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 Posted:   Jul 1, 2018 - 12:39 PM   
 By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member)

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.9504/.f?sc=16&category=66697

LOW QUANTITY ALERT!
Less than 50 remaining!


"Are you challenging me to buy Duel?"

 
 Posted:   Jul 1, 2018 - 12:47 PM   
 By:   The Mutant   (Member)

back in the 70s, you had main stream composers experimenting with found objects, like the washboards in Fred Karlin's "Westworld."
Goldenberg did an evocative and wonderfully creepy main title for "UFO Incident" where you can hear strange voices howling in the background:


The chanting voices in a certain riff of "Fear No Evil" - heard more clearly when the cue was reused in "Ritual Of Evil" is both creepy and musically pleasant, building through repetition. Runs from 2:00-2:50 in the clip below - I urge everyone to play that segment, although avert your eyes as the hot chick is distracting:



I love that period of experimentation. UFO incident looks cool!
Thanks for the link. I’m gonna watch that tonight!

 
 Posted:   Jul 1, 2018 - 2:50 PM   
 By:   edwzoomom   (Member)



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!

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 1, 2018 - 4:18 PM   
 By:   leagolfer   (Member)

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.

 
 Posted:   Jul 2, 2018 - 8:28 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

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.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 29, 2018 - 10:20 AM   
 By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member)

The Duel is over.

 
 Posted:   Aug 30, 2018 - 4:28 AM   
 By:   Steve H   (Member)

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?

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 30, 2018 - 6:48 AM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

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...


I leave out the redneck numbers, and it is a perfect LP length.

 
 Posted:   Aug 30, 2018 - 8:13 AM   
 By:   chriss   (Member)

Many great alternate covers for a great soundtrack release:

https://hqcovers.net/2015/05/20/duel-by-billy-goldenberg/

 
 Posted:   Aug 30, 2018 - 1:32 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

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

 
 Posted:   Aug 30, 2018 - 1:35 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

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...


I leave out the redneck numbers, and it is a perfect LP length.


Isn't 'redneck' considered a slur.
Call the Diversity Task Force!

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 30, 2018 - 4:23 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

Isn't 'redneck' considered a slur.
Call the Diversity Task Force!


Guilty as charged. wink

 
 Posted:   Aug 30, 2018 - 10:08 PM   
 By:   Steve H   (Member)


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?

 
 Posted:   Aug 31, 2018 - 9:19 AM   
 By:   Sean Nethery   (Member)


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.

 
 Posted:   Aug 31, 2018 - 9:50 AM   
 By:   dogplant   (Member)

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.

https://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=607600

That's right: Duel. We're talking about Duel. "You can't beat me on the grade. You can't beat me on the grade!"

 
 Posted:   Jul 9, 2019 - 4:26 PM   
 By:   Paul Ettinger   (Member)

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.

 
 Posted:   May 22, 2020 - 9:11 PM   
 By:   Steve H   (Member)

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.

 
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