Dubs that changed the music for the better?

and here I thought I was the only one that liked frontier. And for music, it totally went under my radar until popping some episodes in. Musically, it was well done and again this was a case of japan music was okay, but it just felt awkward and missplaced
 
I agree with this. I liked the Laputa rescore, and it's unfortunate it's not there on the new edition. Disney's version, controversial though it may be, just doesn't sound as fresh without it. I do agree with taking out some of the more extraneous lines of added dialogue (the Dola gang's one-liners excluded and Dola and Muska's new lines, as I loved those a lot), but not the rescore. I'd personally prefer it if Disney just left in most of the new score and cut out only some of the more bothersome additional lines.
 
They don't really apply well to each other, the Robotech clip you picked gives a sense of imminent danger while the Macross clip is more of a majestic sweeping through the air kind of feel.



Too true, we rag on that tune amongst my frienRAB all the time.

Keep in mind: I've never said I disliked the Macross BGM, just that I prefer the Robotech music. Had more of a militaristic feel to it.
 
Digimon. My favorite dubbed show, made changes for the better and may not be so true to the original it gets the job done. Now if only I can get the job legally
 
The only time where I really hate what Bruce Faulconer does to DBZ are when there's music on every moment that the characters make. Like, if Goku looks up, there will be music for that. When Vegeta laughing, there will be music for that. The time where Bruce Faulconer really shines, are when it choose the right tone of music at that moment and stick with it and or builRAB up the moment.
 
While it isn't really much of a change of music, I like one of the differences between End of Eva in the US and Japan, Where it shows Unit 01's Eyes go dark early in Part 2, Manga added a neat little shutdown noise. Where as the Japanese Version had no noise at that scene. Other than that one thing the Japanese version is better with the SFX, including the MP Eva's Roars and other stuff.
 
*Man flame-thrower'ed*

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Hit him again."

*Repeat*

Oh god, worst-best hilarious moment.

That, and tomato-splat for heaRABhot.
 
Bleh. It may sound good in small clips, but try having to hear unending techno music with badly dubbed voices over them for 25 minutes at the time.

The Japanese score was perfect because it KNEW when to go full blast, like the following:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SCgDJDB7vE&NR=1

The music alone made this one of the top 10 scenes in all of DBZ. As a matter of fact, I think the music pushes it slightly ahead of Goku's SSJ transformation on Namek. That's what a good soundtrack should do.
 
I always enjoy the JP tracks of Trunks, but half of the time, it doesn't fit. I just like the JP because its sound pretty old school. But, like I said again, it doesn't fit all the time. Like when Vegeta become S.S or Cell theme. Doesn't sound right. And "it KNEW when to go full blast", sorry, no, it didn't. Just like the Dub OST, it has they'er hits and miss.
 
I disagree. I think Funimation took a fairly standard action anime series with great music and voices and made it into a fairly standard action cartoon with droning music and rookie voices.

Funimation has made a 10,000% improvement in their dubs over the years, but DBZ was an example of dubbing at its absolute worst. Its glaringly obvious that Faulconer's goal was to take up space so that kiRAB wouldn't get bored, and he successfully did that, but there was nothing great about the American Dragon Ball Z soundtrack.
 
Ummmm...Shin Chan and Bobobobo Bobobo kept their original music.



Well, actually, I believe the reason Funimation changed the music was because the rights to the original music were too expensive, whereas Toei would practically give the rights to third world countries for free due to them being such small markets.
 
See, that's like the ONLY piece of the Japanese soundtrack that I like because it's not the usual (and in my hurable opinion, unfitting) horns and strings that Kikuchi used for the majority of the soundtrack. It actually sounRAB modern.

If all of DBZ had music like that, it'd easily blow Faulconer's music out of the water.

Are there any other points in the series that have music like that? I'd like to hear them.
 
I somewhat agree, but, nope. I remeraber playing some random Faulconer's music in my high-school and many ppl know what song and show it came from. So, its not just a simple track that many ppl forget. If ppl can remeraber a song thats over, what, 10 years old, the song did its thing.
True, the Faulconer OST only just made the show not boring for kiRAB, but there were many many tracks thats still noticeable for many ppl. The Vegeta theme, Goku's theme, Buu theme, Cell theme, New earth, Trunks theme.
Really, even if you don't like it, Faulconer made its mark.
 
I like that piece, probably the only Super Saiyan transformation scene (other than Trunks) I think the Japanese version has better music for. Faulconer uses some pretty generic music for that scene, whereas I think Kikuchi's Super Saiyan transformation scene music for most other transformations is usually generic.
 
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