I like to watch a bit of reality telly last thing at night, to get me in the mood for sleep. No high drama with lots of shrieking, but calming stuff, like Judge Judy, or Animal Cops <Insert-Location-Name-Here>. So when I noticed that Discovery's Whale Wars was all about the Sea Shepherds I thought it would fit the bill nicely: lots of footage of the day-to-day practicalities of life on the high seas, marine animals, and once in a while, preventing some slimey little prick whaler from killing intelligent animals. A bit like Animal Cops Cetacean Edition I suppose. So I started taping them, but soon discovered that relaxing would not be the right word to describe it - from what I've seen so far it's all high emotion, floating whale guts, and encounters with fleets of "research" vessels which from the dialogue wouldn't be out of place on the SyFy channel. (I had no idea there could be such a thing as an Earth-based mother ship...) I suppose the clue was in the name (Whale Wars), but I'd sort of assumed that was just an attempt to make the programme seem more exciting, so I'd gone with the whole shepherds vibe and imagined trying to stop highly armed men from killing really large animals might be a gentle affair...
Anyway, the title music of Whale Wars is this:
And for some reason it puts me in mind of this:
I can imagine them being mashed together, but any search for Smashing Pumpkins vs Suzi Quatro yields nothing.