Alien(s)

[ehowton]

I have an immediate need for all four Alien scores, and I have swashbuckler332 to thank for this. After reading swashbuckler's revisited mix album, it dawned on me I didn't actually own any of the soundtracks! All my Alien music is on Telarc discs - bits and pieces you understand. Thus begins my quest.

Apparently, the first film is out of print. Damn. The horrifically commuted "Alien Trilogy" soundtrack looks like crap, but I did find the 1999 release DVD which contains the full score as a separate audio track on the DVD for under $10 at Amazon. Thanks for the heads up, again, swashbuckler!

The second film comes in a remastered 'second edition' score which I will have to sneak by the wife to purchase, and the third film will be a sneak as well. I figure in a month I might have them all. I can get away with ordering the DVD because I have the middle two films on laserdisc, and she wants me to replace all my laserdiscs with DVD's. THAT'S going to be a chore. I'll probably never get rid of my Matrix laserdisc - one of the final releases on that media.

The fourth film's score is $4 used on Amazon. Wow.

I'm a little obsessive this way, you know.





And I'm now going to go out and purchase Homeworld 2, a game I've never before played, based on THIS alone. If you still don't get it, watch the trailer. Wow. Also, Firefly writer Jane Espenson will be writing an episode for BSG Season Three. Wow again. I don't know how I'm going to be able to contain myself until all this goodness comes to fruition. Click the image for a direct link to the trailer:





Rec'd a nice gift this past weekend, galinda822 apparently tired of hearing be bitch about not having Office Space to watch with her...bought me the Special Edition release! Woo-hoo; now we're cooking with fire! Perhaps we'll get a chance to watch it together during Friday's Movie Night? Thanks galinda! I'll grill up something special for the occation ;)

Comments

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

That so rocks dude. I gave Tony my turntable so he could throw down a beat.

[swashbuckler332.livejournal.com]

The LP is actually the best-sounding source of the score. Of particular interest is how much more vivid and... well... disgusting the serpent sounds on vinyl. That's the gross biological sounding instrument heard prominently in "Breakaway" and the second half of "The Recovery," which scores the deaths of Parker and Lambert in the film.

I also happen to think that the album is definitely a good presentation of the score Goldsmith intended, although there is quite a lot of music in the film that is cool in its own right, not least of which is the redo of the main title.


The Silva CD has very little low end, and the isolated score track on the DVD is very shrill and hissy, and in Dolby 2.0... the LP doesn't sound fantastic, but it sounds a damn sight better than any other presentation of the score with the exception of how it sounds in the Quadrillogy's DTS track for Alien.