Originally Posted By plpeters70 I love the whole score for American Adventure! Definitely the pinnacle of Disney's Audio-Animatronic stage shows!
Originally Posted By JenniBarra >><----- would also like to see the return of the attraction specific soundtrack. With MP3s there's no real risk in making even obscure tracks available to those who value them...<< I would love to see that, too. I still am sad that I missed out on getting to make any Walt Disney World Forever discs.
Originally Posted By brotherdave There was also "The Computer Song" written for the Atuter Computer Review. And also the wonderful background music of The Living Seas. I really miss those days....
Originally Posted By leobloom The background music that plays outside the Land pavillion has always been one of my favorite loops.
Originally Posted By brotherdave Mine, too, Leo. I always liked Horizons, too. Sitting outside the pavilion at twilight when the lights were just coming on and listening to that awe-inspiring music really made that building magical and was one of my favorite memores of WDW and EPCOT Center. Actually, ANY of the Future World pavilions at night with the dramatic lighting, even today, is so impressive. Sadly, most of the pavilions are closed by sundown now... so all we have is the exteriors at night. >:-(
Originally Posted By FerretAfros While not an attraction in the traditional sense, the Millenium Celebration music works much like the old school attractions. Presumably, the whole suite starts with "Celebrate the Future," which you hear in commercials, long before you even enter the park. Once you arrive, that theme is woven into the Tapestry of Nations. The Tapestry music then also introduces the Illuminations music, which is actually a countermelody to Celebrate the Future. Later in the day, you go see Illuminations and get the second half of the orchestral portion of the suite. At the finale, "We Go On" and "Promise" then conclude the whole experience, following a variation on the same theme. It's not a single attraction that you enter, experience, and then exit, but it does follow the musical arc that makes the themes so memorable. It's just spread out over the course of the day (well, now only pieces of it are left), but it does the same thing that made the original Epcot stuff so great. It's a shame that less than half of the music is still used in the park...
Originally Posted By mstaft I think Richard Carpenter is a genius, and I am so wishing he would write for Disney! Of course, Karen was THE voice of her generation...
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^The Carpenters in a Disney thread? Paging my two favorite spirited fanbois to the thread immediately ...
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 On a more serious note, I recall being at the memorial for Buddy Baker at USC a few years and speaking with many Disney luminaries in the music department, including a Disney Legend, as well as celeb Imagineer to the stars, Tony B. Everyone agreed that Disney actively set out to destroy the soundtrack of EPCOT and had no desire to invest for the type of quality and talent mentioned in this thread. I have never heard music that so fit the mood of a park as the original EC entrance suite. Just awe-inspiring. And, please, no talk of how today's ordinary theme park crap equals it. Soarin has a great score, but let's all realize this wasn't created for Epcot ... and what else do you have? It's so unmemorable, I can barely think ...
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>I love the whole score for American Adventure! Definitely the pinnacle of Disney's Audio-Animatronic stage shows!<<< The pinnacle for ANY of their shows. It's a wonder. >>>^^The Carpenters in a Disney thread? Paging my two favorite spirited fanbois to the thread immediately ...<<<< I need another shake. And a beer. LOL
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>And, please, no talk of how today's ordinary theme park crap equals it. Soarin has a great score, but let's all realize this wasn't created for Epcot ... and what else do you have? It's so unmemorable, I can barely think ...<<< The current Innoventions loop is a good one, you have to admit. But yeah, the original topped it all. Do you have a copy?
Originally Posted By JenniBarra My dad dubbed a unique genre of music a long time ago: "Epcot Center music." This is for pieces of music that aren't actually from Epcot Center but sound as though they could have originated there.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA And the approach changed. When 'Wonders of Life' opened, the background music out front was semi-standard , New Age, David Arkenstone stuff. Good music, but not terribly memorable or interesting. Then, flash forward to Disneys California Adventure --and that pile o' crap music track that played in the main entrance and Sunshine Plaza. With the changes that are already underway, I hope we've heard 'California Girls' 'California Dreamin' and 'California Here I Come' for the last time. AAAAARRRRRGGHHH!
Originally Posted By Donny Check out this Disney World fansite <a href="http://www.mousenation.com/WDW/" target="_blank">http://www.mousenation.com/WDW/</a> look for the MOUSE RADIO button on the upper right side.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer I actually like the WoL loop... Felt very right for the pavilion and the park, even.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 I listen to Radio365 for my WDW music. And they have all kinds of music to choose from when I've had too much Disney.
Originally Posted By MousDad I've obsessed and immersed myself in the world of Disney Parks music for quite some time now, and I have come to the conclusion that the creativity, originality and effective use of music in the parks is the one single thing that most sets Disney Parks apart from the competition. It's also the one single thing that made and keeps me a Disney Parks fan. I agree with Skipper that it is still the one thing that has been consistently done at a high level throughout the history of the parks and up until the present. That being said, nothing can touch the mastery of Baker and Shermans, which is why I hate it when CEO's blow them off and find them "too constraining." Nor can anything touch the body of work that was the original Epcot body of music, which in its scope and originality (much like the park it accompanied) will never be equalled.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>I've obsessed and immersed myself in the world of Disney Parks music for quite some time now, and I have come to the conclusion that the creativity, originality and effective use of music in the parks is the one single thing that most sets Disney Parks apart from the competition.<<< Have you HEARD IoA's BGM? ;-)
Originally Posted By MousDad >>Have you HEARD IoA's BGM? ;-)<< Sorry for the confusion, I meant the competition they were ahead of, not the competition they were behind.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<Sorry for the confusion, I meant the competition they were ahead of, not the competition they were behind.>> #BOOM
