Nate Johnson Track

[Cootie]

What do you guys think of Nate Johnson's DBZ music?

He is the guy who did the dub music for the season 1&2 orange bricks. I thought it was pretty decent actually. It seemed too dark from time to time, but some of his work such a Vegeta's Theme with the dark harpsichords was good. I think his biggest problem was that his music all sounded alike. Most of the time themes would change and you wouldn't even notice.

P.S. Lovin' the Kai music though.

[xzero]

I'm not much of a fan, honestly. I liked the Faulconer Productions score because a lot of the tracks are memorable and many of the characters had a distinctive theme that played with subtle variations throughout the series. Johnson's music had some themes to it, but nothing even close, and like you pointed out, it's hard to differentiate one track from another.

[Codarik]

His music for episodes 1-67 were good. I love his music for movie 2, it has that sci-fi feel to it and really did fit the mood and setting for the movie. Not to mention Gogeta's theme in movie 12 was great.

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

I've seen movies 12 and 13 with his score. The music had a cinematic and epic feel to it. However, it was very generic and sounded like it came out of a typical action movie. It was leagues better than the "rock band" score used in previous movies, though.

[BluezaBladeNZ]

I usually just ignore the dub score but Nathan Johnson's work was fantastic, favourite being Movies 1 UUE, 12 and 13, mostly because it had a orchestral/organic feel to it which the others didn't really have. Though for the series, my favourite is Shuki Levy who did episodes 1-53 of the Ocean Dub.

[jjgp1112]

Nathan Johnson's score is fucking awful. It doesn't move at all, and is just random background noise. And the placement of the themes is horrible.

[Cipher]

Incredibly generic. Which means bland. Which means awful.

[bkev]

I think Nathan Johnson's work was good for the movies he did, but I disliked his work on the series.

[Attitudefan]

I enjoy the OST quite a bit. The Recap music and one of the fight theme songs (used when Tien attacks Nappa with 1 arm) were great songs

[Turtle Marked Stone]

I've only heard his music on the series (I've watched a little of the Ultimate Uncut stuff hoping it would use a more accurate script) and well it's kind of like the Star Wars prequels were melted down into music.

[GreggMays64]

Just remember, the orange brick is still the same dub. You could have said he did the first 67 episodes.
Anyways, I would rather that they used Bruce Faulconer for the redub. It would be nice to hear this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWgEXZpeSqY) theme play when the Ginyu forces were doing their poses.

[cRookie_Monster]

Just remember, the orange brick is still the same dub. You could have said he did the first 67 episodes.
Anyways, I would rather that they used Bruce Faulconer for the redub. It would be nice to hear this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWgEXZpeSqY) theme play when the Ginyu forces were doing their poses.

Hmm, I don't think that would have been used tbh. Those scenes are supposed to be downright corny. The Faulconer Productions Ginyu Theme wasn't really written with that in mind. I don't really think it was understand what they were all about.

[xzero]

Just remember, the orange brick is still the same dub. You could have said he did the first 67 episodes.
Anyways, I would rather that they used Bruce Faulconer for the redub. It would be nice to hear this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWgEXZpeSqY) theme play when the Ginyu forces were doing their poses.

Hmm, I don't think that would have been used tbh. Those scenes are supposed to be downright corny. The Faulconer Productions Ginyu Theme wasn't really written with that in mind. I don't really think it was understand what they were all about.

If that's the case, I think it's one of those circumstances where the lack of knowledge proved more helpful. I liked the more serious take with the Ginyu music, and always felt it worked--and would have worked for the earlier episodes before Faulconer took over--in the sense that it added a needed serious aspect to something that was otherwise just plain silly.

[cRookie_Monster]

Keep in mind when the Ginyu Force did start doing cheesy poses, Faulconer Productions used cheesy music. It happened later on up at King Kai's place.

I think completely serious music over that completely corny first entrance would just be out of place. The music they have in Kai is actually really fitting and well done imo.

[xzero]

I do completely agree on the point about Kai. That song is so ridiculous in both Japanese and English, but it's so fitting.

[paulkk]

I think it's great and marvelous. It's very enjoyable.

[Puto]

I think completely serious music over that completely corny first entrance would just be out of place.

You mean like Nathan Johnson did?

[cRookie_Monster]

I think completely serious music over that completely corny first entrance would just be out of place.

You mean like Nathan Johnson did?

Haha, well it sounds like he did try to put some goofy sounds in....but sheesh....talk about lack of flavor.....

[ThunderPX]

I think Chris Psaros actually went out of his way to note on DBZU that the original dub handled the Ginyu Force's introduction perfectly by having what may be the only moment of dead silence in the entire show.

[Coycoy88]

I actually liked a good majority of his music, especially his work on Fusion Reborn. My favorite track he composed was the one used when Vegeta Fought the "Beast" form of Zarbon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaANU4km_cs But I will always personally prefer the Faulconer Production music. That music is ingraved into my DNA, lol. XD