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Well the Operation of Overdrive is finally over and like everyone else I'm looking forword to the new season with Jungle Fury. Of course I liked Operation Overdrive for what it was, it was a fun show with a solid cast and some really endearing villains, good stuff all around. The only gripe I really had with the show was the lack of a good opening theme.

What? wait, wait, I'm sorry you actually liked the music? Why? WHY? As with One Piece and Dragonball GT studio heads seem to be drinking from the same cess pool of ideas.

Hey studio heads, listen up, the kids aren't into lamolicious cornball rap anymore, they're into rock. Just look at Guitar Hero, it's practically been running off the shelves.
look at how Guitar Hero does Power Rangers


There needs to be a return to rock music and if not rock music, music in general.

Operation Overdrive had a really catchy theme, but then after the first episode was over it got stale, the 31 times it was played it got worse. When I watched Once A Ranger and heard all the respective themes for the returning rangers and then cringed at the fact that the last two seasonal themes were no where near as endearing as PRNS to SPD. It's a hope a mine that Power Rangers Jungle Fury goes back to the old status quo, which means good themes that are so good you have to hum it throughout the day.

I remember when I was young and would record Lost Galaxy and rewind the theme over and over just because of how well it was pulled off. I just had to hear those church bells again.


The music in Operation Overdrive did have one thing that was done right and that was sweet BGM that you heard throughout the battles(Things Not Said). The only problem with the BGM was the fact that it tended to be drowned out by the ADR and everything else which made it hard to enjoy for most of the season.

A few years back Ron Wasserman signed on and produced the theme song for SPD, he would have contributed more but somebody in the Disney hierarchy said there was no need. But whats hillarious is that SPD was probably the most overplayed theme since Go Go Power Rangers in seasons 1-3. The fact that they played out the Space Patrol Delta themed proved to me that they knew Ron was good and they knew that his music was perfect for the show, but somebody knew that they should have taken Ron up on his offer but they goofed on that so they overplayedthe theme.
Then when they dropped Ron the next year they wound up hardly, if at all, playing the opening theme throughout the show, hmm I wonder if it was because they were bad?


So lets get the facts straight here:

Power Rangers owns when it comes to music

-SPD was one of the most overplayed songs in Ranger history, it has also become one of the new favorites

-When the Mystic Force rap music appeared, the standard for music in PR fell (tremendously)

-Power Rangers and rock music go together like chocolate and peanut butter, or robots and lasers.

-Overdrive had good but ultimately forgetable background music

So if PR and good music go so well together why don't we hear it? Well you can almost hear the bigwigs right now as they bring over a new anime series "If the kids don't like it, THEN WE WILL MAKE THEM LIKE IT," hey it's worked with pop music right?


I just want something strong and fun for the new season, something like Dino Thunder or Zeo something that I won't forget and won't grate my teeth at everytime it comes on