Jerry Goldsmith - Alien (2 LP)
- LP
- 2 piece(s)
- 2007
- 10 tracks
- 36 min
- soundtrack
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Just a heads up...My vinyl sounds amazing. Make sure to clean your record and use a decent stylus. I'm not sure what else to say...I'm loving it as we speak. Granted, I've got gear from the 70s. Apart from the coolest packaging ever...what an album.
Chilling, spine-tingling, and occasionally stunning. A stunning soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith. Perhaps my all-time favorite. Fits the film like a glove, even if the movie didn't use as much of it as featured here to truly highlight the eerie silence of space.
Subsequent releases hyped up "Jerry Goldsmith's ORIGINAL unused music you never got to hear!" so much that it's rather amusing to find out the original 1979 vinyl already featured Goldsmith's unused bits. In fact, the revised/replacement tracks from the movie have been somewhat overlooked in soundtrack album versions. But it's all good because, while Ridley Scott made the right call going for a more subdued and consistently eerie vibe in the film, Goldsmith's original, more expansive, and melodic pieces create a more enjoyable album experience (while still sounding enough like "the music from Alien"). One of my top moments is in "The Droid" where the horns and low strings repeat in this rhythmic pattern that's both spine-tingling and memorable, I wish it went on longer. Different cues are combined into suites that don't always align with their titles but it all blends well enough that I don't care. I made a backup copy that includes the film version of "Main Title" as well as the Charles Gerhardt performance of Hanson's "Symphony No. 2 (Romantic)" (used in the film's end credits) and it's pretty much my ideal personal 'ALIEN' album.(Full disclosure: I also tacked on Nostromo's pop cover single of the main theme as an extra track...)
sound quality ? it's even better than the first one (acid blood green)
I ain't got no trouble with this record's pressing. The vinyl's super quiet and it sounds incredible. Way better than that Canadian version and in a whole other league compared to the mondo double LP.
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