FlyBackTransformer Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 If anyone is interested, some good samaratan has posted a lot of the background music to the old speed racer cartoon series on youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Go, Speed Racer! Go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc2 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Speed Racer is one of the first TV shows I remember watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted October 2, 2013 Author Share Posted October 2, 2013 My early space cadet-ism started with Supercar then Fireball XL5 moving on to Gigantor followed by 8th Man. My brother liked Speed Racer more than I did but I grew to like it more as time passed. On youtube punch in *zowiemobile* and all the speed racer underscores posted by him will show up. Snipmp3 dot com if you just want the audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 WHY is this thread called GOOD MUSIC? As far as I can hear, there was NONE in any of those "Speed Racer" clips. Or at least, none that can be categorized as exceptional. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted October 2, 2013 Author Share Posted October 2, 2013 > WHY is this thread called GOOD MUSIC? As far as I can hear, there was NONE in any of those "Speed Racer" clips. Or at least, none that can be categorized as exceptional. Sepiatone *Our tastes must vastly differ, Sep. That is kickass music by a fine japanese composer imo.* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc2 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 As a young kid I didn't know Speed Racer and Kimba were made in Japan. At that age I might have not been sure where Japan was, (were talking roughly 4 to 6 years of age, around 1973.) Their are a lot of people who think The Lion King Ripped off Kimba The White Lion. Growing up my Stepmother's sister had a cat named Kimba. However he spent most of his life being called Kimmy even though he was a male. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 So Sepia, in essence... Do you LIKE Good Music? yeah, yeah Sweet Soul Music, yeah, yeah But NOT Speedracer music? no, no Oh NO, oh, oh, NO, no! (...right?!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 I don't necessarily like "good music" but I do like heavy music. Just ask Bob Seger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted October 2, 2013 Author Share Posted October 2, 2013 Well to me good music is good music irregardless of the source. To me the music of Underdog is good never mind the cartoon or the animation or artwork. The underscore music of Speed Racer is good, some of the best cartoon music you're ever gonna hear. I would put that music up against anything being composed in hollywood today...*easily.* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SippyCup Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Six of one, half a dozen of another. I don't think James Brown had anything to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Bowie has done a lot better, and is perhaps the only artist who straddles the new wave and classic rock genres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Good one, Darg. LOVE it! Fly, I do suppose it's all subjective. I listen to "Speedracer" background music, and all I hear is someone who wrote a score based on the background music of the old "Batman" TV series. Probably a staff "hack" piecing together old cookie cutter charts. YOU hear Lerner and Lowe. I would, however, refrain from slapping in a "Speedracer soundtrack" CD during a party, if I were you! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted October 3, 2013 Author Share Posted October 3, 2013 Fly, I do suppose it's all subjective. I listen to "Speedracer" background music, and all I hear is someone who wrote a score based on the background music of the old "Batman" TV series. Probably a staff "hack" piecing together old cookie cutter charts. YOU hear Lerner and Lowe. I would, however, refrain from slapping in a "Speedracer soundtrack" CD during a party, if I were you! Well, I guess I'm partial to dynamic power-driven music like say Jerry Goldsmith's ST-TMP score...I've always been a private music listener via headphones anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted October 3, 2013 Author Share Posted October 3, 2013 > Fly, I do suppose it's all subjective. I listen to "Speedracer" background music, and all I hear is someone who wrote a score based on the background music of the old "Batman" TV series. Probably a staff "hack" piecing together old cookie cutter charts. YOU hear Lerner and Lowe. I would, however, refrain from slapping in a "Speedracer soundtrack" CD during a party, if I were you! Well, I guess I'm partial to dynamic power-driven music like say Jerry Goldsmith's ST-TMP score...I've always been a private music listener via headphones anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted October 3, 2013 Author Share Posted October 3, 2013 > Fly, I do suppose it's all subjective. I listen to "Speedracer" background music, and all I hear is someone who wrote a score based on the background music of the old "Batman" TV series. Probably a staff "hack" piecing together old cookie cutter charts. YOU hear Lerner and Lowe. I would, however, refrain from slapping in a "Speedracer soundtrack" CD during a party, if I were you! *Well, I guess I'm partial to dynamic power-driven music like say Jerry Goldsmith's ST-TMP score...I've always been a private music listener via headphones anyway.* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SippyCup Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Yes he has. I just put that one in there as an example of his change from glam to soul, before the move to Berlin and techno, and then onto the next thing, whatever that was. I've always thought Bowie had been around too long to be a true new waver, though he might have had elements of it in his music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 To me, "Scary Monsters" (1980) is the best "new wave" song ever recorded, and there is no question that it belongs in that genre. 1980 was the year that the new wave sound really took off. Tons of great songs, all in that one year. Edited by: finance on Oct 3, 2013 4:10 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 Absolutely, finance. I want...I want my ...back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heuriger Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 What better segue than to present the very first video than MTV aired. It still represents the finest New Wave Song ever recorded, in my not so humble opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SippyCup Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 To me Bowie was already a music vet and new wave was another stop on the merry go round, not that he didn't put out some good stuff, but he's not as new wave as performers like Blondie, Elvis Costello, The Police, The Cars, Talking Heads, Graham Parker, etc., who truly began their careers in the mid or late 1970s. I like the late1960s to mid 1970s Bowie best, but to each their own. "Flyover country" music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 Without even clicking on your video, I believe that the first video aired by MTV was "Video KIlled the Radio Star" by the Buggles. Am I correct? The first video I recall seeing in 1980 or soon after that blew me away was "Planet Earth" by Duran Duran, still one of my new wave favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 I was never impressed by the whole MTV/video scene. I'm of the mind that MTV brought about the ruination of popular music. Mediocre songs becoming hits because the VIDEO was considered cool. What nonsense. Because of MTV, we had to endure "manufactured" pop groups like DURAN-DURAN( eep!), FLOCK OF SEAGULLS, PET SHOP BOYS, BANANARAMA and the like. The '80's were probably the most DISMAL music period since the post-payola '50's. It wasn't ALL bad, but mostly bad. Thank God for OFFSPING, THE CURE, DEPECHE MODE, RADIOHEAD and jazz-fusion, or I would have gone MAD! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 Speaking of '80s MTV videos...Have you folks seen this very clever new Volkswagen commercial here? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbRVMua0HUc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 And the first fully animated video was... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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