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Dec 27, 2013 - 5:27 PM
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The Mutant
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Just got my copy in the mail and I couldn't be happier. I hadn't listened to the first track "Prince's Day" in ages. Hearing it again gave me goosebumps. What a perfect, unexpected and beautiful way to start such a dark sequence.
Perfectly sets the tone of the film juxtaposed against the dark, stormy imagery of that prison.
When it is played again in the final cue with a more warm orchestration we are brought full circle and that song now serves a completely different mood. Just superb. Not to mention the abundance of classic Silvestri action music and martial percussion "M.I.T Arrival" "The Escape" "Final Battle" and "Brakeless in Boston" (a nice play on words - Sleepless in Seattle)
Also, hearing Silvestri conduct the Overture is a real treat and it plays wonderfully amongst the score cues. Really makes me want to see the film again.
If anyone is wondering what the lyrics are to Prince's Day:
"Tho' dark are our sorrows, to-day we'll forget them, And smile through our tears, like a sunbeam in. showers: There never were hearts, if our rulers would let them, More form'd to be grateful and blest than ours. But just when the chain ¦ Has ceas'd to pain, And hope has enwreath'd it round with flowers, There comes a new link Our spirits to sink — Oh! the joy that we taste, like the light of the poles,
Is a flash amid darkness, too brilliant to stay;
But, though 't were the last little spark in our souls,
We must light it up now, on our Prince's Day."
Thank you again, Intrada. I know this release has been met with a few wet blanket remarks around here, but I for one am eternally grateful for this marvelous score. It only took 20 years, but it was worth the wait.
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Received this yesterday. Never saw the movie and have only heard the main title like most. Now I am as big a Silvestri fan like the next fan but have to say after giving it a full listen I am pretty disappointed. I am sure the score is appropriate for the film but as a stand alone listen what a bore. Maybe 3 cues I enjoyed. Makes me yearn for The Abyss which is thankfully coming in a couple weeks.
It seems my memory played tricks on me because I saw the movie back then and expected some orchestral fireworks but I have to agree with you...I think the score is boring. It won't get many repeat listenings. Also waiting for The Abyss, one of his masterpieces.
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Received Blown Away the first working-day after xmas and have listened to it many time since. I think it's an excellent, classic Silvestri action score. I'm a tiny bit disappointed to find out he hasn't really composed the 'celtic' theme, but it's still wonderfully arranged. Album as a whole may be perceived a bit repetitive, but... it's stuff that I love so I don't mind.
Looking forward to The Abyss (the reason I got into filmmusic in the first place) though it wouldn't surprise me if a 2CD edition is not all that interesting. Happy to be proven wrong.
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Question for those who have the new release:
Are there much in the way of electronics in the score? Eraser-type subtle atmospheric effects, or otherwise? Also, and this is a crazy neurotic detail-seeking query, but are there a fair amount of snare drum rhythms in the score? I seem to recall reading there is...it's just a hallmark of Silvestri's that I love and might help me make a decision whether to take the plunge on this one, because I'm a bit on the fence.
Thanks for the info, gents and ladies!
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Jan 10, 2014 - 4:19 AM
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edern
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I love this score, and I thank Intrada for this release!
(even if I'm a bit annoyed with little things, nothing essential, just details in the presentation mostly).
I'm so glad to finally have this music to listen to! I love the way Silvestri kind of webbed the score with his themes and motives.
Are there much in the way of electronics in the score? Eraser-type subtle atmospheric effects, or otherwise? Also, and this is a crazy neurotic detail-seeking query, but are there a fair amount of snare drum rhythms in the score?
Now, for the electronics in the score: they are basically no electronics in Blown Away. It's a very acoustic-based score. I'm sure a concert suite would work great.
There is a kind of EVI sounding instrument (Intrada didn't upload the musician/instrument list on their webiste yet) in Everybody Loves A Hero, reprising the Prince's Day melody. But that's it, basically.
Nonetheless there is a lot of subtle atmospheric effects. These ambiant sounds are performed acoustically, by waterphone, harp, flutes...
Snare drums are present in the score, but in a sporadic way when compared to Eraser for example. It is not a 'military score' per se (it is a thriller score first).
Snare rythms are more present in the first part of the album, in The Escape, M.I.T. Arrival, Trolley Bomb Site. They perform a very exciting martial motif along with piano in Playing The Angle, which I would have loved to hear more in the rest of the score. Then, they are unused or are in the background only, supporting the action.
Timpanis have some great highlights though, especially in the last busy action stuff, with very Silvestrian brassy bombast!
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AVAILABLE UNTIL NOVEMBER 21 2016 OR WHILE SUPPLIES ...
... get 'blown away' from their catalogue
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Aug 10, 2022 - 8:39 AM
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lordpaddle
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Re-listening to the amazing Blown Away album, great job from Intrada. But I'm surprised nobody mentioned the fact that the album isn't complete : "You Don't Know Me" is an alternate not used in the movie, the movie version is missing. If we believe the notes from the booklet, the film version would have been partly tracked from "Saint Max" and other passages of the score, except that after listening again in the film, there are unreleased portions in the version movie of "You Don't Know Me", so I think that a segment of the score is missing on the album. Otherwise, "Bomb Site" is an alternate (the scene when Jimmy sees Blanket corpse after the bridge explosion), the film version is also absent, too bad.
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Apr 25, 2023 - 10:57 AM
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lordpaddle
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Still listening to this score, 10 years later, and still personally captivated by the emotional force of this awesome score by Alan Silvestri with its haunting themes for the Stephen Hopkins movie.
On the other hand, I still have a problem with 2 tracks on the Intrada album : "Bomb Site" is an alternate version, it's not the one used in the film (whose central part seems lighter in the film, perhaps was it created with using a small portion of the stems ?), and "You Don't Know Me", which is also an alternate. The film version is much fuller, elegiac and dramatic, longer too. Intrada's album booklet mentions that the film version of "You Don't Know Me" was editorially created with several segments of the score but this is not true, after verification, it's indeed a 100% unreleased track and it seems that it wasn't included on the full score master given by Alan Silvestri.
For hearing the amazing film version of "You Don't Know Me" you can hear it in this video - a segment reprise "Saint Max" but it's a real new take with different tempo and interpretation of the orchestra :
https://youtu.be/aTdY4-DDJmo
As a result, I hope that a label will have the idea of ??looking for the 2 missing pieces to bring out a real complete version of this fabulous score, quite unique in the career of Alan Silvestri : maybe a new complete release on Intrada or La La Land (a bit like Trevor Jones' Cliffhanger ?).
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