Soundtrack brilliance
I want you guys to take a good listen to the "Pounding Fathers" track from Season 1, and then take a good listen to "The Office."
Pounding Fathers (skip to 0:15)
Office
Jared-Emerson Johnson is awesome, and this just makes him awesomer.
Pounding Fathers (skip to 0:15)
Office
Jared-Emerson Johnson is awesome, and this just makes him awesomer.
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Haha ouch! There are actually a ton of melodies throughout the games, but there are a lot of callbacks and covers. So,e of them, are subtle and some aren't. Did people notice for instance that the music in the clone chamber in 305 is a very extended and Jamed Bondified version of the same theme that plays whenever Flint crashes into a room in season two?
That was mean. Mean mean mean.
I didn't! But I haven't listened to the Devil's Playhouse music that much.
Here's a list of musical references that I know. There's only a few from season 2 because I don't feel like looking through all the cutscene suites right now.
-The music that plays in the final battle in 101 (Attack the Dog) is a more sinister variation on the first season opening credits.
-The music in front of the Black Hole is a more subdued version of the music to
-The Soda Poppers have music associated with them. The best song on the soundtrack to hear it is Rushmore, Lush, War (I didn't notice they had theme music until my second or third playthrough of the first two seasons, shut up)
-The music that plays whenever Jimmy does something is very similar to the Whack-A-Rat music from Hit the Road. You can hear it on the first season soundtrack in Skinbodies Rule The Streets and Whack Da Ratz.
-The music on the White House lawn (Lincoln vs. Max) is an arrangement of Hail To The Chief. Pretty obvious if you know the song.
-The music in the Oval Office (Consecutive Offices) is apparently a super jazzy version of the Star Spangled Banner, but I don't really know the tune, so I wouldn't know. It also becomes more sinister when Max becomes president.
-The music that plays when Bosco gives you the truth serum (неудобство) is a muzak version of... a Russian song I don't know anything about. But I know that it is.
-The music in Banco Lavadero is an 8 bit version of the music that often plays when Sam and Max solve a puzzle.
-The music on the moon (Moonscape) plays briefly whenever you try to launch a missile at Bosco in 104.
-The opening credits music in the second season is from the music that often plays during final puzzles (Freelance Panic).
-The music at the North Pole (Arctic Hush) has some of the melody of the Carol of the Bells.
-The music in Jurgen's club (New Location Unlocked (Midtown Cowboys Remix)) has some of the melody of the Midtown Cowboys theme. It's most obvious from about 2:45 on.
-The music that plays in 305 when
It's the Anthem of Russia
You wanna hang on to that Emerson fella, I see him going places! He even voices the C.O.P.S to hilarious effect, making them some of my favourite characters in S&M.
And superball has an awesome voice.
No, Superball is voiced by Peter Barto, who also voices Peepers.
Jared voices the full roster of C.O.P.S -except Chippy, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be that he's also voicing him-, but I'm unsure if he voiced another character from Sam and Max games. He did voice Marquis DeSinge from ToMI though and it sounds nothing like any of the COPS.
When I heard that on the soundtrack disc...it had me scratching my head for weeks. I KNEW what it was, and that I'd heard it, but I just couldn't get to the spot in my brain where it was stored(with all the times I've seen Rocky IV and The Hunt for Red October)...and eventually I FINALLY remembered; but man, that drove me CRAZY, lol.
I STILL didn't know WHY it was in the game until the next time I played the game it was in...then went, "Oh, DUH!"
Comparing the two tracks, Jared did a very nice job changing it up so much that it went unnoticed. Slower tempo, deeper tones, but the same basic melody. It's really difficult to notice without actually listening and comparing the tracks, unlike the Bond version of Flint's theme or the sad piano version of this Season's theme.
Then again, I didn't realize the Charlie Ho-tep song was a demonic version of "Pop goes the weasel."
Haha that is the best one. And probably the least noticed.
I believe that is the case. Not sure why that one happened to be honest. Maybe Jared decided to use it whenever characters were in cavernous tunnel systems? Maybe he just had it around and liked it. I know it showed up a tiny bit in the cutscene at the end of 304, whenever Max was normal for a few seconds, between bouts of his powers taking over and mutating him.
Any idea what song that was? Was it released as a seperate song on the Soundtrack?
Also, I have no idea if there are any similarities to anything else, but I freaking love this track.