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One of the finest works written for the cinema, "Bajo Fuego" is one of the most exciting pieces written by the Maestro, too bad he didn't write for the guitar again.
He did, but it wasn't anywhere near as good, or as memorable. The spy theme from Looney Tunes: Back in Action was primarily scored for electric guitar.
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To me this was the best he ever did. It's my favorite Goldsmith album, and quite unique among his works, as so many scores from the first half of his career were.
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To me this was the best he ever did. It's my favorite Goldsmith album, and quite unique among his works, as so many scores from the first half of his career were.
The movie was a critical success in the fall of 1983 and as I recall did good business theatrically- today nobody recalls it! I do see it as one of his last great scores in the twilight of his best period, and I really ought to listen to it again- Thanks for picking my drive to work cd for tomorrow, folks.
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Apr 10, 2006 - 9:36 PM
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It's been some time since I last listened to this score...boy, what a great score this is. (Not that I need to tell you guys that!)
While I probably don't have enough Goldsmith scores to make a sound judgment, I find this score is one of Goldsmith's most inventive, thematically rich, orchestrally varied and downright awesome scores.
This one should have been the Oscar Winner back in '83. 
CK
Hey buddy!
Yes, it truly is one of his greats. Back in 1999 this was one of my Holy Grails to find on CD and I located a copy from France. You do NOT want to know what I paid for this, at the time, extremely rare and sought after score.  And then, just a few years later, along with The Twilight Zone: The Movie, it was re-released. My common sense took a beating that day.
It is truly one of his masterpieces. The last cue alone is worth the price of this.
How are things in Bavaria, by the way? You know, I haven't even emailed you in a while to catch up on things. I have to rectify that problem soon! 
Tom
NP: True Confessions - Delerue
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1983...a great year.
Not only Under Fire, but also...
Brainstorm
Krull
Octopussy
Psycho II
Return of the Jedi
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Paul
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Apr 11, 2006 - 6:04 AM
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i just played it yesterday, on of my cds that gets more listenings a year than others
but this time it was not the "rollercoaster ride" than usual, just for one reason:
hearing music by this genius makes his departure more and more tragic, tragic, because we never get such clever, inventive and beautiful music again
... unfortuntely most of the new scores/composers did not reach this quality for me, i bought less than 4-5 "new" scores a year, there where times i bought 30-40 a year, but nowadays i am more than gratefull, that labels like intrada or FSM releases music from the past
just got the new "Tombstone" and it reminds me of the "better days", even if this is only 13 years ago.
...perhaps i am getting old 
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Hearing music by this genius makes his departure more and more tragic, tragic, because we never get such clever, inventive and beautiful music again.
Today I received a copy of Goldsmith's expanded Extreme Prejudice soundtrack. The director has a say in the liner notes, and the last sentence says 'Rest in Peace' (the note was written in November 2004, after Goldsmith's passing). As I have done numerous times in the past twenty-one months I stopped what I was doing and wept. While it has been a fair amount of time since Jerry's passing, the pain hasn't gone away, and I don't think it will. I took what happened far too personally. So I agree that his passing was tragic, and that we won't here the level of invention he invested in a film score ever again.
Unfortunately most of the new scores/composers did not reach this quality for me, i bought less than 4-5 "new" scores a year, there where times i bought 30-40 a year, but nowadays i am more than gratefull, that labels like intrada or FSM releases music from the past
just got the new "Tombstone" and it reminds me of the "better days", even if this is only 13 years ago.
Perhaps i am getting old
You're not getting old! I'm only 22, and share your view. In the same director note mentioned above, the director recounts the last conversation he had with Jerry Goldsmith, in which the composer laments the quality of today's film music. So if Jerry Goldsmith can lament the situation, you and I can too!
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I love this score ever since I've seen the movie for the first time in the late 80's. The CD (it's about a year now that I purchased it) is one of the jewels in my collection.
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Even the notoriously snotty Pauline Kael took time in her UNDER FIRE review back in '83 to praise Goldsmith's score.
(While I enjoyed reading Kael, her sense of film music usually "sucked donkeys.")
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I listened to Under Fire as my drive to work cd this a.m. and only got through the first five cues, but I concur that it is one of Goldsmith's best 80's scores. Really ethnically evocative material. This was the type of top grade film Goldsmith needed to score more often. I think even John Simon, one of Goldsmith's biggest detractors praised it. Thanks for reminding me how good this is.
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. But don't take my word for it...
