Soap fans tend to be loyal to specific series, although they might venture to another when favourite actors \u2013 trapped playing villains, heroes, hussies, or princesses \u2013 move to a rival show (unless the hairstyles or colour change is just plain blacchy).<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve never watched Days of Our Lives <\/strong>\u2013 just couldn\u2019t get into it \u2013 so the test for a non-fan is whether the music stands on its own.<\/p>\n My own comparison, in terms of the use (or non-use) of in-house music librairies is General Hospital<\/strong>, which I watched in High School and gave up on when older characters kept making the same dumb marital blunders, teen starlets were given feeble kidnapping or mystery talew, and the pattern of story threads were repeated using newer and younger actors, and older ones were seen once a week, waving behind desks to ensure veteran fans ‘classic characters’ weren\u2019t completely useless, and the actors were still alive.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t recall GH actually having original music during the late eighties because I remember hearing cues from John Carpenter’s Christine<\/strong> and Jerry Goldsmith’s Basic Instinct<\/strong> used instead for suspense motifs and character motifs. Maybe it was laziness, a smaller music budget, or maybe the producers felt they could get better quality music if they went to a film library instead. The result for my ears was horribly distracting, particularly when Goldsmith\u2019s Basic Instinct<\/strong> theme \u2013 which is eerie and beautiful \u2013 was played again and again in chopped up, badly looped versions.<\/p>\n Days<\/strong> was different, because they\u2019ve had original music for at least 10 years, and that\u2019s what La-La Land\u2019s 2-disc set carries: suites of expertly edited themes by composers Ken Corday and D. Brent Nelson. Check out the review<\/a>, because the set’s a good sampler release that also flatters the underrated composers.<\/p>\n I couldn\u2019t get into the good\/bad Marlena and old\/new John Black nonsense, but at least the wonky characters inspired the composers quite well.<\/p>\n – MRH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do people really write music for daytime soaps? Yes! And it’s good, too! Check out the Editor’s Blog before reading the review of La-La Land’s new Days of Our Lives 2-disc set \u2026<\/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},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-22b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}