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I'm really glad to finally see this released. This movie was on HBO twice a day for half a summer and the score was unforgettable.
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Great release. Needless to say i bought one, having listened to the unmentionables over the years. Nice to replace them.
I am sure this will find lots of fans. It has always been an often requested silvestri score. Not as often requested as bttf of course, but i would be surprised if intrada will have a hard time selling this one.
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It's an impressive score with some good musicianship involved.
Anybody who doesn't know the film, or is misled by the marketing, should be aware that it's probably, event for event, the most accurate cinema retelling of the life of Billy the Kid, after the Lincoln County War, with some swashbuckler exaggerations to some of the events.
Silvestri's score is wistful and elegaic, for all the thunder involved, with a genuine elegaic pathos. Its fame has been eclipsed of course by the rock album, which is unfortunate, because Silvestri does something special here.
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Sep 20, 2011 - 10:37 AM
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SheriffJoe
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From the response on here, there was clearly a decent score hidden/masked/spoiled by songs.
That's actually not really the case. The song album wasn't so much a soundtrack as it was a concept album of songs inspired by the movie. If memory serves, "Blaze of Glory" is the only song from the album that actually appears in the movie, and that's during the end montage/credits. But of course the marketing push in 1990 was for the big single and the new songs from Jon Bon Jovi, and not the actual soundtrack.
ETA: The first film I believe had nothing but a score, but it was a synth-based contemporary score and not orchestral. It's actually quite good but it's obviously nothing like Silvestri's work.
Horner was the original composer on Young Guns and was hired based upon his collaboration with director Christopher Cain on Where the River Runs Black. Unfortunately, Morgan Creek had other ideas on where the music should go and ended up replacing Horner with a couple of advertising jingle type guys. At that time, I was a Horner fanatic and was so INCENSED by this that I mentally blocked their names form my mind. To this day, I can't recall them...nor do I know anything of the replacement score. Oh well....I sure would like to hear what Horner came up with though.
Oh, and yeah....ORDERED!!
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From the response on here, there was clearly a decent score hidden/masked/spoiled by songs.
That's actually not really the case. The song album wasn't so much a soundtrack as it was a concept album of songs inspired by the movie. If memory serves, "Blaze of Glory" is the only song from the album that actually appears in the movie, and that's during the end montage/credits. But of course the marketing push in 1990 was for the big single and the new songs from Jon Bon Jovi, and not the actual soundtrack.
ETA: The first film I believe had nothing but a score, but it was a synth-based contemporary score and not orchestral. It's actually quite good but it's obviously nothing like Silvestri's work.
Horner was the original composer on Young Guns and was hired based upon his collaboration with director Christopher Cain on Where the River Runs Black. Unfortunately, Morgan Creek had other ideas on where the music should go and ended up replacing Horner with a couple of advertising jingle type guys. At that time, I was a Horner fanatic and was so INCENSED by this that I mentally blocked their names form my mind. To this day, I can't recall them...nor do I know anything of the replacement score. Oh well....I sure would like to hear what Horner came up with though.
Oh, and yeah....ORDERED!!
You were the first person I thought of when I heard this was announced. Oh, OK, I thought of Alan Ruck first.
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As the Intrada blurb says, Silvestri finds a way to score both the open expanse of adventure and the ode to a broken life using the same theme. That's anchored by a goregeous descending motif which speaks to the mystical underpinnings of the story.
That descent motif may have originated in Cindi Lauper's 'Time After Time' song ... it's very reminiscent of that, but who cares? The score is very good.
If anyone wants to look on YouTube, there are complete cues from the bootleg. Now I KNOW this isn't kosher discourse, BUT .... as I see it, the new Intrada is a lot cheaper than the overpriced boots, and by directing the folk who don't know the score there, my strategy is that they'll then be impressed enough to hit the Intrada CD at a decent price. Correct me if this thinking is perverse.
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