Planet of the Apes (1968) 1/10- Main Title

[TheQuentinStuckey]

So bizarre and hypnotic, really sets the tone for the film. Goldsmith is brilliant!!

[hazardous1990]

masterpiece

[musicman95]

The Planet of the Apes 1968 music theme by Jerry Goldsmith is one of my favorite Jerry Goldsmith movie music themes

[onthehole]

Terrible score



[Bromden75]

@onthehole  Then don't listen to it.

[TSpancer80]

@onthehole u kidding me? fits perfect like most of the work of Jerry Goldsmith

[MelnStarscream]

That music is so... enticing, almost enthralling... It's beautiful!

[charleneaponte1]

Danny Elfman did a pretty good job of recreating the strangeness of the music, but I think this is the weirdest, most theme defying soundtrack I've ever heard. Mabe "Forbidden Planet" compares, but nothing else. Oh, yeah, "Damn You All To Hell"

[timothyw98]

I've always wondered what it feels like to wonder in an apocalyptic wasteland, a frightening walk that never ends I would imagine

[dunebuggy1]

The three-note descending percussion at 0:46 was sampled by Orbital in the track "Planet of the Shapes"

[spacepatrolman]

@dunebuggy1 that was made by banging on metal sculptures

[zerokomma]

Unparalleled masterpiece.

[RogueRotting360]

The theme is a 12 tone row. Play it on the piano. C-A-Bb Eb-D-B C#-G#-F# and G-E-F

Those 12 notes, in all their transpositions (I.e. C-A-Bb up a major 2nd is D-B-C), inversions (i.e. C-A-Bb becomes C-Eb-D - like a mirror image), retrogrades (back to front - like F-E-G etc.), and retrograde-inversions (F-Gb-Eb) are the DNA of the entire score.

Combine that with the crazy orchestration, and you've got a masterpiece.

[JOESALIEN5]

@RogueRotting360 omg Jerry Goldsmith's soundtracks are just amazing and yes even with the ground breaking makeup for 1968, charlten heston and the brilliance to bring in Maurice Evans .buit it was an amazing soundtrack th at made it a masterpiece.

[dude75able]

such an erie, tripped out score

[kennydinoboy]

The development of the themes and motifs is outstanding... yet it still manages to be kept so weird! Like each time the segment is repeated, the main theme is moved down the score... flute to oboe to clarinet, and each time a new motif is introduced. Each time it repeats, the motifs already introduced before move down an instrument in the score as well, and the previous instruments start something entirely different!

[MRresievil310]

i presume this score will enter the public domain soon.

[Chudhole]

Exactly only a damn dirty ape would press "dislike"!

[dude75able]

3 users that pressed the dislike button are monkeys!

[peppersax]

I saw this movie on opening day in 1968. I was 15 and was blown completely away! The score still holds up today in 2011. Jerry Goldsmith was a very gifted composer.!!! He stands on my all time top 5 list as one of my favorite film composers.

[pointreyes6]

The greatest film score ever written in the history of motion pictures!

[absalom0412]

Do u have the whole movies? How come no one uploads the whole movie?

[PUHCsi]

Best film score ever without a doubt primitive percussion and horn sounds used to good effect excellent score amazing movie great cast i was born a year after this films release and saw it on tv when i was around 7 yrs old scared me shitless but i loved it and still do burton's version not a patch on this work of art

[mrbrianmccarthy]

IMO,Some of the coolest soundtack music ever made.This movie wouldnt have been nearly as cool without his soundtrack----Jerry Goldsmith ruled!! (He had the job I wanted--oh well---Maybe someday!!)

[HarrisonOdell]

Music goes very well with the film, and I applaud his artistic ability to capture the overall mood... But I find myself inexpressibly bored with the entire score, even when watching the movie. You could even remove the score completely and it really wouldn't make much of a difference...

Why is this such a highly-regarded score? I really don't get it, and I'm a soundtrack collector (76 soundtracks so far).

[AndSendMe]

@HarrisonOdell None of us can tell you why you don't "get" this score. Maybe it's just not your kind of thing, that's fine. But the score makes a huge difference for most of us, it propels the movie and enlarges its impact. As to why it's highly-regarded: 1. It's highly original. 2. It is extremely emotionally affecting. 3. As I mentioned, it has a big impact in selling the film. On every measure of soundtrack success it gets an A+.

[AndSendMe]

@HarrisonOdell Part 2. Just in case this is part of the problem for you, don't let the "atonal" trappings of the score fool you. Yes Goldsmith used weird instruments and jarring harmonies and occasional atonal riffs to make the score feel alien and strange, but underneath that, brilliantly IMO, is an entirely tonal musical communication. If it's the musical vocabulary that's getting in the way, just give yourself a chance to get used to it, and in time you may find you appreciate the score.

[RogueRotting360]

@HarrisonOdell Maybe it's because it's challenging, very avant-garde, and perhaps too sophisticated for your tastes?

"You could even remove the score completely and it really wouldn't make much of a difference..."

That's absolute bollocks. The film would have none of the atmosphere, tension, bewilderment and sense of desperation, without Jerry Goldsmith's score.

[HarrisonOdell]

@RogueRotting360 Do I sense superciliousness?

[RogueRotting360]

@HarrisonOdell @HarrisonOdell You're sensing bemusement, that someone who considers themselves a film soundtrack collector finds such a landmark score boring.

Sorry, I realise I did come off as a bit condescending. It was meant to be kinda tongue-in-cheek, but that's mostly lost on the Internets.

[GETTOBOMBER]

I got an autographed picture from Charlton Heston in the past.

[BENTLEYQUEMP]

one of the most evocative scores ever!.....simply wonderful.

[utsager]

Thanks for posting! I could eat this music, it's sooooo good! It captures the movie perfectly! Goldsmith's music will live on forever as long as music is played!~

[Professor6871]

Jerry Goldsmith's music for the Planet Apes was brilliant sinster and evocative what master of his craft he is.

[westfield90]

Superb Movie, Superb Cast, Superb Music....

[ShortySOM]

Very eerie!!!! The music gives me the chills. The brilliance of Jerry Goldsmith.

[JordanSayz]

so creepy and disturbing...like the movie ;)

[Akhts]

Gosh, they did know how to scare you out with a music back then. Amazing.

[reedeema]

dr zaious dr zaious oh oh dr zaious

[generalcircle]

GOD DAMN YOU, DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

[caviper1]

cinco estrellas

[mahender6969]

apes rule.

[smizzman]

Jerry Goldsmiths Masterpiece, what a score !!!

[jonnebonn]

i love this movie

[westfield90]

This was as perfect a score as you can get. It so set the mood of the movie

[yodasteveo]

Nobody does wierd and otherworldly better than Goldsmith

[RogueRotting360]

@yodasteveo Leonard Rosenman came very close.

Listen to Fantastic Voyage.

[dokokai]

@yodasteveo Maybe only Bernard Herrmann... but it's close between them. I love Goldsmith too.. especially this theme. Brilliant & perfect for this movie!

[Saxowolf]

cool sounds man!

[ShortySOM]

Very eerie scoreawesome.

[C0NTR4B455]

Brilliant score..Stravinsky, Bartok..It's all there and more..

[am2boni]

A classic song and movie!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

[darkhyena]

I love this score... Completely captures the nightmarish vision of the film

[AzBirdDog]

@darkhyena If we have WW 3, This just might come to pass.

Because the best suited to survive will be those who have survived millions of years, and those who live in the mountains. We humans are very frail now a days.

[badboy10ize]

@darkhyena - Hear hear. A Sci Fi horror if you ask me.

[mastermold2011]

@darkhyena Well said.