> Amerika (1987)

I'm much higher on this one than you are. The secondary themes get a little lost in the shuffle, but this is a consistently solid blending of Poledouris' orchestral drama and synthetic thriller sounds, and the title theme rules even if it (appropriately) isn't exactly the most rousing thing. ****1/2

I do wonder if your reaction is somewhat a function of trying to collect 75 minutes of highlights across 14.5 hours of television. But then I also have no idea how much good music was left off the album.

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Cherry 2000 (1988)



Oh boy...

***** for me. There is nothing else like this one. A handful of source cues should generally be programmed out, but the score portions rule.

Richard Kraft wrote an amusing paragraph about the process of finding the tone for this score as part of a longer remembrance of Basil - https://perspectiveforum.net/2016/05/22/finding-family-with-basil-poledouris/

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Side Note: 
I’m not entirely sure which album I ended up listening to. It was a “fan upload” of the entire album in one video and checking with Clem’s review… I think it was the Prometheus release? Maybe? The runtime seems to match up without including the extras. There’s also a slightly shorter album (19 tracks) currently on iTunes, though I have idea where it’s sourced from as all it says is “MGM Music” copyright (same thing with some other Poledouris titles on that service…).

I think the Apple Music album you mentioned is legit, though I have no idea why it's shorter than the three previous CD releases.

Still, it's an improvement over the digital/streaming version of Amerika which has a cover that doesn't even spell the composer's name correctly!