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I can't really think of a series with a bigger disconnect between it's music and song collection. Mostly because I enjoyed this series and I think a lot of this music is enough to sink the show.
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I don't think any of it was actually used in the show.at least I don't remember a lot of the wackier stuff being included. If you're listening at home, the worst of the worst of this music lives on the Volume 2 disc. An example of a series that does this correctly is Gingaman. Some of the more hollow dramatic pieces featuring little more than a lone female vocalization are just cheap cop-outs. There really is no great fight music, just this unnaturally uptempo noise. That's great and all, but this is for a children's action show. The music oscillates between teeth-shattering shrill to so herky-jerky that it could be some great break dance music with very little modification. The problem is actually deeper than that, however. If this is what was at Omi's disposal, that's rather unfortunate. This isn't even the first Sentai music collection employ the use of a drum machine, but whatever equipment they were using was at least four years out of date by 1987. Tracks will feature a lone real instrument (horn, guitar, violin) and be absolutely ruined by a horrible synth tone and THE SINGLE WORST DRUM MACHINE IN EXISTENCE. The best way I can describe the music from this series is like this. Even the previous Sentai/Toku series that skewed heavily toward orchestral soundtracks would have some bare acoustic tracks for the heavier scenes. That is about as traditional as this music collection got. Hearing real instruments is extremely rare throughout this collection, but there are some nice dramatic tracks that feature some nice acoustic strings.
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Whatever the story was behind-the-scenes, composer Goro Omi turned in a collection of the most disjointed sludge ever to poison our ears.Īdmittedly there are some worthwhile pieces of music. The almost complete lack of an orchestra really takes the punch out of the entire mood. Musical tastes are subjective, but there is no denying that the Maskman music collection is woefully.incomplete(?). Today I'm going to talk about an example of a classic series having an absolute shit music collection: Hikari Sentai Maskman. I've made it fairly known that I enjoyed the Kyoryuger soundtrack even before I realized the series shared a composer with Carranger/Ultraman Powered/Gingaman. I'm not ashamed to say I dig new music every once in awhile if it's genuine-even when it comes to Tokusatsu. They're only the "good ole days" thanks to a combination of how memory works and possibly a smidge of revisionist history. It's a line that's always stuck with me considering how much people moan about "good ole days" when it comes to cars, movies, television shows, and.music. That's from Billy Joel's Keeping The Faith. "You know the good ole days weren't always good. The lyric that struck me today actually comes from a song that I don't care for, but I'll share it anyway. While I am absolutely useless at deciphering song lyrics in plain English, every once in awhile a nugget sticks with me.