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Why oh why did the music for Rocky & Bullwinkle change for the dvd release? It's horrible. The R&B on VHS have the original music.

Onawa 2y ago
Because of expired licenses to use the original music. You can see the same thing happening with later releases of media. As an example, DVD releases of Scrubs were known to have switched out many songs in the entire show.
- pests 2y ago
  This happens in the streaming days too. I believe Arrested Development was one where when it came to streaming they had to change the music.
- Khaine 2y ago
  It happened with Daria as well.
shmeeed 2y ago
They didn't have the license and actually got sued for the VHS release. https://old.reddit.com/r/FrostbiteFalls/comments/1flr8ue/frank_comstock_and_the_bullwinkle_music_that_got/ https://old.reddit.com/r/FrostbiteFalls/comments/1flr8ue/fra...
- WalterBright 2y ago
  Thank you, at last I have an explanation! As for the people responsible: You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
  - anjel 2y ago
    Its almost always a rights issue with changes to movie and TV soundtracks.
    - bigstrat2003 2y ago
      And video games too. GTA 4 has had that issue, and digital copies of the game have had music (which Rockstar no longer has the rights to) patched out.
alabastervlog 2y ago
If you have wide taste in film and TV, at some point you have to turn to piracy (and/or fan edits) to get the “real thing”. Impossible or impractical to get it any other way.
- teo_zero 2y ago
  > at some point you have to turn to piracy Cory Doctorow's young-adults novel "Pirate Cinema" develops around this idea.
thaumasiotes 2y ago
The CD release of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio program notes that it's mostly the original recordings, except for the music. They didn't have the rights to release the music on CD, so they substituted in different music. If you want the same program that was broadcast over the radio, you need to buy it on cassette, where apparently they do have the rights to the music. Something has obviously gone badly wrong in the world of IP licensing. Somehow I imagine that movies don't license different parts of their soundtrack differently to make sure they can never be rereleased.

Onawa 2y ago

Because of expired licenses to use the original music. You can see the same thing happening with later releases of media. As an example, DVD releases of Scrubs were known to have switched out many songs in the entire show.

pests 2y ago
This happens in the streaming days too. I believe Arrested Development was one where when it came to streaming they had to change the music.
Khaine 2y ago
It happened with Daria as well.

shmeeed 2y ago

They didn't have the license and actually got sued for the VHS release. https://old.reddit.com/r/FrostbiteFalls/comments/1flr8ue/frank_comstock_and_the_bullwinkle_music_that_got/ https://old.reddit.com/r/FrostbiteFalls/comments/1flr8ue/fra...

WalterBright 2y ago
Thank you, at last I have an explanation! As for the people responsible: You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
- anjel 2y ago
  Its almost always a rights issue with changes to movie and TV soundtracks.
  - bigstrat2003 2y ago
    And video games too. GTA 4 has had that issue, and digital copies of the game have had music (which Rockstar no longer has the rights to) patched out.

alabastervlog 2y ago

If you have wide taste in film and TV, at some point you have to turn to piracy (and/or fan edits) to get the “real thing”. Impossible or impractical to get it any other way.

teo_zero 2y ago
> at some point you have to turn to piracy Cory Doctorow's young-adults novel "Pirate Cinema" develops around this idea.

thaumasiotes 2y ago

The CD release of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio program notes that it's mostly the original recordings, except for the music. They didn't have the rights to release the music on CD, so they substituted in different music. If you want the same program that was broadcast over the radio, you need to buy it on cassette, where apparently they do have the rights to the music. Something has obviously gone badly wrong in the world of IP licensing. Somehow I imagine that movies don't license different parts of their soundtrack differently to make sure they can never be rereleased.