Mark Knopfler - Local Hero (1983 Film)
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Artist: Mark KnopflerEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: LRS MEDIA
Soundtracks:
- Rocks and the Water - Mark Knopfler
- Wild Theme
- Freeway Flyer
- Boomtown [Version]
- Way It Always Starts
- The Rocks and the Thunder
- The Ceilidh and the Northern Lights
- The Mist Covered Mountains
- The Ceilidh: Louis' Favourite Billy's Tune
- Whistle Theme
- Smooching
- Stargazer
- The Rocks and the Thunder
- Going Home (Theme of the Local Hero)
Free Music Notes for Local Hero (1983 Film)
Free Music Review: One of the best soundtracks... EVER
Hit: 5 Stars
In 1983, at the height of the Dire Straights' reign of pop music ("Money for Nothing"), Dire Straights lead song writer Mark Knopfler scored the soundtrack of a delightful "little movie that could" called Local Hero.
"Local Hero" (14 tracks, 43 min.) creates the atmosphere of the Scottish scene in which the movie is set, in which a US expat is sent to convince a small seaside town to sell their interest in a beach so that a "big bad" US oil company can explore ir for oil. The mostly instrumental soundtrack is superb from start to finish, creating a wonderful mood. The opener "The Rocks and the Water" sets the stage, just superbly brought of what the Scottish seaside is like. Knopfler's guitar virtuoso gets a workout in a couple of tracks, but it never deteriorates from the overall mood. Other outstanding tracks include "The Mist Covered Mountains", gently bringing in a local band playing a sorrowful yet hopefull tune, and "Stargazer", in which you can just see and smell the open Scottish sky. There isn't a single weak track on the album, frankly. This album remains a soundtrack by which others should be measured by.
The best known track remains the very last one "Going Home (Theme of Local Hero)", which is as close as you'll get to the Dire Straights' sound, and it inevitably appears on Dire Straight live and compilation CDs. But it is the anamoly on this gorgeous soundtrack. This album was originally released in 1983, when I bought it on vinyl, and I bought it when the CD came out in 1990. Isn't it about time for a re-release on remastered sound?
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