Flash Season 2 and Supergirl Season 1 Soundtracks Review

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This is Matt Verbois from La La Land Records

and you've entered the La La Land Lounge on GeekCast

Radio. Sit down, take a load off and listen to

some great soundtracks. and welcome to the La

La Land Lounge here on the GeekCast Radio Network.

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And yeah, it's time for the La La Land Lounge

episode three. Hope everyone had a chance to

check out my new interview with Matt Verbois

and MV Gerhard of La La Land Records. We talked

about San Diego Comic Con, upcoming releases

from La La Land Records. Supergirl, Flash, DC

Animated Universe, all that good stuff. Today

I am here to give my reviews of the Flash Season

2 and Supergirl Season 1 scores released from

La La Land Records composed by Blake Neely. I

have been loving the Flash. I've loved the show

since the very first episode of Season 1. When

the season one soundtrack came out which I believe

Steve and I already talked about in this podcast.

I don't remember Yeah, cuz flashing arrow was

episode 2 and now flashing Supergirl is gonna

be episode 3. Wow. Oh boy So here's the thing

folks. Like I said, I've been watching the flash

since the very first episode what? I find interesting

when it comes to Season 2 of The Flash. I actually

just re -watched the whole Season 2 to get a

whole new feel of the show for Season 2 while

listening to this score. This single disc CD

release has 26 tracks. In the liner notes, Blake

Neely says that they had over 14 hours of score

or something like that, over 23 episodes. and

they couldn't put it all in one release which

I understand he also goes on to say that he chose

what he felt we the fans of the show would want

to hear on it's more of like a best -of release

it does not have the main theme it does not have

the closing theme that's one thing I gotta go

back and look at the flash season one score That's

one thing I don't think that's on these releases

is the closing theme of the show. I could be

wrong, and please, Mr. Blake Neely, if I'm wrong,

I'm sorry. Please correct me. But looking at

the track list for Season 1 and Season 2, Season

2 does not even start out with the main theme,

which is fine. I guess, folks, what it is is

I'm used to having soundtracks start with a main

theme, like an opening theme. Kind of like when

you watch a TV show, you get either a... five

or ten minute opening like pre -credits thing

and then you get the actual theme song introduction

thing where Barry is talking or whatever you

know i'm used to that i'm used to a main theme

and an ending theme to book in my soundtrack

so the flash not having that just kinda warps

my senses a little bit even though That's the

case for me. I still love this music season two

of the flash Blake Neely man you outdid yourself

because The tone of season two takes a slightly

darker turn they've they've moved into more streamlined

storytelling in the show When the flash started

the first I'd say five or six episodes Maybe

three of those were villain of the week and as

the first season went on they went into this

unique Flashpoint timeline storyline thing leading

up to the Flashpoint paradox and all that and

everything else. With Season 2, they kick it

up a notch and give you music that that you just

wouldn't expect to hear, I guess. I don't know.

What I love about Season 2 of The Flash with

the score from Blake Neely is how diverse these

tracks are from the first season's music. He

has taken Themes like he we all know every show

whether it's a television show movie Cartoon

whatever the main hero always has a main theme

And he intersperses that into unique tracks the

show goes on as the episodes go on so that's

very very interesting and very very cool some

of my favorite tracks here on the flash season

two track one obviously how it ended the reluctant

hero love that track I love the way it sounds

I love the the tonal shifts that are in that

a little bit um... new firestorm basically creating

a theme song for the new firestorm that was cool

really dug that welcome to earth 2 i mean hello

this is the first time that they're going to

one of the other earths so hearing that music

was really cool i think after re -listening to

this and after re -watching the flash season

2 I have to say that this is some of the best

television music I've heard for a TV show in

a very long time. It's unique, it's upbeat yet

dark. There are times where the themes in Season

2 of The Flash, the music is not... It's not

all bright and shiny and new anymore because

obviously the way the story is going and it's

getting more serious and I like that. I like

those serious tones. I also do like those fun

upbeat tones as well. What I think is interesting

about The Flash Season 2 is how Blake Neely was

able to match the music to fit the story and

that's what all composers do essentially when

they're, you know... Working for television or

film or whatever, but still the music by itself

It tells a story and as I've said many times

on the GCR and before I I have to watch the music

in context So like I said, I just finished watching

the flash season 2 on Netflix right before I

recorded this before I relistened to the score

again I listened to the score again so I could

hear The subtleties that sometimes you can't

get when you're watching the show, you know Because

you know you got talking and action and explosions

and all that So that's one of the reasons why

I love soundtracks and I'll say that till you

know Till my lips fall off that it's so nice

to immerse myself in the music and I can really

know what or remember what is going on. Oh yeah,

that's Grodd's entrance or that's Grodd's theme

or that's when Vandal Savage arrives or whatever.

Go check this out, folks, please. The Flash Season

2 only at La La Land Records, lalandrecords .com.

I'm gonna come back and we are gonna head to

National City, folks, right after this, talking

to Supergirl Season 1 from Blake Neely and La

La Land Records. You don't have to do this, Barry.

This is my fight. One for all and all for you

guys have three musketeers here, right all for

one Alright folks and it's time to go up up and

away here inside the La La Land lounge where

I'm gonna talk about Supergirl season 1 Supergirl

season 1 score from Blake Neely. I wasn't sure

what to expect from it And honestly, I wasn't

sure what to expect from Supergirl overall, considering

it started at CBS and is now on the CW for Season

2, thank God. But I liked Season 1 of Supergirl.

I thought it was interesting. I thought it was

fun. I thought it was funny. At the same time,

it also brought those serious battle -hardened

moments as well. I like how Supergirl... Kind

of relies on Superman, but not really I mean

I think by the 10th episode of season 1 I was

so done with the whole Showing Superman and shadow

gig gag thing I didn't mind when she texted back

and forth with him or something like that. That

was fine because We know he's there, but we don't

actually have to see him kind of thing But Supergirl

Season 1, it is a one -disc release from La La

Land Records. You can get it at lalandrecords

.com, where soundtracks live. It's got 29 tracks,

and if you listen to the interview with Matt

Verbois and M. V. Gerhardt that I did before

this podcast episode... I had asked them why

the main theme from Supergirl was the last track.

There's 29 tracks in here, and that's the last

track. Again, as I've already said in this episode,

it goes back to my whole thing of starting with

the main theme, ending with an end theme thing,

but that's neither here nor there at this point,

so... What they had told me was that they thought,

oh, well, just, you know, that'll be the... the

ending the cliffhanger so this one starts off

uh will you do extraordinary things goes into

meeting jimmy uh then we've got uh telling win

uh out of the 29 tracks on this what i love about

blake and the way he does all these cw superhero

shows is mixing in the fun with the not so fun

And what I mean by that is, and I mentioned this

when I talked about Flash a little while ago,

you've got a charak on here called Catty Questions,

which I assume is... I know what the track is,

but I assume it's from a scene of Season 1 where

Kara and Cat Grant are having a scene. But it's

this really fun piece of music. It's not... your

epic hero theme, it's not the dark and gritty

villain theme, it's just kind of a fun thing.

And that's what I really dig about Blake Neely

and his work on Supergirl Season 1 for La La

Land Records and Warner Brothers and CW and all

that. I... I don't know. I do enjoy a lot of

tracks on here. I think what Blake has done again

crafting Themes for each character like I said

the catty questions thing is kind of a cat grant

thing He's got my name is John Jones on here

Which is a nice little theme for when John gets

revealed in season 1. This is not a spoiler for

anybody I'm not talking about season 2 or I'm

talking about season 1 Confronting Maxwell Lord

is track 12, and a lot of these have, you know,

some start out really epic and flourishing beats

and waves, and then some start off really slow

and subtle, which is very, very cool. Absolutely

dig it. You can hear it for yourself, folks.

Check this score out, seriously. It's by far

one of my favorites. You know, I mentioned earlier

in the episode that I had watched all of season

one again for Supergirl in prep for this. And

hearing the music in with the show, but also

hearing it outside of the show, I can really

immerse myself in the world of National City

and Supergirl and Kara and all that stuff. Absolutely

dig it. I think another one of my favorite tracks,

and the reason why it is a favorite track for

me... Again, it's another one of those kind of

soft moment tracks where it's number 10 called

Chatting with Clark. And this was at the point

where I believe she was texting him in that one

episode of Season 1. Again, it's just that little

nuance of having a light song or a light piece

of music amongst all this other epic and awesomeness.

Like, the one that really... Almost made my bones

chill quite literally. It was track 23 Alex brings

Kara back This is a three minute 30 second track

folks and wow does it start off really really

awesomely I can't even describe how awesome this

is, but it's not It's not dark. It's not light

It's alright. Well there you go. It's evil. It

just sounds so evil at the beginning of this

Just absolutely love it So yeah, you can check

both of the scores out that I've talked about

today. The Flash Season 2, Supergirl Season 1

over at lawlandrecords .com where soundtracks

live. Hopefully next episode I'll have a co -host.

As most everyone knows, I'm not exactly the best

at doing solo stuff, but hey, whatever. I'm not

sure what we'll cover next time from Lawland

Records. We might do Johnny Quest. They just

released the Johnny Quest. cartoon music CD score

for the first time ever so we might do that,

I'm not sure. I know Steve and I are going to

do The Killing Joke at some point and a few other

things so stay tuned for that. Coming up on GeekCast

Radio we are going to get back into the numbers

episode with our top 9's of the 90's. We are

going to have two new episodes of Mayhem Mikes

at some point. I don't know, I've got to catch

up with Mike Dodd and Ryan Merkley for that.

that's kind of what's going on. I wanted to throw

this episode out there because I've been listening

to Flash Season 2 and Supergirl Season 1 and

I just wanted to talk about them and I just really

really dig them. If you have been a fan of the

CW Superhero shows and you've been watching them

along with the rest of us, please go check out

these scores. They're amazing. That's going to

do it for the La La Land Lounge here on GeekCast

Radio. Head on over to lalalandrecords .com where

soundtracks live, and I'll catch you next time.