W. G. Snuffy Walden - Soundtrack from Thirtysomething (1987-1991 Television Series)

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Free Music Review: w.g. snuff walden's exquistie work for thirtysomething
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It had been one year since we learned Nancy had cancer and the doctors were going back in to make sure they had gotten it all. While Nancy was under the knife everybody else was trying to keep it together, but this proved impossible for Elliot, who had broken down in the men's room begging God not to take his wife, saying that he would do anything, give anything. Throughout this riveting scene, the music by w.g. snuffy walden provided a perfect musical counterpart to not only the specific action on the screen by the growing tension of waiting to find out what the news was going to be from the doctors. A simple piano theme that takes on an agitated complexity as it repeats and is repeated by other instruments, with the strings sweeping in and out of the theme. Then the theme becomes inverted before returning to a richer, deeper interpretation of the original.

If you saw that episode I would be willing to be you never forgot the music and that if you were blindfolded and listening to the tracks on this soundtrack album you would recognize this one immediately. It was a stunning bit of musical accompaniment and in the history of television. We can all name instrumental television themes we loved (e.g., ""), and recall songs that were used to great effect (e.g., "Sarah McLachlan's "Full of Grace" for "Becoming, Part II" on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), but how many instrumental pieces stand out in your mind? "Laura Palmer's Theme" and "Dance of the Dream Man" by Angelo Badalamenti for "Twin Peaks" would probably be it, which is not a bad short list for walden to be on. My own real complaint about this album is that the mood of "second look" is quickly shattered by the jazzy riffs of "hot butter (miles comes to dinner)". Walden remains the one composer whose name I recognize and pay attention to when it pops up on "West Wing," "Once and Again," "Angel," "My So Called Life," "The Wonder Years," et al. It is not at all surprising that producers like Zwick & Herkowitz, once working with walden, keep employing him at each and every opportunity. Not bad for a guy who was one of the Squiggytones on "Laverne & Shirley," eh?

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