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It's a bummer that the show will never play with original music on some streaming service due to (as I understand it) music licensing problems.
by criddell 5mo ago
It's a bummer that the show will never play with original music on some streaming service due to (as I understand it) music licensing problems.
- ghaff 5mo agoNorthern Exposure had similar problems but, as I understand it, at least some was resolved for the (somewhat relatively) recent DVD box set release. It just wasn't an issue that was seriously considered by a lot of studios(?) at the time and it's not like back catalog TV shows are usually these big money-makers that warrant a lot of time and cost to get in order.
- justbees 5mo agoThere's a DVD box set that has almost all of the original music!
- pwg 5mo agoThe solution there is to not bother with "streaming services" and just download the readily available alternative captures, which include the original music.
- gosub100 5mo agoI did this for Married With Children.
- freedomben 5mo agoSame for super natural season 1. The original music was badass, the replacement really changed the show
- gosub100 5mo agoThat's so stupid when these rights disputes come up! Think of how many people will stream or buy the songs legally after (re) discovering them on an old show. And think of how few people will watch the show solely because it features copyright music. It should be the other way around, i.e. Stranger Things should send the record company a bill for the resurgence of "Running up that hill".
- WalterBright 5mo agoThe most horrible example is the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Early commercial VHS tapes of it have the original music. Later tapes, and the DVDs, have all the music replaced with just awful generic music. That bad music just makes it unwatchable. Music is an enormous factor in movies, I wonder why nobody mentions it. For example, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack is spectacular and adds greatly to the pleasure in watching it. In contrast, the soundtrack to The Hobbit sounds completely generic and boring, and the result is unwatchable. Another example is Star Wars. The first two movies had amazingly good soundtracks. The later sequels had boring music, and whaddya know, the sequels were boring.
- bombcar 5mo agoI don’t know if perfect soundtracks would save your examples; I’d argue that the malaise infects everything: you can’t make a great soundtrack for a mediocre movie.
- WalterBright 5mo ago> you can’t make a great soundtrack for a mediocre movie. I'm having trouble coming up with an example, but my dad told me that "Warsaw Concerto" was composed for the movie "Dangerous Moonlight". The movie was bad, but was popular because people really liked "Warsaw Concerto".
- bombcar 5mo agoI think an amazing song or piece could come from or certainly be used in a crappy movie, but I don’t think you can have a definitive entire soundtrack for a bad movie. I could probably be proved wrong( I don’t think it’s entirely causal but more “they won’t pay for good music if they won’t pay for a good script” kind of thing.
- WalterBright 5mo agoThe "Warsaw Concerto" was composed for the movie. I haven't seen the movie myself, but movies often use themes from the main song throughout.