Music for TV Dinners
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Free Music Review: Can i have a second helping?
Hit: 5 Stars
Ever wanted to escape? This is the cd to help you do that very thing. Pick a favorite track, i think not. Each one has it's own flavor! It would be like picking one of your children as your favorite over the others.I love this cd so much i want...no, I need more music like it. Anyone have any ideas for me?Free Music Review: fun, nostalgic
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD is a fun collection of quirky 60's type plucky music. We listen to it just to give us a lift. Recently we listened to it with friends at a BBQ. All four of us laughed like we had no cares in the world that night, and it was definitely the music that spurred us along. Great party CD.Free Music Review: Good Old Days
Hit: 5 Stars
All the music on this CD is used in Ren and Stimpy, and much of the great animators work "Spumco". This stuff is great. I use it to animate myself! Best CD ever!Free Music Review: A fun CD
Hit: 5 Stars
Bought this for the "Sleepy Shores" cut, but the rest of the CD was a bonus. Reminiscent of the 60's tv music and fun to listen to with your TV dinner!Free Music Review: Maddeningly memorable background music
Hit: 4 Stars
These sixteen production library compositions, used variously in educational shorts, commercials, television shows and feature films, constitute some of the most invisible, yet best remembered, musical melodies in American culture. Even stranger is that most of this music was produced by the British KPM company. Further examples (including EMI and Pye's contributions to the canon) can be found on UK anthologies such as "The Sound Gallery" and "The Sound Spectrum." The collected composers and arrangers construct brilliantly memorable productions whose purpose is to serve as musical beds beneath narration or to signal mood and plot shifts in films and television programs.Though not designed as firmly for the background as true Muzak [tm], there is still an unnerving contextual shift in compiling these tracks for foreground listening. Though originally used in more subliminal contexts, these tunes have been drawn on in recent years as a simple way to evoke nostalgic moods, with or without irony in mind. In addition to appearances on boomer throwbacks like Nick at Night and Ren & Stimpy, these titles also appear in films like "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "Natural Born Killers." The most recognizable tune (at least, for 1960's television viewers) will be Wilfred Burns' "Stop Gap," which served as the theme to "Truth or Consequences." You can't help but feel that Bob Barker will step out in front of the curtain at any moment.
As calculated as this music may be, its composition, arrangement and performance hold tremendous charms. This is more mood music than easy listening, in that its purpose is to attract your attention and shape your experience, rather than provide any sort of sedation. Many of the musical cues will haunt you with inscrutably faint memories of products like Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion and Midol. This is an excellent volume for listening or for adding unique musical cues to your home video.