Ghostbusters - Scenes with isolated Elmer Bernstein music

[Raycloud]

They just don't make movies like this anymore... Ghostbusters was truly one of a kind.

[TheSWFuniverse]

Ray: It's a Girl

Winston: I thought Gozer was a man.

Egon: It's whatever it wants to be.

Bill: Well, whatever it is.. it's gotta get through us.. - Go GET HER Ray!!

[TheSWFuniverse]

One of the most chilling openings ever.. I swear the Columbia Pictures becomes somewhat ghostly of and in itself

[illuminatioracle]

@Pinhead222 dude. why wouldn't they be? it's a huge public library.

[cymrutube3]

Easily the best score ever.. possibly better than Star Wars even

[Jimaica87]

this was probably the single most epic movie to come from the 80s

[turiel33]

At the time you couldn't get the best music from the soundtrack but some of us had our ways. It just sounds so much better now.

[GojiJuicePower]

ok...so shes a dog....

[john1842msu]

5 Zuul's disliked this video.

[retrostatic]

@Pinhead222 Yes, of course! That's the New York Public Library, those statues are still there.

[morewherethatcame]

@Pinhead222 yup

[LLJtbone]

I ain't afriad of no ghosts!

[xTheFormlessOneIGF1]

Cross the streams....

[mizmo21]

elmer is brilliant

[RacerXGTO]

6:26 - Similar. Opening scene of Lady GaGa's Poker Face video.

[doomkad]

Where is the epic confrontation music after peter says"this chick is toast"?

[Legba85]

4:51. I want that song that plays when Gozar's gateway opens.

[WastedPo]

I much preferred the eerie soundtrack of the original Ghostbusters to the much more vanilla sounding score for the sequel.

[stuarachel]

1:07-1:12 That part of the score used to give me the creeps when I was a kid and watched this film in a dark room by myself lol.

[Luipaard005]

This is amazing, thank you so much!

[Jimaica87]

Art Deco, very nice.

[bartrazin]

The sound is made by a Ondes Martenot played by Canadian Cynthia Millar who also did early work on Tim Burton's Ed Wood.

The ondes Martenot sounds like the Therimin.

However the Ondes has a keyboard like a piano.

[Lahtiman81]

One of the scariest things were those books fying from the shelves.

[jwd1701]

This video is cool

[jayarcidiacono]

Elmer Bernstein's music is top notch. The music to Ghostbusters and Scorsese's Bringing out the dead have this otherworldly sound to it.

To me, the scores for these movies tie to the themes of regret, guilt and redemption. Which is what I think of when I think of ghosts.

[gamera77]

Yes, I think it is. In fact, according to the modern pictures I've seen on the net, the exterior of the building seems nowadays almost exactly as it appears on the movie.

[baldy319]

Yep, still there. The reading room in the NYPL looks almost the exact same, as well.

[NCC63549]

i so want this music! where can i buy/download it?

[BohoRoohaha]

You know whats funny, this totally sounds like the music from "Heavy Metal". Turns out its the same composer! haha.

[KungVanargand]

Just love that "woooohoooohoooooo" sound! Bloody creepy! Last time I woke up at 5.00 to get to work. That sound keeped poping up in my head and I was almost shiting my pants at every shadow! LOL Lights were on permanentely that morning!

[ironhandz1]

I think that's a theremin. Its an instrument that uses radio wave tuning. Bernard Herman used it in The Day The Earth Stood Still. It's since become sort of a sci-fi cliche, but it's used well here. Howard Shore used it well in Ed Wood.

[eldo59]

Up the stairs music has a nice melody!

[barkboingfloom]

Is this a theremin being used as the spooky wooing sound throught the film? I hope its not just a synthesizer. I just noticed it after 25 years. Of course I had no clue what a theremin was at 8 years old.

[gamera77]

No, it's a ondes martenot, a 1928 french instrument similar to a theremin but using a keyboard.

[southernfmradio]

@gamera77 Yeah that is a very spooky sound!

[Maindrian]

Damn, I do love how it switches from epic to comedic on a dime without it seeming awkward, especially on "Stairwell", which is probably my favourite track on the whole album.

[mohawker47]

Do you think you could do the same thing to the scene with the techno beat while Ray and Winston are talking about God? I can't find it anywhere!

[sendtownjose]

@mohawker47 The techno beat is part of the elmer bernstein score. That's how versatile and creative he got with this score!

[harrier414]

This music is what makes this movie still scary to a person in their twenties.  Such a creepy score.

[harrier414]

Its too bad Bernstein can't do the soundtrack if they ever do a 3rd one. I'd be interested if Johnny Greenwood would end up doing it. That could be a diffenent kind of judgement day epic.

[MilesStauffe]

Thank you, thank you for this. I wish more film incidental music was released; it's a bitca trying to find stuff that isn't already out there in some shape or form (Batman 1989, I'm looking at you). Kudos.

[voltey]

Isolated music, this is amazing, thank you.

[antwilliams86]

I wish someone would upload the song from the main menu of the game. They played it in both movies and I think is one the best songs in the series. You remember that old piano bit?

[lolubentrold]

/watch?v=xyLA-AdJuKc

[pshaw100]

Absolutely fantastic score that really did send shivers down you spine, especially the library scenes!

[BeebeCh1972]

Very ethereal sounds - like everyone said, how did you get the music anyway? I'd love to get the music - and everywhere I look for it in the soundtrack, there is no such music.

[gamera77]

There was a VERY limited soundtrack CD release by Varese Saravande years ago (I did learn this after uploading this video to Youtube) but now it's sold out everywhere. From time to time it appears on eBay but usually gets very expensive.

[DarthFastidious]

I heard about that, too. Someone put all the tracks up on YouTube last year, but they got taken down after a few months. Why do they do the stupid limited release nonsense? I'd be happy to pay for this soundtrack, along with the equally impossible to find "Burbs" soundtrack, and the Batman Animated Series two-disc. But I can't, because you can't buy them anymore! Does that make any sense?

[SPeacock]

@gamera77 I have the score (from both films) thanks to the joys of torrents :) Type in "Ghostbusters Soundtrack Collection" on most torrent search engines :)

[SPeacock]

@gamera77 uTorrent is your best friend - type in "Ghostbusters Score" in a search engine and download it via uTorrent, or you could go to a website called "Spook Central" and download it from there, in the Ghostbusters "Music Score" section (Official release).

[SPeacock]

@gamera77 I have the score - I can send it to you via email if you want (in a Torrent file) - just PM me with your email address :)

[gamera77]

Thanks a lot Speacock, but I already have it ;)

[SPeacock]

@gamera77 Oh, OK. :) Well - spread the word, then :)

[Lefty001]

@SPeacock I'll take a copy of the score if you got it, thanks speacock!

[LivingForce]

The dissonant chords really make me uneasy, but I love it!!!

[ranudson]

at the beginning with the lady with the torch and this score still scares me!

[SGTHartsock2]

how did you obtain the music if it's "unreleased"?

[cumesoftware]

Thanks for posting this!

[GambiniUK]

Outstanding score. Thank god they are using it in the game

[QuietGiantProduction]

i agree, they tried to make the video game have that feeling when people saw ghostbusters for the first time.

[CineRecon]

mission accomplished, without this score it'd just feel wrong

[PhireMadeFlesh]

Elmer Bernstein (next to John Williams) is one of the gods of modern music. It's without question that GHOSTBUSTERS wouldn't have had the same other-worldly mystique without Elmer's score. It epitomizes every image/moment we experience throughout the film. In partnership with the other great 80's songs--Savin' the Day, Magic, Ghostbusters (title track), etc.--they capture a mood of "something big on the horizon" which sets GBs a part from any other film. It's truly larger than life! R.I.P Elmer

[eswat]

"It epitomizes every image/moment we experience throughout the film."

Agreed. I will never forget the one intense segment during the finale where the Ghostbusters cross streams... a perfect fit.

[midcoast007]

At :53 seconds the bearded guy with glasses that passes in front of the camera and Alice is Joe Medjuck, one of films producers. He mentions this in the commentary track on the DVD.

[gridbread]

Does anyone know what track (or part of a track) it is when Peck, the Edison worker, and the cop walk into the Ghostbusters HQ?

[Raycloud]

It is the last few seconds of "Judgment Day" on the Ghostbusers Score album.

[SimonFoston]

It's criminal that this great soundtrack isn't widely available on CD. Elmer Bernstein did an amazing job on it.

[stuarachel]

From 1.08 to 1.12 used to make me shudder when i was a kid lol

[LondonCrusader]

One of the few truly 'perfect' movies in my view. I must have seen it a hundred times now, never fails to please !

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Indeed, Bernstein really was the final magic touch on this great movie. Perfect 80s score. It doesn't get any better.

[QuietGiantProduction]

I agree, as a kid it was a funny film. Now that I'm 21, its Hilarious. I just hope the video game brings back great memories.

[TURBODORK2]

ELMER IS GREAT , he also did american werewolf in london

[HeavyArms0404]

this is on the limited release soundtrack. you might find it in a torrential rain of bits.

[ChoujiMan]

This music is amazing. Sure, the Ghostbusters theme was fun and all, but Elmer Bernstein's music gave the movie an epic feeling even though it was a comedy.

[filmfan17]

Varese Sarabande released this score officially in 2006. It sold out quite quickly but you can still get copies on ebay. I love this score.

[FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0]

seing sigourney weaver bend over

like that in that sexy demoness red dress

ooh la la how kinky and she was doing

loads of seductive poses in the gozers

temple scene and she does bring the word

in yoga the downward dog an new name but.

great work and editing ma 20/10

frankie smales

(gb fan/ the daily krypton)

[Genogenesis7]

These have got to be some of the greatest musical masterpieces on the planet. Who's bright idea was it not to include this on the soundtrack anyway? This was everyones favorite music!!

It really sucks that Bernstien died in 2004. Noone can even TRY replecate these works of art.

[HeavyArms0404]

varesa sarabande did release the orchestral score a few years ago but only a few thousand copies. it also had a bunch of really weird superflous stuff, almost as if the director wasn't sure which way to go on the music. trust me the better music won. you might be able to find the music in a torrential shower of bits.

[FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0]

i have it on ghostbusters the score cd version and it was and limited edition cd and

i purchased it at my local movie memorabillia

store but very hard to get they only produced

so many of them and i think they dont make

it anymore and it wil be tricky to get on ebay.

frankie smales

(gb fan/ youtube movie guru and the daily krypton)

[chrisjhart221138]

@Genogenesis7 Try listening to Basil Poleduris's music for robocop. I think it is one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard.

[mooshy79]

This is great.

The segment from 0:58 to 1:18 actually sounds a bit like some short synthesizer blips John Carpenter composed for Halloween II. Perhaps there was some inspiration from it.

[zackgb]

"Let's turn em on Spengler!!!!"

"Cross 'em now Spengler!"

greatness. I've always wanted to do this and/or put some music in the scenes where I believe it was meant to go but was just silence.

[bringsan90]

Bernstein is the best composer

[ryanaircaughtnapping]

0:58 - 1:18 with that synthesizer has to be one of the most chilling, haunting, beautiful and spooky pieces of cinematic music i have ever heard.

[mattyagogo13]

This is a great soundtrack and it's a shame that it's not available.

I bought a bootleg of the Bernstein score a few years ago which is fantastic, but the sound quality isn't the best.

It's amazing how much music got cut out of the film and was either replaced by pop music or no music at all.

[VideoReply]

Brilliantly done, nice work!

[Kl4pp5tuhl]

I really like 'Judgment Day' from Bernstein.

So much Funk :D

[Tsninja]

Where's Dana's theme, though?

[FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0]

purchase the gb soundtrack from hmv

or ebay and they will have the song on

the cd the updated version comes with bonus

tracks like disco inferno by the tramps

and ghostbusters(12" single remix) by ray

parker jr that was not on the original first

version gb soundtrack the 2nd version is great

i certainatly recommnded it to you ok.

frankie smales

(gb fan/youtube movie guru and the daily krypton)

[Tsninja]

thank you thank you thank you thank you.

Bernstein's score is so underrated, I had the worst time trying to find it. And yeah- it's very under represented on the album!

It's got to be one of the top 10 film scores, in my extremely biased opinion.