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So you can point us to where the tracklisting has previously been announced, can you Marcato?
Many thanks for the info, Zoobster.
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Jun 21, 2011 - 12:58 PM
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Adam S
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Cool! An album that already felt 20 minutes too long, just got 20 minutes longer!!!
I'm pleased for the Jerry nuggs though. Fill yer boots, I guess
I must admit - Bad Girls is one of those albums that's just perfect. Like Total Recall. A definitive set of cues, perfect sequencing, perfect pace. I'm not convinced that a re-sequencing or expansion is actually going to help the score much - but more Goldsmith is always good (oh yes it is!) and I, for one, intend to hold onto the original album because I love it.
Interestingly I remember the original CD being royally slagged off by FSM magazine - possibly even Jeff Bond - when it was first released. Some comment about "The John" being an appropriate cue title for the opening music, or something like that (apologies to Jeff if it wasn't you).
This is when it was cool to think Goldsmith had "lost it" after Total Recall. I never did like the FSM magazine! :-)
I don't about what FSM said but I thought the opening title music was debateable. Great music and it helps prepare the audience for the fact that this movie tries to have a heart and be sentimental. Maybe all the more necessary when the protagonists are prostitutes. Still, there was kind of a disconnect for me between this obnoxious guy trying to force himself on a prostitute and the music which, again, is great but seemed too pretty for the scene. I guess it speaks to that phenomenon of Jerry being able to write to an idealized version of a movie that others have mentioned, one reason why the music was consistently so good even when the movie wasn't. That's a small quibble though. Truth is I'd love to hear more of that kind of music nowadays.
- Adam
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I'm not a die-hard Goldsmith fan at all, but I loved the Bad Girls score, and I have happily ordered the expanded release. Mr Bond actually gave this album a glowing review back in FSM Vol 1 number 45 in May 1994 (page 13, for those of you who, like me, who have kept their copies).
The reason I know this is because I cut the review out at the time and put it inside the CD (the Milan release had a very brief Jerry Goldsmith bio by Gary Kester but no other notes at all about the music...). Therefore I can repeat the review here verbatim, noting incidentally that it got a '4 out of 5' rating:
"This is one of the most satisfying Goldsmith scores since 'Total Recall'. The opening (appropriately titled 'The John') is a disaster, another keyboard lullabye from a composer who seems to be asleep at the sequencer all too often lately.
But the second track is an exultant action cue that's an improvement on the better orchestral material in 'Hoosiers'; here Goldsmith introduced the big main theme, a broad statement of the opening cue that in this setting compares favourably to his rip-snorting theme to 'Rio Lobo'. It's been ages since we've heard acoustic percussion from Goldsmith, but he's unpacked his old licks from the 60's and 70's here, with extensive use of bass and kettle drums, maracas, tambourines, low-end piano and triangles, plus some powerful low brass for the film's bad guys.
'The Ambush' ranks with his better action material, with a terrific low-down 10 note brass theme developed into a bracing fugue and plenty of urgent, rapid-fire string rhythms and heavy percussion. The quieter moments are fully fleshed out, particularly the charmingly bucolic 'Jail Break'.
BAD GIRLS isn't exactly a psychological western (the movie looks like another cheese classic) but the return to this old form seems to have inspired Goldsmith to write some of his most full blooded music in years."
Now if that doesn't inspire people who haven't got the score to get a copy, I don't know what will... 
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Jeff also wrote a capsule review of the score for a book (it might have been the big Musichound 'Soundtracks' guide to Film, Television and Stage Music, but I forget now and I don't think I have it any more...).
That review too was overwhelmingly positive.
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How dare you post a picture of me here!
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