What genre is the theme from Beadles About

[Goldentony]

Here it is, extended -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQmh_7L2sm4

So to my ears it's either ska or whatever you'd classify BA Robertson or Chas & Dave? But maybe someone here has a better guess

[shiftwork2]

Shit?

[imitationleather]

Shit?

Pretty rich coming from someone who likes whatever you're into!!!

[darby o chill]

Nu Musiq Hall.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Mister Bungle

[Goldentony]

you know what, the Mr Bungle shout is spot on

[Mr Banlon]

Knees-up ska klezmer performed by SLF

[Dirty Boy]

It's almost Ska, but the piano is pure Honky Tonk which makes it very avant-garde. It's fucking multi genre is what it is. Beadle apparently being into off-kilter proggy stuff (or so i've read) makes sense given his nutzoid theme music and his habit of wearing a beard over his own beard.

I remember my friends dad used to dance around the living room singing "watch out, Beadles a cunt" while miming playing a piano with one hand tucked into his sleeve (haha disabled). It seems less funny now, but at the time whatever hijinx followed was always going to be a letdown.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

He's not even the best drummer in the Beadles.

[JaDanketies]

Watch Out, Beadle's About
Oi! Oi!
Watch Out, Beadle's About
Oi! Oi!

before anyone starts slagging him off, if you slag him off you're a cunt. also the hand jokes are tired and ableist. RIP Beadle <3

[Dirty Boy]

What genre be this?

[Goldentony]

I remember my friends dad used to dance around the living room singing "watch out, Beadles a cunt" while miming playing a piano with one hand tucked into his sleeve (haha disabled). It seems less funny now, but at the time whatever hijinx followed was always going to be a letdown.

good god, we're all going to hell boys

[Goldentony]

What genre be this?

this sounds like Photographic by Depeche Mode

[Video Game Fan 2000]

What genre be this?

Big Black - Lungs played at the wrong speed

[Goldentony]

we're all in the same area, definitely a Wax Trax group

[Video Game Fan 2000]

no wait its tuxedomoon at the right speed

[non capisco]

HE SEEKS YOU HERE
SEEKS YOU THERE
BEADLE SEEKS YOU EVERYWHERE

Brrrr. And you thought the Soviets bombing Sheffield was the main thing British people were worried about in the 80s.

[Clatty McCutcheon]

Here it is, extended -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQmh_7L2sm4

So to my ears it's either ska or whatever you'd classify BA Robertson or Chas & Dave? But maybe someone here has a better guess

Chas & Dave described their style as 'rockney' - part rock and part Cockney.

I can't discern any Cockney features in the Beadle's About theme - sounds like a kind on non-Cockney rockney to me.

[Goldentony]

Mockney Cockney Rockney Non Cockney

[Goldentony]

maybe just NO COCKNEY

[Glebe]

Light Entertainment Bland Muzak.

[mothman]

Shit?

That's not an option on the drop-down in iTunes.

[jobotic]

LWTCore

[non capisco]

Sorry, I'm still thinking of that chilling, seldom broadcast middle eight.

BE AWARE
BEADLE'S THERE
HE COULD GET YOU ANYWHERE

Are we SURE he's dead? Someone saw the corpse? He's 100% in the ground and we can all stop worrying about him SEEKING us, right?

[Brundle-Fly]

The parping sax, the hammering piano, the London vocals, - it's textbook 1980s ersatz Madness used on advert jingles and the like. 

[thecuriousorange]

You mean like this? https://youtu.be/0XyXjVTNrTA

[non capisco]

The parping sax, the hammering piano, the London vocals, - it's textbook 1980s ersatz Madness used on advert jingles and the like. 

It was probably knocked out in the same session with the same band/vocalist as "'Ow do Do It All do it?"

[JesusAndYourBush]

It's like a non-Cockney version of Chas & Dave.

Style: Non-Cockney Rockney

[Glebe]

Actually the Beadle's About theme wasn't bad, it's the You've Been Framed! theme that's the worst piece of written-in-ten-seconds piece of ITV blandness in the history of TV!

[The Mollusk]

Proto-Post-Cockney