Talk to the Snail

I love the music of Brian Wilson like nobody’s business. By extension, I’m a fan of Mr Darian Sahanaja and the Wondermints (Darian has served as Brian’s musical director on tour for the past few years). Since maybe 2003 or so, I’ve been thinking that if I ever were in a position to bring in someone fresh to compose for a cartoon, I’d plead for the musical services of Darian. Then, people would say, “Gee. That Frederator guy has fantastic taste! He’s ahead of his time! What a find he found in Sahanaja!” Well, the sad story here is that someone at Disney felt the same way. The Wondermints keyboardist has gone ahead and written the theme song to the network’s latest show, The Replacements. You can hear it (and see the opening titles) here. Congratulations, Disney, you jerks, for glomming onto the one idea I thought was original to me.

PS It appears that Darian has composed only the theme song and is not, in fact, the musician who scores the show. So I may still be safe.

PPS I should point out that Andy Paley, another musician who has had more than a little to do with Brian Wilson (once, in 2001, when I saw Wilson in concert at Jones Beach (“Hooray for Wilson!”), he remarked how Paley was “a good guy to have a beer with”), excellently scored Kyle Carrozza’s Random! Cartoons short, “Moobeard: The Cow Pirate.