If you are an Alan Silvestri fan, then you can grab his Young Guns II score in its complete format from Intrada and Screen Archives.
A classic western featuring an all star cast, the soundtrack is quite appropriately composed, with plenty of boombastic themes. This score makes use of orchestra, guitar and rivetting percussion throughout. This one is up there alongside his other classics. The sound quality has been remastered, and should satisfy any true Young Guns fan.
Recently released, this is a 3 CD limited edition set of the complete and rejected scores for The Golden Child. Eddie Murphy's classic supernatural action comedy features a great synth/orchestral mix with some great themes in there.
The sound quality is superb, mastered brilliantly and crystal clear. Its a definite upgrade from the existing soundtrack releases.
You even get the entire rejected score by John Barry, which itself is quite brilliant.
On the 3rd CD you also get the various songs that were used in the film. All in all, a complete score and soundtrack edition nicely put together. Now if they would only do the same for numerous other films out there.
If you were waiting for a reissue of James Horner's wild tropical beast of a score for Commando, then you just missed out. The reissue for Commando sold out in less than 24 hours, showing there still are human beings with good taste in music!
The legendary 1985 score by Horner carries on from his wild "48 Hours" score, introducing heavy percussion, tropical drums and just wild action cues which haven't been heard since. Actually, they did reappear when Horner scored Red Heat a few years later, but this score is his definitive masterpiece alongside his Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Kahn soundtrack score.
This new release is on La La Land Records who have done a public service by releasing this beast of a score once more. Now if only James Horner pulled his finger out of his backside and did another score like this, we could have some more enjoyable one liners and wild action scenes.
To top it off, they have included the long trenchcoat Power Station anthem with this score to satisfy the cravings of everyone, somewhere, somehow, indeed..
Enjoy the score and remember these great one liners.
"I eat green beret's for breakfast and right now i'm very hungry".
"You're a funny guy Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last."
"Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired."
Even Sully went "oooh la laaaaa" when Matrix dropped him like a piece of meat.
The assault on music continues with the genericness of Ramin Djawadi's Fright Night 2011 Score. There is no doubting his talent as a composer, however, this score is full of generic mediocrity and containing none of the original's charm or sexy sleazyness. A reasonable movie is aided by a rather crappy score. What else did people expect? It all seems very boring and uninspiring.
Full of the standard brass, and generic drones and the same old tired crap that we've heard for the last 16 or so years, frankly, you would be better off listening to traffic noise.
The original featured sleazy synthesizer themes and iconic music, not just the score, but the pop and rock songs actually featured in the movie in key scenes. In this remake, you hear all sorts of ear raping sounds which make you long for a day out train spotting, its that bad.
Considering the original 1985 score has never been released in any format, how this new remake score managed to get released is astonishing.
The only decent thing about the remake is David Tennant, at least Doctor Who got his Hollywood break.
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It looks like Colin Farrell loves his remakes. Not only is he in Fright Night, he is also in Total Recall, and did both panels at Comic Con 2011. The original Jerry Dandridge also has a cameo in this new remake. Watch the interview with Chris Sarandon for more information. No information though on what the music score sounds like though, so let's wait and see. It does sound like that they have incorporated some homages to the original in this remake so it may turn out better than expected, but you never know, as Sidney Prescott says in Scream 4 to the villian, "You forgot the first rule of remakes: Don't fuck with the original". Nevertheless, this movie has got the legendary David Tennant aka Doctor Who so its bound to be good whenever he is on screen.
Another lost classic, it beggars belief how this one has never been released, given the fact it features during the infamous Playboy mansion scene in Beverly Hills Cop 2. This is the original version of "Hold On" by Keta Bill which is a million times better than the Corey Hart version.
You can picture the funny guy in the tuxedo pulling off his hilarious dance moves with the playboy bunnies while Axel tells his pals to follow their dicks and find the bad guys. Even the dirty old Hef makes a cameo in this classic piece of cinematic extravagance.
Both versions are featured in the movie, you can even hear Corey Hart's version very faintly during one of the scenes with the 3 main characters.
As to why this legendary classic has never been released remains a mystery. The best song from the movie and its not even on the soundtrack. Worse than that, none of Harold Faltermeyer's scores have been released for either the first or second movie which is unnacceptable.
Anyway, enjoy this lost classic, its not perfect quality, but Keta Bill herself gave this out a few years back, so the fact we even have this is a miracle in itself.
Isn't it stupid how great songs are never released? This is a good example of a song which features at the end of Shakedown (1988), also known as Blue Jean Cop, and a movie starring Mr Robocop himself, Peter Weller.
The music score was done by Jonathan Elias (Vamp, Tuff Turf), and had some great tracks on there. The end credits song however has never been released in any format. It was composed by Jonathan Elias himself and features some unknown singer "Nikki Ryder" on vocals, in fact most people aren't even sure if its a female or male voice on vocals! Sounds like John Waite.
Here is the track though ripped from the dvd to enjoy, a classic soundtrack song.
