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July/August 2016
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8/27/16
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Capricorn One (Jerry Goldsmith)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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on the 1993, 2009, or 2012 CD re-issues of the original LP presentation if you seek a
fantastic rearrangement and re-recording by Jerry Goldsmith of this brutally propulsive score.
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on those albums if you prefer the sparse and harshly raw version of the score recorded by
Goldsmith at MGM for the film itself, of which the 2005 and 2015 Intrada Records albums are
very loyal representations.
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8/19/16
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Take a Hard Ride (Jerry Goldsmith)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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if you seek the last Western score of Jerry Goldsmith's early career, featuring a maturation
of his melodic sensibilities combined with a twist of the expected Ennio Morricone style for
the dying genre.
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if you are pondering the 2016 La-La Land album for this solid score but you already own the
2000 Film Score Monthly product; the presentation on the later album is not significantly
improved.
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8/14/16
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Warlock (Jerry Goldsmith)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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if even a bland, surprisingly uninspired combination of Jerry Goldsmith's trademark sound
effects, instrumental choices, recognizable motifs, and basic synthesized rhythms can sustain
your interest.
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if you expect Goldsmith to make much of an effort to raise a little hell when a warlock is
trying to hasten the end of the world, his understated score a boring, muted journey for most
of its length.
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8/7/16
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Link (Jerry Goldsmith)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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only if you require the ultimate tool of derangement, a bizarre and unlikely stylistic blend
of Gremlins and Hoosiers with which to plunder the sanity of your dwelling partner or repel
possible mates.
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even if you consider yourself a faithful collector of Jerry Goldsmith's 1980's scores, because
Link is a rare circumstance in which the composer nearly ruined an already suspect film with a
totally inappropriate score.
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7/31/16
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The Secret of N.I.M.H. (Jerry
Goldsmith)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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on any of its albums if you seek an impressive preview of Jerry Goldsmith's future wealth of
strong, consistent music for children's fantasy and animated films.
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if a more outwardly dynamic and powerful spirit uninhibited by archival sound quality is what
you seek in your Goldsmith material of lyrical romanticism and grand fantasy scope.
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7/22/16
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Powder (Jerry Goldsmith)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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if you regularly enjoy the predictable constructs of Jerry Goldsmith's soft, affable character
themes of the 1990's and are attracted to idea of stripping that style to its basics and
pouring on the syrup.
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if you logically expect this score to create any sense of mystery, electricity, or magic, for
without these elements, Powder remains extremely overrated.
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7/17/16
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Basic Instinct (Jerry Goldsmith)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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on especially the longer albums featuring this score if you are ready to hear truly unique
erotic thriller music that perfectly balances the inescapable sensuality and chilly dread of
the film's shamelessly lurid plotline.
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if even a clever exploration of the noir genre in Jerry Goldsmith's contemporary methodology
cannot keep you from being disturbed by the score's legendarily turbulent, challenging, and
musically graphic sex and orgasm sequences.
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7/8/16
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The Ghost and the Darkness (Jerry
Goldsmith)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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if you're baited by the smell of blood coming from the lips of ambitious brass players, as
well as rowdy African percussion and a variety of ethnic chanting, for this score's epic scope
and broad colors make it one of Jerry Goldsmith most unique career achievements.
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if you prefer your Goldsmith adventure scores of the 1990's to rely upon the composer's
trademark infusion of synthetic elements, this score instead offering more richly organic
textures to produce an adequately indigenous horror sound.
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7/3/16
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Judge Dredd (Alan Silvestri)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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on any of its albums if you seek some of the most glorious orchestral bombast of the 1990's on
film, a score that stands as muscularly robust in stature as anything Alan Silvestri has ever
produced.
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if you have little tolerance for super-heroic themes of simplistic major-key expression,
especially if they're predictably blasted out as punctuation to every scene in which Sylvester
Stallone delivers one of his painfully awful lines of dialogue.
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