I remember seeing the Disney version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame when I was six and, while I liked it, it never stood out as one of the Disney greats in my mind. I never watched it again and I just sort of forgot about it. About an hour or so I saw Hellfire and… WOW.
I just had a miniature emotional response to this song. It’s so fucking dark. So uh, I’ll give it a while, but it might be knocking Eye To Eye off my list.
What Disney songs are the best in your mind?
If you can blow my mind with a song I’d forgotten about like, like Hellfire, there might even be an e-cookie in it for you.
Oh, got this is going to be hard (Especially as I have 3-4 Disney Compilations currently on my iPod) but here goes
The Lion King’s Original Opening of the Circle Of Life has to be one of my Favourites along with Hakuna Matata and Can you Feel the Love tonight. I loved the music from that movie, so much so that I wore out 3 to 4 Cassette Tapes before getting the CD and Making MP3’s
Yeah, snipped. I love all the other ones you mentioned, but this one always bugged me. I like the music, but I could never understand the main lines: Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
I can only make sense out of them if I reverse them, as mountains have color and the wind has a sound/voice. It seems like profundity without meaning.
Oh, and I still remember every word from every song in The Lion King, so you aren’t alone. I actually wound up getting music for them. Plus I sang a medley of them in high school show choir.
No matter what you think of the movie, Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dashould be up there. No Disney song is more fun to sing.
[This](firebird suite fantasia 2000), however, despite not actually being a song, is the best musical sequence Disney ever made.
We listened to a lot of Disney songs when MilliCal was little (long car trips). Although I grew up on a lot of the older ones, I have to admit I like the newer ones quite a bit:
Part of your World , Under the Sea, and Le Poisson from The Little Mermaid
Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast I Can Show you the World from Aladdin Mary Poppins had Chim Chimminee, Feed the Birds, and A Spoonful of Sugar
And I agree about the rather obscure Portobello Road from Bedknobs and Broomsticks (a movie that would have been much better with a ruthless editor), although I prefer the version on the Disney CD to the version they used in the movie.
I have to admit that I’ve grown less fond of the older songs, but I still love When you Wish Upon a Star from Pinocchio, which has rightly become the Disney standard. And Little April Shower is a haunting little song from Bambi.
I did love The Bare Necessities when I was a kid.
A lot of the Disney music I love is orchestral, so not really a “song”, or from venues other than movies. I have to admit that I really like Baroque Hoedown (and its variations) by Perrey and Kingsley, the theme music for the Main Street Electrical Parade (and which Mike Jittlov used as the music for his animated short Mouse Mania for Disney).