I think Prometheus will be a great movie in its own right and I believe Ridley knows that to try and recreate Alien 1979 would be a mistake. He will create a new masterpiece. Cameron did a fantastic job in my opinion with Aliens 1986 as he didn't try to remake Alien, he knew that to make successful sequel he needed to change the pace and show Ripley facing her fears, it was the antidote to Alien and despite no appearing as sophisticated on an artistic level to Alien it was the perfect sequel an
I believe and hope that it's true Ridley will calm and slow downPrometheus in some parts, like he did in Alien. This perfect music from 70's is the key ro remember that :)
Poor Jerry...he was fooled by Ridley Scott...not only for this film..but that dreadful cruise mess...Scott never got it right with the music for Alien!!!
Damn , i just saw the trailer for Prometheus, am so psyched for it. Hope the score lives up to this. It looks like it'll be a horror movie like the original.
@FangBangerable : I was thinking that movies like Dark Night Rises and/or The Hobbit would be the milestones, but Prometheus will be for real thinkers; it will belong to this group of movies: Space Odyssey, Brainstorming, CONTACT, you know titles that make the viewer to think and further re-search...
Yeah, Alien is a masterpiece because within a very simple story (a creature from outer space kills a bunch of people on a ship) it created an interesting and fascinating mythology. And, also, it's a motherfucking amazing movie.
@FangBangerable : Can you imagine I have met individuals who accept only the first movie (1979) as the Alien Mythology? Even Cameron's ALIENS was rejected by some. Why? It has to do with what you wrote. They told me: "I adored the idea of watching an alien organism exterminating the whole crew. If I wanted to see swarms of Aliens (like in ALIENS) I would watch Starship Troopers". While I am a hardcore fan of ALIENS, this opinion has a base...
@PsychotronicWar I'm borderline one of those people. While I liked all three, Alien sits in a seat different to the rest of the films. Also did you know that Cameron designed the Queen Alien? It's not a Giger creation. I accept the other films, just don't accept them as 'canon', if that makes sense :/
@WolfAssad : A good friend of mine is a Star Wars freak but he does not accept anything beyond NEW HOPE. For him, SW saga ends with the celebration on Yavin 4. Indeed, Hollywood has the tendency to destroy mythologies e.g. The Matrix. Did not know about the Alien Queen, cool. If you ask me, Alien Mythos = ALIEN + ALIENS
@PsychotronicWar I think that goes a bit far, the original Star Wars films is where I draw the line, the new ones... Well... Sometimes I still cry lol.
My opinion about the whole quadrilogy it's rather odd I suppose. I love the first, only like the second. I don't like Cameron that much, he's too much american-style. Anyway, there are some scenes from Aliens that entered in the history of cinema. The third is horrible, I think is the worst of all. Just soulless, and useless. Resurrection is, imho, amazing. It's totally different, but it's really ironic and funny. I love Joss Whedon's writing.
@FangBangerable Meh. The first one is naturally superior to all. Aliens is indeed a good action flick. But Resurrection over 3? 3 had traits of such a good atmosphere. Kicked the series back in the right direction, while Res. was a clusterfuck of pointless characters, aimless plot and odd, almost parodic atmosphere. Though I always have hated Whedon's writing for those traits. That man just couldn't make me care about anything even if his life depended on it.
@PsychotronicWar It's true. Cameron dumbed down the monster. Wanted to make it more believable by turning it less alien.
Don't have trouble with the concept of queen myself, and most of Aliens fits within the logic of Alien, even though I fucking hate the idea that the xenomorph is just some natural angry space beast taken from some random planet. Alien 3 was a disaster, but if you read the Aliens 2 plans that extended Cameron's ideas, you'll see that it could've been LOT worse.
i thank my mom for introducing me to this excellent film series. without her i might not have watched these. i have a cool mom who likes action and sci-fi movies xD
@Epeolatry1 I can hear also the influence of the French impressionist/Moderns Debussy and Ravel during the whole composition, but particulary 2:24 to 2:46, it's so obvious!
@atomicbreaker yeah i liked aliens more because the characters and performances were better, it was more thrilling, had more aliens(hence the title), and is one of the most quotable films ever(i quote it daily). but i can see why one might like alien more.
The opening is fantastic - but from 3 minutes on, it is timeless classic film music.
I was watching a Channel 4 documentary last night about the big ice age just before the Cambrian Explosion - something extremely similar to this was playing as the narrator explained how the ice formed over the Earth.
It's not the first documentary to use this kind of music.
@jazzx251 I remember a 1980 reveiw of this soundtrack that pointed out that the similarities to music written for forbidding environments like Antartica. Kind of wastelands from the striclty human point of view. Goldsmith's 'Alien' music was very influential and you could hear composers emulate the sound and tone of it over the years.
This movie score is lifted from contemporary composer Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2, 'Romantic'...so yadda yadda yadda for Jerry Goldsmith on this score, although I do like many of his other scores. Of course 'The Omen' was lifted from Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, namely movement #1.
Like many others thanks to H.R Giger and the music in itself. I can relate. Scared the living hell outta me... But its a masterpiece like "JAWS". Same thing.
i was 5 first time i saw it...i have had nightmares since then but stil watched the other movies up through the years....im now 27 and not really had nightmares in 2 years as i kinda gained control over em in my dream....im facinated by them and they are a part of me as its the only thing in life thats frikkin scared me....so i kinda feel lucky having this be the only thing im scared of in life and they arent even real...are they?
@swjkie100 I am 27 now, it was on tv when i saw it.. My parents and other family members used to record the movies from TV back then. And the reason i saw it was because my dad have seeen so many movies when he worked on a boat as the boat had loads of movies for the crew. Movies he watched sometimes came on tv here in norway, but one movie i would like to see again is Splash with Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah
That is very much the same with me. Saw it when I was like 5 and it scared the hell out of me... Fell in love with the creature ever since. Forcefully desensitized myself to it when I was 6 by rewatching the scary parts until I wouldn't flinch. This movie and the creature will always hold a special place in my heart.
@rasicar I had a feverpsycosis when i had teh flu when i was 14-15 years old, I thought i had one inside me, and also thought they would come out of the video of alien3 i recorded on a tape from tv, so i taped over it and was super scared..it was on a saturday so i couldnt even eat my mums lovely pizza in the worry of feeding the one inside me... Fever can be scary, messing wiht the head like that..I got calm when i taped over it and got well from the flu:D
I am to this date scared of this movie! Especially when I first watched this movie at 12... My dad told me to watch this movie, but I said i was too scared of it... But then out of curiosity I did... I shat ( I know its not a word) myself at the end of it! Nightmares, confusion, paranoia, you name it, came after I watched this amazing movie. Lol I was so scared there was an alien inside me that I went to the doctor to check if there was XD XD XD hahaha.
I saw this in 79 when I was 15. I had nightmares for years and went into a depressed state for two solid weeks. Today, this is my favorite movie of all time.
i don't think there's another film that had such an effect on me after watching it as alien did when I saw it as a kid - nightmares for years. one of the greatest films ever made no question!
I once heard remixed version of one part of this song (starts around 3:00), but couldn´t find the name of the artist ...it was house music ...does someone know it, please?
@turbinee Frontline Assembly's track Synthetic Forms samples that part of the Alien score (as well as bits from the Event Horizon score). The Alien sample starts at the 3:00 mark and becomes more apparent as you listen along. look it up here on youtube.
Although Ridley Scott is a brilliant director, he knows jack shit about the brilliance of composers like Jerry Goldsmith. His cutting out most of the original music for the movie score proves this much. Thanks to all of us who have kept after the late and great Jerry Goldsmith to keep his original score in the archives the preservation of some of the great soundtrack music is not immortalized, thanks in part to this Youtube website.
that's easy to say. First, the director has a musically idea as well and if it does not fit with the composed material then it get's dropped - happens all the time all over the place. No big deal.
The Main Titles are a very good example. The two versions are really pushing you in different corners
I have to say that although I love Goldsmith's work I agree with Scotts decisions on this occasion. The reworked opening titles are much better at conveying the sense of something ancient and as-yet-unopened that Scott wanted (and which works extremely well, with an interesting dash of melancholy about it). And some of Goldsmith's cues for the alien were too obvious, too on-the-nose. The extract from "Freud" used in the air shaft is more interesting than the piece Goldsmith wanted
We used to have a local cinema that put on all the old classics in full dolby surround. I was only 10 when Alien was released in '79 so had to wait some time before seeing it as a special showing. I wasn't disappointed.
That sound at 3:06 always made me think of climbing the last step of a huge mountain and seeing just how tiny and far away everything looked after the initial stage of "FUCK YEAH WE MADE IT TO THE TOP WE'RE GETTING LAID TONIGHT!"-esqe euphoria. In other words, after the John Williams, in comes Jerry Goldsmith.
Jerry Goldsmith- For when you need an audio-only mindfuck.
I was a music composition major in college and have over 600 soundtracks, this is quite possible the most effective, groundbreaking score of them all. Just masterful brilliance in it's contrast of lyrical themes and motifs, and dissonance in the orchestral clusters, rips and strikes to cover so much ground.
If there was ever a movie that should be shown to film students as an example of how to craft a motion picture, this is it. Alien is a masterpiece in its entirety and one of a tiny minority of sci-fi films that stand the test of time.
Jesus god almighty, this is something that will never be repeated in a million years... the whole vibe, the whole essence of this film is MASTERFUL. PURE GENIUS.
I cannot, cannot WAIT for 6/8/12. PROMETHEUS. God please let it be great.
@DJSpecialSauce AGREED! I hope "Prometheus" will be a frightening and masterful new addition to the Alien franchise. I love "Alien" and "Aliens... Let's just forget "Alien 3," "Alien Resurrection," "AVP," and "AVP: R" ever existed!
I have the entire Alien collection (11 dvds) which I've seen so many times, yet this theme still sends a shiver down my back, just as it did the first time I heard it at the cinema. Brilliant !!
@JoyGrenade I completely agree. I just heard "The Unanswered Question" a few weeks ago, and I was blown away by how similar they were. We can't be the only two people who have noticed this, but I can't find any connections or info on whether Goldsmith was influenced by Ives (or secretly ripped him off lol).
@nicolashrv Yeah, Saturn and Venus are obvious influences. What's strange about the Saturn parallels is that this element in the Alien score seemed to be picked up and heavily modified by Horner in the subsequent Aliens score (you can hear it during the initial colony flyover sequence). This form has become a Hornerism, and can be found in the Apollo 13 score as well.
"Sticky-Fingers" John Williams borrows from Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" (Jaws) and almost lifts Holst's "Mars" in its entirety for the Millenium Falcon's entry into the Death Star.
But - they're film composers, and fantastic ones at that.
This movie has the most terrifying music of all, the most terrifying poster and - damn - the most terrifying tagline! - "In Space No One Can Hear You Scream" - RESPECT
I was 21 in 1979 and this original movie (the first) has remained my favourite-without this truely inspirational music, I doubt it would have remained so. 335,000 views says it all.
I was 21 in 1979 and this original movie (the first) has remained my favourite-without this truely inspirational music, I doubt it would have remained so.
This film is so convincing of a possible distant future and yet it was made in the late 70's and 3 years or so before I was born. That is a talent in film making. Fantastic soundtrack.
There's something almost playful about this track, like maybe the aliens will be little brown guys with glowing fingers...Then it goes back to ominous..and ya, this THE track that makes me know it's aliens. Alien was more psychological but Aliens more fast paced - both equally strong films imo.
@maestro4202 That was Goldsmith's idea with this original version of the opening credits music He didn't want the audience to be 'clued-in' as to what approach the movie was going to take just by the opening music He wanted them to feel uncertain about what kind of movie they were about to watch. The replacement music used in the final release does tend to make it very clear that it's an intense horror film from the start.
This is an awesome theme!! But most of his scores were awesome. I was sadden to hear of his death and to think that we would never hear his beautiful music again. I have some of my favorites in my collection: Star Trek TMP, The Mummy and Basic Instinct just to name a few. Sadly I don't have this one but thanks you Youtube for providing it for us fans
@Jdog8998 I meant AVP is a crappy rip-off of two great franchises, or at least the films are. The games are awesome but the films were huge disappointments, and they still are.
shank970 , du kriegst glei a watschn in die USA so kann es nicht weiter gehen , meine Mitbürger , do you understand you little piece of crap ? Sieg Heil möge das deutsche reich über euch kommen ...
@Karmacode2012 this movie is responsible for my first encounter with true 100% terror. When I was 5, I watched this entire movie by myself in the dark.........I actually and truly to believe it is responsible for any issues i have with fear, paranoia, and doubt....of course if not this movie, then the next scary movie i would have seen..however, this movie is STILL completely scary at 25 years of age.
@Karmacode2012 I re-saw this movie last night and I forgot how creepy it was. Those wide shots and the silence...wow. The scene that is probably the most terrifying is the scene where Dallas goes into the ducts to seek out the alien.
@myleftnutts Huh? Immigration movie? This is sci-fi. Quit spamming, or trolling, or whatever that was supposed to be. Oh, and I said HORNER-ism, as in a hallmark of the film composer James Horner.
And interestingly, Goldsmith's proposed piece for the air ducts scene was rejected, in favour of a track from one of his earlier scores, for "Freud", which Ridley Scott and Terry Rawlings had used as a temp and became really attached to as they felt it worked incredibly well for that sequence. They got permission to use it and left it in, which really annoyed Goldsmith, but I have to say it DOES work so well in that scene.
@KaitainCPS It really does! Its creepy and plus it makes you think that alien is moving around and closer and closer to him, great interpretive musical cues for this scene. Also during that scene, which makes it work even more is the underlying cello and double bass VRUMMMM! during which the violins just screech that eerie tune. Perfect!
@Karmacode2012 And yet the blu ray cover fucks this up (and also spoils the entire reveal of the alien for any who have not seen the film, so a greasy double Fuck You to Fox!). I am so sick of blu ray cover art sucking ass. It has been elevated to an art form, culminating in the apotheosis of sucking-assedness with the Star Wars trilogy blu-ray (pastels? Really?), yet to be released. These bastards must be stopped while there is still time.
@gaozhi2007'and also spoils the entire reveal of the alien for any who have not seen the film' . It's a little late for that dude LOL. I agree on Star Wars....sucks. Lucas needs to be sanctioned!
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I think Prometheus will be a great movie in its own right and I believe Ridley knows that to try and recreate Alien 1979 would be a mistake. He will create a new masterpiece. Cameron did a fantastic job in my opinion with Aliens 1986 as he didn't try to remake Alien, he knew that to make successful sequel he needed to change the pace and show Ripley facing her fears, it was the antidote to Alien and despite no appearing as sophisticated on an artistic level to Alien it was the perfect sequel an
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The greatest movie soundtrack of all time!!
TheNovelty8theory 4 days ago
PROMETHEUS, ALIEN, ALIENS, ALIEN 3, ALIEN RESURRECTION = THE TRUE SCI FI LEGACY
ripley8resurrection 5 days ago
ALIEN - ALIENS - PROMETHEUS = CORE UNIVERSE. End of story.
PsychotronicWar 1 week ago
I believe and hope that it's true Ridley will calm and slow downPrometheus in some parts, like he did in Alien. This perfect music from 70's is the key ro remember that :)
Rutisija 2 weeks ago
This Goldsmith music in Prometheus. It would be awesome.
lombard605 3 weeks ago
Poor Jerry...he was fooled by Ridley Scott...not only for this film..but that dreadful cruise mess...Scott never got it right with the music for Alien!!!
UFOSPACE1999 4 weeks ago
Thumbs up if you though Alien was the best out of the 4 films.
CutandPrintFilms 4 weeks ago 6
@CutandPrintFilms If you're going to be a thumb whore, at least use proper grammar.
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CutandPrintFilms 3 weeks ago
@FreeButtSex Wow haha, whatever. Loose the attitude its just a comment! :P
CutandPrintFilms 3 weeks ago
@CutandPrintFilms Exactly, It's JUST a comment, so you shouldn't waste your time making one unless you have something productive to write.
FreeButtSex 3 weeks ago
With this piece, I wanna see Prometheus ending...
PsychotronicWar 1 month ago
Damn , i just saw the trailer for Prometheus, am so psyched for it. Hope the score lives up to this. It looks like it'll be a horror movie like the original.
monsterinyourpocket 1 month ago 2
@monsterinyourpocket me too
antonietto1 1 month ago in playlist Alien Soundtrack - Jerry Goldsmith
In Space, 16 people disliked this video.
Grog85 1 month ago
When I saw the Prometheus Trailer Spot #2, I came here directly, like a bitch...
PsychotronicWar 1 month ago
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Me, after the fucking trailer. Oh my god.
FangBangerable 1 month ago
@FangBangerable : I was thinking that movies like Dark Night Rises and/or The Hobbit would be the milestones, but Prometheus will be for real thinkers; it will belong to this group of movies: Space Odyssey, Brainstorming, CONTACT, you know titles that make the viewer to think and further re-search...
PsychotronicWar 1 month ago
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Yeah, Alien is a masterpiece because within a very simple story (a creature from outer space kills a bunch of people on a ship) it created an interesting and fascinating mythology. And, also, it's a motherfucking amazing movie.
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@FangBangerable : Can you imagine I have met individuals who accept only the first movie (1979) as the Alien Mythology? Even Cameron's ALIENS was rejected by some. Why? It has to do with what you wrote. They told me: "I adored the idea of watching an alien organism exterminating the whole crew. If I wanted to see swarms of Aliens (like in ALIENS) I would watch Starship Troopers". While I am a hardcore fan of ALIENS, this opinion has a base...
PsychotronicWar 1 month ago
@PsychotronicWar I'm borderline one of those people. While I liked all three, Alien sits in a seat different to the rest of the films. Also did you know that Cameron designed the Queen Alien? It's not a Giger creation. I accept the other films, just don't accept them as 'canon', if that makes sense :/
WolfAssad 1 month ago in playlist Alien Soundtrack - Jerry Goldsmith
@WolfAssad : A good friend of mine is a Star Wars freak but he does not accept anything beyond NEW HOPE. For him, SW saga ends with the celebration on Yavin 4. Indeed, Hollywood has the tendency to destroy mythologies e.g. The Matrix. Did not know about the Alien Queen, cool. If you ask me, Alien Mythos = ALIEN + ALIENS
PsychotronicWar 1 month ago
@PsychotronicWar I think that goes a bit far, the original Star Wars films is where I draw the line, the new ones... Well... Sometimes I still cry lol.
WolfAssad 1 month ago
@WolfAssad : NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (Darth Vader's voice) :P
PsychotronicWar 1 month ago
@PsychotronicWar
My opinion about the whole quadrilogy it's rather odd I suppose. I love the first, only like the second. I don't like Cameron that much, he's too much american-style. Anyway, there are some scenes from Aliens that entered in the history of cinema. The third is horrible, I think is the worst of all. Just soulless, and useless. Resurrection is, imho, amazing. It's totally different, but it's really ironic and funny. I love Joss Whedon's writing.
FangBangerable 1 month ago
@FangBangerable : Something tells me that PROMETHEUS will cover ALIEN III & IV...Not to mention AvP bullshits...
PsychotronicWar 1 month ago
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dont even mention avp movies.... fucking trash
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PsychotronicWar 1 month ago
@FangBangerable Meh. The first one is naturally superior to all. Aliens is indeed a good action flick. But Resurrection over 3? 3 had traits of such a good atmosphere. Kicked the series back in the right direction, while Res. was a clusterfuck of pointless characters, aimless plot and odd, almost parodic atmosphere. Though I always have hated Whedon's writing for those traits. That man just couldn't make me care about anything even if his life depended on it.
fiveMIRrOrs 1 month ago
@PsychotronicWar It's true. Cameron dumbed down the monster. Wanted to make it more believable by turning it less alien.
Don't have trouble with the concept of queen myself, and most of Aliens fits within the logic of Alien, even though I fucking hate the idea that the xenomorph is just some natural angry space beast taken from some random planet. Alien 3 was a disaster, but if you read the Aliens 2 plans that extended Cameron's ideas, you'll see that it could've been LOT worse.
fiveMIRrOrs 1 month ago
In deep space no one can hear yor arrow to the nkee jokes....
yuobuten 1 month ago
16 people were underpaid
Flyboy243 1 month ago
In space no one can hear your 'thumbsdown'
NoitaTollacia 1 month ago
One of the greatest movie scores of all time!! I hope Prometheus is as greater movie as Alien next year because this is probably my favourite movie!!
MrLukee 1 month ago
i thank my mom for introducing me to this excellent film series. without her i might not have watched these. i have a cool mom who likes action and sci-fi movies xD
lekkermary 1 month ago
darn it never mind.
War2011Machine 1 month ago
i have been waiting a long time to see this movie.
War2011Machine 1 month ago
no other theme has ever invoked the mood of a film as much as this one imo.
mortsoul23 1 month ago
this music made me glad to experience fear as a human
mariahremix2 2 months ago 2
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whoa, i like your comment! I think this music could represent the waiting before a unknown event, a waiting sank in fear and acid...
italianguerrilla 1 month ago
I see a little of Wagner in this man. And a lot of schoenberg.
Epeolatry1 2 months ago
@Epeolatry1 I can hear also the influence of the French impressionist/Moderns Debussy and Ravel during the whole composition, but particulary 2:24 to 2:46, it's so obvious!
julienbencze 1 month ago
15 screams, who cant be heard in space.
0shizznes0 2 months ago
yes I do.
brabazon10 2 months ago
In space, no one can here you scream.
Thumbs up if you think the best "Alien" film was this one: The Original.
Brilliant score.
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Prometheus is looking pretty good too
Nineteen1900Hundred 1 month ago
@CutandPrintFilms i thought aliens was better but i like this one too
TheJawsFan24 4 days ago
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I like both as well but the film buff within me has to agree that alien was the better film.
It's like an Alfred Hitchcock film but in space.
Aliens beats you over the head with a mallet. Alien gives you a smooth massage then cuts your jugular with a scalpel.
atomicbreaker 1 day ago
@atomicbreaker yeah i liked aliens more because the characters and performances were better, it was more thrilling, had more aliens(hence the title), and is one of the most quotable films ever(i quote it daily). but i can see why one might like alien more.
TheJawsFan24 1 day ago
Didn't realise that Goldsmith had written so much good stuff!
kowetas 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jerry Goldsmith
14 people need to be mouth raped by a facehugger
FranciscoGodikinho 3 months ago
The opening is fantastic - but from 3 minutes on, it is timeless classic film music.
I was watching a Channel 4 documentary last night about the big ice age just before the Cambrian Explosion - something extremely similar to this was playing as the narrator explained how the ice formed over the Earth.
It's not the first documentary to use this kind of music.
Well - here's where it came from.
Classic music for a classic film.
jazzx251 3 months ago
@jazzx251 I remember a 1980 reveiw of this soundtrack that pointed out that the similarities to music written for forbidding environments like Antartica. Kind of wastelands from the striclty human point of view. Goldsmith's 'Alien' music was very influential and you could hear composers emulate the sound and tone of it over the years.
dafmurray 3 months ago
This movie score is lifted from contemporary composer Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2, 'Romantic'...so yadda yadda yadda for Jerry Goldsmith on this score, although I do like many of his other scores. Of course 'The Omen' was lifted from Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, namely movement #1.
MrFlattop069 3 months ago
best movie too :)
bullwattern 3 months ago
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the best soundtrack ever!
bullwattern 3 months ago
Wow.... I didn't even notice this movie had a score, it was so subtle.
Danzilla1996 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jerry Goldsmith
Folks we have scored big this time!
Jarlve 4 months ago
jerry goldsmith is a bad ass motherfucker thumbs up for jerry goldsmith 1929 - 2004
Brady2k10 4 months ago 2
Like many others thanks to H.R Giger and the music in itself. I can relate. Scared the living hell outta me... But its a masterpiece like "JAWS". Same thing.
TheRandomSweed 4 months ago 2
13 fools need to be chest-bursted.
servaran 4 months ago 41
@servaran ha ha ha ha ha ,that was a good one.
jay55also 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jerry Goldsmith
@servaran Make that 16 as of this date and moment
nqkoisi123 1 month ago
@servaran now they are 16...ja ja...
Silviatube2006 1 month ago
i was 5 first time i saw it...i have had nightmares since then but stil watched the other movies up through the years....im now 27 and not really had nightmares in 2 years as i kinda gained control over em in my dream....im facinated by them and they are a part of me as its the only thing in life thats frikkin scared me....so i kinda feel lucky having this be the only thing im scared of in life and they arent even real...are they?
folegaleta 4 months ago
@folegaleta You mean you're 37, correct? I was 7 when I first saw this movie at a drive-in and I'm 39 now.
swjkie100 4 months ago in playlist Alien Soundtrack - Jerry Goldsmith
@swjkie100 I am 27 now, it was on tv when i saw it.. My parents and other family members used to record the movies from TV back then. And the reason i saw it was because my dad have seeen so many movies when he worked on a boat as the boat had loads of movies for the crew. Movies he watched sometimes came on tv here in norway, but one movie i would like to see again is Splash with Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah
folegaleta 4 months ago
@folegaleta
That is very much the same with me. Saw it when I was like 5 and it scared the hell out of me... Fell in love with the creature ever since. Forcefully desensitized myself to it when I was 6 by rewatching the scary parts until I wouldn't flinch. This movie and the creature will always hold a special place in my heart.
rasicar 4 months ago 4
@rasicar I had a feverpsycosis when i had teh flu when i was 14-15 years old, I thought i had one inside me, and also thought they would come out of the video of alien3 i recorded on a tape from tv, so i taped over it and was super scared..it was on a saturday so i couldnt even eat my mums lovely pizza in the worry of feeding the one inside me... Fever can be scary, messing wiht the head like that..I got calm when i taped over it and got well from the flu:D
folegaleta 4 months ago
sensitivity is intelligence
DieTheDeath 3 months ago
Still my favorite movie..... (I'm 36 yo)
75Krusty 4 months ago
I am to this date scared of this movie! Especially when I first watched this movie at 12... My dad told me to watch this movie, but I said i was too scared of it... But then out of curiosity I did... I shat ( I know its not a word) myself at the end of it! Nightmares, confusion, paranoia, you name it, came after I watched this amazing movie. Lol I was so scared there was an alien inside me that I went to the doctor to check if there was XD XD XD hahaha.
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Lol
YOU: "Can you check me over. I think there might be an alien inside of me?"
DOCTOR: ("[groan - not another one]")
jazzx251 3 months ago
I saw this in 79 when I was 15. I had nightmares for years and went into a depressed state for two solid weeks. Today, this is my favorite movie of all time.
wkanost 4 months ago
this is so timeless
capt1wess 5 months ago
creepy music sets the tone.
MegaLaidback 5 months ago
that evil smile on the egg...^^
Marshmallowmann 5 months ago
13 people are afraid to shout in space !!!!
StephenMcCaffrey64 5 months ago
i don't think there's another film that had such an effect on me after watching it as alien did when I saw it as a kid - nightmares for years. one of the greatest films ever made no question!
Hashpotato 5 months ago 3
hail Giger!!!
krisiic1982 5 months ago 2
I once heard remixed version of one part of this song (starts around 3:00), but couldn´t find the name of the artist ...it was house music ...does someone know it, please?
turbinee 5 months ago in playlist movies
@turbinee Frontline Assembly's track Synthetic Forms samples that part of the Alien score (as well as bits from the Event Horizon score). The Alien sample starts at the 3:00 mark and becomes more apparent as you listen along. look it up here on youtube.
alienanxiety 5 months ago
guess what ... the whole score is on PDF in the web. search for it
HorNet505 6 months ago
how do you write stuff like this? it's not just a 'riff' or even just layered melodies, it's so much more than that, a real talent
fuckamericanidiot 6 months ago 11
@fuckamericanidiot
it's called education and enthusiasm for contemporary music ;o)
Yes, there is talent too, but you wouldn't become a composer in the first place if you don't have it already in the blood ;o)
HorNet505 6 months ago
@fuckamericanidiot ... "riff" ... lol @ metalhead
KingCrimson776 2 months ago
Although Ridley Scott is a brilliant director, he knows jack shit about the brilliance of composers like Jerry Goldsmith. His cutting out most of the original music for the movie score proves this much. Thanks to all of us who have kept after the late and great Jerry Goldsmith to keep his original score in the archives the preservation of some of the great soundtrack music is not immortalized, thanks in part to this Youtube website.
richholtzin 6 months ago
@richholtzin
that's easy to say. First, the director has a musically idea as well and if it does not fit with the composed material then it get's dropped - happens all the time all over the place. No big deal.
The Main Titles are a very good example. The two versions are really pushing you in different corners
HorNet505 6 months ago
@richholtzin
I have to say that although I love Goldsmith's work I agree with Scotts decisions on this occasion. The reworked opening titles are much better at conveying the sense of something ancient and as-yet-unopened that Scott wanted (and which works extremely well, with an interesting dash of melancholy about it). And some of Goldsmith's cues for the alien were too obvious, too on-the-nose. The extract from "Freud" used in the air shaft is more interesting than the piece Goldsmith wanted
KaitainCPS 5 months ago 3
I wish I could've seen this when it came out...you know, in the BIG screen....I would've been scared shitless.
dcollegeboy 6 months ago
@dcollegeboy
You will be able to experience something similar in about a year's time....when Ridley Scott's prequel called Prometheus is released.
Jammed9000 6 months ago
@dcollegeboy
We used to have a local cinema that put on all the old classics in full dolby surround. I was only 10 when Alien was released in '79 so had to wait some time before seeing it as a special showing. I wasn't disappointed.
TK42138 6 months ago
its 3am here in Philippines im watching this.. the music scares me.. huhuhu
rosillon100 6 months ago
That sound at 3:06 always made me think of climbing the last step of a huge mountain and seeing just how tiny and far away everything looked after the initial stage of "FUCK YEAH WE MADE IT TO THE TOP WE'RE GETTING LAID TONIGHT!"-esqe euphoria. In other words, after the John Williams, in comes Jerry Goldsmith.
Jerry Goldsmith- For when you need an audio-only mindfuck.
1ColloquialCollision 6 months ago
@1ColloquialCollision ur a tool
juniperbobb 6 months ago
@1ColloquialCollision n a wanker
juniperbobb 6 months ago
Respond to this video... sorry 4got the cunt
juniperbobb 6 months ago
I was a music composition major in college and have over 600 soundtracks, this is quite possible the most effective, groundbreaking score of them all. Just masterful brilliance in it's contrast of lyrical themes and motifs, and dissonance in the orchestral clusters, rips and strikes to cover so much ground.
zenmachinefilms 6 months ago
If there was ever a movie that should be shown to film students as an example of how to craft a motion picture, this is it. Alien is a masterpiece in its entirety and one of a tiny minority of sci-fi films that stand the test of time.
sgtgrash 6 months ago 4
Jesus god almighty, this is something that will never be repeated in a million years... the whole vibe, the whole essence of this film is MASTERFUL. PURE GENIUS.
I cannot, cannot WAIT for 6/8/12. PROMETHEUS. God please let it be great.
DJSpecialSauce 6 months ago 2
@DJSpecialSauce AGREED! I hope "Prometheus" will be a frightening and masterful new addition to the Alien franchise. I love "Alien" and "Aliens... Let's just forget "Alien 3," "Alien Resurrection," "AVP," and "AVP: R" ever existed!
ian092989 6 months ago
i love this soundtrack!! it is so creepy and so ominous. it fit perfectly with the original film, which was the best of the franchise by far.
bluestate69 7 months ago
whata fuck is this? rick rol?
MacZambrottVEVO 7 months ago
in space no one can here you scream
malektaus2005 7 months ago
Elegiac trumpet FTW!
flippert0 8 months ago
I have the entire Alien collection (11 dvds) which I've seen so many times, yet this theme still sends a shiver down my back, just as it did the first time I heard it at the cinema. Brilliant !!
spocklet1 8 months ago
Goldsmith is a beast. This is at least as good as Charles Ives's "The Unanswered Question", if not better.
JoyGrenade 9 months ago 3
@JoyGrenade I completely agree. I just heard "The Unanswered Question" a few weeks ago, and I was blown away by how similar they were. We can't be the only two people who have noticed this, but I can't find any connections or info on whether Goldsmith was influenced by Ives (or secretly ripped him off lol).
jenniferodom 9 months ago
@jenniferodom The Alien soundtrack boasts a lot of modernist influences, so I imagine it wasn't a coincidence. That's cool that you caught it, too!
JoyGrenade 9 months ago
@jenniferodom You just listen Holst Planets, SATURN...you will have an idea where Goldsmith "borrowed" some ideas from
nicolashrv 8 months ago
@nicolashrv Yeah, Saturn and Venus are obvious influences. What's strange about the Saturn parallels is that this element in the Alien score seemed to be picked up and heavily modified by Horner in the subsequent Aliens score (you can hear it during the initial colony flyover sequence). This form has become a Hornerism, and can be found in the Apollo 13 score as well.
torukmakto4 7 months ago
@torukmakto4 did u say a "Horney-ism"???.
myleftnutts 7 months ago in playlist Alien Soundtrack - Jerry Goldsmith
@nicolashrv
It happens all the time.
"Sticky-Fingers" John Williams borrows from Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" (Jaws) and almost lifts Holst's "Mars" in its entirety for the Millenium Falcon's entry into the Death Star.
But - they're film composers, and fantastic ones at that.
jazzx251 3 months ago
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jenniferodom 9 months ago
11 people got the Alien's tail up their anal.
RiFFxxx 9 months ago 2
@RiFFxxx
D: <
AlienTechProductions 9 months ago
11 people got facehugged.
FallenVaizardSaiyan6 9 months ago
This movie has the most terrifying music of all, the most terrifying poster and - damn - the most terrifying tagline! - "In Space No One Can Hear You Scream" - RESPECT
Dockelektro 9 months ago
Why so many dislikes?
RogueRotting360 9 months ago
Many elements of the Alien score, especially in these pieces, remind me somehow of Stravinsky's "Firebird".
torukmakto4 9 months ago 2
because of the Cat :)
adamlinks 10 months ago
I was 21 in 1979 and this original movie (the first) has remained my favourite-without this truely inspirational music, I doubt it would have remained so. 335,000 views says it all.
garybeachcomber 10 months ago
I was 21 in 1979 and this original movie (the first) has remained my favourite-without this truely inspirational music, I doubt it would have remained so.
garybeachcomber 10 months ago
I really love this piece of music :) you can hear the majesty of space in it, but also the underlying threat of the zenomorphs...
firelovesugar100 10 months ago
even my mom wouldn't watch this at night with all the lights turned off. and we have a 160cm tv!
RetardedAnime 10 months ago
bear mccreary stole this and used it in bsg
bushwhack69 10 months ago
This film is so convincing of a possible distant future and yet it was made in the late 70's and 3 years or so before I was born. That is a talent in film making. Fantastic soundtrack.
Triakis2011 10 months ago 4
There's something almost playful about this track, like maybe the aliens will be little brown guys with glowing fingers...Then it goes back to ominous..and ya, this THE track that makes me know it's aliens. Alien was more psychological but Aliens more fast paced - both equally strong films imo.
maestro4202 10 months ago
@maestro4202 That was Goldsmith's idea with this original version of the opening credits music He didn't want the audience to be 'clued-in' as to what approach the movie was going to take just by the opening music He wanted them to feel uncertain about what kind of movie they were about to watch. The replacement music used in the final release does tend to make it very clear that it's an intense horror film from the start.
DOMuricu 10 months ago
This is an awesome theme!! But most of his scores were awesome. I was sadden to hear of his death and to think that we would never hear his beautiful music again. I have some of my favorites in my collection: Star Trek TMP, The Mummy and Basic Instinct just to name a few. Sadly I don't have this one but thanks you Youtube for providing it for us fans
tarzan123936 10 months ago
It's an eerily beautiful piece
robinoi 11 months ago
I had to turn down the volume just to not get the creeps.
eeepictures 11 months ago
11 people are AVP fans.
JamesBondFan001 11 months ago 28
@JamesBondFan001 lol, that doesnt make sense.
Jdog8998 11 months ago
@Jdog8998 I meant AVP is a crappy rip-off of two great franchises, or at least the films are. The games are awesome but the films were huge disappointments, and they still are.
JamesBondFan001 11 months ago
@JamesBondFan001 Yeah I gess your right. Fox is pretty much trashing originality for the money.
Jdog8998 11 months ago
@JamesBondFan001
MAAN!! best comment evah!! You can't understand how glad i am to see people like you round here... alien for president! mega LOL
italianguerrilla 11 months ago
@italianguerrilla Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
JamesBondFan001 11 months ago
11people are xenomorphs, ready to get there saw ass's kicked by ripley
judgeman090 11 months ago
@judgeman090 sore arses*
giles166 11 months ago
The best part is at 2:24 :)
JamesBondFan001 11 months ago
Just genius
ouruhuru 11 months ago
soundtrack? who the fuck is here a soundtrack , i can hear nothing , you loose
Peterpaullang 1 year ago
@Peterpaullang u make no sense u have no life and no friends.
judgeman090 11 months ago
shank970 , du kriegst glei a watschn in die USA so kann es nicht weiter gehen , meine Mitbürger , do you understand you little piece of crap ? Sieg Heil möge das deutsche reich über euch kommen ...
Peterpaullang 1 year ago
@Peterpaullang
Was sind Sie denn für einer?
EarlyRave84 11 months ago
@Peterpaullang was soll man da noch sagen? auser ......
Liftla 11 months ago
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alien sucks
Peterpaullang 1 year ago
@Peterpaullang you suck
MacgyverMike1 1 year ago 13
@MacgyverMike1 He was a AVP kinda guy XD
Colin01985 1 year ago
@Peterpaullang Fail
Shank970 1 year ago
@Peterpaullang troll more
Saturnclass 1 year ago
sorry i dont understand you
Peterpaullang 1 year ago
can you not more?
Peterpaullang 1 year ago
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boooooooooorinnnnng
Peterpaullang 1 year ago
@Peterpaullang yeah u prolly should be listening to britney, more ur speed
wimmzey 1 year ago 7
I have always loved this movie poster.......so simple yet so scary!!!!! Add this music to it and damn........ im 35 and it still creeps me out!!!!!
Karmacode2012 1 year ago 60
@Karmacode2012 this movie is responsible for my first encounter with true 100% terror. When I was 5, I watched this entire movie by myself in the dark.........I actually and truly to believe it is responsible for any issues i have with fear, paranoia, and doubt....of course if not this movie, then the next scary movie i would have seen..however, this movie is STILL completely scary at 25 years of age.
Poonard 11 months ago 2
@Poonard LOL.........I agree with you....... another movie thats scary is The Thing! The soundtrack is just as scary as the movie!
Karmacode2012 10 months ago
@Karmacode2012 This Thing is such a fantastic movie and doesnt use any bit of cgi or 3D or computer animation. Yay!
filmgeek22 10 months ago
@Karmacode2012 : me too mate , i were saw this when i only 13 and this is one of my favorite Si-fi Horror flim
truongquoctuan9 10 months ago 2
@Karmacode2012 Yeah, the strenght of this movie consists in its simplicity... simply ingenious...
suopiskelija 8 months ago
@Karmacode2012 I re-saw this movie last night and I forgot how creepy it was. Those wide shots and the silence...wow. The scene that is probably the most terrifying is the scene where Dallas goes into the ducts to seek out the alien.
TemplarReturns 7 months ago 2
@TemplarReturns all this for a Immigration movie???.
myleftnutts 7 months ago in playlist Alien Soundtrack - Jerry Goldsmith
@myleftnutts What?
TemplarReturns 7 months ago
@myleftnutts Huh? Immigration movie? This is sci-fi. Quit spamming, or trolling, or whatever that was supposed to be. Oh, and I said HORNER-ism, as in a hallmark of the film composer James Horner.
torukmakto4 7 months ago
@TemplarReturns
And interestingly, Goldsmith's proposed piece for the air ducts scene was rejected, in favour of a track from one of his earlier scores, for "Freud", which Ridley Scott and Terry Rawlings had used as a temp and became really attached to as they felt it worked incredibly well for that sequence. They got permission to use it and left it in, which really annoyed Goldsmith, but I have to say it DOES work so well in that scene.
KaitainCPS 5 months ago
@KaitainCPS It really does! Its creepy and plus it makes you think that alien is moving around and closer and closer to him, great interpretive musical cues for this scene. Also during that scene, which makes it work even more is the underlying cello and double bass VRUMMMM! during which the violins just screech that eerie tune. Perfect!
TemplarReturns 5 months ago
@Karmacode2012
it's just a rotten egg, don't worry...
The music is awesome though ;)
1849ad 5 months ago
@Karmacode2012 And yet the blu ray cover fucks this up (and also spoils the entire reveal of the alien for any who have not seen the film, so a greasy double Fuck You to Fox!). I am so sick of blu ray cover art sucking ass. It has been elevated to an art form, culminating in the apotheosis of sucking-assedness with the Star Wars trilogy blu-ray (pastels? Really?), yet to be released. These bastards must be stopped while there is still time.
gaozhi2007 5 months ago
@gaozhi2007'and also spoils the entire reveal of the alien for any who have not seen the film' . It's a little late for that dude LOL. I agree on Star Wars....sucks. Lucas needs to be sanctioned!
AxisOfOrion 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jerry Goldsmith
Amazing, VERY amazing. :)
kafrick41 1 year ago
The best part on 3:06
markhez2 1 year ago 4
alien-aliens-alien ressurection-alien 3 -forget avp-
judgeman090 1 year ago 3
excited about new alien... though i don't really like the idea tha