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TV Show: Thunderbirds
Episode: 30 Minutes After Noon
Album: Presence
Format: PAL
Discovered By: Sam the Angel Fox
Set Up: Begin the album after the episode's opening credits/after it fades to black from “And Supermarionation”. 

Length of sync: 47 Minutes and 39 seconds 

Connections

  • Connections wise none between album and episode has been discovered or shown so far. The sync itself has a little back-story to it though. I actually started syncing things before I even knew about the concept itself. Soon after my dad had bought a record player to play his old vinyl records again, one of them was Presence by Led Zeppelin. One day after having the player in my room, I decided to listen to the album while I was watching Thunderbirds, back then I didn’t know the lyrics to the album so I thought it suited it mood wise.
  • Connections wise none between album and episode has been discovered or shown so far. The sync itself has a little back-story to it though. I actually started syncing things before I even knew about the concept itself. Soon after my dad had bought a record player to play his old vinyl records again, one of them was Presence by Led Zeppelin. One day after having the player in my room, I decided to listen to the album while I was watching Thunderbirds, back then I didn’t know the lyrics to the album so I thought it suited it mood wise.

Lyrical/musical connections

Achilles Last Stand

  • Mr. Prescott’s car appears on screen right on a guitar note.
     

  • "How could we say no?" - He picks up a strange man.
     

  • "The shackles of commitment" - the stranger had put on a watch bomb on Prescott's wrist, the stranger is telling him how to disable it/how to get rid of it.
     

  • "To seek the man whose pointing hand" - the bad guy pointing the gun at Prescott.
     

  • The intense guitar suits his frantic race to the building.
     

  • "What place to rest the search" - Mr. Prescott in the building.
     

  • "The mighty arms of Atlas" - Prescott looks at the clock above the elevator doors, knowing time is short for him.
     

  • “Ahh ahh ah!” - on the last “ah” that Robert Plant sings, the policeman react in shock when the building explodes.
     

  • "Hold the heavens from the earth" - Just after it showed the earth to the space station Thunderbird 5 to inside it.

For Your Life

  • "Heard a cry for mercy In the city of the damned" - International Rescue going to save Mr. Prescott.
     

  • "You wanna do it, do it when you wanna" - Scott telling the police chief what they could do.

Royal Orleans

  • You better take care how you use it" - International Rescues special elevator grabs the broken elevator Prescott is trapped in.
     

  • "Left and right" - fire on each side as they go up the elevator shaft.
     

  • "Now love gets hot" - the elevators have caught some flames/the shaft still on fire.
     

  • "You can see my friend when they run around us in the night" - cuts to Scott waiting on the ground floor as the elevator comes up.

Nobody’s Fault But Mine

  • "Devil he told me to roll" - a guy with another watch bomb asks "what's the idea?" the man who gave it to him says "do not worry".
     

  • "Somebody show me" - three men hired/threatened to do this task for a mystery man, they are being told the plans to rob this band or vault by the man.

Candy Store Rock

  • "a silver plate" - they come to one of the thick silver doors.

Hots On For Nowhere

  • "Now I've got friends who will give me their shoulder" - one of the three men was a secret agent, after being caught by a robot guard the other two leave him for dead.
     

  • "While the hope in my hands turns to clay" - the agent grabbing into his jacket pocket to his pen mic to contact for help.
     

  • "Now everything's finally happened, Now and then you've got to take time to pause" - cuts to Thunderbird 5 again, cuts to inside it at the tape machine to hear the agents distress call.

Tea for One

  • The scene cuts to Lady Penelope having Tea.
     

  • "A minute seems like a lifetime" - shows the clock as time starts to run out.
     

  • The doors explode open right on beat of a drum cymbal crash.
     

  • "There was a time that I stood tall" - Virgil steps up from his machines seat.
     

  • "And now I can't get back again" - Scott returns to Thunderbird 1 to dispose of the bomb watches.

Second Repeat

Achilles Last Stand

  • To live the dreams we always had" - Lady Penelope (whose an agent for International Rescue) talks to the agent from before, he doesn't know that Lady Penelope is an agent and says to her "but then, a person in your position wouldn't know that".

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