Soundtrack nostalgia 🏴☠️
Jul. 5th, 2024 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enchantedsleeperRecently, while in a group chat, I made a Pirates of the Caribbean joke (some material that we were working with had the phrase "more like guidelines" which is a frequently-used description of the Pirates' Code in the first film) and it gave me the urge to listen to the PotC soundtrack. I have the soundtrack from the first film, though I'd yet to play it on this laptop apparently which is a bit sad (I've had this laptop since 2020 xD)
As soon as I hit play I was thrown back in time to my Pirates of the Caribbean obsession, when I would fire up the film on my parents' TV (which had a DVD player) and watch it over and over every night. It remains one of my all-time favourite films, and the soundtrack is so good - I don't know it quite well enough to picture every single scene that goes with the music, but some moments are definitely there in my head as I'm listening, and the drama and excitement comes through in the scoring.
When I was in Pirates fandom in 2006-ish, I remember that the Hide the Rum forum had a poll where people voted for their favourite track in the PotC soundtrack. Most of the votes went to 'He's A Pirate' (the end credits music), which I found a bit boring and predictable xD I mean, it's great and it has the theme! But it seems like an 'obvious' choice xD There was also some love for 'Will And Elizabeth', which is a really good track - lots of the theme coming through in this one, and it's got a great pace to it.
I was the only person holding out for 'Swords Crossed', which remains my favourite track of the film. It's so cinematic. In this essay I will- okay, not really xD But it starts off all quiet and slow, and it's got this little melody about 45 seconds in that cuts through everything, and then it just builds and builds and builds, getting to this final crescendo and then it's all ACTION AND ADVENTURE augh I love it. Here, you can listen to what I mean:
I have a lot of fond fandom memories linked to music - a couple of years later, I was in The Road to El Dorado fandom, and I painstakingly downloaded (*cough* legally of course) or recorded songs from the film and listened to them constantly - I particularly loved 'It's Tough to Be A God' (great song) and I even learned the lyrics in Spanish xD
(...I have to go and listen to that one now :D)
Not all fandoms are heavily musical (film fandoms and in particular musical films, like RtED or Encanto, one of my later fandoms, will obviously have a musical component), but even when they aren't, I can often find some music to fixate on xD The Starship Iris fic that I linked in my last entry, the old stars are of no importance, is titled after a song sung in-universe and is basically a love letter to that song (which is performed by the cast and it's really amazing). There are a few pieces of music original to the podcast, which have been released on Bandcamp or Soundcloud, and the person who created the show's end credits theme (from end season 1 onwards) also made it available for fans to download after they discovered we liked it!
What are your favourite film soundtracks (or themes or pieces of music)? Do you ever find yourself interacting with fandoms in a musical capacity - like fanmixes, playlists, fan songs or just music from the canon?
As soon as I hit play I was thrown back in time to my Pirates of the Caribbean obsession, when I would fire up the film on my parents' TV (which had a DVD player) and watch it over and over every night. It remains one of my all-time favourite films, and the soundtrack is so good - I don't know it quite well enough to picture every single scene that goes with the music, but some moments are definitely there in my head as I'm listening, and the drama and excitement comes through in the scoring.
When I was in Pirates fandom in 2006-ish, I remember that the Hide the Rum forum had a poll where people voted for their favourite track in the PotC soundtrack. Most of the votes went to 'He's A Pirate' (the end credits music), which I found a bit boring and predictable xD I mean, it's great and it has the theme! But it seems like an 'obvious' choice xD There was also some love for 'Will And Elizabeth', which is a really good track - lots of the theme coming through in this one, and it's got a great pace to it.
I was the only person holding out for 'Swords Crossed', which remains my favourite track of the film. It's so cinematic. In this essay I will- okay, not really xD But it starts off all quiet and slow, and it's got this little melody about 45 seconds in that cuts through everything, and then it just builds and builds and builds, getting to this final crescendo and then it's all ACTION AND ADVENTURE augh I love it. Here, you can listen to what I mean:
I have a lot of fond fandom memories linked to music - a couple of years later, I was in The Road to El Dorado fandom, and I painstakingly downloaded (*cough* legally of course) or recorded songs from the film and listened to them constantly - I particularly loved 'It's Tough to Be A God' (great song) and I even learned the lyrics in Spanish xD
(...I have to go and listen to that one now :D)
Not all fandoms are heavily musical (film fandoms and in particular musical films, like RtED or Encanto, one of my later fandoms, will obviously have a musical component), but even when they aren't, I can often find some music to fixate on xD The Starship Iris fic that I linked in my last entry, the old stars are of no importance, is titled after a song sung in-universe and is basically a love letter to that song (which is performed by the cast and it's really amazing). There are a few pieces of music original to the podcast, which have been released on Bandcamp or Soundcloud, and the person who created the show's end credits theme (from end season 1 onwards) also made it available for fans to download after they discovered we liked it!
What are your favourite film soundtracks (or themes or pieces of music)? Do you ever find yourself interacting with fandoms in a musical capacity - like fanmixes, playlists, fan songs or just music from the canon?
