Post your favorite Disney Music

Be Prepared is one of my favorites as well.

Colors of the Wind

Friends on The Other Side

We Are Man

My Lullaby.

edited 25th Jun '12 12:01:04 AM by Vertigo_High

In terms of the music, I actually have two categories. The first is the actual songs.

I don't think I have any Disney songs I don't like, though some do stick out more to me than others. I love Reflection from Mulan for it's ballad tone, but it's still a big number. I also love Be Prepared because of it's built. It starts out sparse, but builds into this huge, titanic number by the end of it. Some of the more poppy songs are really fun too, like Under The Sea, Trashin' The Camp, Friend Like Me, I Just Can't Wait to Be King, and of course I'll Make a Man out of You. What I love about those songs is the fact that they can be poppy and fun, but add a ton to the story.

Then there's the actual score to the movies. Alan Menken is probably my favorite composer, and he's apparently Disney's as well. He always manages to make the movies just sound SO epic. One of my favorite scores he did was for Hercules, even though Hercules wasn't exactly my favorite Disney movie. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that his music actually made the movie for me. He managed to make the movie SO epic. Same with The Little Mermaid. I have to say though, that Hercules and Lion King probably tie for my favorite score.

The latin versions of The Headless Horseman and The Bare Necessities, especially the former. Long live Tin Tan.

On that note, Los Tres Caballeros also rocks in both languages. Showcasing the spanish version here!

I give a special mention to Disney's rendition of Aquarela Do Brasil as heard here

edited 1st Jul '12 1:04:22 PM by Richie

Well, There are some songs that I like.

Alright, Alright. All of them.

Oh God. I'll be listening to these all day.

Thanks for that.

Okay, I'll admit that I have taken apart of flash mob "I'll Make a Man Outta You" sing-a-longs at conventions.

Because that song is fuckawesome.

Seconded! That was probably my favorite song from Mulan as a kid, just from the sheer euphoria.

Awesome song.

I like Kiss the Girl, myself.

Too many. Too many. Up near the top are The Bells Of Notre Dame, Bare Necessities, all of the music from Mulan except I'll Make A Man Out Of You, Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride, all of the music from The Lion King, all of the music from Tarzan but especially Trashin' The Camp, most if not all of the villain songs with special mention to Friends On The Other Side (Minnie The Moocher ftw), Cruella De Vil (blues ftw) and World's Greatest Criminal Mind (Vincent Price ftw), I'm A Happy Go Lucky Fellow, Thomas O' Malley, Everybody Wants To Be A Cat, and any and all that I've missed.

And that's not even getting into songs from their shorts (like the "Humphrey Hop") or animated shows (like the entire soundtracks to Ducktales and Talespin).

I actually have an idea for a project, sort of like a charity concert where they play single song from every Disney movie made. Everything from their first character songs way back when to the most recent today. Maybe even a song or two from Song Of The South - I'm something of a fan of "How Do You Do?"

Plus, do Pixar songs count?

Or covers/arrangements for that matter. I've been addicted to this version of Feed The Birds for the past few days.

edited 2nd Jul '12 3:49:39 AM by KnownUnknown

I think I'll go do a list :P

• Favorite Overall Song: All in the Golden Afternoon. I can't explain why I love it, I just do.
• Favorite Score: Cody's Flight. This is a serverly underrated piece of music. It's just brilliant, the way it continuously builds up it spectacular and just the sheer size of the feel of the song does make you feel like your flying over nature. It helps that this is the score to one of the best animated scenes of all time.
  • Honaray mentions go to Kingdom Dance and Short Hair
• Favorite Award-Bait Song: Colours of the Wind. Yeah, it's preachy as fuck, but it's a lovely song with a soothing melody with the most memorable scene In the movie.
• Favorite Love Song: Tie between I won't say I'm in Love and Stangers like Me. The former for being a catchy as hell song about someone trying to deny their feelings and the latter for being a heartfelt song about someone who has not only just made contact with a whole new culture, but is experiencing love for the first time.
  • Ma Belle Evangiline gets an Honaray mention for being so damn sincere.
• Favorite Exposition Song: Bells. Of. Notre. Dame
  • Honaray mentions go to One Jump Ahead and Thomas O Malley (character exposition).
• Favorite "Ballade of the Easy Life": Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride. This was always the song that came to my head when I thought of Summer, the beach, sunset, warm family memories and youth. It still is.
  • Honaray Mentions go to "I just can't wait to be king", "Friend like me" and "Why should I worry?"
• Favorite Tear Jerker Song: Baby Mine ;-;
• Favorite Bar Song: GAAAAAASTOOOOOOOON!
• Favorite "I Want" Song: Part of Your World
• Favorate Villian Song: Hellfire/ Friends on the Other Side
  • My Lullaby, Poor Unfortunate Souls and Be Prepared are Honaray mentions
• Favorite Badass Song: I'll Make a Man Outta You

Misc Favorites: We are One, Destino, Not One of Us, Snuff out the Light, On My Way, Ev'rybody wants to be a Cat, Little April Showers, Hi-Diddly-Dae.

edited 24th Jul '12 11:57:09 PM by PippingFool

Does anyone else do this? I like to take my movie soundtracks and rearrange them so the tracks are in the order they played in the movie itself. Disney has adopted the habit of lumping all the songs together at the beginning, and then filling the rest of the CD with a selection of score tracks, often mashed together in weird ways so that I have to cut them up with editing software in order to rearrange them properly.

That's when they give us significant portions of the score at all, instead of tossing in a bunch of covers of the film songs by the Disney Pop Artist(s) of the Week and maybe, if we're lucky, tacking a "Film Score Suite" on the end.

It's like...dude. The music is already recorded, and with digital data transfer and cloud computing, releasing soundtracks to the public is basically free. Give us the damn music. I've been fortunate enough to find some of the more complete scores that are pressed as limited editions for the film staff and/or Academy Awards voters...but I shouldn't have to.

There's so many it is hard to list them all, but my top favorite Disney songs are:

"Belle," "Gaston," and "Human Again" from Beauty and the Beast

"Bells of Notre Dame" from Hunchback of Notre Dame

The stampede soundtrack and "King of Pride Rock" from Lion King

You know, I'm still listening to disney songs.

STILL.

I'm going to be stuck like this forever.

To keep this post from becoming so big it implodes, I'll keep myself to the canon.

• Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: "Heigh-Ho", "The Dwarfs' Yodel Song (The Silly Song)"
• Pinocchio: "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (An Actor's Life for Me)"
• Fantasia: "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria" (forget the visuals for a moment, the music is still amazing)
• Dumbo: "When I See an Elephant Fly" (SO COOL!)
• The Three Caballeros: "The Three Caballeros"
• The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: "Headless Horseman"
• Alice In Wonderland: "The Caucus Race", "Painting the Roses Red"
• Peter Pan: "What Made the Red Man Red?" (Yeah yeah, it's racist. It also makes the indians the coolest characters in the movie, because sweet damn is that song catchy as hell)
• Lady And The Tramp: "Bella Notte", "He's a Tramp"
• One Hundred And One Dalmatians: "Cruella De Vil" (pure swag)
• The Sword In The Stone: "Higitus Figitus"
• The Jungle Book: "I Wan'na Be Like You"
• The Aristocats: "Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat"
• Robin Hood: "Whistle Stop" (I often whistle this one, actually), "The Phony King of England"
• The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh: "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers", "Heffalumps and Woozles", "The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down"
• The Rescuers: "Rescue Aid Society"
• The Great Mouse Detective: "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind"
• Oliver And Company: "Why Should I Worry?"
• The Little Mermaid: "Poor Unfortunate Souls", "Kiss the Girl"
• Beauty And The Beast: "Belle (Bonjour)", "Gaston", "Be Our Guest", "Beauty and the Beast", "The Mob Song"
• Aladdin: "Arabian Nights" (I have the original pressing of the soundtrack where the original version is intact! :D), "Friend Like Me", "Prince Ali", "Prince Ali (Reprise)"
• The Lion King: "I Just Can't Wait to Be King", "Be Prepared"
• Pocahontas: "Just Around the Riverbend"
• The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: "The Bells of Notre Dame", "Out There", "Heaven's Light/Hellfire"
• Hercules: "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)"
• Mulan: "I'll Make a Man out of You"
• Tarzan: "Strangers Like Me"
• Fantasia 2000: "Rhapsody in Blue", "Firebird Suite"
• Lilo And Stitch: "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride", anything by Elvis
• The Princess And The Frog: "Friends on the Other Side"

My criteria were basically if I went "Oh yeah!" and started humming the song in my head when I read the name.

edited 24th Jul '12 3:21:50 PM by BadWolf21

For the last few days now, all I ever think when I hear Disney is-

LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS
TO DEFEAT
THE HUNS.

"Feed the Birds" used to make me cry. I've never quite pinpointed why.

Also, I love all two original songs in Lilo and Stitch, but they're so very different from anything else Disney's done, I don't know what category to put them in!

Also, not an original tune, but Wynona Judd's version of Burnin' Love is fantastic.

Of the cut music that I like, there's "Beyond the Laughing Sky", "Silence is Golden", "Dancing on a Cloud", and "Snuff Out the Light".

Usually not that big on musicals, but this one is incredibly infectious and charming:

And just for fun, the SEGA Genesis/Megadrive remix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8r0BLUVqU

In addition to "Snuff Out The Light" (which I swear is one of the best songs Disney's ever made, so much so that I really wish it could've been in the or a movie), of cut songs I also like 'The Mighty Hunters.'

And 'Keep 'Em Guessing,' though I can understand why it was cut, as it's totally dissonant from the setting of the movie (though, then again, so is "Make A Man Out Of You").

edited 16th Aug '12 8:21:41 PM by KnownUnknown

My all-time favorite has to be Kiss the Girl. It's simple, catchy, and even though it is about love, it isn't an "I Want" Song. Not that there's something wrong with those songs, I mean, Part Of Your World and So Close (technically not from the animated canon, but who cares) are also one of my favorite songs from Disney as well, but they're not as high on my favorites list as Kiss the Girl because of that. That, and anybody can sing the song without feeling something for someone himself. It's pretty much the perfect love song for people who don't have anybody, you sing it, but not exactly for somebody. Simply put, it's the Elite Beat Agents song of Disney.

Also high on my list is I'll Make A Man Out Of You. I mean come on, it's a really awesome song, and it really gets you pumped.

Also, there are a lot of songs from Phineas and Ferb I really love, like Happy Evil Love Song, Do Nothing Day, Not So Bad A Dad and Candace Party (it's not a party, it's an intimate get-together (CANDACE PARTY! CANDACE PARTY!)). Seriously, I love Phineas and Ferb.

Finally, one song I shouldn't mention, both because it's not from an animated Disney animation and because there will be peltings, but Just Wanna Be With You from High School Musical 3. I really love that song.

There might be more songs I really love, but I easily forget stuff. So yeah.

I also nominate "Nothing in the World Like a Friend" from The Return of Jafar and Joe Hisaishi's Disney-version re-orchestration of Castle In The Sky.

While doing research for my above post, I finally heard "Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim". I have now been humming it for weeks.