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"The Theme Music"
 
   For whatever reason - possibly because I hadn't thought of doing it yet - Warrior's Legacy has never had a standardized citation for an opening titles theme, the way Neon Exodus Evangelion did. This is a little odd, because for as long as I can remember it's had one, complete with a mental title sequence I tend to envision in an essentially cheerful character-spotlight montage style, composed of about equal parts action and lighter moments and with only the slightest dash of Overarching Menace to remind the viewer that, though this is a fairly lighthearted affair most of the time, the stakes are ultimately pretty high.

I used this song as Corwin's song of the day once on the UF board (that was before there was a Symphony board), and it fits him too, but it was WL's theme music first. The bits in italics would be in the edit used to make the aforementioned title sequence, which would end up being right around two minutes long.


Basic elemental
Instinct to survive
Stirs the higher passions -
Thrill to be alive
Alternating currents
In a tidewater surge
Rational resistance
To an unwise urge:
Anything can happen

From the point of conception
To the moment of truth
At the point of surrender
To the burden of proof
From the point of ignition
To the final drive
The point of the journey
Is not to arrive
Anything can happen

Basic temperamental
Filters on our eyes
Alter our perceptions
Lenses polarize
Alternating currents
Force a show of hands
Rational responses
Force a change of plans:
Anything can happen

From a point on a compass
To magnetic north
The point of the needle
Moving back and forth
From the point of entry
Until the candle is burned
The point of departure
Is not to return
Anything can happen

I set the wheels in motion
Turn up all the machines
Activate the programs
And run behind the scenes
I set the clouds in motion
Turn up light and sound
Activate the window
Watch the world go 'round

From the point of conception
To the moment of truth
At the point of surrender
To the burden of proof
From the point of ignition
To the final drive
The point of the journey
Is not to arrive
Anything can happen

- Rush
"Prime Mover"
Hold Your Fire (1987)

--G.
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Jan-12-11, 04:49 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: The Theme Music"
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   Makes sense---the anime-friendly sound of late-eighties Rush (everything has more chorus, a bit compressed and trebly, Geddy's got his Roland D-50 out on every song) kinda screams out to be used in these sorts of adventures. Kinda a surprising pick, as you don't tend to see Rush show up too often in the soundtracks to the other main Eyrie stuff. (Limelight and Dreamline come to mind OH GOD I'M THINKING TOO HARD ABOUT THIS)

Anyway. I dig it---one of my favorite tracks from that particular group of Canadians. Wonder if the end sequence would be something a little darker for cliffhangers and Impending Bison Doom, a little more 90s-00s---heard the Snakes & Arrows record? (Far Cry and Malignant Narcissism are too good.)


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3. "RE: The Theme Music"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jan-20-11 AT 09:47 PM (EST)
 
>Wonder if the end sequence would be something a
>little darker for cliffhangers and Impending Bison Doom, a little more
>90s-00s

I seem to recall, from long-ago conversations with Zoner, that the end title music would usually be a mostly-instrumental edit of "Time Stand Still" from that same album. It might not always be the same, though. Particularly heavy eps could well have a different end title sequence entirely. Plenty of precedent for that kind of thing.

--G.
freeze this moment a little bit longer...
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2. "RE: The Theme Music"
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   Love this song. Love it. Love most of the album actually, and (at least among Rush fans I know) it doesn't get enough attention.

And since this is as good a place as any to mention it, thanks for ending WL's hiatus.


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