{"id":5339,"date":"2012-08-06T12:51:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2012-08-06T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:51:39","slug":"cd-galaxy-quest-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5339","title":{"rendered":"CD: Galaxy Quest (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0La-La Land Records<\/a> \/ Released: April 16, 2012<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 22 tracks \/ (53:07)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: 28-page colour booklet with liner notes by Tim Greiving \/ Limited to 3000 copies..<\/p>\n

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Composer: David Newman<\/p>\n

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A brilliant (and strangely reverent) satire of all things Star Trek<\/strong>, Galaxy Quest<\/strong> also gave David Newman a plum chance to tackle almost every genre in one film, spanning parody, action, otherwordly terror, tragedy, and absurdism. The end result is a modest modern classic in film scoring that\u2019s bustling with energetic writing and the composer clearly having fun with musical conventions within the Star Trek <\/strong>TV and feature film canon.<\/p>\n

The sweeping theme for the fictional TV series (and this film) is a great riff on James Horner\u2019s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/strong> (1982), whereas its opening bars fall perfectly within the instrumentation and chords of Jerry Goldsmith\u2019s Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/strong> (1979) theme. \u201cRed Thingie. Green Thingie\u2026 Run!\u201d also recalls Horner\u2019s use of marching rhythms and Goldsmith\u2019s blaster beam, and the heavy children\u2019s chorus is very Hornerish, yet Newman\u2019s own style is evident in every fluid musical juggling act, matching wild screen action and simultaneously working in some subtext to ensure when the film becomes a little more serious near the end, we fully empathize with the juvenile aliens who believed the Galaxy Quest actors were fully capable of saving them form a brutal rival species.<\/p>\n

Newman\u2019s use of orchestral and electronic elements is beautifully balanced, and the score\u2019s original sound engineering comes through cleanly in La-La Land\u2019s CD, which has slightly more content than the promo disc issued by Super Tracks in 2000. Tim Greiving\u2019s liner notes \u2013 more of a full-length composer profile, with lengthy interview quotations – provide an excellent concise history of the film, and the booklet\u2019s filled with numerous stills (including several flattering Sigourney Weaver in full bursting cleavage mode, as per her character\u2019s requirements).<\/p>\n

Like the film, Newman\u2019s score is a perfect parody of scoring conventions within the Star Trek<\/strong> realm, and although done with affection, there are specific pokes at Horner which are hysterical in their spot-on assault. Nicely conceived & executed.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2012 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album<\/a> — Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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