James Horner - Aliens: The Deluxe Edition
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Artist: James HornerBrand: 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:
- Main Title
- Bad Dreams
- Dark Discovery/Newt's Horror
- LV-426
- Combat Drop
- The Complex
- Atmosphere Station
- Med.Lab.
- Newt
- Sub-Level 3
- Ripley's Rescue
- FaceHuggers
- Futile Escape
- Newt Is Taken
- Going After Newt
- The Queen
- Bishop's Countdown
- Queen To Bishop
- Resolution And Hyperspace
- Bad Dreams (Alternate)
- Ripley's Rescue (Percussion Only)
- LV-426 (Alternate Edit - Film Version)
- Combat Drop (Percussion Only)
- Hyperspace (Alternate Ending)
Music reviews of Aliens: The Deluxe Edition
Music Review: Not That Great
Rating: 4 Stars
I really don't think that this CD is worthy of an upgrade if you have the original release already. Okay, so you can argue that it's 'digitally remastered'. But so what? All the best music was on the first release. The new 'un contains a lot of deleted material, extensive liner notes and bonus 'percussion only' tracks. But it's still not good enough.
Much of this CD is empty 'lurking around' music that excites in no way. The Alien Trilogy (1996 Studio Recording) release by Cliff Eidelman had the good sense to cut out most of this and get straight to the action. The best example of this is 'Futile Escape'. We have to wait through 3 minutes of NOTHING before the action kicks in. It's great stuff but skipping through the beginning of the track is an awful chore.
If you know much about James Horner you know that he rips himself off way too much. Commando was a rip-off of his own 48 Hours and Aliens sounds way too much like his score for Star Trek III. Hard to believe this was nominated for 'Best ORIGINAL Score'. Though it is still the best score of the whole Alien Quadrilogy (I guess that's the word for it now). It's better than what Goldsmith offered in the first and superior to anything Goldenthal and Frizzell created for Alien 3: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Alien Resurrection: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
If you have the first release then just stick with it. You may think you're getting more but it has just been bloated up with boring stuff. Plus, what's the deal with these 'percussion only' tracks? How on earth are these supposed to be entertaining? A 'Brass Only' track would have made sense but percussion only? The tracks selected for this treatment were boring before being stripped of all the other instruments.
I do wish Varese Sarabande would do a Deluxe Edition of something more worthy, like the scores to Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990 Film) and Predator 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack or the aforementioned Commando (which is now available as a Varese Sarabande CD Club release).
Note: If you think you recognize the track 'Revolution and Hyperspace' but you know it's not from Aliens then you are not alone. The track was used by John McTiernan as temp music score for Die Hard Original Motion Picture Soundtack. Michael Kamen thought that it fit so well that he actually used it because the cues were ditched from the Aliens score.
Description of Aliens: The Deluxe Edition
No Description AvailableNo Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: ALIENS
Title: SCORE
Street Release Date: 05/01/2001
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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