{"id":268,"date":"2007-06-03T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=268"},"modified":"2007-06-03T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T02:33:00","slug":"pirate-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Pirate music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to the Pirates 3 soundtrack today, and the first track, &#8220;Hoist the Colours&#8221;, is corny.  They could&#8217;ve at least gotten a lad who could sing.  The track &#8220;The Breaking of the Fellowship&#8221; on the <em>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em> soundtrack is just beautiful, aided by the fact that the choir and soloist could actually sing.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#8217;d say this is easily the <em>best Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack of them all.<\/em>  (Strange that the soundtracks should get better and better while the movies get worse!)  Many thanks to Hans Zimmer and all those others who work with him but aren&#8217;t famous!  The orchestrations are wonderful, they define &#8220;cinematic drums&#8221; don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p>Also, part of one of the themes reminds me of the Titanic love theme&#8230; the theme that the track &#8220;I See Dead People in Boats&#8221; begins with&#8230; hmmm, dead people in boats music reminding me of Titanic, what a coincidence!<\/p>\n<p>Also, the soundtrack&#8217;s use of accordion reminds of Monkey Island.  Oh, Monkey Island!  How I long to return to your piratey world!  Please, LucasArts, give Ron Gilbert all the rights to Monkey Island so he can properly make a 3rd game!  (By the way, Ron Gilbert blogs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpygamer.com\/\">here<\/a>.  Check it out.)  Actually, they should remake the first two games as well&#8230; keep the storyline, but make the puzzles and the interaction different (with no silly 3D circular inventories).  There&#8217;s so much new technology now, they could really make a best seller out of remake.  They do it with movies, I haven&#8217;t seen it a lot in games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to the Pirates 3 soundtrack today, and the first track, &#8220;Hoist the Colours&#8221;, is corny. They could&#8217;ve at least gotten a lad who could sing. The track &#8220;The Breaking of the Fellowship&#8221; on the The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack is just beautiful, aided by the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-4k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}