The Looks Unfamiliar Sound Spectrum: Tim Worthington – The Old Nationwide Theme

The Sound Spectrum (When! Recordings, 1995) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

This time Tim’s joining guest host Paul Abbott for a chat about the mid-nineties ‘loungecore’ compilation series The Sound Gallery, and in particular the little-heard spinoff volume The Sound Spectrum. Along the way we’ll be debating the relative merits of a whining bloke over-emoting a rewrite of the Weetos jingle and a bloke in another room singing through a cardboard tube, failing to buy an album worth five thousand quid for twenty pence, learning how to throw shade with a rogue capital letter, pondering the proliferation of Johns and Alans in library music and definitely not watching anything whatsoever late at night on SAT1.

If you enjoy Looks Unfamiliar, why not buy us a coffee here?

The Sound Gallery (EMI, 1995) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

The Sound Gallery Volume Two (EMI, 1996) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Bistro Erotica Italia (Arista, 1997) - listen to Tim Worthington and Paul Abbott talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Buy A Book!

If you’ve enjoyed this, you’ll enjoy Tim’s book Top Of The Box Vol. 2, a complete guide to every album released by BBC Records And Tapes. Top Of The Box Vol. 2 is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. If you were planning to go to Bistro Erotica Italia, please remember that it’s invitation only. Though I’m sure Jarvis Cocker would be happy to bring one out for you.

Further Listening

You can also find Paul standing in as host for chats with Tim about California Fever, Galloping Galaxies!, Bad Ronald, In-Flight Entertainment, The Chronicles Of Narmo by Caitlin Moran, Pirate Radio Four, The Collings And Herrin Podcast and What’s That Noise? here, Pickwick Talking Books’ Doctor Who: State Of Decay, the BBC Pinocchio, Doctor Who: Variations On A Theme, The Paradise Of Death and The Ghosts Of N-Space, Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure, The Sally Lockhart Mysteries, Katarina, David Tennant and Catherine Tate’s Much Ado About Nothing, Meet The Thirteenth Doctor, that time a Dalek turned up on the BBC Schools programme W.A.L.R.U.S. and Doctor Who: The Interactive Electronic Board Game here and Karen Gillan’s horror short The Hoarding here, as well as a chat about The Magic Roundabout on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV here.

You can also find Tim chatting to Paul on The Big Beatles Sort Out about The Beatles cartoon here and George Martin’s By George! here, and on The Head Ballet talking about Ringing On The Engine Bell by Bernard Cribbins here and I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek by The Go-Go’s here.