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Worst Music?
Steve_Bier:
--- Quote from: urbanpreppie05 on April 20, 2020, 08:27:48 AM ---While we're on the subject of Music, can I throw in Every second Counts for one of the most...bizarre music packages out there?
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Interesting tidbit; one of the prize cues from “Every Second Counts”, was re-worked from the original 10-second opening vamp from the first season (1980) of “Fight Back! With David Horowitz”. Both programs were Group W productions.
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: calliaume on September 16, 2020, 10:15:41 PM ---There were a lot of lousy 1980s game show themes. Synthesizers were used quite often (probably because it was cheaper than a full orchestra and sounded current); they've dated pretty badly.
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I just listened to the Hot Streak theme mentioned upthread on Page 2, and I could see 1986 me having the same complaint I would about today's themes: it's generic and forgettable. And given how much I love the Ellis's Reg Grundy themes, that surprises me.
Blanquepage:
I'm not a fan of the the "revamped" $100K Pyramid, Card Sharks, or Press Your Luck themes.
They sound like cheap old-school MIDI's of the original versions.
ChrisLambert!:
I like the new Card Sharks theme as a theme for Joel McHale's Card Sharks. It's got a vibe to it that works for me better than the original would in the current setting.
Agreed on the other two, though.
BrandonFG:
I don't mind the themes themselves. I've expressed this before, but I'd be happy if they simply played more than the same cue going to and coming back from every commercial. Match Game ends its theme the same exact way every time, and it sounds odd, like they're trying to make a square peg fit, if that makes sense.
I think I'm more bugged by this because the original themes had a vast library, or in the case of Card Sharks, both Perry and Eubanks's themes were long enough to where you could use a different part of the song as a cue. With Feud, they simply use the Combs theme, but use none of the other cues that would flow much better.
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