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Jun 18, 2012 - 8:08 PM
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bobbengan
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This has had a good few plays in chez McGann lately.
If you like those old  80's scores from the likes of Debney, McNeely and Robert Folk - you know the ones, where the only constraints placed upon the composers was to incorporate that Cocoon-type melody that came from the Randy Newman/Natural End Title template plus the current 'flavour of the month' sounds of Williams and Horner - you should really dig this one.
It's nothing new under the sun, but it is quite pleasing to hear a score that really sounds like it was written/composed, as opposed to just programmed into a computer.
Certainly not his best work, but a whole lotta fun.
Ouch! Poor Folk, McNeely and Debney.
In all seriousness though, I had never heard THE NATURAL before reading this but just went and listened to the End Title on Youtube. I am indeed amazed how many composer have pulled inspiration from this piece. The reference in Horner's COCOON is fairly slight, but still present...but moreover...I hear quite a bit of THE ROCKETEER in there and, most egregiously, Debney's title theme from WHITE FANG 2 is lifted quite heavily from it.
I had no idea this piece, by a composer I rarely pay any attention to at all to be frank, has been aped so much. Wowzers! That said, I don't think Robert Folk is guilty in this case - I've listened to virtually all of his [orchestral] work by this point, and I don't think I've ever heard a direct lift, nor anything I'd call egregious.
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Certainly not his best work, but a whole lotta fun.
I think it's his best work.
So do I.
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