kesselschlacht:

Has anyone else recognized the WWII in HD soundtrack being used in the NBC Olympic “nostalgic” spots?

#looking at you lux

I feel the need to list everything I’ve ever watched that used the same music from WWII in HD and Vietnam in HD here. Off the top of my head we have:

• Countless episode of Top Gear UK (they use the best music, lbr)
• NBC Olympic coverage
• TNT NBA coverage
• Military Channel shows
• NatGeo
• Countless WWII shows History throws together
• American Pickers
• Storage Wars
• ESPN
• ESPN U
• My father’s own football tapes for his HS team
• CNN
• ABC
• HBO trailer ads

When a show uses that music all I see is Americans storming the beaches of Normandy or Marines flooding Iwo/the last heli leaving Saigon and I’m going to keep it that way.

August 01, 2012, 10:16pm / 12

Heartfelt goodbyes between family members as husbands, sons and brothers leave for Europe, 1917.

August 01, 2012, 4:54pm / 47

American recruits being trained in what to expect in Europe and of trench warfare.

August 01, 2012, 3:48pm / 83

August 01, 2012, 2:59pm / 22

DW Griffith in civilian clothing on the Western Front (where the trench is being repaired after an enemy shell exploded nearby) during the filming the propaganda film Hearts of the World.

August 01, 2012, 1:53pm / 10