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JOEL McNEELY

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      CommentAuthorErik Woods
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2011
    Are you serious?

    lol
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  2. Thor wrote

    Well, I strongly disagree with your assessment. No one is debating these guys' compositional chops within their style (which are undisputed) or that their music is often lovely to listen to. But it's a fact that their musical voice is fairly hard to grasp, unless you know their work quite intimately. It comes off as conventional orchestral pastiche, even to the seasoned film music fan. Which can be fun in itself, but is quite unsuited for film artists who want a more pronounced identity and particular approach.


    1. Hey Doyle, Newton Howard, Gregson Williams or whatever your name is, how's that more pronounced identity working out for you?
    2. The best way to tell McNeely and McKenzie apart is to take a 1000 photos of Joe Biden eating sandwiches: http://xkcd.com/915/
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2011 edited
    franz_conrad wrote
    Thor wrote

    Well, I strongly disagree with your assessment. No one is debating these guys' compositional chops within their style (which are undisputed) or that their music is often lovely to listen to. But it's a fact that their musical voice is fairly hard to grasp, unless you know their work quite intimately. It comes off as conventional orchestral pastiche, even to the seasoned film music fan. Which can be fun in itself, but is quite unsuited for film artists who want a more pronounced identity and particular approach.


    1. Hey Doyle, Newton Howard, Gregson Williams or whatever your name is, how's that more pronounced identity working out for you?


    ???

    I'd agree with Gregson-Williams (but that's because he works in the RC mode, which are designed to be samey in the first place), but the other two have extremely distinct voices. Perhaps Doyle's two latest scores have been quite Zimmerized too, but then again that's hardly weighty artistic films he's worked on. And that was the point-of-departure here.

    I can perfectly understand why the more artistically ambitious directors in the US like Nolan, Aronofsky, Jones, Eastwood, Malick don't go for the very conventional sounds of Debney, McNeely, Broughton et.al. I also thought that would be a fairly OBVIOUS observation, and find it curious that it actually is one in need of defense. The mind boggles. dizzy
  4. Ah, but it's fun to make the mind boggle. biggrin
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2011
    Erik Woods wrote
    Are you serious?

    lol


    Pretty stupid Erik
  6. Since IMDB won't add it, here is a list -- though not complete -- of some episodes of "American Dad" he's scored:

    Red October Sky (#4.13)
    Spring Break-up (#4.16)
    Roy Rogers McFreely (#5.12)
    Delorean Story-An (#5.16)
    Brains, Brains & Automobiles (#6.4)
    My Morning Straitjacket (#6.7)
    G-String Circus (#6.8)
    Rapture's Delight (#6.9)
    Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth (#6.10)
    A Jones for a Smith (#6.11)
    May the Best Stan Win (#6.12)
    Return of the Bling (#6.13)
    Cops & Roger (#6.14)
    Merlot Down Dirty Shame (#6.15)
    Bully for Steve (#6.16)
    An Incident at Owl Creek (#6.17)
    The Great Space Roaster (#6.18)
    You Debt Your Life (#7.12)
    I Am the Walrus (#7.13)
    License to Till (#7.15)
    Jenny Fromdabloc (#7.16)


    The bolded one had some "Back to the Future" parody; I seem to recall he paid homage to Silvestri's score.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2011
    sdtom wrote
    Talk about stupid. It was quite repetitive because the file just played the same track over and over again. It helps to tell the player to play all.
    Tom


    biggrin

    Made me smile, Tom.
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  8. Martijn wrote
    sdtom wrote
    Talk about stupid. It was quite repetitive because the file just played the same track over and over again. It helps to tell the player to play all.
    Tom


    biggrin

    Made me smile, Tom.


    hehe, me too smile
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