Recomposed this song using Korg Gadget. Please enjoy.
Artist: Alan Menken
Title: Skid Row (Downtown)
Year: 1986 (movie release)
Genres: #musical #soundtrack #sing-along #karaoke #broadway #doo-wop
Tonight I finished uploading just about all of my songs from this fantastic film.
Skid Row was the song that was the most fun to work on composing. It has lots of different voice elements, creating a song that skates around different avenues often felt in the real world. It has to be experienced in all its ugliness to be fully appreciated and enjoyed.
Always loved the various street urchins who pop out of nowhere in the movie. During the song unpopular street rats jump out and shout obscene angry lines. Everyone is poisoned by this toxic lifestyle they have mistakenly become lost inside of. When everyone has less than they need to survive on, they start to nibble away at everyone around them. Sometimes viciously. Sometimes quietly.
Reminds me of my daily lunch routine as I walk down the street and pass by a plethora of druggies, crazies, homeless, city slickers, and construction workers. There is no avoiding them. Every month a new towering building is added between the old houses. Touted as affordable housing, they are nothing of the sort. Instead being marketed to singles who are encouraged to start an internet business and work from home. Fancy new buildings attract fanciful dreamers who yearn to live an eco-friendly lifestyle, without a car, and without pollution. Instead they find themselves overspending on bandwidth, electricity, and amazon shipments. The landscape changes into overpopulated streets more polluted with trash, disease, and vermin than there was before.
Sometimes entire communities can become poisoned to such an extent that no effort in the world can cause it to recover to its previous level of success. Even attempting to do so, in Skid Row it will ultimately devour you before you can succeed. As the song says, the only solution is to get out of Skid Row.
#song #music #littleshopofhorrors #skid-row #lsoh #artzone #korg #korg-gadget #composing
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This is my favorite of your series of recomposed "Little Shop of Horrors" songs. Love the piano. To me, the heaviness of the lower register projects a feeling of bleakness. The clicks, taps, squiggly notes of a higher register adds an uneasiness. Looking forward to what you do with "Somewhere That's Green". Should be a stark contrast to this one
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Yes. There is something eerily related to all of the scores in this musical I have noticed.
Each song has a sort if panic motif that comes and goes. It is like an emotional alarm that plays, forcing the listener into a position of wanting to do anything to make it stop. To me, it relates to the psychological turmoil that a person considering suicide might might be experiencing.
Don't worry! I am no depressed or suicidal. I think every sane person can relate though to the sense of panic desperation.
Some of the songs also introduce a contrasting seductive motif, as a magic remedy for the distressed listener. This is the dangerous and evil allure that death offers a person who has no more love for life.
Thankfully a third musical motif exists, which is found in Somewhere That's Green and Suddenly Seymour. Life can grow from small beginnings into a simpler life. It might not happen all at once, but gradually by being good and giving up the vices that fuel our personal demons. Seymour and Audrey provide the perfect catalyst of purity and accountability to make a loving relationship that can work.
In this song, Skid Row, it is interesting when Seymour and Audrey sing, because they are both sceaming for the same help. Ironically, the person who can best help them is standing on the other side of the corner of Skid Row. Even in darkness, a light can be found to lead us out.
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Hola @creativetruth, genial, me gustó mucho gracias por compartirla…
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Greetings @creativetruth, excellent work and interesting moral...
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There are so many people with those fond memories which you relive once again, thank you for sharing a jewel like that...
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Hello @creativetruth, thank you for sharing this creative work! We just stopped by to say that you've been upvoted by the @creativecrypto magazine. The Creative Crypto is all about art on the blockchain and learning from creatives like you. Looking forward to crossing paths again soon. Steem on!
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