Recomposed this song using Korg Gadget. Please enjoy.
Artist: Alan Menken
Title: Skid Row (Downtown)
Year: 1986 (movie release)
Genres: #musical #soundtrack #sing-along #karaoke #broadway #doo-wop
Tonight I finished uploading just about all of my songs from this fantastic film.
Skid Row was the song that was the most fun to work on composing. It has lots of different voice elements, creating a song that skates around different avenues often felt in the real world. It has to be experienced in all its ugliness to be fully appreciated and enjoyed.
Always loved the various street urchins who pop out of nowhere in the movie. During the song unpopular street rats jump out and shout obscene angry lines. Everyone is poisoned by this toxic lifestyle they have mistakenly become lost inside of. When everyone has less than they need to survive on, they start to nibble away at everyone around them. Sometimes viciously. Sometimes quietly.
Reminds me of my daily lunch routine as I walk down the street and pass by a plethora of druggies, crazies, homeless, city slickers, and construction workers. There is no avoiding them. Every month a new towering building is added between the old houses. Touted as affordable housing, they are nothing of the sort. Instead being marketed to singles who are encouraged to start an internet business and work from home. Fancy new buildings attract fanciful dreamers who yearn to live an eco-friendly lifestyle, without a car, and without pollution. Instead they find themselves overspending on bandwidth, electricity, and amazon shipments. The landscape changes into overpopulated streets more polluted with trash, disease, and vermin than there was before.
Sometimes entire communities can become poisoned to such an extent that no effort in the world can cause it to recover to its previous level of success. Even attempting to do so, in Skid Row it will ultimately devour you before you can succeed. As the song says, the only solution is to get out of Skid Row.
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