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CELEBRATE "ALIEN DAY" WITH US! Get John Frizzell's amazing ALIEN RESURRECTION (2-CD SET) at the great price of only $10 each! This sale will last only 48 hours, (ends 10pm PST on 4/28) so get yours now! Only 200 units remain. Once it's gone -- IT'S GONE! It won't be resurrected! http://lalalandrecords.com/Site/AlienResurrection.html
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Even though it's not on the level of the Goldsmith, Goldenthal, or Horner scores for the franchise, this is still a very good score (much better than the film it was written for) and I highly recommend it at this generous sale price! Yavar
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Crazy price. If I didn't already have it, I'd be on this. It's a fantastic score too.
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I have all the Alien scores save this one...should I?
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Yeah, it's worth it -- certainly, for only $10! Plenty of good stuff in it. Yavar
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I don't know if it's worthy of a 2-disc listening experience, but if not, oh well, I'll choose my highlights. I actually like the film itself, sort of. It's at least stupid rather than depressing like Alien 3.
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I'd love to hear details on all those Easter Egg references (cues/timings?) -- I remember hearing some but I'm sure there were some I missed. The whole movie has some good elements (the score, for one) but is far less than the sum of its parts. I far prefer Alien 3 which at least had an interesting vision with some integrity, depressing though it was. I guess I dislike it more (GRRRRR...killing off Hicks and Newt!) but I also respect it far more. I don't really think that the score is necessarily one that works best in complete form, but there are definite highlights which were left off the previous abbreviated release, so it's nice to be able to edit one's own album arrangement from the complete elements... Yavar
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Apr 26, 2016 - 2:59 PM
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GoblinScore
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I don't know if it's worthy of a 2-disc listening experience, but if not, oh well, I'll choose my highlights. I actually like the film itself, sort of. It's at least stupid rather than depressing like Alien 3. It plays well at 85mins, the original album left out some good stuff - Especially the choral finale, which gets 3 takes here IIRC, terrific stuff, and the excellent end titles. By my own barometer of how complete scores succeed or not, is the boredom /time check factor. Some of this stuff....is this still on?? This one - haven't gotten bored yet. It's a more fleshed out listen, to me anyway. That Handel aria on the old cd...so out of place, killed the flow AND ate up 5mins. of run time.
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I have all the Alien scores save this one...should I? Absolutely. Marvelous score, a few clever nods to the earlier three as others have mentioned, but mostly just great atmospheric electronic music from Frizzell with a few standout action pieces like "They Swim..." Not that all A L I E N scores have been created equally, but this one can be played proudly alongside Goldsmith's, Horner's, and Goldenthal's.
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Apr 26, 2016 - 3:26 PM
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edern
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I'd love to hear details on all those Easter Egg references (cues/timings?) -- I remember hearing some but I'm sure there were some I missed. The allusions to Horner's score are in the track Call Meets The Newborn (CD2, track 1), at 1'50, there's a brief urgent action gesture arranged in the style of Horner's score with lots of snare drums. From this point on to the 3'30 mark, Frizzell reprises the "space motif" (on "echoing flutes" notably), from Horner's Aliens. The nod to Goldenthal is, I believe, in the Finale, with the brass and percussions at 0'41 (CD2, track 3), and then again the brass lick at 1'01. It references the powerful brass & percussions pounding at the end of Alien 3's Adagio. The same reference is also found in the first Finale alternate (CD2, track 7). ...But it could simply be my imagination
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About 140 left now
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75 UNITS LEFT!!! MV
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