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Jan 31, 2018 - 2:34 PM
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Avatarded
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Angel was my favorite of the two series, and I was always big on the scores of the show from primarily the first two seasons.
The pilot score with that heroic Angel theme was great, but also what Beck and Rob Kral did was use this two-note (a kind of precursor to what Zimmer would do with Batman) theme that was meant only for establishing shots of Los Angeles and either Angel's building or the hotel. It wasn't used much beyond those jumpcut establishing shots but when I think of the tone of the show, and how different it was to Buffy, separating it from that and giving it a more cinematic feel, those shots of the city and their music - just a simple two note thing, was enough to create that.
I'd say my favorite score from season 1 would be 'Blind Date'. The cues for when Angel and Lindsey are making their way into Wolfram and Hart, and especially the final scenes where Holland gives Lindsey his office, while Angel looks out on his city.
I did really enjoy the "Live Fast, Die Never" CD, though I was glad to have imported it from the UK instead of the domestic release with that crappy little feather on the cover.
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You both know I would of course buy a 4 disc Angel set, if LLL felt like doing a follow-up to their Buffy one. Some excellent music in this series too, as well as a few callbacks to Buffy.
Yavar
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I have nothing to say.
Except for that.
And that, too.
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Feb 1, 2018 - 8:21 AM
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ZerOne
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lol, acathla, I just rewatched season one too, even though I actually don't have time for that.
I remember how excited I was to get the Angel soundtrack back in the day when the series wrapped. It was kind of like a bittersweet farewell present. Even though I was also sad about other cancellations like Enlightened or Wonderfalls, the cancellation of Angel really broke my heart at the time in ways my heart wasn't broken again after.
I thought the tracklist for the soundtrack was also fairly well done, putting Touched, the Lindsey song and No Place Like Home on there as a gift to the fans, even though it was primarily a score soundtrack.
In terms of score, I was a bit disappointed that they spent so much space on the CD with Pylea stuff when there was so much more memorable stuff, but overall it's a wonderful CD with a good mix of music from all seasons (except maybe season five).
The karaoke tracks of course, you can either take them or leave them. I wasn't a big fan of Andy Hallet's voice, though I have come to appreciate both Andy Hallet and the character of Lorne over time in rewatches. While still not my favorite tracks, I do appreciate that they put something by Andy on the soundtrack. May he rest in peace.
I really do hope that the Buffy soundtrack will sell extraordinarily well so that LLL considers an Angel set too. I feel like the excitement for the Buffy set was definitely there, but we'll see whether that translates to sales numbers. And hopefully MV and the LLL team have not been put off by our anticipation and all the questions regarding the Buffy set (and I don't mean solely acathla, I have seen several questions about the set on their FB page).
As for score, I already mentioned in the other thread what I would like to have included on a hypothetical Angel set, but here we go again:
- The cue that is playing over the montage when Kate is doing her research on Angel in Somnambulist in season one. As well as maybe an alternative version of the Hero cue that was already on the 2005/2006 soundtrack.
- The score from the Waiting in the Wings episode in season three. I know they included music from the actual ballet that they had in the episode, but I mean the really captivating cues by Rob Kral from that episode.
- The cue from the Ground State episode in season four: after the final fight scene there is a shot of the city to the Hyperion Hotel when Angel uses this weird artefact to find Cordelia and the music in that scene is really nice. But I also liked the eerie Gwen cue at the beginning in the flashback.
- The cue in Spin the Bottle in Angel season four, when amnesiac Cordelia asks Angel whether they were in love.
- Generally a lot of the epic/creepy music from season four, there was for example a very creepy Cordelia cue in Inside Out when possessed Cordy and Connor slaughter the innocent teenager.
- Wesley/Lilah cues if there are any.
- Music from A Hole in the World and Shells.
- Any music cues that played when Illyria was on screen.
- Music cues from the final two episodes, some of it are variations of stuff that is already on the first soundtrack, but still...
- and as bonus:
--> the Cordelia theme song from the Birthday episode in season 3.
--> the song that the client sings in the Hyperion Hotel Garden at the beginning of the Sleep Tight episode in season three.
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Btw, is there a list somewhere on which episodes the different cues from the OST is from?
Darling Violetta
Angel Main Theme — The Sanctuary Extended Mix (All Episodes)
Robert J. Kral
Start the Apocalypse (Apocalypse Nowish)
The End of the World (Apocalypse Nowish)
Massive Assault (The Thing Dead LIne)
Home (Home)
Hero (Hero)
Judgment and Jousting (Judgment)
The Birth of Angelus (The Prodigal)
Rebellion (Darla)
The Trials for Darla (The Trial)
Dreaming of Darla (First Impressions)
Forbidden Memory and Darla's Fire (Untouched)
Darla's Sacrifice (Lullabye)
Welcome To Pylea (Over the Rainbow/Through the Looking Glass/There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb)
Fred (Through the Looking Glass/There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb)
Castle Attack (There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb)
Cordy Meets Fred (Over the Rainbow)
Princess Cordelia (There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb)
Farewell Cordelia (You're Welcome)
Vast
Touched (Lonely Heart)
Christian Kane
L.A. Song (Dead End)
Andy Hallett
Lady Marmalade (The House Always Wins)
It's Not Easy Being Green (The House Always Wins)
Kim Richey
A Place Called Home (Shells)
Christophe Beck
I'm Game (City of…)
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