Anyone see that episode of Top Gear when the army destroyed that drug dealers EVO?

[Panter]

Can you tell me what the mournful piece of music was they played in the background?

 

[numbnuts]

I remember the show, but as for the music pass

 

[MajorMantra]

Barber's Adagio for Strings.

Matthew

 

[MajorMantra]

Clip here btw:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8dsA0uqgDs


It's the same piece that's used in the death scene in Platoon.

Matthew

 

[Panter]

That's the fella, thank you very much

 

[Mr Pig]

First time I heard it was a radio broadcast of a book called 'Bomber', about WWII bomber crews and air raids etc. Hard hitting stuff. It's been so overused though that it's become a cliché.

 

[MajorMantra]

First time I heard it was a radio broadcast of a book called 'Bomber', about WWII bomber crews and air raids etc. Hard hitting stuff. It's been so overused though that it's become a cliché.

As a stock someone-is-dying soundtrack, yes. But it is beautiful.

It also exists as a choral arrangement:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvT03pxhe58


Matthew

 

[Mr Pig]

As a stock someone-is-dying soundtrack, yes. But it is beautiful.

But have these people really no imaginations?

 

[Radius]

Choral arrangement is nice.