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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: Any Love For South Park - Bigger, Longer & Uncut?     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Jul 7, 2012 - 9:55 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) The songs are all kinds of awesome if you can shut off your brain and take them for what they are- Trashy fun. Especially "Blame Canada" and "La Resistance". The score is very effective, and at times rather dramatic.    Posted:   Jul 7, 2012 - 10:06 AM     By:   bdm   (Member) I certainly do; great parody of a Disney animated film, with a whole load of other films thrown in, and the songs and score are great too. I was not a fan of South Park until I saw this, and now I am (granted I often find South Park just "trying to be offensive" but every season they get a few episodes that just are spot on and hilarious - last year's Broadway episode for example); this film is really in a class of "best of" and if you haven't seen it, it's worth a view.    Posted:   Jul 7, 2012 - 10:18 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) Never been a huge South Park fan myself. Though I appreciate what they were doing. It amuses me but not enough for me to sit and watch whole episodes. The soundtrack is excellent because they played it "straight". Which in my mind is the best way to score a comedy. I'm surprised none of the specialty labels have released this score complete, and uncut.    Posted:   Jul 7, 2012 - 11:38 AM     By:   afn   (Member) "They're not even a real country anyway..." ;-) The songs of that movie should have won every award there is on earth for their sheer inventiveness, witty sarcasm and brilliance of melody. They just blow away many musicals I know. BLAME CANADA is a masterpiece. Music and lyrics.    Posted:   Jul 7, 2012 - 4:19 PM     By:   vinylscrubber   (Member) For my money, this was the best musical film of 1999 and was prescient of Stone and Parker's future on Broadway with THE BOOK OF MORMON. My favorite remains "Uncle F**ka" (I still have fantasies of that one getting the nomination for best song--as if!), although a listen to the CD also sends me off for days haunted by "What Would Brian Botano Do?" Sheer gold.    Posted:   Jul 7, 2012 - 5:01 PM     By:   SBD   (Member) Good songs, but Marc Shaiman's score is fantastic. One of his best, esp. at the finale.    Posted:   Jul 7, 2012 - 11:24 PM     By:   John Mullin   (Member) I always felt that the big medley before the USO show was the showstopper in this one. One of the unused scores I'd most like to hear is what Shaiman did for TEAM AMERICA. He was apparently nearly done with it when the plug was pulled... wonder if it will ever see the light of day.    Posted:   Jul 7, 2012 - 11:32 PM     By:   TerraEpon   (Member) "They're not even a real country anyway..." ;-) The songs of that movie should have won every award there is on earth for their sheer inventiveness, witty sarcasm and brilliance of melody. They just blow away many musicals I know. BLAME CANADA is a masterpiece. Music and lyrics. Indeed, both the lyrics and music for this movie is fantastic. Would be the first to buy a proper release with songs + score and no silly covers -- it fits nicely on one CD (though I can see a few of those source tracks like the news music, etc, shoved at the end)    Posted:   Jul 8, 2012 - 12:33 AM     By:   Dana Wilcox   (Member) Good songs, but Marc Shaiman's score is fantastic. One of his best, esp. at the finale. Thank you! I was wondering if anyone was going to mention Marc Shaiman's terrific score. The story was kind of dopey, for my money, but the music had me from the very opening. Genius work! There were a number of unsuspecting young mothers with their 7 and 8 year old kids in the theater (expecting a good clean cartoon show, no doubt) when I saw the film, and I wondered how they explained afterwards what an "uncle-fucka" is to their poor little darlin's...    Posted:   Jul 8, 2012 - 12:54 AM     By:   TheFamousEccles   (Member) Don't forget also, that - in addition to the score - Shaiman collaborated with Parker and Stone on the music for several of the songs - and one of Shaiman's usual orchestrators, the great Larry Blank orchestrated a few of the musical numbers, too. P.S. And yes, I'd love to hear Shaiman's unused work on "Team America," too. I'm sure that it's fantastic music, regardless of whatever factors led to it not getting used - suitability, etc. He did work with Parker and Stone on one or two of the songs in the movie though - or am I completely misremembering this?    Posted:   Jul 8, 2012 - 9:12 AM     By:   Adm Naismith   (Member) Great movie, great soundtrack. It made me a fan of the show.    Posted:   Jul 8, 2012 - 9:18 AM     By:   Francis   (Member) How can you not like songs such as Uncle Fucka, Kyle's Mom is a Bitch and Blame Canada Though I will say that I consider Team America as a movie and score superior to the South Park movie. How can you not love songs like Everyone has aids, America Fuck Yeah, I'm so Ronery, Only a Woman and the awesome montage spoof "montage".    Posted:   Jul 8, 2012 - 9:25 AM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) South Park (the movie) is gloriously vulgar and hilariously funny, and the score certainly deserves a release along with the songs - but not the remixes in my view. "I Can Change" is a favourite, but all the songs are inventive, irreverant and as far as I can tell technically brilliant.    Posted:   Jul 8, 2012 - 10:20 AM     By:   Disco Stu   (Member) Funny that it seems "the thing to do" to bash "Family guy" but somehow "South park" gets the cozy warm bath routine. I really hate SP. That said, and one of the things I hate most is that the songs in that film have good melodies, "La resistance" first and foremost. Those tunes could have been used for something a lot better. D.S.    Posted:   Jul 8, 2012 - 11:05 AM     By:   MikeP   (Member) Funny that it seems "the thing to do" to bash "Family guy" but somehow "South park" gets the cozy warm bath routine. I really hate SP. That said, and one of the things I hate most is that the songs in that film have good melodies, "La resistance" first and foremost. Those tunes could have been used for something a lot better. D.S. Yeah I have the same hate for Southpark that some show for Family Guy. Always found it to be obvious, lowest common denominator humor and the kind of thing you think is smart and "edgy" when you're in high school. But, good for those who do get into it, carry on!    Posted:   Jul 8, 2012 - 11:26 AM     By:   Francis   (Member) Funny that it seems "the thing to do" to bash "Family guy" but somehow "South park" gets the cozy warm bath routine. I really hate SP. Maybe when a studio orders someone to make a clone of South Park and to cram it full with repetitive shit jokes and bad musical numbers, I might just tune in. Till that day I'll stick to SP and The Simpsons thanks. Oh and Futurama is pretty cool too    Posted:   Jul 8, 2012 - 1:13 PM     By:   Doc Loch   (Member) I think they nominated the wrong song for the Oscar. "Blame Canada" was probably the safest choice since it had the least number of lyrics that had to be bleeped or altered. But the perfect nominee would have been the song that plays over the ending credits, "The Eyes of a Child." This was a dead-on parody of the kinds of sappy, pseudo-uplifting songs that used to be tacked on at the end of mainstream movies to try to get an Oscar nomination. It would have been the ultimate irony if this had been nominated and better yet if it had won because voters didn't listen close and failed to realize it was a put-on. "I can even get my friend Steve to detail your car." Brilliant. I use the "La Resistance" number in my classes as an example of intertextual referencing by first showing a clip of the finale of Act One of Les Miserables and then showing the South Park version. Gives students a whole new appreciation of how ingenious South Park can be and how complex the references can be.    Posted:   Jul 8, 2012 - 2:01 PM     By:   Solium   (Member) Funny that it seems "the thing to do" to bash "Family guy" but somehow "South park" gets the cozy warm bath routine. I really hate SP. That said, and one of the things I hate most is that the songs in that film have good melodies, "La resistance" first and foremost. Those tunes could have been used for something a lot better. D.S. Both series have crass humor, but the humor in SP is satirical and relatable (sp?). The humor in FG is simply gross for shock value.    Posted:   Jul 8, 2012 - 9:07 PM     By:   Jim Barg   (Member) I'd buy an expanded reissue in a heartbeat. This remains the only time I've ever fallen out of my chair in a theatre because of laughter. A packed opening night crowd and the international version of 'Kyle's Mom's A Bitch' had me in stitches.    Posted:   Feb 21, 2019 - 8:19 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) This just came on my player and La Resistance Medley!! Wow! Just a piece of pure musical brilliance on EVERY level. The whole album is great. Having fun listening to this again.     General Discussion: Any Love For South Park - Bigger, Longer & Uncut?    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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