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Do you guys remember Murder Call? Australian cop procedural with a noir kick that ran on Channel 9 from 1997-2000? No? *proverbial crickets*
Welp, I do. Based on the Tessa Vance novels by Jennifer "Emily Rodda" Rowe, it was the sister program of sorts to Water Rats. Rats was, at the time, an exceptionally popular cop show that was pretty much responsible for shaking up the Aussie TV industry's perceptions of what an Aussie procedural could be, as it was as slick as American shows (well, kind of) - but with a home-grown edge. Murder Call wasn't a direct spin-off; instead it was a strange mish-mash of genres that, at it's best was excellent, and at it's worst? Kind of bad, actually. But Lucy Bell and Peter Mochrie as Tessa and Steve - the city girl and the country boy - have such good chemistry that it's worth staying for the whole, odd, bizarre ride.
I loved both Water Rats and Murder Call, with Murder Call easily being the one I had the softest spot for as I grew up. But, like anything in the Aussie TV industry, the show was either too ambitious or not ambitious enough - take your pick - and was cancelled in 2000 only to disappear without a trace. No DVDs, nothing.
Luckily, it's hugely popular in Europe and has been rerun on 13th Street, Universal's pay-TV crime network. I just managed to get my hands on the whole series and yep, detectives Tessa Vance and Steve Hayden are still Baby's First Partnerz OTP. Because, partnerz.
You guys know that means fanmix and bad fic, right? Right.
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NOTES: This isn't a particularly literal fanmix, but hopefully it captures the mood of the show. Enjoy!
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WAKE AND BE FINE | Songs for Tessa and Steve
And when they're gone
It's me and you
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{1.} OKKERVIL RIVER | Wake and Be Fine
Everybody's crashing
The world is calling around
{2.} METRIC | Collect Call
I know it's a lie, I want it to be true
The rest of the ride is riding on you
{3.} CHIHIRO ONITSUKA | Beautiful Fighter
We’re just fighters
We’re just strange flowers
{4.} RADIOHEAD | All I Need
I'm a moth
Who just wants to share your light
{5.} MELISSA TALLON | 21
You try to reach me
Afraid now of losing again
{6.} THE KINKS | Living On A Thin Line
Now I see change,
But inside we're the same as we ever were
{7.} DEAR CLOUD | 스쳐간다 (Passing By)
넌 웃다가 화내기도 했다가 내 옆에서 나란히 걷다가
(You laugh, you even get mad...right next to me, we're walking side by side)
날 빤히도 쳐다보며 얘길 해 너의 말들이 다시 살아나
(I stare at you as you talk, your words are alive again.)
{8.} CORDRAZINE | Memorial Drive
Don't tell me where it hurts
Just tell me what you hope to gain
{9.} CAKE OR DEATH | Safety
I'll be the one
Who dares to stand by you
{10.} HAWKSLEY WORKMAN | Clever Not Beautiful
They've fallen for
The oldest trick in the book
{11.} BERTIE BLACKMAN | Town Of Sorrow
And these footsteps
Are yours
{12.} PETER GABRIEL | Mercy Street
She pictures a soul
With no leak at the seam
{13.} JARS OF CLAY | All I Want Is You
You say you want
Your love to work out right
{14.} OLIVER TANK | Last Night I Heard Everything In Slow Motion
You said it would be alright
But I just don't know
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DOWNLOAD
{Mediafire, zip, mp3/m4a, 90mb}
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As I would recommend you all watch this for the cultural experience and the partnerz aspect, I shall facilitate the procuring of said procedural if need be. *knowing look*
...I really love partnerz, guys.
Welp, I do. Based on the Tessa Vance novels by Jennifer "Emily Rodda" Rowe, it was the sister program of sorts to Water Rats. Rats was, at the time, an exceptionally popular cop show that was pretty much responsible for shaking up the Aussie TV industry's perceptions of what an Aussie procedural could be, as it was as slick as American shows (well, kind of) - but with a home-grown edge. Murder Call wasn't a direct spin-off; instead it was a strange mish-mash of genres that, at it's best was excellent, and at it's worst? Kind of bad, actually. But Lucy Bell and Peter Mochrie as Tessa and Steve - the city girl and the country boy - have such good chemistry that it's worth staying for the whole, odd, bizarre ride.
I loved both Water Rats and Murder Call, with Murder Call easily being the one I had the softest spot for as I grew up. But, like anything in the Aussie TV industry, the show was either too ambitious or not ambitious enough - take your pick - and was cancelled in 2000 only to disappear without a trace. No DVDs, nothing.
Luckily, it's hugely popular in Europe and has been rerun on 13th Street, Universal's pay-TV crime network. I just managed to get my hands on the whole series and yep, detectives Tessa Vance and Steve Hayden are still Baby's First Partnerz OTP. Because, partnerz.
You guys know that means fanmix and bad fic, right? Right.
---
NOTES: This isn't a particularly literal fanmix, but hopefully it captures the mood of the show. Enjoy!
---
And when they're gone
It's me and you
---
DOWNLOAD
{Mediafire, zip, mp3/m4a, 90mb}
---
{1.} OKKERVIL RIVER | Wake and Be Fine
Everybody's crashing
The world is calling around
{2.} METRIC | Collect Call
I know it's a lie, I want it to be true
The rest of the ride is riding on you
{3.} CHIHIRO ONITSUKA | Beautiful Fighter
We’re just fighters
We’re just strange flowers
{4.} RADIOHEAD | All I Need
I'm a moth
Who just wants to share your light
{5.} MELISSA TALLON | 21
You try to reach me
Afraid now of losing again
{6.} THE KINKS | Living On A Thin Line
Now I see change,
But inside we're the same as we ever were
{7.} DEAR CLOUD | 스쳐간다 (Passing By)
넌 웃다가 화내기도 했다가 내 옆에서 나란히 걷다가
(You laugh, you even get mad...right next to me, we're walking side by side)
날 빤히도 쳐다보며 얘길 해 너의 말들이 다시 살아나
(I stare at you as you talk, your words are alive again.)
{8.} CORDRAZINE | Memorial Drive
Don't tell me where it hurts
Just tell me what you hope to gain
{9.} CAKE OR DEATH | Safety
I'll be the one
Who dares to stand by you
{10.} HAWKSLEY WORKMAN | Clever Not Beautiful
They've fallen for
The oldest trick in the book
{11.} BERTIE BLACKMAN | Town Of Sorrow
And these footsteps
Are yours
{12.} PETER GABRIEL | Mercy Street
She pictures a soul
With no leak at the seam
{13.} JARS OF CLAY | All I Want Is You
You say you want
Your love to work out right
{14.} OLIVER TANK | Last Night I Heard Everything In Slow Motion
You said it would be alright
But I just don't know
---
DOWNLOAD
{Mediafire, zip, mp3/m4a, 90mb}
---
As I would recommend you all watch this for the cultural experience and the partnerz aspect, I shall facilitate the procuring of said procedural if need be. *knowing look*
...I really love partnerz, guys.
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I have to admit, I haven't heard any of these songs, I do know a couple of the artists from previous fan mixes I've downloaded over the years (All different fan mixes).
It's great to find other Murder Call fans out there! It's a shame that after the show ended it wasn't released on DVD... *sad face* but did manage to find it on YouTube, someone had recorded it off 13th Street Universial (whom ever you are, I LOVE YOU!!!!).
I've been watching it a lot over the past 12 months after not being able to watch it for years. Used to be on The Hallmark Channel here in Australia (Austar for those country people and Foxtel for the city dwellers), but I don't know if it still is... Don't have pay tv anymore.
I have to admit that I loved this show and Blue Heelers (those Aussies would remember Lisa McCune as the Coles checkout chick back in the day) and Water Rats, one of the many reasons I wanted to join the police service. I finished my degree in policing but sadly failed the medical 3 years ago *cries* was devastating to get that news after almost 3 and a half years of study, only to have an old injury from an accident 6 years previously (which I didn't get treated! Biggest mistake of my life) come back with a vengeance. So I've had a couple of surgeries to repair the damage in the past year and I'm currently healing from my latest 4 weeks ago, but because one was a spinal injury, they won't take me.
I guess that's just life trying to tell me something, so now I'm studying to become a veterinarian nurse and possibly continue on to veterinary medicine in the future.
Anyway, thanks for the Fanmix share! I hope to see more from you in the future!!!