The Perfect Storm: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: James HornerEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-06-20
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Coming Home From The Sea
- The Fog's Just Lifting...
- Let's Go, Boys
- To The Flemish Cap
- The Decision To Turn Around
- Small Victories
- Coast Guard Rescue
- Rogue Wave
- There's No Goodbye...Only Love
- Yours Forever (Theme from The Perfect Storm) - John Mellencamp
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Free Music Review: Horner's Perfect Score for "A Perfect Storm"
Hit: 5 Stars
Man against nature. Man against storm and sea. These are classic elements for a tragic and heroic tale, and familiar ground for composer James Horner who has already proven himself in this area with his music to "Titanic." How do you top yourself when your first effort at scoring a saga of man and the sea was an award winner? Director Wolfgang Petersen's "The Perfect Storm" presents a different story, to be sure, but the temptation to simply follow musical channels already mapped must have been great. And admittedly, Horner does give us a number of familiar motifs here. But this score focuses on simple men and the sea and their heroic efforts to survive the storm of the century. The themes echo the heroism of the common man, not titanic and invincible vessels, and of course there is the ever present, underlying tone of inevitable doom. Amazingly, Horner presents a score that is both familiar and new. He gives us the determination of simple men and the power of the sea driven by a storm of almost supernatural proportions. There are a number of great film scores for sea tales: Bernard Herrmann's "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and "Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef," John William's "Jaws," John Barry's "The Dove," and Horner's own "Titanic." But "The Perfect Storm" is in many ways more deserving of this great company than Horner's earlier achievement, and that is quite a claim. Horner's music for "The Perfect Storm" is a classical film score with some contemporary twists. His main theme is a fitting testament to men and women who have faced the storm and sea and in many cases have lost. And both the sea and the storm are also dramatically portrayed in this score. Fans (and critics) of Horner's music will note some familiarities with his earlier work ("Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," "Star Trek III: The Search For Spock," "Something Wicked This Way Comes," "Willow," "Braveheart," "Legends of the Fall," "The Mask of Zorro," and "Titanic"). One is more generally reminded of stirring passages from his two "Star Trek" films which afterall were about "ships" on another level. But this is a powerful and epic score that stands well on its own. John Mellencamp's vocal rendition of the main theme also works quite well and is a nice fit to the score and this soudtrack album, unlike other vocals that are far too often tolerated or quite forgetable. And at almost eighty minutes, there is a good deal of music to be enjoyed here.
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