Nick Parker

Danny Elfman Batman'd the shit out of it, who doesn't love it?

I got that beat, I got that beat. It's so light and carefree!

Anybody else find the "no personal insults" rule to be overrated?

Can we get this thread to a new page so we don't have to be assaulted point blank with a giant anime face?

My bank account is lower than I thought so I'm gonna wait a little bit to purchase it.

A deep, deep inspiration to me for many years. A legend indeed.

Hell yeah! Hope this leads into other projects!

When you say direct, what was your exact involvement?

Another element I don't understand from the OP is the quasi-conspiratorial notion that Williams omitted the track due to shame or something of having ripped off the alleged temp. There are multiple albums he's put out over the decades where the temp track inspirations are very apparent...including Dune Sea from '77 OG. Don't see any reason for him to get sheepish all of a sudden. Now that Haab's been in Lucas orchestra land for over a decade, I would be interested in hearing him write non-Williams pastiche.

Thanks for the recommendation!

"peach double teamed by Mario and splatoon kid"

Part European, part African American here!

Ultimately you're talking about a few seconds of similar chords and rhythms, aren't you? That's nowhere near enough to justify this claim, especially with, as many of us pointed out, the similarities and continuity of ideas from earlier scores such as ESB to this track.

Yes! Also, if the time band onthis thread was a little wider, it would be me hijacking it into an Alex North appreciation thread.

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Herrmann is my favorite composer of that era by far, but a number of my favorite scores from him are outside the time range that I saw mentioned in the OP. Gotta be honest, Korngold practically never does it for me. That thick, busy sound he has just shuts me out. But amid the shroud of string runs, there is a hidden eye of the storm that brings me delight...

I am not pleased by it.

As others have said, it's a really cool project, and also shows how sneaky these composers had to be sometimes (re-sampling propietary instrument sounds in some cases), but overall I prefer the original more often than not. The SNES was notorios difficult to write music for, using a pain-in-the-ass programming language that required lots of trial and error...I believe Kondo was still the main programmer of his music until the N64 days, where he strictly focused on the composition and let someone else handle the technical nitty gritty of compiling and implementing the music in the hardware, so it's all but guaranteed he knew the compression of the samples and adjusted accordingly. This probably played a huge part in making all these disparate sound sources sound simpático with each other, and married them using the obscene DSP (reverb/echo) that was baked into the SPC700 soundchip. Interestingly, while Nintendo massively bungled the GBA sound, it actually allowed for better, cleaning sounding samples than that of the SNES'. Tim Follins was a master of this, using these techniques to really push past boundaries and create music for the systems he worked on that you just don't hear anywhere else.

Oof. I didn't look into their process, but that reverb with the higher quality samples kills it for me. It could just be replicated from the notorious SNES DSP.

Metal, as in

I did! For over ten years! And no one listened to me!

Not bad for a console four years old!

I think a massive part of that is Powell channeled Williams' guiding spirit, so to speak, whereas Haab tried to channel Williams' aesthetics. Ironically, given how lavishly the latter attempt tries to hang on to Williams' turtleneck, the former is far more successful at tapping into the feeling of Star Wars and why we tuned in in the first place. I thought it was dorky at first, but by the more climactic cues, Haab got some good mileage out of it.

Very true. Especially throughout the pandemic, I've derived a lot of joy out of playing Switch games online with my brother out of state. We'd dreamed of having a multiplayer Pikmin game for 16 years, and they finally revealed one in 3 Deluxe!.......but it's only couch co-op.