Alien (1979)

Alien, a movie about a group of intersteller travelers answering a distress call on a distant planet where there is already a ship there. The crew comprises of your typical gung ho captain, the first officer, Ripley (Sigorney Weaver) and several other crew who throughout the film die horrible deaths. In their investigations they find eggs of some alien race. Once one of the face huggers attaches itself to a crew member and spawns an alien more come about. This score composed by Jerry Goldsmith is very iconic, creepy, sweeping and moody. It really introduces you to the world of Alien and leads you through a story in music until the climax where Ripley escapes.

Here is the Link to Amazon. The soundtrack is really expensive here, but you get two disc of music.

On ITunes you can only get the theme to Alien. Sorry.  But I have some great Youtube clips for it.

First the intro...

Next we have...

This is actually the link to the entire score on youtube. It really is quite amazing. 

One last track I found...

This was the End Titles. 

Well that is all for this week. This blog should really pick up soon. I've got some great soundtracks coming your way.

Next week The Muppet Movie! See ya then.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, a great feat in music history for Jerry Goldsmith. The sweeping score is fantastic and the iconic music makes you feel warm and fuzzy. Its about the crew of the Enterprise back together after their five year mission and they are investigating a strange source of power that is destroying ships and outpost. The source is a satellite merged with alien technology. VEGER is what it called itself. Well we all know it as Voyager II. Anyway action adventure, long sweeping shots of the Enterprise, and Spock in a spacesuit. Despite the faults of the movie, the score if you buy it, is actually very good. The movie score in the film repeats itself, but with the music it doesn't. Anyway I would like to share some links with you for your enjoyment.

First here is the Amazon Link for Star Trek: The Motion Picture Score by Jerry Goldsmith

There is no ITunes link unfortunately but I will give you some samples of the wonderful music of the film.

This was the main theme to Star Trek and the Klingon Attack.

Here is the Enterprise theme

This is Ilia's Theme...

Finally...

The End Titles.

Well I hope you enjoyed this music. 

Next week Alien. See ya all then!

Superman

It's a bird, It's a plane, no it's Superman! This is the ultimate adventure movie of superheroes. Its about a boy getting sent away from his planet to live on a foreign planet and right wrongs, to grow up to be a great superhero. This is what the new superman should have been. Not too serious, a whole lot of fun and no pointless destruction. The music of course is iconic, anyone who has heard the Superman theme knows its Superman. The composer of course is John Williams. The new soundtrack to Man of Steel is done by Hans Zimmer. Where is the theme to that movie? It doesn't exist. There is no real theme. I miss that with these type of movies. You should be able to pick out a theme to a superhero movie and say "Hey that's this such and such movie theme". But today people are not as keen on the soundtrack as they are the movie.

I have several links or youtube links I will share with you.

Starting with the Amazon link to Superman the Movie The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Here is the ITunes link for Superman the Soundtrack

Now I can present to you the iconic music starting with the theme everyone loves!

I love that theme. Next I have this...

This one was called The Planet Krypton...

Here is the Love theme to Superman

Here is the Death of Jonathan Kent theme.

Finally...

The End Titles.

Well, I hope you enjoyed my links and hope that it fulfills your need to reblog or even tell someone how iconic the Superman music was back in 1978.  That's all for this week.

Next week Star Trek The Motion Picture. See ya then!

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Revenge of the Pink Panther,
Ah another Peter Sellers movie in which he plays Inspector Clouseau. Yes, Its about a Mafia boss trying to off Clouseau and also its about the Crazy Cheif Dreyfuss who is still trying to kill Clouseau. Yes there is mayhem and murder, there are sexy women such as Dyan Cannon who is the love interest for Clouseau. Anyway its a fun movie that ends up in a Chinese Fireworks warehouse. You have to see this movie to enjoy it. Its slapstick comedy and Sellers at his best. I really enjoyed the soundtrack, and continue to enjoy it. I am going to post some links to where you can appreciate it as well.

Here is the link to Amazon for Revenge of the Pink Panther digital download album

Here is the ITunes Revenge of the Pink Panther (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Various Artists link

Now that those are out of the way, here are some youtube video's to show you how good the soundtrack is.

Here is the main theme for Revenge of the Pink Panther

Here is "After the Shower" music

A Touch of Red...

Hong Kong Fireworks... 

And once again here is the Theme without the animation.

Well hope you enjoyed my links and music memories of this great movie. 

Next Week Superman!