JoeDios.com Forums - The Soundtrack to G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

10-18-2007, 04:34 AM	#1
yorktownjoe Enjoying the season Offline --> Posts: 5,106 --> Join Date: Nov 2005	Fantastic thread, and thanks for all the hard work in getting this up Matt and Hammerfel and anyone else involved. And look at all the fans who popped in... Welcome, all!

11-17-2007, 11:05 PM	#2
Hammerfel Administrator Offline --> Posts: 1,365 --> Join Date: Feb 2005	I'm interested! email them to me at natepearce (at) gmail.com __________________ Read Hammerfel's Dio Story, "Disciple" here My Want List - Help me complete my Dios!

11-18-2007, 12:47 PM

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I'm interested! email them to me at

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Yeah, I never did get you that PM, did I? I'll probably have some time to send these to you in the coming week, what with the Thanksgiving holiday.

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11-26-2007, 01:48 PM	#4
LordEd1976 Veteran Offline --> Posts: 569 --> Join Date: Nov 2007	More music. More music! I'm loving this. More music! please. __________________ "All the world's a stage and the people merely players." -paraphrasing Shakespeare "Fantastic!" -the 9th Doctor

03-08-2008, 10:27 PM	#5
Rockshield Junior Member Offline --> Posts: 5 --> Join Date: Oct 2007	very apprecitive of your work putting all this together and then sharing it with us! __________________

06-01-2011, 02:19 AM	#6
ANCIENTMANOFMYSTERY Junior Member Offline --> Posts: 1 --> Join Date: Apr 2011	great uploads!! much appreciated

01-19-2013, 06:33 PM	#7
GRN Junior Member Offline --> Posts: 1 --> Join Date: Nov 2012	Put me down as someone who is firmly in the camp of Johnny Douglas; I have always felt that his compositions were FAR superior than anything from Rob Walsh. Maybe it's because I was about 10 when the first 2 mini-series hit the air, and EVERYTHING from the characters to the sounds to the music resonated with me, but I always equated Douglas' themes with G.I. Joe. I know it's been covered before how Walsh's compositions were generic so that they could fit both G.I. Joe and Transformers, but I never felt that they fit G.I. Joe at all. Douglas' material was composed specifically for G.I. Joe, and so to me that will always be the music for this cartoon. It's like the old 1967 Spider-Man cartoon; the first season had music that was composed specifically for it, while the second season (the psychedelic Ralph Bakshi episodes) had generic music that was culled from the other Marvel cartoons of that era (Thor, Iron Man, Sub-Mariner, etc) and jazz music from the public domain. I always felt that the first season was just so much better than anything that came after. I always loved how Johnny Douglas' music usually found a way to incorporate the G.I. Joe fanfare into it, and how certain compositions were obviously designed for adventure, suspense, Cobra, etc. It was something that was sorely lacking from Walsh's music. Additionally, I always felt that Douglas' music lent an air of gravitas to the cartoon, something that was missing from Walsh's music; indeed, Douglas' music was something that I thought transcended the cartoon, while Walsh's music to me always sounded cartoon-y. If I had the time and (more importantly) the know-how, I would love to take a season 2 episode or even the movie itself and re-score it with Douglas' music solely. It would be leaps and bounds better than anything with Walsh's music in it IMHO.

Cold Slither?

03-12-2013, 08:26 PM	#8
bguynn Junior Member Offline --> Posts: 1 --> Join Date: Mar 2013	Cold Slither? What about Cold Slither?

12-01-2007, 11:49 AM	#9
SteelBrigade Junior Member Offline --> Posts: 6 --> Join Date: Dec 2007	Thank you so much Self-Modifier for the hardwork you put into these. I joined just to tell you this as you originally ripped them & put in all the time to make the mp3's. I will enjoy this music forever & I salute you!!

12-01-2007, 01:38 PM	#10
Self-Modifier Crossover King Emeritus Offline --> Posts: 1,472 --> Join Date: Feb 2005	I'm really glad everyone's enjoying these. I really just ripped them for my own enjoyment years ago, but eventually decided to share them with the Joe community. I'm still planning to send those season 2 MP3s to Hammerfel; I just need to find the time to do it. __________________ is on indefinite hiatus...