Dragonball GT BGM

[LilKokuLink]

Hey, I've looked through the Music Database section but I am still a bit confused. I am a fan of the dub, but for GT i prefer the japanese music and so I am trying to find the CD releases for GT which includes the BGM. I can't seem to find it, have they been released? I know that there is the stuff like Dan Dan Kokoro Hikariteku, Hitori Janai, Blue Velvet etc. I've had to resort to downloading them off the internet.. but I was wondering about any CD releases for the background music played during the show, if there are any I'd like to get them. So if anyone knows, can somebody please tell me about the releases of the japanese GT score? Thank You for reading.

[TripleRach]

There were never any GT soundtracks released. But there was a soundtrack for the final Dragon Ball movie, which used a lot of the same background music as GT. It's the only way to get any GT BGM on CD. As for the rest of GT's BGM, there's a thread about that.

But the five vocal themes all had CD single releases, which I guess are out of print nowadays, but you could probably still find some of the artists' full albums with the songs brand new.

[LilKokuLink]

There were never any GT soundtracks released. But there was a soundtrack for the final Dragon Ball movie, which used a lot of the same background music as GT. It's the only way to get any GT BGM on CD. As for the rest of GT's BGM, there's a thread about that.

But the five vocal themes all had CD single releases, which I guess are out of print nowadays, but you could probably still find some of the artists' full albums with the songs brand new.

Thanks a lot, I guess I'll look for the 10th anniversary movie soundtrack then

[Savage68]

This guy has a lot of the unreleased Mark Menza GT soundtrack...

http://www.youtube.com/user/coycoy88

[bkev]

You know, on its own some of Mark Menza's tracks actually aren't that bad! Haha, never thought I'd say that.

[Savage68]

I didn't either. GT is all-around bad, but I actually think that Menza's BGM fit the show better a lot of times.

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

I didn't either. GT is all-around bad, but I actually think that Menza's BGM fit the show better a lot of times.

I 100% agree with you for once, Mark Menza's GT score is better than the original Japanese score and just all around fits the series more.

[LilKokuLink]

Mark Menza did the GT score for FUNimation right? In the FUNimation dub it seemed to me that the music didn't fit well with the scene, but on its own its pretty cool

[Rory]

I didn't either. GT is all-around bad, but I actually think that Menza's BGM fit the show better a lot of times.

I 100% agree with you for once, Mark Menza's GT score is better than the original Japanese score and just all around fits the series more.

Repetitive guitar riffs vs upbeat orchestrated music? Huh, the masses have already spoken I suppose.

[penguintruth]

Akihito Tokunaga may not be as talented as Shunsuke Kikuchi, but GT's original soundtrack is a lot better than the garbage "music" Funimation had produced for anything. Tokunaga's music has this special, enchanting feeling to it. And the variations of the theme songs are always great.

In fact, I probably prefer it to Yamamoto's work in Kai.

[jda95]

I would still rate the music of GT very highly. It is simply incredible, all of it. And Prolouge....

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

Akihito Tokunaga may not be as talented as Shunsuke Kikuchi, but GT's original soundtrack is a lot better than the garbage "music" Funimation had produced for anything. Tokunaga's music has this special, enchanting feeling to it. And the variations of the theme songs are always great.

In fact, I probably prefer it to Yamamoto's work in Kai.

Just because its not the original music for the series, doesn't mean its garbage.

On a musical level, it just sounds better to me than Akihito Tokunaga's score.

[Tweaker]

Incidentally, I felt the opposite--I felt Menza's score had absolutely no relevance to the actual vibe the series portrayed; the original score was far more upbeat and atmospheric, much akin to the original Japanese score for its predecessors. The useless breakbeats and horribly monotonous excuses for melodies in were totally inappropriate and a serious bore to listen to.

[Savage68]

Oh, wow.

I had forgotten where I was when I made that comment.

NEVERMIND the ORCHESTRA >>> EVERYTHING ELSE NO MATTER WHAT!!1!

[penguintruth]

Please. You can barely consider anything Mark Menza or Bruce Faulconer to even be "music". It's just a lot of noise arranged so that it sometimes resembles it. In order to be music, it actually has to be musical.

[Savage68]

Case in point.

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

Case in point.

Exactly

ITZ NOT MUSIK COZ ITZ NOT JAPANESE crap I keep hearing.

[JulieYBM]

Whether Menza's music is good is irrelevant. It is not the original score and was composed with the idea of the series being something it is not in mind.

[penguintruth]

Case in point.

Exactly

ITZ NOT MUSIK COZ ITZ NOT JAPANESE crap I keep hearing.

Don't put words in my mouth.

My distaste for the music itself is seperate from my dislike of the practice of replacement music.

If I heard it in anything else, I'd still hate it.

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

Whether Menza's music is good is irrelevant. It is not the original score and was composed with the idea of the series being something it is not in mind.

Menza's score was composed to accompany the series of Dragon Ball GT just like Tokunaga's score and in my opinion Menza's score works better with the series. (Not saying Tokunaga's score is bad though)