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Ah yes, nostalgia and homage reign supreme once more amongst younger filmmakers at the expense of personal voice or originality. Sorry for the negativity, but this nonsense really irks me in the worst way.
We get it. You grew up in the 80's and long for the kinds of movies you saw in your childhood. Do you actually have anything to offer as storytellers, however?
And will ANY filmmaker with this 80's or 90's-stalgia fever be planning on bringing back the big thematic sound that equally-defined these eras, or are they going to stick to the "budget" approach with bygone synths?
Pass!
Rant over. Sorry.
THOR, where is the picture of that angry old man with the cane?
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Love the show! I have two episodes to go and it might very well be the best acted 'hero kids' film/show I've ever seen.
Unfortunately, the score is quite possibly the most disappointing score I've heard in a long, long time. Sure, the synthy 80's vibe fits with the time but this is a show that desperately needed a classic, 80's thematic fully orchestral score with some synth colours.
If you look back at the 80's 'hero kids' movie, the scores are all (except for maybe Flight of the Navigator and The Russkies) thematic, big orchestral scores. E.T., Explorers, The Goonies, The Monster Squad... hell, even Mac and Me got a big score from Alan Silvestri.
And it's not so much the synths that bother me, it's the actual composition. It's not good at all. It's totally forgettable, droning, non-thematic, loop based music which is, for the lack of the better word, boring. I can't believe it took TWO guys to create this.
IMO, the producers dropped the ball on this one.
-Erik-
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz..........
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Ah yes, nostalgia and homage reign supreme once more amongst younger filmmakers at the expense of personal voice or originality. Sorry for the negativity, but this nonsense really irks me in the worst way.
We get it. You grew up in the 80's and long for the kinds of movies you saw in your childhood. Do you actually have anything to offer as storytellers, however?
And will ANY filmmaker with this 80's or 90's-stalgia fever be planning on bringing back the big thematic sound that equally-defined these eras, or are they going to stick to the "budget" approach with bygone synths?
Pass!
Rant over. Sorry.
THOR, where is the picture of that angry old man with the cane?
Hate to break it to you man, but it's the old man with the cane who's getting nostalgic for late '70s synth pads (and who is the target audience for the show). I think the music in the show is fine, but this kind of music is four decades old now - it's old enough to have grandkids! To today's teenagers, this just sounds like music from those ancient videogames that their dads keep in the den.
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I don't have Netflix, so will have to catch this on Blu Ray eventually.
The main title music is nice, but it kinda grinds my gears how it's "in" to have a synth score and go on about how it's like a Carpenter score, but, the actual score...isn't. People raved over the It Follows score, but...it doesn't hold a candle to most of Carpenter's stuff. Not to single that one out but...lemme single that one out 
The recent score to Cold In July however, was VERY much inspired by John Carpenter, and it works very well in the film.
And with respect to the composers , they say " we were just into synth ... what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were doing for [David] Fincher" . Um, guys, I really hope that ain't your frame of reference for electronic scores. Damn, go get a copy of Thief or Sorcerer !
I liked the show and admire the approach but agree that the score would be better served with influences of Tangerine Dream more than Carpenter- and I wouldn't really say the score is too much his style either- Carpenter threw in interesting modulation sand had a good sense of when to employ rhythmic ostinatos just like TD did. I started writing music in the 80s on synths and gobbled up every synth score I could by TD, Vangelis, and listened to other synth guys like Larry Fast, Tomita, Kitaro, etc. Btw- some of the synth sounds in the show are actually evoking '70s synth patches like the Solina which one can hear a lot of in Sorcerer.
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Started watching this today. Great show and loving the music with that tangerine dream vibe. ?
Actually, I thought they had licensed their music!
Two eps in I am not sure about this one.
For one thing, it's boring. The side stories with the high school lovers seems to have no purpose (so far)
Besides the movies previously mentioned as inspiration, add James Cameron's tv show DARK ANGEL.
wILL GIVE IT A COUPLE OF MORE EPS TO SEE IF IT PICKS UP STEAM
BRM
Definitely improving!
eps 3-6 have made me a convert
brm
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What's interesting in the show is the fact they use very good synth music with an Amblin-like story. To use orchestral music à la Super 8 would have been SO predictable. And I prefer good synth scoring to bad orchestral scoring like so many wanna-be Williams/Goldsmith/Horner write nowadays.
Sorry but this is a straw man argument. No one that I hear in mainstream is channeling Williams and especially not Goldsmith or Horner. Whether it's because filmmakers don't want that or some composers just don't have the chops to evoke that style is up for debate.
As for pastiche, I don't think the current composers have done synth music from that era a particular justice. I was really into synth scores, and composing my own music using technology in the early 80s and followed every synth artist I could thanks to a recurring subscription to KEYBOARD magazine. While I don't think all of the music for Stranger Things suffers from this, I would say a lot of the electronic stylings only has a superficial resemblance to what came out in that time period.
I like the concept more than the execution. From what I've read, it sounds like the two composers only provided generic set pieces that the filmmakers needledropped in as required. This would account for the lack of connection between the music and the scenes.
I like the intro music mind you. It's distinctive and sets the tone for the show. It's more focussed compared to a lot of the incidental music for the series.
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I think the music from the show is more derivative of Daft Punk and today's ridiculous amount of generic, amateur synthwave in general than actual Carpenter (see Tron Legacy's teaser music, a pretty blatant swipe if you ask me). Carpenter's work was very minimalist and other than a couple tracks from BTILC (of which Howarth needs to be accredited as well) I don't hear much of today's synthwave nods in Carpenter/Howarth's music at all. What I DO hear is soulless, computer created analog drivel being hatched by every millennial who has enough money to buy the latest FL Studio software. The 80's sound these loads (and I mean LOADS...so many you'll never even find half of them even if you look for them) of artists is so cookie cutter they can barely be considered valid. Once in a while you'll get a gem in there that has barely managed to set itself apart from these wannabe clones by sheer melody and brilliance (Turbo Kid comes to mind) but it's mostly Kung Fury and it's five thousand cousins.
Agreed with the Daft Punk thing. It's much more in that vein (especially that MT) than Carpenter, but I want to hear the music apart from the series like a sumbitch.
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