It’s a ballsy move to use a song so well-known, especially in the first episode, but it pays off. It’s a score for a bloodbath, but with a sly wink and a nod. The piece swells and fades as the moments in the episode require it to, building up to a booming interpretation of the song’s chorus as Hector and his gang shoot up nearly all of the hosts in the park. The orchestral version of the rock’n’roll classic plays during the climactic shootout in the premiere. While Soundgarden‘s “Black Hole Sun” was the first contemporary-classic twist to air on the show via the player piano in the Mariposa saloon, Djawadi’s arrangement of the Rolling Stones’ “Paint it Black” was the first to really blow viewers away. (Which is good, since HBO plays the full opening credit sequences before each episode and viewers will be hearing the theme over and over again.) The piano is particularly fun on this track, as is the way the song builds from minimalism to a more lush composition and then back again. The title track is thematic and moody while still being enjoyable to listen to. It contains a mixture of traditional instruments and digitally-created sounds, which is perfect given the show’s sci-fi futurism mixed with the Old West. Though perhaps not as ridiculously catchy as Game of Thrones title theme, the Westworld title theme is equally well done. The entire soundtrack is available to stream, so have a listen and take a look at our (mostly spoiler-free) breakdown of the best tracks. It’s a little old, a little new, just like the show. The soundtrack to the hit series is phenomenal, with new twists on contemporary classics and plenty of original scores. Djawadi’s uniquely textured, lush instrumentals seemed perfect for Westworld. A protégé of Hans Zimmer, Djawadi provided the scores for Blade: Trinity, the theme music for Prison Breakand Person of Interest, and the score for HBO’s other massively popular series, Game of Thrones. Rather than come up with a story that would be specific to Shogun World’s setting and Japanese history and culture, he just shoehorned the gunslinging narrative he wrote for Westworld.Westworld composer Ramin Djawadi creates some of the best epic scores in pop culture today. In Season 2, “Paint It Black” signifies that Sizemore is a goddamn, unoriginal hack. In context, the specific track also highlighted Hector and Co.’s willingness to resort to violence and a certain sense of nihilism. In Season 1, the use of “Paint It Black,” a “modern” song, was meant to highlight the artificiality of Wesworld’s Wild West setting. In both instances, a cover of “Paint It Black,” plays, only in Shogun World it’s performed with traditional flutes and Japanese instruments rather than on a player piano. In Shogun World, the ronin Musashi (Hiroyuki Sanada) and his dragon-tattooed accomplice try to steal from the teahouse where Akane ( Pacific Rim’s Rinko Kikuchi) operates as a geisha. Hector and Armistice’s bloody attempted robbery of the safe in Maeve’s brothel wasn’t exactly unique. See, when Sizemore wrote narratives for all of Delos’s various parks, he self-plagiarized quite a bit. When Maeve, Sizemore, Hector, Armistice, and the two doofus technicians Felix and Sylvester get captured by some rogue swordsmen and taken into Shogun World, they see new sides of themselves. This post contains spoilers for Westworld* Season 2, Episode 5. The instrumentation is a little different in Shogun World. Except, the last time we heard the Rolling Stones’s we were in Westworld. The genre-swapped musical cover in the fifth episode of Wesworld’s second season probably sounds familiar - not just because it’s a cover of a well-known song, but because we’ve actually heard this very song before on the show.
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