bigmoog wrote:I have no idea what the big deal is about this music, can someone enlighten me
The soundtrack, as a whole, is fairly unremarkable amoungst the long, creative history of Tangerine Dream. But, for me, there's two reasons I long for soundtrack albums to be released;
1) As someone has already alluded to, there's the nostalgic aspect. Ok, Streethawk wasn't the best show in the history of television, but it had a heart and promise. Few series start off with genius. Look at the first season of Star Trek the Next Generation as an example; Shocking! I imagine that the story of Streethawk would have got a bit darker as time went on.
2) There were flashes of pure TD genius in some of the beautiful sequenced piano tracks. The score, like Airwolf's, contained many variations of the main theme (a theme that is as iconic as the Airwolf/Knight Rider and A-Team themes) but there were some great incidental tracks.
Examples; Jessie surveying the LA horizon, complaining of the cold (E1.06 - Fire on the Wing, i think); the theme running through E1.07 - Chinatown Memories.
The score also included familiar recycled TD tracks such as Diamond Diary, from Thief, which was also used in the soundtrack of The Park is Mine.