Boy Scouts ½ Original Soundtrack 1
Artwork:
The Music:
(Track 1 from the album "Bad Hair Day." Tracks 2 - 8 from Ranma ½ soundtracks, by Hideharu Mori and Kawai Kenji. Track 9 from the Project A-ko soundtrack.)
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(Track 1 from the album "Bad Hair Day." Tracks 2 - 7 from Ranma ½ soundtracks, by Hideharu Mori, Kawai Kenji, and Akihisa Matsuura. Track 8 from the Project A-ko soundtrack.)
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(Track 1 from the album "Bad Hair Day." Tracks 2 - 4 and 6 - 9 from Ranma ½ soundtracks, by Hideharu Mori, Kawai Kenji, and Akihisa Matsuura. Track 5 from Ranma ½ soundtracks, by Hideharu Mori, Kawai Kenji, and Akihisa Matsuura, with opening stinger by Alexandar Courage from Star Trek. Track 10 from the Project A-ko soundtrack.)
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(Track 1 from the album "Bad Hair Day." Tracks 2 - 7 from Ranma ½ soundtracks, by Hideharu Mori, Kawai Kenji, and Akihisa Matsuura. Track 8 from the Project A-ko soundtrack.)
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(Track 1 from the album "Bad Hair Day." Tracks 2 - 14 from Ranma ½ soundtracks, by Hideharu Mori, Kawai Kenji, and Akihisa Matsuura. Track 15 from the Project A-ko soundtrack.)
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Liner Notes:
Episode 1:
This is a project that has been in the back of my mind for years, but one thing that held me up was, "What do I use for an opening and closing theme?" Ideally, I'd have used Lambada Boy Scouts for a closing, but a lack of an instrumental version of the original song meant I didn't even get as far as thinking of the difficulty of recording new vocals, so that was out.
I finally decided, "The heck with this, I'm doing it!" So I had to find songs. Ideally, they'd be anime related, have existed at the time when the first story was set, and be in English. That was a very narrow list. Finally, I settled on Follow Your Dreams from Project A-ko. I'd originally thought of it for an opening, but listening to it, it was really more of a closing. (Makes sense, since it was Project A-ko's closing theme.) So I still needed an opening!
Then I thought... "Hey, I love Weird Al! Let's see if any of his songs sound like they have the energy similar to a Ranma ½ opening!" I checked what would have been his most recent album in 1997, and settled on Everything You Know is Wrong.
While in the future, I'll probably be more diverse in my selections, for the opening storyline (parts 1 - 5) I wanted to limit myself to music actually from Ranma ½ for the instrumental pieces.
Well, not sure how often I'll update this project... but one of these days, I'll be back with music for part 2!
Episode 2:
Well, probably a bit less to say on this, the second outing, but let us see what I can come up with!
First off, wasn't sure I'd be back so soon with this! But, I suppose, ya' know how it is with new projects... You get excited about 'em and bash out the first two or three in quick succession before leveling out to a more reasonable pace. I'm going to do my best to leave things here for today, however.
So... track two actually has a sound effect in it! Not something I'm going to try and make a habit of... I'd rather have just the music. But the transition from the reprise of part 1's climax to part 2's resolution of said climax seemed kind of abrupt without it, and it played better once I put the crash of thunder in there.
Some may wonder about why the break between tracks thee and four is where it is, since track four starts with a bit more of the music from track three before going into something different. Between the tracks would be the scene with Dan in the tent of his friends at the waterfront, saying good night.
Finally, just as a note on track seven, I thought it would be fun to introduce Ryoga using the same piece of music that played over his first scene in Ranma ½. And so that is what I did!
Well, that's it for this time. Guess it wasn't that much less, after all. Anyway, see you again when I make part 3!
Episode 3:
As you might be able to figure out from the track information above, I bent my rules slightly on track five. I really needed a stinger to play over the opening of the track, to symbolize Mike's sudden encounter with a foot coming down right before him, and I just couldn't find something that quite fit within the Ranma soundtracks. But for just a quick stinger at the beginning of a track otherwise comprised of Ranma music, I figured I could get away with the slight cheat.
Episode 4:
The first scene in this story was a direct homage to a nightmare Ranma once had about Kuno in the original work. I tried to carry this homage through to the music. The scene in question had two pieces of music, and I was able to accurately use the first one (track two here). Alas, the second one wasn't included with any of the Ranma ½ soundtracks I have, and so I had to find another piece of music I felt would fit the scene.
Episode 5:
And so we come to the end of the first storyline, and the first album's worth of music.
This story introduces one Justy Yung. In this, his first appearance, he is portrayed somewhat differently from the person who we would soon all come to know and loathe: he's somewhat goofy and non-threatening. So I tried to choose a piece of music for his scene which would fit this, but hint at his darker nature that would be soon revealed.
When limiting myself to Ranma ½ soundtracks for Boy Scouts ½ parts 1 - 5, I did risk that I might have some slight repetition of music, and there is a bit of that here. Track six is a deliberate repetition, however, as musical reinforcement that Dan is being let in on a secret that he already knows.
This story was longer then those that came before, and this is reflected in the fact that there are more tracks this time around. It was a bit different, though, in that this story has more scenes that are just scenes of characters conversing. This made for a different challenge in matching score to the scenes, as I had to look for longer pieces (often created by extending shorter pieces) that were suited to just playing over conversation rather then highlighting specific action.
This is a project that has been in the back of my mind for years, but one thing that held me up was, "What do I use for an opening and closing theme?" Ideally, I'd have used Lambada Boy Scouts for a closing, but a lack of an instrumental version of the original song meant I didn't even get as far as thinking of the difficulty of recording new vocals, so that was out.
I finally decided, "The heck with this, I'm doing it!" So I had to find songs. Ideally, they'd be anime related, have existed at the time when the first story was set, and be in English. That was a very narrow list. Finally, I settled on Follow Your Dreams from Project A-ko. I'd originally thought of it for an opening, but listening to it, it was really more of a closing. (Makes sense, since it was Project A-ko's closing theme.) So I still needed an opening!
Then I thought... "Hey, I love Weird Al! Let's see if any of his songs sound like they have the energy similar to a Ranma ½ opening!" I checked what would have been his most recent album in 1997, and settled on Everything You Know is Wrong.
While in the future, I'll probably be more diverse in my selections, for the opening storyline (parts 1 - 5) I wanted to limit myself to music actually from Ranma ½ for the instrumental pieces.
Well, not sure how often I'll update this project... but one of these days, I'll be back with music for part 2!
Episode 2:
Well, probably a bit less to say on this, the second outing, but let us see what I can come up with!
First off, wasn't sure I'd be back so soon with this! But, I suppose, ya' know how it is with new projects... You get excited about 'em and bash out the first two or three in quick succession before leveling out to a more reasonable pace. I'm going to do my best to leave things here for today, however.
So... track two actually has a sound effect in it! Not something I'm going to try and make a habit of... I'd rather have just the music. But the transition from the reprise of part 1's climax to part 2's resolution of said climax seemed kind of abrupt without it, and it played better once I put the crash of thunder in there.
Some may wonder about why the break between tracks thee and four is where it is, since track four starts with a bit more of the music from track three before going into something different. Between the tracks would be the scene with Dan in the tent of his friends at the waterfront, saying good night.
Finally, just as a note on track seven, I thought it would be fun to introduce Ryoga using the same piece of music that played over his first scene in Ranma ½. And so that is what I did!
Well, that's it for this time. Guess it wasn't that much less, after all. Anyway, see you again when I make part 3!
Episode 3:
As you might be able to figure out from the track information above, I bent my rules slightly on track five. I really needed a stinger to play over the opening of the track, to symbolize Mike's sudden encounter with a foot coming down right before him, and I just couldn't find something that quite fit within the Ranma soundtracks. But for just a quick stinger at the beginning of a track otherwise comprised of Ranma music, I figured I could get away with the slight cheat.
Episode 4:
The first scene in this story was a direct homage to a nightmare Ranma once had about Kuno in the original work. I tried to carry this homage through to the music. The scene in question had two pieces of music, and I was able to accurately use the first one (track two here). Alas, the second one wasn't included with any of the Ranma ½ soundtracks I have, and so I had to find another piece of music I felt would fit the scene.
Episode 5:
And so we come to the end of the first storyline, and the first album's worth of music.
This story introduces one Justy Yung. In this, his first appearance, he is portrayed somewhat differently from the person who we would soon all come to know and loathe: he's somewhat goofy and non-threatening. So I tried to choose a piece of music for his scene which would fit this, but hint at his darker nature that would be soon revealed.
When limiting myself to Ranma ½ soundtracks for Boy Scouts ½ parts 1 - 5, I did risk that I might have some slight repetition of music, and there is a bit of that here. Track six is a deliberate repetition, however, as musical reinforcement that Dan is being let in on a secret that he already knows.
This story was longer then those that came before, and this is reflected in the fact that there are more tracks this time around. It was a bit different, though, in that this story has more scenes that are just scenes of characters conversing. This made for a different challenge in matching score to the scenes, as I had to look for longer pieces (often created by extending shorter pieces) that were suited to just playing over conversation rather then highlighting specific action.
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