Jay 37,355 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 1. Blazing Samurai (feat. Michael K. Lee) (1:26) 2. The Coolest Cat (feat. Adrienne Warren) (2:33) 3. Samurai for Dummies (2:50) 4. Kakamucho Under Attack (2:19) 5. Ikachu (1:36) 6. The Shogun (2:02) 7. Hank’s Escape (2:51) 8. Hank Meets Jimbo (2:57) 9. Signing the Contract (4:02) 10. Fireside Flashback (1:13) 11. Enter the Sumo (3:07) 12. Sumo Fight (1:46) 13. Origami (2:48) 14. Torn Contract (2:23) 15. Jimbo’s Sacrifice (4:07) 16. The Battle of Kakamucho (5:37) 17. Showdown on the Super Bowl (2:40) 18. Samurai Hank (7:39) https://us.7digital.com/artist/bear-mccreary/release/paws-of-fury-the-legend-of-hank-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-22273639 https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/paws-of-fury-the-legend-of-hank-bear-mccreary/hasle0ajmy01a https://tidal.com/browse/album/235054131 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B4Z1983T https://open.spotify.com/album/03EkzFztEsKcSQIkQKIHF8?si=qg3q1eEgRuGlNwXjjhgYWQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted July 15, 2022 Author Share Posted July 15, 2022 So I'm now on my second listen of this OST album and I love it! It's one of the best random new score albums I've checked out in a long time, took me completely by surprise! Not only is the score good, but the album opens up with 2 songs first, and those are actually really good too! I can't even remember the last time that was the case for me. The score is just super fun, energetic, charming, catchy... it reminds me of a fun Powell score, but also older action/adventure scores too. It's great! I'd embed a track or to, but for some reason this isn't on youtube yet, even though it's on all the other platforms. Weird. JNHFan2000 and ChrisAfonso 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 So am I and @JNHFan2000 the only people on all of JWFan who like this score? I think it's great and that a lot of JWFanners would like it! One thing that impresses me about the album is that the opening songs are actually good! JNHFan2000 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Listened to it yesterday. Always Bet on Bear™. Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,961 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Truly. Why is nobody anywhere talking about this?!??!! It's one of my favorites of the year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 I dunno, it's got everything fans of the classic orchestral film score are always complaining is missing from most modern film scores! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,284 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 3 hours ago, Jay said: So am I and @JNHFan2000 the only people on all of JWFan who like this score? I think it's great and that a lot of JWFanners would like it! One thing that impresses me about the album is that the opening songs are actually good! Given it a couple of listens and also really enjoying it, much more so than Animal Crackers which I found a bit exhausting after a while. Definitely a bit of Kung Fu Panda (never a bad thing) in there plus the hints of 70s Schifrin etc. that McCreary has talked about. Also really enjoyed the songs and they fit well alongside the tone of the score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 1 minute ago, Tom Guernsey said: Animal Crackers which I found a bit exhausting after a while Me too! Yet sadly that one got a physical CD and this one doesn't Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Animal Crackers was still better than 90% of things out there. I can probably agree with the term exhausting though. This was great from beginning to end. Easily Powell levels. That had to be the inspiration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stark 312 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 I also enjoyed this score - Bear always shines with mid budgets action scores. How did the Angry Video Game Nerd movie have good music?! Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,365 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 On 19/07/2022 at 4:12 PM, Jay said: So am I and @JNHFan2000 the only people on all of JWFan who like this score? I think it's great and that a lot of JWFanners would like it! One thing that impresses me about the album is that the opening songs are actually good! Doesn't Blazing Samurai sound a little bit too much like Alan Menken's Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Fuck LOTR, THIS is the score I want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aviazn 273 Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 On 23/7/2022 at 12:01 PM, GerateWohl said: Doesn't Blazing Samurai sound a little bit too much like Alan Menken's Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas? That works. I was thinking more the minor-key bridge of Blazing Saddles… Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted August 4, 2022 Author Share Posted August 4, 2022 I'm listening to this score this afternoon and am surprised again by how much I love it I can't even think of the last time a score came out of nowhere to surprise me this positively! It almost makes me want to see the movie just to know the context for this music! JNHFan2000 and Tom Guernsey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,961 Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 On 04/08/2022 at 9:47 PM, Jay said: It almost makes me want to see the movie just to know the context for this music! I watched it for this reason at home tonight. It's quite standard animation fare with some fun stuff. Mel Brooks & George Takei are both very funny. Made a chronological order Blazing Samurai Ikachu Kakamucho Under Attack The Shogun Hank's Escape Hank Meets Jimbo Signing The Contract Samurai For Dummies (1:02 - end) Fireside Flashbacj Samurai For Dummies (0:00-1:02) Enter The Sumo Sumo Fight Origami Torn Contract Jimbo's Sacrifice The Battle Of Kakamucho Showdown On The Super Bowl Samurai Hank The Coolest Cat Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted December 15, 2022 Author Share Posted December 15, 2022 I watched this movie on the plane ride home from Italy yesterday.... well, I watched most of it, I actually fell asleep towards the end so don't really know what happened in the last 10 minutes or so lol It was nice to get a context for the music! But, it wasn't very good otherwise; There was a bunch of funny and clever moments, good voice acting, etc, but it had that modern ADD pacing I usually can't jive with. Spider-verse was fine but this was too much. It was so obvious watching that the film was intended to be called Blazing Samurai and only got its dumb new title thanks to some marketing executive at the last minute. Another thing I was surprised by was that the Coolest Cat song only plays in the end credits - I have to wonder if there was a deleted scene it would have been in that got cut out? Several key sequences were scored by existing needle-dropped songs that were all terrible! However, other than that, Bear's score shined through and really elevated the movie! He really did a good job here. I'm listening to the album again on spotify now and enjoying it all over again. I wish I could buy it on physical CD! JNHFan2000 and Yavar Moradi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share Posted January 8, 2023 Has anybody else on JWFan seen this movie? Does anybody on JWFan think that this is one of the 10 best scores of 2022? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,961 Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Yes. And Yes. I actually think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share Posted January 8, 2023 Nice! What'd you think of the movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,961 Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 It was nice. Nothing truly special although I had a fun time. The best thing about it are the voice acting and score. And it's shame this score doesn't get talled bout a lot, because what McCreary has done is nothing short of remarkable. There are all these different styles of music, so you would think it wouldn't work, but it absolutely does. Add to that a few magnificent themes and just straight up fun. What more could you want!!! Jay and Stark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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