MiklCraw4d
Member
So recently I was on a long car ride and suddenly got in the mood to listen to some Disney music. Luckily, I had my park albums along, ranging from the 91 CD to the one before the current issue. I wound up listening to them in order.
What I came away with was a great appreciation of what Randy and his crew has done for us as WDW music fans.
The 1991 Album will stay in my esteem because it gave a wide sampling of music, and was the last gasp for so many great tracks that aren't around anymore. But it was put together with little sense of coherency or aural quality.
The later releases just get better and better. Listening to them in sequence only gives you a sense of the progress. Corners that had to be cut due to what he was given to work with were rectified on subsequent releases. It's an amazingly noticable progression, especially since the music in the attractions themselves were only dropping in quality during the period. Great songs were lost and replaced with not-so-great songs or nothing at all. Yet the albums improved.
And then I come on here and find that WDW is destined for a multi-CD soundtrack. That's great news. Really great news. Thanks for fighting for that.
My only hope would be that now that the current classics (Pirates, Mansion, Splash) have been nailed down with a perfect album cut, attention can be turned to extinct tunes and have them be brought back to life with the sonic clarity that they missed out on before.
Maybe we can also see a return to recordings of live acts in the park that added so much atmosphere to the old vinyl soundtracks.
Anyway, I'm glad to see the man is still around and fighting, and I really look forward to what's next.
Mikl
What I came away with was a great appreciation of what Randy and his crew has done for us as WDW music fans.
The 1991 Album will stay in my esteem because it gave a wide sampling of music, and was the last gasp for so many great tracks that aren't around anymore. But it was put together with little sense of coherency or aural quality.
The later releases just get better and better. Listening to them in sequence only gives you a sense of the progress. Corners that had to be cut due to what he was given to work with were rectified on subsequent releases. It's an amazingly noticable progression, especially since the music in the attractions themselves were only dropping in quality during the period. Great songs were lost and replaced with not-so-great songs or nothing at all. Yet the albums improved.
And then I come on here and find that WDW is destined for a multi-CD soundtrack. That's great news. Really great news. Thanks for fighting for that.
My only hope would be that now that the current classics (Pirates, Mansion, Splash) have been nailed down with a perfect album cut, attention can be turned to extinct tunes and have them be brought back to life with the sonic clarity that they missed out on before.
Maybe we can also see a return to recordings of live acts in the park that added so much atmosphere to the old vinyl soundtracks.
Anyway, I'm glad to see the man is still around and fighting, and I really look forward to what's next.
Mikl
