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Oct 9, 2010 - 12:32 AM
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Tom Servo
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Hate to triple post here...but I noticed something while listening to the material for "The Best Of Both Worlds" and watching the episode on Youtube. Maybe Lukas or perhaps Neil can shed some light on this a bit better.
The scene for when Shelby gave her report to Riker confirming it was the Borg towards the beginning of Part 1, I hear a stinger that's not with the set. Then again it could be tracked / pitched material, it's the piece that plays before "Preparations".
Second piece that doesn't seem to be there is the music that plays before "Hansen's Message". All though I suspect again it could just be tracked / pitched material.
Third piece of music I don't seem to recognize is after when Shelby tells Riker, "If you can't make the big decisions commander, I suggest you make room from someone who can".
Fourth piece is right after the Main Titles for Part 2 and Riker is recording his personal log about the Borg ship resuming its course towards Earth and they're unable to pursue pending repairs to the Enterprise.
I think though, most of the material might be tracked or pitched. I saw on IMDB that John Debney was conductor so I kind of wonder if he did a couple of stinger cues for the score. Or another thing I just thought of, I wonder if they had tracked material from his "Q Who?" score since a lot of parts sounded the same.
IMDB can be wrong now and then and in all my years of reading about TNG and its music, interviews, even talking with Ron Jones myself, I have never heard that John Debney conducted any of Jones' scores. It would have been notated in the original GNP Crescendo album and in the notes for this set if he did. Jones conducted all of his own TNG scores, so I think whoever added that note to IMDB was confused by the fact that Debney scored a 7th season episode of TNG, called "The Pegasus".
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I just got this from the post office today and I'm only now starting to listen to it, but "The Naked Now" already had me hooked!!! I was surprised at how at home much of that particular score would be in the original series.
I am marveling at the sense of adventure that Jones brings to the proceedings of these first to episodes. Yes, he is referencing the familiar Goldsmith and Courage themes, sometimes with some very Sol Kaplan/Fred Steiner-esque twists, but it's all in a voice very distinctly Jones, as I recognize from "The Best of Both Worlds" and the Ron Jones disc in the Blue Box, which was a very, very pleasant surprise for me.
At the risk of sounding greedy (although I do admittedly have ravenous musical appetites), does the relationship with Mr. Jones that FSM has mean that we might someday hear some more Ron Jones music from other projects as well? Either way, bravo on this production. It may have been a gargantuan undertaking, but judging from what I've heard so far the effort was totally worthwhile.
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Oct 10, 2010 - 10:09 PM
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Tom Servo
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Thanks to the Ron Jones signing at Dark Delicacies last month, I've been able to enjoy this set for several weeks. If I limit the discussion to just the first season for starters, the standout scores for me are "Where No One Has Gone Before", "Datalore", "11001001", "Heart of Glory", "Skin of Evil" and "We'll Always Have Paris". Each of these feature one or more new memorable themes and they receive marvelous variations throughout, while also each references Courage and Goldsmith thematic material.
I love the synth element in all Jones' TNG scores, but it was especially heavy during these first season scores, both in solo fashion and in an accompanying manner not unlike Goldsmith's music for "Innerspace", "Extreme Prejudice" and "Explorers". "Datalore", "11001001" and "We'll Always Have Paris" feature some of my favorite synth moments, in wondrous, major modes, moody tones and kinetic, punchy action bits.
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I am new to this community, but I must give a big thank you to whomever is responsible for this project. I received my copy last Friday and have been listening to it constantly. Besides being great music, it takes me back to an important part of my life, and for that I am grateful. OUTSTANDING WORK.
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Thanks Wedge! Now you worry about those fighters, I'll worry about the tower.
Lukas
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