Been behind the curve on this knockout Poledouris score. Finally got around to ordering the Prometheus release from a few years ago after catching the movie on television. Question as I await its arrival, though: is the excellent, pulsating music from the end title on the album? [I heard some clips from the Varese release online and don't feel like they included what I remember from that end title.]
Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer me insight!
Remember when this score was only available as a rare and super expensive Varese Club CD? Now you can listen to it for free if you're an Amazon prime member.
Neck and neck with RoboCop for my favorite Poledouris score. Haven't seen the film in a while, but I wasn't too keen on the overdubbed synth beats for "The Barricades" and "Thrashing of Sky Ranch" (a major component of the end titles).
I'm still in awe at the motivic ideas that Poledouris cooked up. Something I noticed a few listens ago: the love theme for E and Sam (one of three seemingly derived from the film's title), as heard about 2:49 into "End of Lester", seems like it could have lyrics that sing out, 'I don't need a Cherry 2000!'. Lord only knows if that was intentional. (Another great moment: at 3:40 when Sam returns and shoos Cherry away by asking her to get a Pepsi and the music practically reflects the clockwork processing his request.)
God, they don't make film scores like this anymore.
the love theme for E and Sam (one of three seemingly derived from the film's title), as heard about 2:49 into "End of Lester", seems like it could have lyrics that sing out, 'I don't need a Cherry 2000!'. Lord only knows if that was intentional.
I think I need to take this as a challenge to write lyrics and then perform it on ukulele...
Gee whiz, whatever happened to ol' Dan Hobgood anyway? Seemed like his life's mission here was to prove, via Ayn Rand's (irrefutable) principles of Objectivism, that Jerry Goldsmith was the best film composer ever to walk this earth (or any other)... Being a Rand non-believer (i.e., complete dunderhead) I never could quite follow the argument to the point of seeing its inevitable and uncontestable status as Cosmic Truth (though I can well understand how one might subjectively hold to his conclusion). He surely did excite a robust amount of lively and entertaining back and forth hereabouts, with all his various Rand-like assertions.
