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Sorry Spartacus, but they money I had put aside for you is going here instead.
This is an epic release, with really great music. Just listening to the clips, it's amazing to see how the music evolved, and so quickly, on the series. It was so jaunty and tinkly (for lack of a better word) in the beginnings, going into the lower registers over the seasons.
I'm usually not a fan of synth orchestra, but The Naked Now was always one of my favorite TNG scores, just for the pure energy of it. The loud, in your face jeopardy cues were a lot of fun. I love how calm and quiet Worf is in the scenes when the star begins to break up, before Michael Dorn perfected his "Worf voice."
"What we're seeing is a chunk of the star's surface breaking away...heading for us."
Also in retrospect, it's surprising just how stilted some of the performances are. And how everyone keeps saying how drunk they are. "I feel strange but also good!" "Never made it to sick bay, Wes. Feel too good for that!"
But most importanly, Jones got me to like Wesley crusher - for about 5 minutes - when he provided a beautiful cue backing his promotion in Menage a Troi. It really plays up how much music helps a scene, because Wil Wheaton's goofy smile and bobbing walk out of Picard's ready room was laughable, but the music gives the scene such an emotional lift, it almost makes the episode good. Either way, he made me happy for a character I hated.
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If I were Dennis McCarthy, I'd be thinking right now " Where's my box set? :/ "
If I were Dennis McCarthy, I'd be thinking right now, "Damn, I wish I'd stuck to my guns like Ron did so that I could deserve a deluxe 14 disc set of my music being released."
At last Ron Jones will get the appreciation he really deserves. Maybe having this deluxe set will even get him more work. Imagine sending it out to producers -- instead of a little CDr promo, it's a presentation on the scale of the Rozsa box!
Yavar
P.S. In fairness to Dennis McCarthy, since he worked on Trek from the first episode of TNG to the last episode of Enterprise, *maybe* 14 discs of music could be filled with just his very best cues, but finding them amid all the dreck would be a pretty time consuming project for Jeff Bond or whoever would be willing. Maybe if this set sells like gangbusters it could warrant say a 1500 copy release or something, but unlike with Ron Jones, complete scores would be HORRIBLE (with the exception of his excellent theatrical Generations score). I'd be more interested perhaps in complete one-off scores by John Debney and Don Davis and the like...
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I'm usually not a fan of synth orchestra, but The Naked Now was always one of my favorite TNG scores, just for the pure energy of it. The loud, in your face jeopardy cues were a lot of fun. I love how calm and quiet Worf is in the scenes when the star begins to break up, before Michael Dorn perfected his "Worf voice."
So it really is synth? That's what I thought when I listened to the clips, maybe that's why the music just isn't grabbing me. Oh well.
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So it really is synth? That's what I thought when I listened to the clips, maybe that's why the music just isn't grabbing me. Oh well.
The episodes were scored by orchestras of varying sizes -- 50 to 60 pieces in some episodes -- using a lot of synthesizer colors in the style of some late 1980s scoring (like Goldsmith's works of the period).
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/box05_disc13.html#data
Lukas
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Lukas, is it true what one of the AICN posters wrote, that if you buy this set you'll never have sex?
I'm just wondering, because I ordered one of the autographed copies and considered myself rather cool for doing so.
. . . And what's going on with that classic MGM musical soundtrack?
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So it really is synth? That's what I thought when I listened to the clips, maybe that's why the music just isn't grabbing me. Oh well.
The episodes were scored by orchestras of varying sizes -- 50 to 60 pieces in some episodes -- using a lot of synthesizer colors in the style of some late 1980s scoring (like Goldsmith's works of the period).
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/box05_disc13.html#data
Lukas
Interesting info, thanks!
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