Intrada Soundtrack Forum

I did post this here once, but didn’t really go into it too much. Misery was Marc Shaiman’s first major score, and is nothing short of great! Rather then traditional horror score cliches, it takes itself in a more beautiful and eerie direction. There was a cd release for Misery, which luckily did contain a good chunk of music from the film. It was however, mostly suites instead of individual tracks (with the exception of “open house” and “go to your room”). That and a few important cues where omitted. With all of this said, I think it would make a great addition to intrada’s ever growing collection. Hopefully someday Misery makes it onto their list.

Here’s a rough track listing of the music that’s heard in the film.
1: Paul Sheldon
2: Number One Fan
3: Compound Fracture
4: Paul Gets A Shave
5: Soup / Profanity Bothers Annie
6: I love You Paul
7: Buster
8: A Clue
9: Buster Turns Back
10: Paul The Poet
11: Winter Day / Meet “Misery”
12: Annie Laments
13: Dirty Birdy
14: Paul Tries To Escape
15: Annie’s Idea
16: Lighting The Match
17: The Ozone
18: Misery’s Return
19: Hair Clip
20: Unappreciative Paul
22: Open House
22: Go To Your Room
23: Snowy Transition
24: Oh Paul
25: Annie’s Got The Blues
26: Kitchen Knife
27: Memory Lane
28: Paul Waits
29: The Needle
30: Buster Clues In
31: Arriving At The House
32: Annie’s Bluff
33: Investigating
34: Buster’s Last Stand
35: The Plan
36: Annie’s Final Chapter
37: Dinner Vision

To point out the reasons why the CD that Bay Cities put was only 30 Minutes and that is because of the heavy union reuse fees back over 30 years ago since it was recorded in Los Angeles and Nick Redman and Bruce Kimmel could only pay for so much unlike other labels like MCA Records or Warner Bros. Records that could afford to pay those fees at that time. If what I've heard is correct and that is that the score featured a big orchestra and if there's a choir on top of that, the reuse on this one is really high.

The reason the score sounds so good is definitely because of the work of composer/orchestrator Dennis Dreith who was the one who fully realized what Marc Shaiman wanted to do for the film. He's a definitely big part of it and deserves alot of credit.

I can definitely see this coming out but not from Intrada. I can honestly see this from Quartet Records since they've expanded alot more MGM scores in the past and recently.