Aliens (soundtrack)

Aliens
Soundtrack album by James Horner
Released October 25, 1987
Genre Soundtrack
Length 39:57
Label Varèse Sarabande
Producer James Horner
Alien film series soundtrack chronology
Alien
(1979)		 Aliens
(1987)		 Alien³
(1992)
Alternative cover
Cover of the Deluxe Edition
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
FilmTracks(Original) [2]
FilmTracks(Deluxe) [2]
MovieMusicUK(Deluxe) [3]

The score to the 1986 James Cameron film Aliens was composed by James Horner.[4] The score itself includes musical references to Gayane's Adagio from Aram Khachaturian's Gayane ballet suite, which had been used in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The score also uses musical motifs, sound treatments and excerpts from Jerry Goldsmith's original soundtrack to Alien (1979). Additional cues taken from Jerry Goldsmith's Alien score were used in the climax of the film when Horner was unable to finish some cues to Cameron's satisfaction. The film's editors also reportedly altered the score's chronological flow, sometimes looping, truncating or removing the music and placing it in fragmented form in the film out of context. Despite production issues, it was nominated for an Academy Award in 1986. It was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The soundtrack album was released the following year, in 1987.[5]

Track listing

Original track listing

  1. "Main Title" (5:10)
  2. "Going After Newt" (3:08)
  3. "Sub-Level 3" (6:11)
  4. "Ripley's Rescue" (3:13)
  5. "Atmosphere Station" (3:05)
  6. "Futile Escape" (8:13)
  7. "Dark Discovery" (2:00)
  8. "Bishop's Countdown" (2:47)
  9. "Resolution and Hyperspace" (6:10)

Deluxe edition track listing

  1. "Main Title" (5:13)
  2. "Bad Dreams" (1:22)
  3. "Dark Discovery/Newt's Horror" (2:07)
  4. "LV-426" (2:03)
  5. "Combat Drop" (3:29)
  6. "The Complex" (1:34)
  7. "Atmosphere Station" (3:11)
  8. "Med.Lab." (2:04)
  9. "Newt" (1:14)
  10. "Sub-Level 3" (6:36)
  11. "Ripley's Rescue" (3:19)
  12. "FaceHuggers" (4:24)
  13. "Futile Escape" (8:29)
  14. "Newt is Taken" (2:04)
  15. "Going After Newt" (3:18)
  16. "The Queen" (1:45)
  17. "Bishop's Countdown" (2:50)
  18. "Queen To Bishop" (2:31)
  19. "Resolution and Hyperspace" (6:27)
Bonus Tracks
  1. "Bad Dreams" (alternate) (1:23)
  2. "Ripley's Rescue" (percussion only) (3:20)
  3. "LV-426" (alternate edit – film version) (1:13)
  4. "Combat Drop" (percussion only) (3:24)
  5. "Hyperspace" (alternate ending) (2:08)

Credits

℗ © 1986 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

Uses In Other Movies and Trailers

Some of the soundtrack has been used many times in trailers for other movies. As of April 2011, there were reportedly 24 different movie trailers that used "Bishop's Countdown" alone. Some of those trailers include Misery (1990), Alien 3 (1992), Broken Arrow (1996), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), Dante's Peak (1997), and Minority Report (2002). [6] [7] [8]

Other tracks have been used in other movies, as well, such as the use of "Resolution and Hyperspace" in Die Hard (1988) at the last action sequence in the movie.[9]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r84172
  2. 1 2 "Aliens (James Horner)". Filmtracks. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20080203191957/http://www.moviemusicuk.us:80/aliensxcd.htm. Archived from the original on February 3, 2008. Retrieved March 13, 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ James Horner – Aliens (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  5. ↑ Aliens soundtrack review at Filmtracks.com
  6. ↑ http://www.filmdetail.com/2011/04/03/frequently-used-trailer-cues-aliens-horner-immediate-music/
  7. ↑ https://mobile.twitter.com/ebertchicago/status/55396877654441985
  8. ↑ http://www.pajiba.com/seriously_random_lists/five-soundtrack-scores-commonly-recycled-in-another-films-trailers.php
  9. ↑ http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/fsmonline/free_article.cfm?ID=890

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