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Post by millionairefan17 on Jul 19, 2020 22:17:18 GMT -5
The music of Millionaire! The score that was composed by Keith and Matthew Strachan was phenomenal! It was the cherry on top that brought the game show we all know and love to the highest! It adds so much to the suspenseful and eerie atmosphere of the show! The heartbeat in the background gave it that extra kick to it that brought extra suspense to the contestant.
I only wished that it was kept for later versions, but oh well...
What are your views on the music?
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Post by dragon3989 on Jul 20, 2020 0:29:33 GMT -5
I'm personally a Covalo addict, but the original music beds are still what really set the pace for gameshows in general IMO and I loved the slightly higher pitching and adding on stuff from tier 2 to tier 3. I still love tier 3 Q11 and Q13 to this day, also Q15 when it was reached you knew what was going down. Considering the amount of awards it received it doesn't surprise me at all considering aswell how well it's aged, It really is timeless. As much as the consistency annoys me it's great to see them still also being used in some rave versions for Q6-7 as a reminder of what it used to be. There's 100% nothing I'd change with them and they will remain timeless classics. Also the revamp for USA when they went to a clocked format, they're also amazing and it felt so natural. The Strachans set something that's still in our minds 20 years later and still holds up today.
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Post by Admiral Sven on Jul 21, 2020 22:19:38 GMT -5
My personal favourite was the 1998 original UK intro (slightly different from the international intro) music.
S1E1 £64,000 final answer confirmation in 1998 was also only used for one episode but it is one of the best music cues.
I've never liked the Covalo remix: the music always seemed cheap and poor. That said, however, the US 10th Anniversary music is not bad at all. Super Millionaire's revamp is also very good.
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Post by panampat on Jul 22, 2020 16:04:14 GMT -5
I think the original soundtrack (the Strachan one) is very solid. You could never go wrong with using it as the soundtrack to any version of Millionaire, irrespective of how modernized the set is or how the mechanics of the games have been altered. That said, I think the Covalo remix improves on the music in some areas. I like the opening and closing theme of the Covalo mix better, the music from Q11-14 is much more suspenseful in the remix than the original, and the music for the first questions (the one used for the £500 and £1,000 in the 2007-2010 pre-clock version) is EPIC. Just listen to it! It's one of my most favorite Millionaire soundtracks of all time. It makes it sound like you're on an epic adventure to go defeat a techno-dragon or something rather than being on a game show. To me, it is the perfect musical beginning for a journey as epic as climbing up the Millionaire money tree. I wish they used it for more than just 2 questions on the original British version. In other areas, the music is about as good as the original or worse than it. Personally, I wish they used the Covalo remix in the US at some point. I don't think its ever been used here before. My favorite variant of the intro theme, along with my favorite version of the intro on any version of Millionaire ever, is the version used in the UK from 2004-2007. (Partially unrelated side note, but I think someone ought to tackle doing a 60 fps HD recreation of this intro, I think it would look epic). The extra sound effects that go with the music ups the epic factor, although as Admiral Sven said, the original one from 1998 is also pretty solid. |
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Post by abver09 on Jul 23, 2020 8:47:41 GMT -5
To be honest, I really like both the Matthew and Keith Strachan style AND the Cavalo style because the Question beds for them are good. Same with the sounds, they were pretty good.
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Post by Arynnia on Jul 30, 2020 4:19:07 GMT -5
Personally, if we could combine the Covalo remix bottom tier bed with the Strachan beds for the second and top tiers, that'd be where it's at. At least the win/lose sounds from the original soundtrack were kept regardless (except for shuffle and late syndie US, which is another story). Q11 (UK clock)/Q14 (original) win sound is my favorite cue, though Q13 (original)'s question bed is close behind.
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Post by Admiral Sven on Jul 30, 2020 7:23:37 GMT -5
I think the original soundtrack (the Strachan one) is very solid. You could never go wrong with using it as the soundtrack to any version of Millionaire, irrespective of how modernized the set is or how the mechanics of the games have been altered. That said, I think the Covalo remix improves on the music in some areas. I like the opening and closing theme of the Covalo mix better, the music from Q11-14 is much more suspenseful in the remix than the original, and the music for the first questions (the one used for the £500 and £1,000 in the 2007-2010 pre-clock version) is EPIC. Just listen to it! It's one of my most favorite Millionaire soundtracks of all time. It makes it sound like you're on an epic adventure to go defeat a techno-dragon or something rather than being on a game show. To me, it is the perfect musical beginning for a journey as epic as climbing up the Millionaire money tree. I wish they used it for more than just 2 questions on the original British version. In other areas, the music is about as good as the original or worse than it. Personally, I wish they used the Covalo remix in the US at some point. I don't think its ever been used here before. My favorite variant of the intro theme, along with my favorite version of the intro on any version of Millionaire ever, is the version used in the UK from 2004-2007. (Partially unrelated side note, but I think someone ought to tackle doing a 60 fps HD recreation of this intro, I think it would look epic). The extra sound effects that go with the music ups the epic factor, although as Admiral Sven said, the original one from 1998 is also pretty solid. I agree with a lot of this. The £500-£1,000 music doesn't actually sound bad, but I just don't think it suits Millionaire. Absolutely on the 2004-2007 theme. I always felt it looked quite cheap-o graphics-wise, but looking back it is actually very good. It comes second behind the 1998 theme for me. It's also worth remembering that the Strachans had only one week to compose the original, and it can be assumed Covalo had quite a while to do his. Indeed, the Strachans actually kept refining the music throughout late 1998, and ITV were picking up what they were putting down. But I don't personally like the Covalo mix in most areas. Have a look at Q14 Q15 in 1998: And Q12 in 2007: I think the original has more tension. The 2007 version reverses the order of the heartbeats, the hallmark of Q15, which doesn't help matters either. The thing with the 1998 version was that it was always fit for use. The 2007 version represented a move to daytime, the beginning of the end for Millionaire. |
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Post by panampat on Aug 2, 2020 0:25:14 GMT -5
Absolutely on the 2004-2007 theme. I always felt it looked quite cheap-o graphics-wise, but looking back it is actually very good. It comes second behind the 1998 theme for me. It's also worth remembering that the Strachans had only one week to compose the original, and it can be assumed Covalo had quite a while to do his. Indeed, the Strachans actually kept refining the music throughout late 1998, and ITV were picking up what they were putting down. But I don't personally like the Covalo mix in most areas. Have a look at Q14 Q15 in 1998: And Q12 in 2007: I think the original has more tension. The 2007 version reverses the order of the heartbeats, the hallmark of Q15, which doesn't help matters either. The thing with the 1998 version was that it was always fit for use. The 2007 version represented a move to daytime, the beginning of the end for Millionaire. I'd just like to add very quickly though, for the 04-07 intro, my compliments only apply for the UK version. The general export version of that intro (which didn't feature the rotating pound signs, naturally) for some reason doesn't elicit that same feeling of... awesome. For a week's work, he did supremely well. Touching on the points you raised, the final question (million pound/dollar) music was infinitely better in the original than the Covalo mix. However, I still argue that for the upper tier questions preceding the million (from the second safety level to the penultimate question), the Covalo mix was just a touch more epic. Comparing this... to this... The synthesizer in the background is what does it for me. I think it is the musical representation of the seriousness that is the $/£500,000 question (with the accompanied $218,000/£200,000 loss). However, I do completely understand why people would prefer the first over the second. The first is much more... atmospheric. It's suspenseful in a subtle way and that's why that entire suite of music from the Strachans is so good. The second one is far less atmospheric and subtle (really, the synthesizers in the background every 5-7 seconds that break that atmospheric factor). I mean, it kinda sounds like music you'd hear in a Millionaire-esque game show or Millionaire parody on a sitcom. I mean, here in America, the only time it's EVER been used in context of this show is when it was parodied on Fresh Off the Boat (by the way, I was shaking with excitement when I first heard it, because I thought for sure they'd bring it with the revival, which I wouldn't have minded at all, although bringing back the Strachan soundtrack was great too).
Point is, I can see it both ways. I can see why the Covalo soundtrack is hated and why it's loved. I love some of the tracks myself. Others (like the final question music or the music for medium tier questions) I can do without. |
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