Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary [3 CD]
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Composer: VangelisPerformer: Dick Morrissey
Performer: Dimitris Tsakas
Performer: Demis Roussos
Performer: Don Percival
Performer: Mary Hopkin
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2007-12-18
Music Label: Polydor
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Main Titles
- Blush Response
- Wait For Me
- Rachel's Song
- Love Theme
- One More Kiss, Dear
- Blade Runner Blues
- Memories Of Green
- Tales Of The Future
- Damask Rose
- Blade Runner (End Titles)
- Tears In Rain
- Longing
- Unveiled Twinkling Space
- Dr. Tyrell's Owl
- At Mr. Chew's
- Leo's Room
- ONE ALONE (Bonus Track)
- Deckard And Roy's Duel
- Dr. Tyrell's Death
- DESOLATION PATH (Bonus Track)
- Empty Streets
- Mechanical Dolls
- Fading Away
- Launch Approval - Scott Bolton, Bryce Bolton
- Up And Running - Sir Ridley Scott
- Mail From India - C. Lambrakis
- BR Downtown - Oliver Stone, Akiko Ebi, Cherry Vanilla
- Dimitri's Bar - Akiko Ebi, Oliver Stone, Dimitris Tsakas
- Sweet Solitude - Dimitris Tsakas
- No Expectation Boulevard - Rutger Hauer, Wes Studi, Bhaskar Balakrishnan
- Vadavarot - Irina Valentinova, Florencia Suayan Tacod
- Perfume Exotico - Edward James Olmos
- Spotkanie Z Matka - Roman Polanski
- Piano In An Empty Room
- Keep Asking - Bryce Bolton
Music reviews of Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary [3 CD]
Music Review: Is this the promised end?
Rating: 1 Stars
One track on this album has the absurd title "Unveiled Twinkling Space." It fits the album well because the album is all twinkling. It's all wind chimes and cheesy wind effects and almost no music from the movie "Blade Runner."
I'm not a Vangelis fan. I think he's pretentious, for one thing. For another, I think he's got very little creative talent. He tends to take about eight notes and repeat them endlessly, without even varying the tempo or the key. He can't think of codas--all his pieces fade out or fade into one another. There are exceptions to all these observations, of course, and they tend to be the strongest cues on this album.
What I am is a "Blade Runner" fan, and a film music fan, and I'd really like to be able to listen to music from the movie without dialogue, sound effects, and dumb wind noises interfering with my enjoyment.
What's the point of the dialogue that we hear over "Main Titles?" If I wanted to listen to dialogue, I'd watch the movie again. It's not even the best lines from the movie--just Harrison Ford listing a bunch of numbers (from the Esper sequence). I love Rutger Hauer's closing soliloquy, but when I listen to music, I'd like it to be music, not a soliloquy. Vangelis must have understood something of this, so he reprises "Tears In Rain" on the second CD, without the dialogue. But unable to let the music stand by itself, he inserts a wind effect over the whole track. Where's the wind in "Blade Runner?" Rain I see, but wind? If only there were rain and no wind, or wind and rain, but why wind and no rain?
I also don't see much point in CD 3. Music inspired by the film. It doesn't really evoke the film, though--most of them some like John Barryesque lounge music cues from 1960s Bond movies. The last track seems to be entirely composed of wind and a child asking a series of questions.
?
Six cues on CD 2 contain music actually used in the film. Eight cues on CD 1 contain music actually used in the film. In all, that's less than an hour of music.
I can't really complain. I knew what I was getting, and bought it anyway. I don't feel like I was conned out of my money. I bought with my eyes open. I just wanted to hear the music from "Blade Runner." Like Deckard entering teh Bradbury building, or Baty dying without distracting dialogue or sound effects. It's a humble wish, I think, and I don't think I'll ever get it.
But I see, if no one else does, that the Emperor Vangelis isn't wearing any clothes.
Description of Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary [3 CD]
This is the first time that Blade Runner fans in the U.S. will be able to purchase this special release domestically and not as an import.Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, with its apocalyptic depiction of LA in 2019, has become one of the most celebrated sci-fi releases of the 20th century. It's one of those films where all of the constituent parts - the set, the lighting, the characters, the sparse dialogue and of course the music - work uniquely together to produce a cult masterpiece.
The music has always been a key element of Blade Runner and there have been various versions of the soundtrack over the years, some 'official' and some bootlegs. But they have all either been incomplete or have suffered from poor sound quality, until now.
Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary is a 3-CD set which - for the first time - puts all the pieces together, providing the complete music from the film and a lot more besides.
CD 1 features the original and remastered soundtrack as it first appeared in 1994, twelve years after the film was released. The second CD contains all the remaining music from the film that did not appear on the original 1994 soundtrack, plus two bonus tracks ('One Alone' and 'Desolation Path'). None of this material has been released before. The third and final disc will be of real interest to Vangelis fans, as it contains an entire album of newly written material composed by Vangelis to mark the 25th anniversary of Blade Runner. The music is strong and flowing, and retains the dark, atmospheric sense of the original score. There are some intriguing spoken word contributions too, from Ridley Scott, Roman Polanski, Oliver Stone and a host of distinguished actors, personalities and world dignitaries.
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