'THE SWEENEY' Library Music Cues: "Collect the Set!"

[ringstone round]

Hi Retronic , just found this great site while searching for incidental music from the sweeney and these comps look amazing , any chance of getting a working link for them ?

[Retronic]

They should be at retroteque.wordpress or similar if you google that + The Sweeney.  If not all there give me a shout. 
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[kpmhill]

All great stuff. Which makes me curious- considering that there were 53 episodes, that’s a lot of music. I’m wondering how much of this weekend set represents a typical Sweeney episode, and to what extent does it represent your personal taste, drawing selectively from a quite large body of music?

[Retronic]

I doubt it captures 'The Sweeney'.  I generally select stuff a bit randomly, but with variety in tempo/mood and always leave some for a Pt II.  'Acquital' & 'Holy Mackerel'  always reminds me of the show. and there's definitely be some of my favourites in there. 

01 – Jingle 1 – Benoit Kaufman
02 – The Action Scene – Alan Hawkshaw/Keith Mansfield
03 – Movement One – Herbie Flowers/Barry Morgan
04 – Tension In The City – Miki Antony/Tom Parker
05 – Acquital – David Lindup
06 – Watchful Eye – James Clark
07 – Travelling To Meet – Gordon Grant
08 – Hogan’s Thing – Simon Haseley
09 – Steam Heat – Barbara Moore
10 – Undergroove – Alan Hawkshaw
11 – Name Of The Game- Brian Bennett/Alan Hawkshaw
12 – Money Runner – Alan Tew
13 – Thug – Brian Bennett
14 – Productivity – Les Hurdle/Frank Ricotti
15 – Contact - Peter Reno
16 – Heavy Lead – Dave Richmond
17 – Gear Shift – Dave Richmond
18 – The Journey – Duncan Lamont
19 – Drama Special Pt. 1 – Ralph Marco
20 – Smooth and Cool – Nick Ingman
21 – Underlying Expectancy – John Cameron
22 – Encounter – Ted Sommer
23 – Holy Mackerel! – Brian Bennett
24 – Little Big John – Simon Haseley

[kpmhill]

I doubt it captures 'The Sweeney'.  I generally select stuff a bit randomly, but with variety in tempo/mood and always leave some for a Pt II.  'Acquital' & 'Holy Mackerel'  always reminds me of the show. and there's definitely be some of my favourites in there. 

Interesting- thanks. There's so much cool music there- I feel like I should try finding the show to see how it was used.

[Retronic]

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[kpmhill]

Thanks. And- no international copyright problems from the US…

I realize now that "Life on Mars" needed library music.

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

[clintrubber]

I realize now that "Life on Mars" needed library music.

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

Thanks for the mentioning of "Life on Mars", hadn't heard of that one before. 

[clintrubber]

I'm half way through this endeavour, with the music from the first two series already posted up:

What an incredible great nice great piece of work, thanks for making this available!

I just was granted access here and after having found various nice stuff here already (Roubaix, Bruno Nicolai, ...),
today I thought, let's hit the search engine with 'Sweeney'...
OMG, so I found all this, pretty overwhelming. 

I've collected several so far, also thought to have seen the rest on old mediafire-links,
but let me first listen to all the goodies I was able to find so far (CD 1-3, 6-8), those will keep me already busy for a while. 

Thanks again Retronic!

[Retronic]

As far as I know they are all still available on the retroteque Wordpress blog- again search Sweeney.  Pretty much every cue other than the original Harry South music and a handful of unknowns. 

[kpmhill]

Thanks for the mentioning of "Life on Mars", hadn't heard of that one before. 

It's a nice time capsule of 70's rock/pop. I wonder how much "The Sweeney" inspired the "Life on Mars" depiction of 70's cops.