafitti. It launched careers of previously unknowns like Harrison Ford, Susanne Sommers, Paul Le Mat and Richard Dreyfuss. Its made George Lucas famous enough to move on to Star Wars with Spielbergafter his movie.
Now it involved a whole lot of cruising around in cool cars to a rock & roll soundtrack.
Apart from being the greatest movie ever, it also had the biggest ratio of earnings to cost to make it, in the history of cinematography.
So ever since, TV car scribes try to copy the formula.hoping to cash in.
elect70,
Dec 20, 2:52am
Stupid TVlotthinkmusic goes with everything .,its a wonder they dont put it on while news is being readtojazz it up a bit. Ihate itinserious moviessome of the pom stuff isnt too bad.
dr.doolittle,
Dec 20, 3:21am
LOL, I thought you wrote "porn stuff". I'd better put my glasses back on.
freedomaira320,
Dec 20, 3:52am
While I agree that tv uses way to much music in its programming to help build "excitement", there is another factor that everyone seems to have overlooked. It is very, very hard to get a good recording of the actual noise a car makes. Just stick a mic inside a car and you'll hear all the bumps, bangs and road noise way ahead of any engine note. It's amazing the amount of noise we subconsciously filter out when we're actually in a car. Exterior shots are also hard to get well - you need a good directional mic and hope there is no other traffic/wind/extraneous sound to screw it up. And matching that sound convincingly to the picture is difficult. In movies, they spend thousands in sophisticated studios reproducing sounds to make it seem real. I would suggest a road test programme wouldn't have that sort of production budget (not to mention the fact that it is effectively falsifying the true sound when they're supposed to be impartial).
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