> Maybe a fair rating for the scant amount of score provided on the original
> album, but it's a much better score than that in truth and I hope it gets
> an expansion one day (perhaps the Powell score that most needs it now that
> Paycheck has gotten its dues). It's rough around the edges compared
> to the Powell animated efforts that would follow, and has a bit of that
> sharp synthetic sound his early scores tend to suffer from, but I'm very
> fond of it. I particularly like this unreleased cue for the first time you
> see the lost city itself, in which Powell adapts the melody from the Elton
> John title song with his own 'To Shibalba' as an interlude:

> https://youtu.be/S2xtuxt_ULE?t=56

Agreed- I got one of the promo releases, and it’s an immense pleasure to listen to (and even foreshadows some of Powell’s phenomenal fantasy action sequences during the climax), especially knowing which of the score’s one-off ideas are tracked into the film as themes (and it’s pretty much all of them).