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I`ve watched Chain Reaction at the weekend for the first time and was really impressed by some of the action material that is sadly missing on the typical 90s 30 minute album which is a bit boring IMO. That`s why I never liked the score. Until last weekend.
That would make a great complete edition. Maybe on Lalaland someday ?
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I'll bet you the skin off my butt that Varese will release a Deluxe Edition. I love ICE CHASE. That ALONE is worth the price of the original cd.
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People saying "in perp" really grosses me out.
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There are probably 20 emails in the bottom of the Varese inbox from 'the other guys'
begging Varese to license out expansions of US MARSHALLS, STARSHIP TROOPERS, CHAIN
REACTION,etc,etc,etc
CHAIN is not top drawer JG, but, as usual, hearing the full thing, and that amazing
bridge chase (hello Jeff Bond, where the hell are you!?!?), would score my 20 bucks.....
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Aug 9, 2011 - 7:35 AM
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MikeP2
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CHAIN is not top drawer JG, but, as usual, hearing the full thing, and that amazing
bridge chase (hello Jeff Bond, where the hell are you!?!?), would score my 20 bucks.....
Yeah this is mid to lower level JG - at least the exisitng CD ( except the Ice Chase track ) feels like auto-pilot...but that bridge chase , WOW, is just great stuff...amazing that it had to be left off the original disc. The score isn't one that cries out for an expanded CD, but, like Executive Decision, there are a few choice bits that should see the light of day but probably never will 
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Some scores are better as "expanded" rather than complete. A bunch of JG scores from the 90's fit this category. Chain Reaction, Along Came a Spider, US Marshals, and Executive Decision were WAY too short at 30 minutes and some of the best stuff was left off in favor of quieter, less active cues. The result was that a number of action movie soundtracks were lacking a lot of action music.
Really great expanded albums could be made from those once release as 30 minute CDs. Chain Reaction would be really sweet at like 50 minutes. But I'll take a complete score too. :-)
I happen to love his 90's action work. I've said it before; his music of this period suffers only in comparison to his earlier work. Placed among the general soundtrack population of the time, they were top shelf compositions and even his "less complex" cues were still more complex than music from others. I never compare Goldsmith to Goldsmith. I don't see the point. I enjoy each era.
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Some scores are better as "expanded" rather than complete. A bunch of JG scores from the 90's fit this category. Chain Reaction, Along Came a Spider, US Marshals, and Executive Decision were WAY too short at 30 minutes and some of the best stuff was left off in favor of quieter, less active cues. The result was that a number of action movie soundtracks were lacking a lot of action music.
Really great expanded albums could be made from those once release as 30 minute CDs. Chain Reaction would be really sweet at like 50 minutes. But I'll take a complete score too. :-)
I happen to love his 90's action work. I've said it before; his music of this period suffers only in comparison to his earlier work. Placed among the general soundtrack population of the time, they were top shelf compositions and even his "less complex" cues were still more complex than music from others. I never compare Goldsmith to Goldsmith. I don't see the point. I enjoy each era.
I agree wholeheartedly with all of this. Some of these scores weren't really fantastic back when they first came out, but now that we're stuck in this musical rut, you listen to them and they all sound like Star Wars.
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Listening to this one right now for the first time in quite some time. It's a solid action score and better than I remembered it to be. Ice Chase is a vintage 90's Goldsmith score and System Down and Open Door (some great percussion in that track) are also great tracks. Only seen the film once, so don't know how much is missing.
But, together with Executive Decision and U.S. Marshals, it still sound too much like Goldsmith on auto-pilot. Wouldn't pass up on an expanded version, but there are scores from this period that I'd rather see expanded (Small Soldiers, L.A. Confidential and The Haunting from Varese, The Ghost and the Darkness and The River Wild from other labels)
But listening to this does make me miss the 90's! Better scores, better films. Good times!
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