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Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4      General Discussion: Star Trek: Lower Decks (Chris Westlake)    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2 3 4    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Oct 6, 2022 - 10:26 AM     By:   DaveM   (Member) I hope we get a new score release soon.    Posted:   Oct 6, 2022 - 11:52 AM     By:   TS.J9712   (Member) according to the composer himself on twitter, he has no idea to whether and when will another score release come, but as every other composer, he remain hopeful that a new score album will eventually arrive    Posted:   Oct 6, 2022 - 12:10 PM     By:   jb1234   (Member) Yeah, this week's score was especially lush (and wall-to-wall, not common for Lower Decks).    Posted:   Jan 3, 2023 - 1:15 PM     By:   DaveM   (Member) I gave Lower Decks another try last week and what can I say?... I'm now in Season 3 and I am positively surprised by most of the episodes. My two critics are that the characters are not that great and the moral at the end of each episode is as sublte as in the '60 Batman TV show. Not every joke lands but when LD pokes at the other Trek shows/films it gets really funny. And as the result of watching I figured out how Chris Westlake failed the OST album. It starts with 2x01 and ends with 1x10. Makes no sense so far. Tracks 2-22 (except 9 & 10) are all chronological from Season 2. After that it's gets really messy. Some more S2 tracks here and there (27 & 28 and probably more) and then mostly Season 1 in absolutely no order. WTF... The cues in the show are mostly only open exposition/ship flyby/transition/act out cues and SOME (very rarely) longer cues like "Leg Day" or "City Escape". So most tracks just are several 20 second cues smashed together. No wonder why this album does not work at all... Here's the stuff that I was able to locate before I gave up: 2x01: -02 Romulan Prison -03 Leg Day -04 Strange Energies 2x02: -05 The Time Of His Life -06 Riker's Plan -07 Stay Alert, Stay Alive 2x03: -08 Mistress Of The Winter Constellation 2x04: -11 A Compromise! 2x05: -12 Delicate Dooplers -13 Ejecting the Warp Core -14 Stumbling on History -15 City Escape 2x06: -16 Pakled Spy -17 Making Tendi Laugh 2x07: -18 Lord Agimus -19 Marooned -20 Agimus Reigns 2x08: -21 Temporal Black Hole 2x09: -22 The Lower Decks -27 What Are Your Orders, Captain? 2x10: -28 Departing Space Doc    Posted:   Jan 3, 2023 - 4:29 PM     By:   ST-321   (Member) I agree that the album is a mess, which is too bad as I very much like the music as presented in the episodes.    Posted:   Jan 3, 2023 - 6:19 PM     By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member) Yeah the non chronological album approach for such fine series scoring is so frustrating. I’m grateful to have something because it’s some of my favorite TV scoring in recent years (easily the best Trek scoring unless one counts The Orville) but I confess I don’t play the album much on Spotify because it’s so darn jumbled. Yavar    Posted:   Jan 3, 2023 - 6:41 PM     By:   SchiffyM   (Member) Serious question: Is that just the nature of this particular beast? The show is hyperactive (not a knock on it, just saying that like so much comedy animation it keeps zipping from one thing to another), so the music, while I agree it works very well on the show, rarely lands anywhere long enough to quite make a musical impression before it's moved on to the next thing. Even if the release included the full scores in chronological order, would that change? Honestly, that's the way the "Star Trek Prodigy" scores have been released, and I think it suffers from a similar problem. Individual moments are very nicely done, but there's rarely time for anything to build or have much shape.    Posted:   Jan 3, 2023 - 6:46 PM     By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member) I like the scoring of Lower Decks better than Prodigy (though it’s clearly the runner up). I absolutely think Lower Decks would play better if organized into chronological suites by episode. I will remember scenes that accompany some of the cues but it’s so scattershot it’s frustrating. Yavar    Posted:   Jan 3, 2023 - 10:01 PM     By:   SchiffyM   (Member) I like the scoring of Lower Decks better than Prodigy (though it’s clearly the runner up). I absolutely think Lower Decks would play better if organized into chronological suites by episode. I will remember scenes that accompany some of the cues but it’s so scattershot it’s frustrating. I hear you. I'm not saying you're wrong, because you may be very right. There have just been a lot of film music albums lately (some scattershot, some more organized) where I find the composer is competently scoring each beat, but never coalescing around a musical whole. Of course, job one is serving the film. But you may be right, this particular music might be better served in a different presentation. Or not. How's that for a wishy-washy response?    Posted:   Jan 4, 2023 - 9:10 AM     By:   DaveM   (Member) Making suites out of the individual plotlines presented in the episodes could work. Every episode has at least two of them if I remember correctly.    Posted:   Jan 4, 2023 - 9:32 AM     By:   Tom Servo   (Member) Making suites out of the individual plotlines presented in the episodes could work. Every episode has at least two of them if I remember correctly. I did this myself, taking time to really familiarize myself with the cues, selecting an hour or so of highlights and crafting suites from selected cues per episode (using Garage Band). I made a few small micro edits to make for smoother, more musical transitions between cues within each suite, but I think it turned out well. I can post my track list soon, if anyone is interested.    Posted:   Jan 4, 2023 - 10:00 AM     By:   DaveM   (Member) I can post my track list soon, if anyone is interested. Please post it. I'm interested.    Posted:   Jan 4, 2023 - 2:28 PM     By:   Tom Servo   (Member) Okedoke, here is my custom highlights version of the Lower Decks soundtrack! In the suites per episodes, my ordering of the cues was not always chronological, but what, to me, sounds musically satisfying, whether introducing a theme/motif or building to crescendo. Star Trek: Lower Decks (Original Series Soundtrack Highlights) 1.Main Titles 2."Second Contact": Welcome To The Cerritos/Finding The Cure 3."Temporal Edict": Ransom vs. Vindor/Swords and Spears 4."Much Ado About Boimler": Division 14/The Farm Cures All/Saying Goodbye 5."Crisis Point": The Cerritos 6."Crisis Point": Today You Die! 7."Crisis Point": The Real Mariner/Self Destruct Timer 8."No Small Parts": Pakled Attack/Badgey Gets Loose/Memory Loss 9."Strange Energies": Strange Energies/The Time Of His Life/Romulan Prison/Leg Day 10."Kayshon, His Eyes Open": Riker's Plan/Stay Alert, Stay Alive 11."An Embarrassment of Dooplers": Stumbling on History/City Escape/Ejecting the Warp Core 12."Where Pleasant Fountains Lie": Lord Agimus/Marooned/Agimus Reigns 13."I, Excretus": Temporal Black Hole 14."wej Duj": The Lower Decks/A New Officer/Death Battle/What Are Your Orders, Captain? 15.End Titles Time: 1 hr, 1 minute    Posted:   Jan 5, 2023 - 8:16 AM     By:   other tallguy   (Member) Is there a complete list of the episodes the tracks are from for the soundtrack, as is? (Or one from Prodigy for that matter?)    Posted:   Jan 5, 2023 - 8:22 AM     By:   Tom Servo   (Member) Is there a complete list of the episodes the tracks are from for the soundtrack, as is? (Or one from Prodigy for that matter?) I searched for such a details online when this album was released but could find this info nowhere and had to rely on my knowledge of the show and rewatching the episodes again.    Posted:   Jan 5, 2023 - 11:55 AM     By:   other tallguy   (Member) Is there a complete list of the episodes the tracks are from for the soundtrack, as is? (Or one from Prodigy for that matter?) I searched for such a details online when this album was released but could find this info nowhere and had to rely on my knowledge of the show and rewatching the episodes again. "...where I made a list that I will share here, now." No? Darn.    Posted:   Jan 5, 2023 - 12:05 PM     By:   Tom Servo   (Member) Is there a complete list of the episodes the tracks are from for the soundtrack, as is? (Or one from Prodigy for that matter?) I searched for such a details online when this album was released but could find this info nowhere and had to rely on my knowledge of the show and rewatching the episodes again. "...where I made a list that I will share here, now." No? Darn. OK, you're correct, fair point!    Posted:   Feb 13, 2023 - 10:27 AM     By:   Scotty Boy   (Member) There's a double LP set coming. https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/02/star-trek-lower-decks-vinyl-soundtrack-release/?fbclid=IwAR16gE8hz2lE_hTVDleolDlVqbXef7_AlgZj5U3H6Q7qc5afsrksMGvdCZM    Posted:   Nov 5, 2023 - 5:34 PM     By:   c8   (Member) Man oh man. I hope y'all've been watching this season. For those celebrating the quality of the music in Season 3 of Picard, Westlake's score for this week's ep (the S4 finale) was right up there with the best of it. It stood on its own as a score with a dramatic and emotional arc. But we also got a solid 10+ minutes in the style of (or directly quoting from) Horner with all the exhilaration and emotion you'd expect from music paying homage (or quoting from) Horner. To top it off, this week's episode was a direct sequel to TNG's "The First Duty" and we got cameos by all of Nova Squadron (all the original actors including Fill and Wheaton), a satifying non-redemption arc for Locarno (voiced brilliantly by McNeill), a few jokes at the expense of Locarno looking for all the world like Tom Paris, and a massive homage to the Mutara Nebula and detonation of the Genesis Device from Trek II, hence the Horner work. This week really showed off why Lower Decks is up there with the best Trek. It doesn't take itself too seriously but when it does, it packs a friggin wallop!    Posted:   Nov 5, 2023 - 5:50 PM     By:   ST-321   (Member) Man oh man. I hope y'all've been watching this season. For those celebrating the quality of the music in Season 3 of Picard, Westlake's score for this week's ep (the S4 finale) was right up there with the best of it. It stood on its own as a score with a dramatic and emotional arc. But we also got a solid 10+ minutes in the style of (or directly quoting from) Horner with all the exhilaration and emotion you'd expect from music paying homage (or quoting from) Horner. Yes, it has been wonderful and I very much enjoyed Westlake's work and the riffing on Horner's Trek scores. I hope we get some more music from this series.     General Discussion: Star Trek: Lower Decks (Chris Westlake)    << < 1 2 3 4  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4

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