BioShock's Ken Levine & his Broadway favorites - You Gotta Hear This! feat. Troy Baker

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BioShock's Ken Levine & his Broadway favorites - You Gotta Hear This! feat. Troy Baker

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In honor of STRAY GODS' imminent release, Troy and I discuss a few Broadway musical classics chosen by our special guest: game director and writer extraordinaire Ken Levine (known for Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite, System Shock 2 and the forthcoming Judas)
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@icblundell60 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Austin, for opening my eyes & ears to whole styles and realms of music I can't say I had ever given much thought to prior to discovering your content.

@awintory Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy to read this!

@aj.s... Жыл бұрын

Holy shit, Ken Levine?! I love this man. Just yesterday, I was thinking about God Only Knows and what it means in the context of Infinite... so powerful. Like, I get emotional thinking about how perfect that song choice is. And what a special game! Every bit as good as BioShock 1, albeit with different intentions. Edit: God Only Knows what I'd be without Ken's writing, lol.

@awintory Жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more re: Ken's writing. Deeply affecting for me as gamer. He casts a long shadow on the art form!

@wryonion Жыл бұрын

The Police thing goes even farther. Miles Copeland Jr (the father) was actually in the CIA. Stewart and Miles Copeland III founded Illegal Records, & Miles III started I.R.S. Records as well. Another great episode. iTunes decided to forget all of the song info for my library, so I’ve spent the last month manually re-entering all the info. It sucks, but it’s allowed me to re-visit a lot of music I haven’t listened to in a long time. Yesterday’s group had Little Shop of Horrors in it (and Chess), so I’ve been listening to that all day. Well done, once again. Can’t wait for the next one.

@TahoeNevada Жыл бұрын

Yes! Daddy Copeland was a CIA operative, and the family grew up between, Morocco, Beirut, and the UK (among other places I’m sure).

@nicolehunt7548 Жыл бұрын

I have been waiting for a musical theatre episode! So pumped!

@arminehdavis6106 Жыл бұрын

As a deep musical theatre nerd, this was such a blast to hear you all chat and also nerd out.

@kevinkocjancic Жыл бұрын

glad to have this podcast back in my life

@AngelaBermudez Жыл бұрын

Holy shit Austin, now everyone thinks I hate Hamilton! ⚰ In my defense, he played one "poppy track" in the car during one of our LONG DISTANCE CALLS

@awintory Жыл бұрын

Hahah!! Your criticism wasn't wrong! It doesn't hold up production-wise. You made me realize I was listening "through" that

@AngelaBermudez Жыл бұрын

@@awintory THE DAMAGE IS DONE! I better hide from the internet for a while 🥷

@awintory Жыл бұрын

🤣

@juliahenriques210 Жыл бұрын

@@awintory Such a lovely back and forth.

@JackMonaghanMusic Жыл бұрын

I was a theater kid all throughout elementary and middle school, so this one especially hits home for me!! Until now, I had no idea Alan Menken wrote for both Little Shop and Little Mermaid; but now I know why "Somewhere That's Green," and "Part of Your World," sound so similar!

@the_orcabird Жыл бұрын

Cabaret is one of my all-time favorites, and Tomorrow Belongs to Me is a perfect encapsulation of why. It stands in such stark contrast to everything else in the musical that it almost seems like it comes out of nowhere. It gives you this feeling that everything you've been watching up until this point was just a weird fever dream, and that this world, the world where nature is idyllic and people hold hands in communities of perfect unified nazi pride, is the REAL world that you're waking up into. I've seen it live on three separate occasions and even in the amateur productions it's always absolutely bone-chilling.

@awintory Жыл бұрын

That last sentence ... I absolutely love when something can be performed by community groups or high schoolers and retain its power. A true measure of quality

@ethanhaynes7406 Жыл бұрын

I had never heard "tomorrows belongs to me" before, but I cannot begin to describe the chills I got when Ken gave the context for the song. Listening to it I imagined a hopeful scene about looking to the future, but knowing where it all went just fills me with dread. It really shows how easy evil can be disguised and sold to people

@Vadjong Жыл бұрын

Jean Michel Jarre's "Oxygene" is a great example of what your tools do for you, and then you start remastering and updating and sequeling again and again and then some more. (Tubular Bells, too.)

@jasonhunter2819 Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha, I clocked the last one in 2 words! My high school did this my senior year and it was the last school play I went to...I was just talking to my mom about it 2 days ago...can't believe that was 26 years ago... I wish this episode was 3 hours long!! I always enjoy these Austin, but the 3 of you talking about this is such good conversation I really didn't want it to end!

@JoeFilms5420 Жыл бұрын

I loved Troy’s point when he was talking about how much he loves being the dumbest guy in the room. There’s something so much fun about listening to a passionate person talk about something you have no knowledge of. I like musicals but I’m not a huge musical guy, so it was great listening to this episode! I have seen Little Shop of Horrors though, that one absolutely slaps.

@nicholaswerner8170 Жыл бұрын

I'm a musical theatre music director, and I loved this talk! Very insightful about the impact and storytelling available in the medium - but I'm bummed you guys didn't mention Stephen Sondheim!!!

@awintory Жыл бұрын

Sondheim is the ultimate god. But this was ultimately a list curated by Ken and very much about those which personally have spoken to him. Nothing academic about it :)

@juliahenriques210 Жыл бұрын

My ex was (is, still) a huge musical buff, Broadway and all, who taught me to at least respect the craft, even if it doesn't do wonders for my particular taste, especially in film. I've been left with the impression, though, that as far as genuine US artistic expression goes, musicals had always been close to the top. It's interesting to see you 3 shedding light on the fact that its appeal even at home isn't actually universal.

@user-qb1sm3rk9r 9 ай бұрын

Come on Ken I'm really waiting for System Shock 2 The Musical

@Zsombi8097 Жыл бұрын

Another great episode, even tho I only really know Superstar (I remember jamming super hard with my brother and cousins when we were kids, despite having 0 idea what any of the words meant :D ) it's super interesting because I have a weird love/hate relationship with musicals/opera so its either the best thing ever or I hate it. The 2012 Les Misérables is the only movie I had to stop after 15 minutes it was so unbearable. (maybe its just Tom Hoopers fault) Anyways thank you for making these despite your probably insane schedule. I know you most likely already have 100s of episode ideas, I just want to thow one in the hat: We all know the sentimental oboe and the triumphant horns and heroic trumpets, what is some unorthodox instrument usage in film music. Also also cant wait for Stray Gods (wishlist it people! :) )

@Quotenwagnerianer Жыл бұрын

Funny enough "Les Mis" is one of the very few musicals I can stand. "West Side Story", "JC Superstar" and "Phantom of the Opera" being the only other ones. And I have to suffer through one yearly, because I work at an opera house and we produce a musical at the opening of each season. And even if I'm not directly involved in that particular season, I usually have to work on it anyway because we have so many shows of that production, that we have to share the workload on it. I hate it. Especially because we do them in translations. And I dislike nothing more than translated musicals. (I'm utterly convinced that is why Hamilton failed over here. I should have betted money on it. Not only is the story of that one so extremely tied to the U.S. history that it is hard for other audiences to connect to it on the same level, and then not having it done in english?! What a stupid idea! But I digress...) I did not start working at the opera to have to bother with Musicals. Nontheless I look forward to "Stray Gods" very much, because I think the design idea just deserves exploring.

@ProteusGames223 Жыл бұрын

❤

@ProteusGames223 Жыл бұрын

Mate I'm a huge fan of you keep up all the good work your doing

@ProteusGames223 Жыл бұрын

You are truly a great inspiration to me

@user-lh3jo3di8s Жыл бұрын

1:07:31: That Alan Menken story makes perfect sense, actually. There's a video floating around KZfaq wherein he finally receives an official statue for the "Worst Song" "Razzie" award he'd previously won for "High Times, Hard Times" from the 1992 film "Newsies". During his recorded acceptance, he very pointedly makes a show of putting the award in a cabinet and in the process calling attention to all the Oscars he'd won up to that point.

@SidPhoenix2211 Жыл бұрын

Through the somewhat low-res footage in this video podcast... That painting behind you looks like something done by the legendary Disney artist, Eyvind Earle

@awintory Жыл бұрын

It is! It's a numbered print (among a very limited run), authorized by Earle himself.

@SidPhoenix2211 Жыл бұрын

@@awintory oh wow that is fantastic!

@jonathanramos8414 Жыл бұрын

Ken levine is a genius

@awintory Жыл бұрын

Fact

@Blemji 9 ай бұрын

one for the books

@TahoeNevada Жыл бұрын

Close, Troy! The record label was IRS Records, *not* CIA.

@awintory Жыл бұрын

Ahh good trivia

@callum6224 7 ай бұрын

The circumcision story… Jesus Christ lmao

@ielinDaisy 7 ай бұрын

New episode anytime soon? 🥺

@awintory 7 ай бұрын

Next up :)

@Mockingdragon 10 ай бұрын

The similarities between Burr and Judas are really fascinating to me and go almost to the point of homage lol. Both are close confidants of the hero who betray them, but also both fill a half-narrator role toward the audience and agonize over what they've done. And honestly their viewpoints aren't too different - Wait For It, talk less, smile more, stop pissing off the people who can shoot you.