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Various Soundtrack 1988 US

Genre:	Screen, Stage
Performer:	Various
Title:	Screen Themes
Style:	Soundtrack
Date of release:	1988
Country:	US
MP3 album size:	1365 mb
FLAC APE album size:	1667 mb
WMA album size:	1231 mb
Digital formats:	MP2 FLAC ASF MIDI WAV AUD DMF

Tracklist

–Danny Elfman	Beetlejuice (Main Title)
–Howard Shore	Big (Goodbye)
–John Scott	Shoot To Kill (End Title)
–Paul Chihara	Crossing Delancey (Portrait Of Izzy)
–James Horner	Cocoon: The Return (Basketball Swing)
–Nile Rodgers	Coming To America (King's Motorcade)
–Gerald Gouriet	Madame Sousatzka (The River)
–Jerry Goldsmith	Criminal Law (The Garden Pavillion)
–Craig Safan	Nightmare On Elm Street (Corpus Kruger)
–Bill Conti	Betrayed (The Way)
–John Barry	Masquerade (End Title)
–Elmer Bernstein	Da (Theme)
–Michael Kamen	Die Hard (Terrorists)
–Dave Grusin	The Milagro Beanfield War (End Title)
–Alan Silvestri	Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (End Title Suite)

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
VSD-5208	Various	Screen Themes ‎(CD)	Varèse Sarabande	VSD-5208	US	1988
VSD-5208	Various	Screen Themes ‎(CD, Album)	Varèse Sarabande	VSD-5208	US	1988
SLCS-7008	Various	Screen Themes ‎(CD, Comp)	SLC Inc.	SLCS-7008	Japan	1988
VSC-5208	Various	Screen Themes ‎(Cass)	Varèse Sarabande	VSC-5208	US	1988
VS-5208	Various	Screen Themes ‎(LP, Comp)	Varèse Sarabande	VS-5208	Germany	1988

Darkshaper

Varese Sarabande used to put out a lot of these compilation CDs back in the day and it's nice to keep discovering them. This one is a selection of themes from 1988 movies re-recorded at CTS Studios by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by John Scott. In the case of Die Hard, the performance of one of the more suspenseful tracks is most welcome as Kamen's score used in the movie always had a rather monophonic sound with limited dynamic range. I'm used to the movie score sounding this way, so it isn't really a complaint, but hearing with beefier fidelity is pure ear candy. Die Hard does have an usual score that's never really had the credit it deserves. I'm surprised a re-recording of the entire thing has never been attempted, or even one of these movie concerts that have become quite popular recently.Also featured here is a lengthy track from Alan Silvestri's wonderful score to Who Framed Roger Rabbit that perfectly blends film noir melancholy with bouncy, cartoon mayhem. It's the second highlight of the album and worth buying just for this alone.Beetlejuice gets a fun track, as does Cocoon: The Return (literally the most pointless sequel ever) but I have to moan about the lifeless performance of King's Motorcade from Coming to America. This grandiose, hugely E-P-I-C piece should never be attempted with anything less than a 100-player orchestra to give it the full, thumping, jaw-dropping majesty it deserves. But here it's limp and half-hearted and an enormous missed opportunity.The rest of the tracks on this album I can leave. I do wish Varese would have made a better cover art though.