Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade

Disney - Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade

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Artist: Disney
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import, Soundtrack
Published: 2001-06-06
CD Release Date: 2001-06-06
Music Label: Avex Trax Japan
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Tokyo Disneyland@Electrical Parade Dreamlights
Tkyo Disneyland@Electrical Parade

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Music Review: Make it stooooop!!!
Rating: 3 Stars

I've been a big fan of the music from "Electric Light Parade" since I first went to Disneyland in 1976. The parade wasn't playing but I bought a small picture disc of the parade, on vinyl, for 50 cents anyway. The music that came out of that small record changed my life and has never stopped entertaining me. I have several versions of it, including the original "Baroque Hoedown" that Perrey/Kingsley recorded. I worked the actual parade in the 80's and even though I heard it every night, twice a night, for months, I never got tired of it. There were always new subtle changes to the floats with new musical "stages" and I'm always looking for recordings of them. I know this music by heart, and love it.

I recently sampled a small snippet from the parade as it plays in Tokyo. I'd heard it was slightly different, and was pleased to hear it sounded like a welcome variation. I got this CD immediately.

I'm sure that in the context of the actual parade it works, but I was disappointed with the music. After a promising opening--new instruments, arrangement and a beat-driven version of the "Hoedown," the underlying "baroque" was lost altogether. One of my favorite aspects of the original version is that everything is tied to the original "hoedown" theme, there are layers and layers of depth, all syncopated. Here that disappears, each new theme comes in solo.

But even that would've been acceptable. The real offense here, and the reason I probably won't listen to this much: about 1/3 of the way into the 20 minute running time the electronic sounds disappear and are replaced by all that orchestral bombast that made the score to "Fantasmic" so easy to hate. Disney music became increasingly schmaltzy in the 90's and so did their scores for park attractions, and this is no exception. It just gets louder and more bland as it goes, until I was crying "uncle!" to make it stop. Finally the electronic themes resume at the end, but it's too late--even the wonderful "Electric Light Parade," that last bastion of old-school Disney charm, has succumbed. I can just see the formal-suited execs sitting around a big table, trying hard to squelch anything that's remotely interesting or creative in the Disney output machine, replacing everything with sterile, sentimental, emotionless, "by-the-books" pablum for bored, slightly feeble-minded, ritalin-challenged 4 year olds and the parents that have to entertain them. A real disappointment.

I doubt anyone will come across this and read it but felt compelled to write this as a formal "Buyer beware." This is NOT an iprovement, it's an unwelcome change. I gave it 3 stars, however, because track 2 is a more traditional form of the parade with a few incredibly subtle changes I've never heard on any other recording and a new stage, "Swan Lake" that was unremarkable but nice for a completist like myself.

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