First Blood: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1982 Film)
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Composer: Jerry GoldsmithEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Home Coming
- Escape Route
- First Blood
- The Tunnel
- Hanging On
- Mountain Hunt
- My Town
- The Razor
- No Power
- Over The Lcliff
- It's A Long Road
- It's A Long Road - performed by Dan Hill
Music reviews of First Blood: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1982 Film)
Music Review: excellent
Rating: 4 Stars
The film score as a viable piece of music has suffered greatly over the past twenty years. Where, in the 1960s, Quincy Jones, Lalo Shiffrin, and, composer of this score, Jerry Goldsmith, made album long scores that worked as jazz and classical albums, great ones, we are now dulled on microwave rock soundtracks or almost inaudible electronic seaweed. The last great score I heard was Sideways by Rolfe Kent and the sad note is that this is the exception.
Jerry Goldsmith worked in film scoring since the 1950s, and you probably know his work even if you don't know you know. Patch Of Blue, Planet Of The Apes-the 1968 one-you could build a great if microscopic music collection on just Goldsmith's scores. (While we're at it, turning yourself onto sores by seeing films and seeing the films of scores you collect is the best catch 22 I can think of.)
First Blood is from 1982, but you would never know it. One test to use when evaluating film scores is: can you see the part of the movie the music is from when listening. Better yet, can you FEEL the emotion you did when you saw the scene.
Yes Yes Yes is the answer with First Blood, a film where a Vietnam Green Beret is chased by a small town police chief and a band of rednecks, including a sadistic deputy.
Good movie from when America was trying to begin coming to grips with its defeat in Southeast Asia. We had not yet learned to separate the unpopularity of a war from the way we treat our troops, something we are hopefully doing better as our service people return from Iraq and Afganistan
The movie is a chase, quite a horrifying one, and so is Goldsmith's score. This is booming orchestral music with fear inducing crescendos, and dark soft dynamics, black as a rural night. The barbed piano cluster: Rambo climbing a hill? The steps in his mind to kill them all?
Goldsmith really never had a style other than to fit the best score to a given film, and when you listen to First Blood, you will be hard pressed to find when he did his job better.
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