Power Rangers : Once & Always (2023) / X-Men 97 (2024)

Happiness is seeing your childhood heroes returning, along with their iconic theme songs, which are by made by the same person : Ron Wasserman.

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Top 7 Most Wonderful Power Rangers Theme Songs #7: Wild Force: I’m going to be honest. Figuring out the lower half of this list was absolutely brutal but out of the available options, Wild Force made the cut. It’s the kind of high energy tune that hypes you up to watch giant CGI robot animals fight pollution monsters. The animal sound effects add to the hype as well. #6: Turbo: While the third series' theme carries parts of its predecessors, Turbo’s theme sounds distinct while being all about the adrenaline and it does a good job at invoking it. It really pumps you up to drive some fast cars and not getting baked into a pizza (though sadly that may happen). #5: Zeo: Effectively a sequel to the original theme but with the epic dial turned to 11, primarily thanks to the addition of a choir. Makes it sound like something out of a Queen album or…I’m not sure. What other rock bands use choirs? I’m sure there’s plenty of them. Awesome theme regardless. #4: In Space: The first “final” season of Power Rangers and this song assuredly plays the part. It sells the feeling of the franchise flying higher than ever before despite the cheesy voice over’s best efforts…I kid. He actually adds to the charm. #3: Dino Charge: Like other PR themes, this song incorporates parts of “Go Go Power Rangers”, but unlike others I could name, it feels like its own ancient reptile bird. You might not think that a deep continuous chant of “Power Rangers” would be badass but you would be wrong. That and the tone and lyrics are quite inspiring. “Don’t you ever stop!” indeed. #2: Mighty Morphin: The OG. I’m willing to bet that even if you don’t give a hoot about the Power Rangers, you know about this theme song. What you may not know is that there is a full song not just “Go go Power Rangers”. I’m serious. Even so, there’s a reason that this piece is so iconic and it's not just because it was the first…or because of the many remixes…or because-look, this song is fantastic. End of discussion…oh wait, I still have #1 to write. #1: Space Patrol Delta: It’s catchy, it’s intense, that electric guitar rocks and that percussion hits so gosh darn hard. It even works in a police siren. This theme feels like a 70 mile per hour car chase and I love it.  Thank you, Ron Wasserman for this wonderful theme song…and also thank you for most of this list. Honorable Mention: Ninja Storm: This one was soooo close to making the list. I do think Wild Force is a bit better but that early 2000’s rock sound and those weather puns still make my heart melt. Also, its usage in the show is so much better than “theme song cuts” I found but what you gonna do. Well, I know what I gonna do: give it an honorable mention. R.I.P. Jason David Frank. I'm not sure if you were “The Greatest Ranger Ever” but I can say that you made many a childhood all the more wonderful and that’s pretty great to me.

This is a higher quality version of the US Power Rangers theme, which may be a rerecording of it from 2012 or something. The Internet is weirdly vague about it.

It was either composed and performed by Ron Wasserman and whatever his band was called in the early 90s, or it was a Levy-Saban song he and his band recorded. Again, the Internet doesn't seem to be sure.

Levy and Saban were as much music composers and producers as they were guys who bought foreign properties and adapted them to sell to the West. All of their "revised" shows have amazing music they in some way produced specifically for them. So it would be weird if they weren't intimately involved in doing music for their cashcow Power Rangers.

The lyrics especially feel like their stuff: not bad, not great, just perfectly adequate for the TV show the song is for.

My intuition is that they wrote the lyrics and basic melody, then Wasserman and his band worked that into the amazing art that is this song. But I have no idea.

And like the source of the Power Rangers power itself, the Internet considers the true origins of this song powerful and mysterious.

Btw, here are the utterly acceptable lyrics:

They've got a power and a force that you've never seen before. They've got the ability to morph and to even up the score. No one can ever take them down The power lies on their siiiide. Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers They know the fate of the world is lying in their hands. They know to only use their weapons for defense. No one will ever take them down The power lies on their siiiide. Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers You Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (Guitar Solo) No one can ever take them down The power lies on their siiiide. Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers You Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers

"Go Green Ranger Go", from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (1993). Performed by Ron Wasserman.

I've been getting back into the dope franchise that is Power Rangers. Despite loving it as a kid, there is still content I am just now finding out about, such as these rockin tunes. I can get if why people don't get into these bangers, but they just get my blood pumping. Try them out to get a fire lit within yourself.

With the news about Jason David Frank I feel like the music for today's workout session being some of Ron Wasserman's work on the PR soundtrack just feels right

Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) on Tuesday called for Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo to be removed from his post over his response to a measles outbreak at a local elementary school.

“Sadly, frustratingly, Florida’s surgeon general stands in stark contrast to America’s proud legacy of bipartisan public health success,” Wasserman Schultz said.

“Ladapo instead politicizes public health and peddles risky ‘freedom of choice’ rhetoric that fuels vaccine hesitancy and downplays the public and personal health necessity for vaccination,” she added.

Manatee Bay Elementary School has recorded at least six students contracting measles, with more local cases potentially connected to the school, but Lapado has not encouraged parents to get their children vaccinated or insisted on vaccinations before students return to class.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says unvaccinated children need to be kept away for three weeks when there is a measles outbreak.

Fifteen-year-old Bryan is trying to figure out why some of his memories are distorted. or something like that. I didn't really think through the art

I have. Too many emotions now but

Once and Always was good. It was a beautiful nostalgia piece, and a wonderful tribute. It really felt like watching the original series again as a kid glued to the TV, wondering how the rangers will prevail. I loved seeing everyone again, the main four were great and I never thought they got enough love back in the day so it was nice for them to have the spotlight. The music was so good to hear again, bless Ron Wasserman. The Megazord just looked amazing oh my god I could watch that forever. The tribute in the credits had me crying. It was beautiful. This was a softer anniversary special, not a huge explosive battle with every ranger there's ever been on screen, but a more personal one, focused on the people who started this and how they became family and just... it was wonderful. I am crying. It was beautiful.

So uh. I've been moving all my playlists off Spotify and onto YouTube (and downloading the songs ~totally legally~ to have on my computer as well), and largely they're private because they're all OC playlists. HOWEVER. I do have a playlist for KNPS which I felt like people might get a kick out of. So here it is. Several of these were added when I moved the playlist off Spotify since a lot of them aren't available on Spotify, particularly video game soundtracks.

Track list (and reasoning) below the cut.

Move Along by the All-American Rejects I don't think I need to explain this one, actually.

School by Toby Fox (from Deltarune) Also kind of self-explanatory. This is music that I associate with Gali and Lewa's class, specifically.

A New Hero by Nathan Furst (from Mask of Light) I love the MoL soundtrack best of all the Bionicle movie soundtracks, so I had to include some of the songs from it here.

Old Friends (Bookends Theme) by Simon and Garfunkel Technically a harp/violin cover but shhh. Old Friends is a Turaga Metru song if ever there was one. This version is just very pretty :3

Wonderland Round 3 by Griffin McElroy (from The Adventure Zone) I'm gonna be honest I don't have an excuse for this one it just slaps.

As Above, So Below by Essenger and Cryoshell A very recent addition to the playlist. I don't think I need to explain this one either, actually.

Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants Takua song. Could not explain why if I tried.

Dreamer by Supertramp Vakama song, also Takua song. It's about someone with their head in the clouds, which applies to both of them in different (and similar) ways.

Friday I'm in Love by The Cure Matau song. Less in that it represents who he is as a character and more in that he's a classic rock guy who loves wandering into the office singing and whistling incredibly on the nose rock tunes.

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel Nokama song. Also a Gali song. I mean listen to it, come on.

Rivers in the Desert by Lyn (from Persona 5) Boss music baby!!

Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush Music that Gali listens to when she's sad.

Toa Reunited and Death of Jaller by Nathan Furst (from Mask of Light) This is on here because of the "Toa Reunited" part I swear. Anyway one of my favourite songs on the MoL OST.

Samurai Heart (Some Like it Hot!!) by SPYAIR (from Gintama) Full disclosure I've never watched Gintama. However. Kohatu song.

Starlight Brigade by TWRP I mean. It's a song about saving the world. "I'd gladly give my life for one night as a justice acolyte" is also a banger line ngl

Supernatural Superserious by R.E.M. I associate this with Kopaka for some reason. Couldn't tell you why.

The Prophet's Song by Queen The most Vakama song ever. Written specifically for him everyone say thank you Freddie <3

The Touch by Stan Bush LISTEN.

The Last Desperate Struggle by Masakazu Sugimori (from Ghost Trick) This is the song I had on repeat while writing the "Lewa gets possessed" chapter.

Running in the 90s by Max Coveri Pohatu unironically listens almost exclusively to this kind of music. The man loves him some Eurobeat.

Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce Whenuju song. Was their first dance at their wedding. The lyrics are literally perfect for them. "I've looked around enough to know/you're the one I want to go through time with" IT'S THEM.

Unite (Redux) by Ron Wasserman (from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers) YEAH A POWER RANGERS SONG WHAT ABOUT IT. First of all it's literally called Unite. Secondly Power Rangers and Bionicle are like brothers to me. Third and most important it fucks.

A Town Called Hometown by Toby Fox (from Deltarune) Sweet, quaint small town vibes (which is the point lmao). Fitting given that KNPS takes place in a sweet, quaint small town.

Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There by Lyn (from Persona 5) I associate this with school because it used to be on the playlist I used when I got ready for work in the mornings. It's also a sentiment I can see Gali and Pohatu getting behind.

Wonder by Naughty Boy ft. Emelie Sande I think I first found this song on a Wonder Woman playlist lmao. It's basically about like, personal strength and stuff. Good song.

Working for the Weekend by Loverboy Another song Matau likes to whistle on Fridays.

Beach Chant by Justin Luchter (from MNOLG) Iconic early Bionicle music. Had to include it.

Lost One's Weeping by Afterglow Yes this is a cover of a Vocaloid song and yes it's from a fucking. Band anime or whatever. I like it. Also it's the school trauma song so on the school playlist it goes.

Lucretia by Griffin McElroy (from The Adventure Zone) Look, Lucretia and Nokama are very different people, but there's enough overlap (older female characters who struggle with keeping heavy secrets from the protagonists) that I feel pretty good putting her theme on here. Also Nokama would be the world's biggest Lucretia defender, we all know this in our hearts

SAVE the World by Toby Fox (from Undertale) YES another Toby Fox song. Anyway boss fight music hell yeah

The End by Justin Luchter (from MNOLG) Again, iconic early Bionicle music, really captures the feeling that some great victory has been achieved, at least for now.

Everytime We Touch by Cascada Tahu/Gali song. LOOK. It's a Tahu/Gali song okay

Village Bridge (with buildup) by Junichi Masuda (from Pokemon Black and White) Hands down one of the best tracks from the best Pokemon game. Again very small town vibes.

May add more to it, who knows.

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The Undisputed Kingdom theme sounds like a Ron Wasserman Era Power Rangers theme and I love it.

"White Ranger Tiger Power", from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers season 2 (1994). Performed by Ron Wasserman.