Jerry Goldsmith - Alien (Complete Score) - Part 8 (Alternate Cues)

Rescored Alternate Cues: Main Title, Hyper Sleep, The Terrain and The Skeleton from Alien (1979) by Jerry Goldsmith

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[Swatyo]

as beautiful as his original score for alien was,

this is the right version, just more creepy and captures the feeling of space opposed to his original piece of work (he went in a more romantic direction)

[bobadork]

please elaborate how ridley f-ed up the alien score. I'm curious.

[Flyboy243]

In space...no one can hear you scream....

[Numinous20111]

@bobadork Has no one replied to your original comment yet. That's surprising. Okay here goes. The music choices Scott and Rawlings made work extremely well from moment to moment, but once you're familiar with the film, you start to notice that the music is just being cut and pasted into the movie. Cues are repeated, moved to scenes they weren't intended for, suddenly starting in mid-original cue and then just as suddenly disappearing. It doesn't allow the music to progress coherently.

[Clay3613]

@bobadork The movie is still a masterpiece.

[mrptysonboy]

watching alien movie is scary.

listening the music atnight without the film is even scarier

[mrptysonboy]

watching alien movie is scary.

listening the music atnight without the film is even scarier

[IliveinMA]

3:03 is perfection

[montezillo]

This is awesome.

[juresaiyan]

If you prefer this cues over the others THUMBS UP!

[CutandPrintFilms]

The sound of a nightmare....

[Etherdave]

Scott's choice for a sparser, less thematically-driven intro is right here. His use of cues from the film 'Freud' reference the composer's earliest experimentations with electronic sounds and music. The resultant mix shows far greater knowledge and appreciation of Goldsmith's abilities than the composer has historically given the director credit for.