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Battle of Gods Soundtrack sounds incredibly similar to Bruce Faulconer's music! The two are eerily similar.
Tell me what y'all think about the new direction of Dragon Ball music
I likely cannot post the link so just Youtube: "Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods Soundtrack" and choose: "ZalegDraenor's" vid...happy listening or unhappy listening depending on how you feel about good ol' Bruce
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How I enjoy the anime:
Spoiler:
I like to switch between the dub and the original. If I want to watch the original I'll watch it subbed on my Dragon Boxes.
If I want to watch it dubbed I'll watch the funimation singles and my dragon boxes for the other episodes in proper aspect ratio. Aside from the Vegeta arc I cannot stand the dub with the Japanese music, as it just does not mesh with the dub script and acting.
Don't get me wrong I'm a fan of the Kikuchi score and think it works perfectly with the Japanese cast...but the American audio in Z and Kai just sounds awful with it.
Kai is the only version of the dub I cannot watch whether it be Yamamoto's score or Kikuchii's ad hoc replacement. Until this forum I had not encountered a single person who preferred Kai to Z in terms of dub.
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Because...?
I am not saying they are exactly the same but they have the same feel and characteristics, for instance:
deep dark space = "androids theme"
I'm the hero son goku, = "It's up to dende" followed by "call out the dragon"
I'm not gonna sit here and match up each song but they have the same techno feel with heavy guitars in certain areas with layering. It's a great great deal different from the Japanese score of the anime. Head Cha La sounds way different even.
"You might think you know everything there is to know about me, but really, you're not even CLOSE."
"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." ~ Sir Winston Chruchill / Dragon Ball Z in a nutshell
How I enjoy the anime:
Spoiler:
I like to switch between the dub and the original. If I want to watch the original I'll watch it subbed on my Dragon Boxes.
If I want to watch it dubbed I'll watch the funimation singles and my dragon boxes for the other episodes in proper aspect ratio. Aside from the Vegeta arc I cannot stand the dub with the Japanese music, as it just does not mesh with the dub script and acting.
Don't get me wrong I'm a fan of the Kikuchi score and think it works perfectly with the Japanese cast...but the American audio in Z and Kai just sounds awful with it.
Kai is the only version of the dub I cannot watch whether it be Yamamoto's score or Kikuchii's ad hoc replacement. Until this forum I had not encountered a single person who preferred Kai to Z in terms of dub.
Some of the earlier songs have that familiar Faulconer drone but past that, it heads back into familiar territory except with 200% more chants and strings.
AjayLikesGaming wrote:Some of the earlier songs have that familiar Faulconer drone but past that, it heads back into familiar territory except with 200% more chants and strings.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I barely hear any similarities.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
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Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
AjayLikesGaming wrote:Some of the earlier songs have that familiar Faulconer drone but past that, it heads back into familiar territory except with 200% more chants and strings.
Agreed the strings do tend to separate the two, but I'm glad at least someone else can hear the similarities.
"You might think you know everything there is to know about me, but really, you're not even CLOSE."
"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." ~ Sir Winston Chruchill / Dragon Ball Z in a nutshell
How I enjoy the anime:
Spoiler:
I like to switch between the dub and the original. If I want to watch the original I'll watch it subbed on my Dragon Boxes.
If I want to watch it dubbed I'll watch the funimation singles and my dragon boxes for the other episodes in proper aspect ratio. Aside from the Vegeta arc I cannot stand the dub with the Japanese music, as it just does not mesh with the dub script and acting.
Don't get me wrong I'm a fan of the Kikuchi score and think it works perfectly with the Japanese cast...but the American audio in Z and Kai just sounds awful with it.
Kai is the only version of the dub I cannot watch whether it be Yamamoto's score or Kikuchii's ad hoc replacement. Until this forum I had not encountered a single person who preferred Kai to Z in terms of dub.
dbzfan7 wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something, but I barely hear any similarities.
2:10 in that video he mentioned. It's just drone with some more wavering tones in the background. Could quite easily be a Faulconer track. Beyond that, yeah, I don't hear it.
dbzfan7 wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something, but I barely hear any similarities.
2:10 in that video he mentioned. It's just drone with some more wavering tones in the background. Could quite easily be a Faulconer track. Beyond that, yeah, I don't hear it.
I did say barely which doesn't mean I don't hear it at all. I just barely see anything that could be related.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
Spoiler:
Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
Bahaha should have expected as much from this forum not everything about the American dub warrants hate but whatever.
"You might think you know everything there is to know about me, but really, you're not even CLOSE."
"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." ~ Sir Winston Chruchill / Dragon Ball Z in a nutshell
How I enjoy the anime:
Spoiler:
I like to switch between the dub and the original. If I want to watch the original I'll watch it subbed on my Dragon Boxes.
If I want to watch it dubbed I'll watch the funimation singles and my dragon boxes for the other episodes in proper aspect ratio. Aside from the Vegeta arc I cannot stand the dub with the Japanese music, as it just does not mesh with the dub script and acting.
Don't get me wrong I'm a fan of the Kikuchi score and think it works perfectly with the Japanese cast...but the American audio in Z and Kai just sounds awful with it.
Kai is the only version of the dub I cannot watch whether it be Yamamoto's score or Kikuchii's ad hoc replacement. Until this forum I had not encountered a single person who preferred Kai to Z in terms of dub.
My vague memory of the Faulconer score: Guitar-riffs. Guitar-riffs everywhere.
My slightly less vague memory of the Battle of Gods score: Mediocre 16-bit video-game soundtrack.
Speaking as someone who doesn't find either of them particularly great... I really don't hear the resemblance.
Vegard Aune wrote:My vague memory of the Faulconer score: Guitar-riffs. Guitar-riffs everywhere.
My slightly less vague memory of the Battle of Gods score: Mediocre 16-bit video-game soundtrack.
Speaking as someone who doesn't find either of them particularly great... I really don't hear the resemblance.
Vegard Aune wrote:My vague memory of the Faulconer score: Guitar-riffs. Guitar-riffs everywhere.
My slightly less vague memory of the Battle of Gods score: Mediocre 16-bit video-game soundtrack.
Speaking as someone who doesn't find either of them particularly great... I really don't hear the resemblance.
Fair point. It just seems like whenever I think of the soundtrack to the movie, my mind just jumps to one certain comic relief-scene, where the soundtrack did in fact sound very mediocre 16-bit video-game-y. But yeah, the battle-themes definitely do not share that style.
Kakarot88 wrote:Bahaha should have expected as much from this forum not everything about the American dub warrants hate but whatever.
What? No one has said anything even remotely hateful towards the dub in this topic? We're just not seeing quite the same level of similarity as you are. I personally hear it somewhat in parts but I think it sounds very different for the majority of the OST, that doesn't mean I feel that way because I don't want to admit it resembles something I don't like.
Yeah, tracks 26, Goku Appears, &. 27, Shenlong Comes Out, definitely have a Faulconer-esque sound to them. I'd also like to pick out track 31, Super Saiyan God is Born as having a Shuki Levy-vibe to it. I think it might be the drum.
So some of the tracks use a very minuscule amount of synth and it's instantly Faulconer-like? Yeah no, try again.
Kakarot88 wrote:Bahaha should have expected as much from this forum not everything about the American dub warrants hate but whatever.
You do realize that Faulconer's score was removed from the dub for a reason right?
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