What are you listening to? (V)Music

[Chris30]

Nat King Cole- Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire

 

[UKMikey]

 

[Chris30]

Brenda Lee- Rocking Around The Christmas Tree

 

[TexRex]

Stryper - Calling On You

 

[TB]

I do enjoy a good score/soundtrack

For me a good one is if it can stand on its own as a piece of music/album without the visuals. If it doesn’t then it’s dud.

I also dislike soundtracks that have multiple tracks for short periods of time, say 1 or 2 minutes and there are around 30 or so total tracks that just sound the same.

Now that I'm getting into more of the meat of the podcast, I'm enjoying it quite a lot. It doesn't hurt that he's started with Jaws, Star Wars, Super Mario Bros. (the video game, not the movie ) and Foley artists, specifically using Lord of the Rings as his examples.

He gets into the technical side of music (explaining harmonics and tritones, for example) just enough to explain why it's important and throws some history lessons in here and there, like how John Williams took cues from Erich Korngold's soundtrack for Captain Blood for Star Wars.

Through his explanations, I'm finding out that there are A LOT of things I've never noticed while watching movies. One example - in Star Wars, Luke has a theme song, Leia has a theme song and Obi Wan has a theme song. No surprise there. But when, spoiler (!), Obi Wan is killed by Vader, they play Leia's theme because it's more somber and fits the scene better instead of playing Obi Wan's theme. I'd have likely never noticed that.

Or that there's a bass line in the Super Mario Bros. theme.

As someone that enjoys movies, movie trivia and music, this is a fantastic combination of all of them.

 

[Chris30]

Dean Martin- Sleigh Bells

Is anyone listening to any Christmas music?

 

[TB]

Is anyone listening to any Christmas music?

As little as humanly possible.

Except for Christmas in Hollis.

 

[UKMikey]

As little as humanly possible.

Except for Christmas in Hollis.

Prefer the original by Clarence Carter myself.

 

[Sprite]

Now that I'm getting into more of the meat of the podcast, I'm enjoying it quite a lot. It doesn't hurt that he's started with Jaws, Star Wars, Super Mario Bros. (the video game, not the movie ) and Foley artists, specifically using Lord of the Rings as his examples.

He gets into the technical side of music (explaining harmonics and tritones, for example) just enough to explain why it's important and throws some history lessons in here and there, like how John Williams took cues from Erich Korngold's soundtrack for Captain Blood for Star Wars.

Through his explanations, I'm finding out that there are A LOT of things I've never noticed while watching movies. One example - in Star Wars, Luke has a theme song, Leia has a theme song and Obi Wan has a theme song. No surprise there. But when, spoiler (!), Obi Wan is killed by Vader, they play Leia's theme because it's more somber and fits the scene better instead of playing Obi Wan's theme. I'd have likely never noticed that.

Or that there's a bass line in the Super Mario Bros. theme.

As someone that enjoys movies, movie trivia and music, this is a fantastic combination of all of them.

Not sure if you’ve ever listened to Perf Damage about film and movies. They also do some stuff on YT too.

Worth a watch. I’ve a huge Soundtrack / Score collection and it’s amazing how much effort nobody realises goes into it.

Sad really. Glad you’re enjoying the journey. I’ll have to check out that podcast.

 

[z0id]

this here is one of the best christmas songs of all time.

 

[Chris30]

Randy Newman- You Got A Friend In Me

Brilliant Toy Story song back in 1995.