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Really been enjoying the 4 instrumental cuts at the end of the disc. I'm sure if a soundtrack had been released at the time of the film these tracks would have had titles like 'White Line Blues' or 'Pluckin and Truckin'. There great!
Haha absolutely!
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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
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Jun 27, 2015 - 3:58 PM
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Graham Watt
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Right then - some more discussion of the musical content of this would be welcome at this late stage! It arrived a few weeks ago and have been dipping in (and trying out various sound systems... Zzzzzzzzzzzzz) for a while. Anyway, my mind is now made up. It's absolutely greeeeeat!
It does something for me which few soundtracks do - it holds my attention throughout. Even in the pieces which some (Last Child?) have mentioned above as being too long and sound-effecty (Track 2) I find absolutely riveting. The whole thing is a hair-raising rollercoaster ride of wondrous experimentation. It IS in a way the Billy Goldenberg we old people know and love from "Columbo", but it's so much more too. It's actually quite chilling in its intensity.
Apart from the aforementioned Track 2, there are one or two other tracks where it sounds like Goldenberg has started to drop a couple of knives and forks into the washing machine, slowly at first but then chucking in great loads of cutlery by the bucketful, then switching the tumble dryer on, and then when it begins to vibrate in a cacophony of mind-blowing WTF there's an earthquake on top of it all. It's absolutely brilliant, to my ears at least.
It's not ALL that intense though. The quieter moments are there, but still create unease. Those chord changes are the closest we get here to Columbo. On balance, it's one of my favourite recent listens. Congrats to Intrada and all involved.
Non-important P.S. - I listened to the bonus tracks twice. Some of you like them. I'll skip them in future though. Yes, it's Country n' Western, and really quite scary on some levels (there's a good groove in one of them, and scary mad Hillbilly touches in others), but mostly it's just Wacky Races music. Hmmm - that's actually quite appropriate now I think of it...
The Summary - "Great"
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Jul 1, 2018 - 4:18 PM
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leagolfer
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To me, this is one of the most intense movies I watched back in high school. I had just gotten my license and was panicky every time I saw a big rig or any large truck in my rear view mirror. Of course, it didn't help that we had a sand and gravel trucking company (still there actually) and a cement mixing company on the same street that I took to go to school. Like clockwork, a truck from either place would be exiting right after I drove by and would be right on my bumper. Thank God I refrained from tapping my brakes or giving them the one finger salute!
Yeah.. it is intense.
Maybe its just you & me, I think its one of Goldenberg's best & Spielberg's.
BG score had some quality pace skilfully balanced, even when Weaver is at the diner just staring round at folk there's edgy tension intensity's grind great moment, & when the truck is all-over the car those robust pieces were really raw orchestration those synth colours sneak or flow-in gloriously very weaving for Weaver fitting those scenes perfect, the Final Duel was lovely areal crash - bang & wallop affair. Either way listening to the cd or the film its quite memorable fine combination.
When I purchased the Intrada cd i was stoked to get the extra music, it has some nice pieces of country instrumentals that were missing from the film. Anyway great release, thanks to Intrada.
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Yeah, while very limited, I was surprised at how much more electronic effects are used. In one cue I even hear what sounds like an electronic guitar sound played backwards a few times.
I eventually edited down the score, combined parts of cues to others and created about six long suites for my listening pleasure. It's been in regular rotation ever since.
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The Duel is over.
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