The Good & Bad Uses of Background Music

[MrPhotastic]

Aphrodite - S.E.N.S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nECu5mlT8rE

Although, I guess without James Wong to supply and compose the BGM and theme songs, they had to borrow from the Japanese music composers. Sadly, nowdays, there music in TVB series is nothing out of the ordinary. They usually just play the instrumental version of the themesong during scenes and etc. Hmm..it has been a while since I've watched a TVB series.

After hearing the song posted above. It made me thought of this song.

[jadebunny9]

He did HSDS '86's theme, for one. Pretty much any 1980s TVB theme that was *not* composed by the Wong/Koo team was composed by Lai.

Although for the life of me, aside from the HSDS '86 suite of songs, I forget which others were his. Lai's stuff tended to be a little more modern-sounding in most cases (the HSDS '86 suite being one notable exception).

HSDS 86 has some of the best songs ever. Guess it was a one-hit wonder then.

HSDS 78 also has a great themesong.

http://www.esnips.com/doc/509d76b0-9...9-instrumental

After hearing the song posted above. It made me thought of this song.

The only similarity I see is that both were played on the piano. The tune is rather different to me. Aphrodite sounds much better.

Here's S.E.N.S's Palace Memories, which was used in numerous TVB serials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx0oTV3cMrg

Aphrodite - S.E.N.S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nECu5mlT8rE

Ah yes. Palace Memories is a personal favorite.

I'm finally getting to the link you sent me SS. Awesome! The songs are high quality. Thanks again my dear.

Here's a second variation of A City of Sadness. I like this version more. It sounds more sad.

http://www.esnips.com/doc/a7f87faa-a...---Variation-2

[MrPhotastic]

I guess another person's music is another person's noise.

[jadebunny9]

Haha, don't get me wrong, but XYXY is also a good song. Though I think Cecilia might have ruined the song for me...maybe that's why I don't like it as much as I should.

[MrPhotastic]

Yeah, I don't care too much for the vocals either. I just like the instrumental.

[burgundy]

I know this is an old thread, but such great stuff and memories. I was always so impressed with how beautiful the TVB background music was as a kid. Thanks for helping me rediscover these!

I stumbled upon this thread after stumbling upon this. As you can see, someone stitched together a bunch of wuxia songs and made a video. The thing is, I can't read Chinese very well, but I'd still like to know the titles and artists of the individual songs within. Can anyone help?