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Jerry Goldsmith has definitely been a father for the 80's kids ! More proofs of that :


I discovered The Secret of NIMH when I was not even able to speak. Certainly my first encounter with Jerry Goldsmith ever ! And what an encounter it was !! I surely did understand the loving and mysterious score Jerry composed for it, without even being able to understand a word from the movie.


Rambo was a hero of our childhood and Jerry was the man behind the music of his heroic action all the time ! from the more intimate First Blood to the more muscular Rambo II and III, Jerry became our hero too !


The Gremlins rag was a very catchy theme for the 80's kid and the eerie and heroic score Goldsmith composed is certainely the one that impressed me the most as a kid. It remains his best score of all time for me.


Of course Supergirl was a movie I couldn't avoid (being a Superman fan) and Jerry has created a score that is as epic as Williams' but in a very different way that is so Goldsmith and so 80's. Rarely a score from the 80's has been so orchestrally rich and dense !


I was not so much grown up when I watched Poltergeist as a kid. of course the scary grand symphonic moments manipulated me without I even ever noticed, but I do remember that Carol Ann's lullaby touched me very much, especially in the main titles. This melody meant "childhood" to me (and still does), and I'm pretty sure Jerry wrote it for that exact purpose !


Ahhhh... Indiana Jones wasn't alone, and as for Supergirl, Jerry Goldsmith managed to be similar and yet so different in a very good way !

I now own and love all of them of course ! ^^

Being not so much a child as a teenager of the '80s (and spending said ' 80s in the Caribbean - not the best place to get soundtracks!), I have to give props to:

Silverado (one of the scores that made me a fan, as my signature suggests) - I've got both Intrada releases, and I wonder to this day if I should've gotten the Geffen LP in '85 on holiday in the UK when I had the chance...

The Last Starfighter - one of the first main and end titles I ever taped off (I've still got that tape - Police Academy, Lifeforce, Missing In Action 2: The Beginning and the trailer for Rambo: First Blood Part II are on it as well), back when it seemed like a weird idea to have movies with special effects done by computer animation.

Back to the Future - enough said.

Iron Eagle - if only this could have been released when Basil Poledouris was still alive. I have to admit I've always liked the end credits song as well...

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Project X, James Horner (1987)

When Varèse announced 8 years ago that they were releasing Project X, I couldn't believe it, it was a real dream coming true at that time. I had been watching many times the movie in my childhood and had been listening to the bootleg for the few years before Varèse arrived with this splendid album.
Every sound, every melody of this amazing musical journey is fantastic. So many exotic colors, so many instruments speaking to themselves, creating a wonderful harmony of sounds and lights. This is a truly magnificent score from Horner, sometimes dark and frightening (the Katchaturian motif, always associated with militaristic dark events, and his powerful danger motif), or enthusiatic and soaring (the flying sequence), warm and tender (Virgil's theme beautifully played by the indian flutes), anyway always pure and transcendant...
And what about this magical bridge with Mighty Joe Young made with the end credits...? A very meaningful link through time and movies that James created here...
Pure James Horner magic from start to finish. I still can't believe such a masterpiece exists on CD (and still owned by less than 3000 persons on earth)... Anyway : [80's kids approved !!]

For all the 80's kids and the goonies around the world, thanks to Varèse Sarabande, at last we will be able to truffle shuffle on this magnificient swashbuckling score by Dave Grusin ! Goonies never say die, and never say never !

Yes, the 80's were a glorious time to be a film score fan. However, my opinion is clearly shrouded by nostalgia and melancholy.

Yes!!!! Goonieess!!! This time I must go ..... I need Mr. Grusin sign my copy http://festival.bsospirit.com/index.php/en

Holy S**T - THE GOONIES! The last few years have truly been an awesome time to be an 80's film score fan. We've been given: THE SUPERMAN BOX, THE INDIANA JONES BOX, WAR GAMES, THE ICE PIRATES, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, BACK TO THE FUTURE, etc. And with this release, I think I can die a happy man if my time was coming (after listening to the GOONIES CD first of course!) Actually, I'm still holding out for a few more (FLETCH, EWOKS (TV movies), HE-MAN (animated), ROCKY BOX). But seeing GOONIES finally released seriously brings a tear to my eye. I can still remember the first time I saw this in clear detail, almost 25 years later. Maybe this will be the year for more 1985 scores! Complete YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES or ROCKY IV or COCOON anyone?

Re, The Goonies release.

What can I say but...I'M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only last Friday night I watched the DVD for the first time in a year or so (and this time I was livetweeting a commentary on it as well, but that's by the by) and wondered whether this would be the year it got prized from the vaults (I was betting FSM or La La Land given it was Warners though)

Nevertheless I am on cloud 9 right now. Stuck it on pre-order right away, extra postage costs for single disc orders be damned, I am not missing this! Combine it with the decent quality copy I have of the OST album and I finally have the complete soundtrack.

With BTTF, InnerSpace, and now this, once someone releases SpaceCamp (with the Joseph Williams songs please!), my massive 80s movie playlist will be complete at last!

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The Goonies is now out of print ! I hope every goonie on earth has grabbed one copy, though I highly doubt it !

I was thinking of all those unreleased 80's scores yet to be !



Ghostbusters II (Randy Edelman), 1989 :
This is a really rousing score from the 80's with powerful themes and Randy Edelman's charming touch ! Here's a particularily good example of that :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXzkNqlz ... re=related



Fire and Ice (William Kraft), 1983 :
This is one of the greatest heroic fantasy scores of the 80's, and yet, unknown to film scores fans ! Just listen to the main theme at the end of this trailer of an incredible and beautifully animated movie :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r75CZPk8uPs



Gremlins (Jerry Goldsmith), 1984
Everyone on earth knows Gizmo's tune and Gremlins rag and for us it's a score full of scary, mysterious and tender memories... Gremlins' score is a SOUND on itself. Jerry Goldsmith has created something eternal here.
Her's a nice rerecorded suite (I would like to know where does it come from by the way, if you happen to know):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQ1IwB3jNU

Now, how not to speak about Star Trek III complete release ?



This movie made in 1984 and directed by Leonard Nimoy himself, was focused on the character Spock and the newly human created planet Genesis. Starring Christopher Lloyd as a psychotic Klingon obsessed with the power of creating an entire planet, the movie was directly following Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn and James Horner was a "logical" choice for the score, to speak in Spock terms !
It was for James Horner the opportunity to fully use his beautiful Spock theme from The Wrath of Kahn and the original album contained a main gorgeous action/adventure cue : Stealing the Enterprise (8:33) and the mystical final cue for The Katra Ritual when Spock's spirit and body are reunited.
Alas, from the 17 minutes of music for the battle Klingons Vs Humans on the planet Genesis, the original album only contained one 3:45 cue, "Bird of Prey Decloaks". So it's a real joy to see FSM release all these cues, and the film version of Stealing the Enterprise as well !
As a bonus, the second CD of the set contains the exact original LP program, remastered from the digital masters !
Just like Spock in the movie, it's real rebirth for James Horner's classic 80's score ! Highly recommended !

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Thanks very much ! Me alive I won't ever buy a mp3, but thanks ! I'll find another way...

It's also available in CD form, of course.

http://www.amazon.com/Jerry-Goldsmith-Y ... 024&sr=8-2

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