DUEL the lp IF IT CAME OUT IN 1982 (track numbers are from the Intrada release) This is my preferred sequencing for optimal listening pleasure
Steven Spielberg's DUEL
side a 15. Down this Lonesome Highway" (radio instrumental) 3. Truck and Car Encounter 4. Road House 5. Mann's Thoughts 8. Snakearama 16. "Insane" (radio instrumental)
side b 6. The Tunnel 9. Hide and Seek 10. Road Block 11. Confrontation 12. How Does he Go SO Fast? 13. Final Duel 17. "Setting the Road On Fire" (radio instrumental)
tt; 37:16
Music composed and conducted by Billy Goldenberg
also available on MCA cassettes copyright 1971, 1982 Universal Pictures an MCA company
Mr Marshall I like your LP but why would it have been released in 1982?,?? What's the significance?
Thanks! DUEL was released in US theaters for the FIRST time in 1982. This was because E.T. made SS a household name. So, if they released an lp, it would have been then. brm
Thanks! DUEL was released in US theaters for the FIRST time in 1982. This was because E.T. made SS a household name. So, if they released an lp, it would have been then. brm
Thanks! DUEL was released in US theaters for the FIRST time in 1982. This was because E.T. made SS a household name. So, if they released an lp, it would have been then. brm
With that horrible noisy 80's MCA vinyl?
I exchanged copies three times in '82 because I was so disgusted with the vinyl crackles during the opening track! Never did find a clean one.
This is why vinyl has no appeal to me any more, at least one of the reasons.
I exchanged copies three times in '82 because I was so disgusted with the vinyl crackles during the opening track!
Me, too! Mine were also warped, as well as crackly. I was a bit obsessed and ended up buying ET multiple times – regular MCA, picture disc (just because), MJ-narrated, and then the German Teldec 'audiophile' pressing, which finally became my holy of holies. There's also a Disneyland read-along book and record with Gertie narrating, which I will not admit to owning, no sir.
Does track 16 sound like a Henry Mancini/Inspector Clouseau theme all countryfied up to anyone else? It sounds familiar and my mind went to the Pink Panther movies for some reason.
Revisiting this score more often than not. It really is an amazing score by Goldenberg. Apart from the Herrmann-esque passages the real gems are those tense diner cues. The whole sequence is a masterclass of building paranoia. The music in the scene kind of works the same way as Fielding's Escape from Alcatraz in that the music is constantantly gnawing and prodding away at you, wearing you down until finally, you break!. Great stuff.
