Aliens: The Deluxe Edition

James Horner - Aliens: The Deluxe Edition

Aliens: The Deluxe Edition
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Artist: James Horner
Brand: Score
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2001-05-01
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
  1. Main Title
  2. Bad Dreams
  3. Dark Discovery/Newt's Horror
  4. LV-426
  5. Combat Drop
  6. The Complex
  7. Atmosphere Station
  8. Med. Lab
  9. Newt
  10. Sub-Level 3
  11. Ripley's Rescue
  12. Face Huggers
  13. Futile Escape
  14. Newt Is Taken
  15. Going After Newt
  16. The Queen
  17. Bishop's Countdown
  18. Queen to Bishop
  19. Resolution and Hyperspace
  20. Bad Dreams [Alternate Take]
  21. Ripley's Resuce [Version]
  22. LV-426 [Edit][Version]
  23. Combat Drop [Version]
  24. Hyperspace [Alternate Take]

Free Music Notes for Aliens: The Deluxe Edition

Free Music Review: Even better the second time around..
Hit: 5 Stars

First and foremost, great big kudos need to go out to Nick Redman and Robert Townson for this, the Deluxe Edition of James Horner's score for "Aliens". Once one gets the chance to hear the Deluxe Edition with nearly a half-hour of restored music, one finally gets the sense of the scope of James Horner's first score to be nominated for an Oscar.

This is one of James Horner's great triumphs in film scoring. It's just too bad that the majority of the music didn't wind up in the scenes for which it was written (a problem that plagued Jerry Goldsmith's score for the original "Alien" as well). That aside, the Deluxe Edition is a revelation of just the kind of spooky, even downright terrifying music that Horner is capable of creating (not to mention the action cues that have become akin to textbook examples of action film scoring). The "Main Title" masterfully sets the tone of the film giving us deep orchestral rumblings juxtaposed with a lonely string line reminiscent of Aram Khatchaturyan. These two elements would form the backbone of how Horner would fill his score with the sense of the impending doom that lay in store for our characters. I'm immensely grateful for the tense, non-action oriented music included on the album. Unlike the first incarnation of the "Aliens" soundtrack it gives more than just a glimpse of the huge, dark paintbrush that James Horner was using to color his score. Of course, the action music is fantastic. It's straight-forward, muscular, go for the jugular kind of stuff that wouldn't be heard in film again until the likes of a guy named Hans Zimmer would come bursting on the scene a few years later. While the bonus cues are also a lot of fun, particularly the percussion-only cuts, my single favorite new cue is "Combat Drop". Although Cameron ultimately chose not to use this cue and opted for one of the percussion-only tracks (not credited to Horner, but to a Harry Rabinowitz), the listener is given greater insight into what Horner had in mind for the heroics of the space marines.

Ultimately the score would never see the composer's vision in the way it was intended. Instead, what we got with the film version of "Aliens" was a musical dice-job that doesn't do Horner's work justice. However, this new presentation of a first-rate James Horner score gives us a fresh new way to look at a modern masterpiece of film scoring. Highly recommended

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Media Type: CD
Artist: ALIENS
Title: SCORE
Street Release Date: 05/01/2001
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Genre: SOUNDTRACK
Despite the phenomenal box-office bounty of Titanic, director James Cameron didn't become King of the World overnight. Indeed, King James helped build his crowd-pleasing reputation on the belated 1986 sequel to Ridley Scott's outer space shockfest, Alien. That sequel, Aliens, was also his first collaboration with film scorer James Horner, whose music contributed in no small way to Titanic's über-success. This expanded edition of Horner's mysterious Aliens score features a sparkling digital transfer and over a half-hour of previously unreleased cues and outtakes. While Horner obviously trades on Jerry Goldsmith's original masterpiece and even Khatchaturian's Gayane Ballet Suite (used so effectively by Kubrick to evoke the loneliness of space in 2001), it's a pastiche that's informed by a masterful use of brooding orchestral colors and percussion flourishes that are by turns ominous and subtle. That element of the composer's evocative formula is further explored in two percussion-only bonus cuts, "Ripley's Rescue" and "Combat Drop." This edition also includes a colorful illustrated booklet with a detailed essay about the film's musical genesis. --Jerry McCulley

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