Reading the comments above gets me thinking how much Newman may have handed over parts of this to his orchestrators to score. His earlier scores are so unique and Randy Newman sounding, it's disconcerting hearing some of his later stuff sounding so different (generic?). It's well known his orchestrators had a big hand on things like SEABISCUIT and TOY STORY 3 and it really stands out in them. Could this explain the big sounding difference here?
It doesn't sound to me like much, if any, of this was farmed out. The arrangements and melody lines and everything sound like him to me. I kept thinking of a few of his songs from his 70s albums throughout CARS 3... Sail Away and A Texas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father, among others.
I feel like Randy's personality usually makes its way into the music. The score in the final mix of SEABISCUIT was all cut up and some of it was clearly not composed by him. On the album, it all sounds like him. I suspect that he had help on big sections of TOY STORY 3, but not this.
It doesn't sound to me like much, if any, of this was farmed out. The arrangements and melody lines and everything sound like him to me. I kept thinking of a few of his songs from his 70s albums throughout CARS 3... Sail Away and A Texas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father, among others.
I feel like Randy's personality usually makes its way into the music. The score in the final mix of SEABISCUIT was all cut up and some of it was clearly not composed by him. On the album, it all sounds like him. I suspect that he had help on big sections of TOY STORY 3, but not this.
Toy Story 3 was a much darker film in parts, and so is this one supposedly. I'd like to read about the deal with Toy Story 3, citation?
Just listened to this. I like it very much. The whole thing sounds distinctly like Randy Newman to me – I'm not sure where the idea is coming from that it's a huge change-up that must have been composed by somebody else.
Just listened to this. I like it very much. The whole thing sounds distinctly like Randy Newman to me – I'm not sure where the idea is coming from that it's a huge change-up that must have been composed by somebody else.
It's totally Randy Newman. It's just not Toy Story / Bugs Life / Cars / Maverick. If you see what I mean? He goes a little further afield (to me) than he has on previous Pixar films.
