Originally Posted By DDMAN26 What are some of your favorites for an area or attraction at the Parks. It can be old or new. Some of mine: Epcot 1982 Epcot 2001 Epcot 2006 Innoventions World of Motion Main Street Hollywood Studios Entrance Tower of Terror Tomorrowland current
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm a big fan of the original Epcot entrance loop, and the pre-Illuminations loop that ran roughly 2007-2013, but pretty much anything from Epcot is a highlight for me It's not from WDW, but I recently discovered that DLP has a great Christmas loop for Main Street. I've always been left cold (no pun intended) by DL's music box-heavy Christmas loop, but DLP's seems to capture the rich brassy sound that I associate with the holidays, but have trouble finding. Also in the non-WDW category, I like the Condor Flats loop
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I also enjoy the original EPCOT Center loop with the montage of all those great attraction theme songs. The Disneyland Christmas loop is so retro now that it's almost kitschy. . In fact years ago, they played the same loop in Future World during the holiday season. What's playing in DCA Buena Vista Street? I haven't been since the redesign? I hated all the 'California' pop songs that used to play in the entrance when DCA opened. Very lame set of songs that repeated way too often.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros As obvious as the old Sunshine Plaza music was, I kind of liked it. It helped set the tone for the park (for better or for worse) and had some fun tunes to it. The total loop was actually around 45-50 minutes long, but since all of the songs sounded similar and had a similar subject it seemed much shorter I also liked the old Paradise Pier loop with 60's surf songs played on a calliope. It was familiar enough to be recognizable, but different enough to that it was a little more refined. In a way, the Carthay Circle loop with cool jazz versions of Disney classics reminds me of it >>What's playing in DCA Buena Vista Street? I haven't been since the redesign?<< It's mostly old school instrumental jazz now. It fits the area very well, but just isn't my favorite style of music. It's also pretty similar to the new Paradise Pier music, meaning that a very large chunk of the park is playing stuff that sounds the same. It's not bad by any means, it just not my cup of tea
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Well, for me, all those pop songs like 'California Girls' and 'California Dreamin' felt like a California themed corporate picnic. Too obvious. I always felt they missed an opportunity to create a symphonic 'California Suite' -- perhaps composed by the late Jerry Goldsmith or Hans Zimmer or Elton John -- which would have really set the theme in a, dare I write, more sophisticated manner. Sort of the Disneyland Resort's answer to the original EPCOT Center suite of music. Certainly more interesting than 'Little Old Lady from Pasadena'
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I agree that a grand suite, similar to the Epcot entrance or TDS's Aquasphere Plaza, would have made for a much more sophisticated opening act, and could have set a different tone for the park. But given how the park turned out, with the terrible puns everywhere, slashed budgets, and attractions with little repeatability, I think that the "too obvious" pop songs were a perfect fit. Not for what the park should have been, but for what it actually was Another background music loop that I really enjoy is TDS's Port Discovery. It mixes some bits of Epcot's Innoventions Plaza loop with some sci-fi film scores (including Disney's Atlantis), and its piece de resistance is a mash-up of the main theme from the original Epcot entrance loop and Chaos from Reflections of Earth. As a whole, that loop is very much a product of its time (much like Port Discovery itself), but I have a soft spot for that sort of music so it really works for me
