Jerry Goldsmith - Alien (Complete Score) - Part 5

The Shaft and It's A Droid from Alien (1979).
The Complete Score as originally composed and intended by Jerry Goldsmith (Different from Album and Film Version)

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[videogamer568]

great

[BlackieGirl]

I don't know. In this case, I think that I prefer Scott's choice. The score for Freud conveys not only a sense of dread, but also sadness. I, for one, had really grown to like Dallas as a character, and at this point you just KNOW that he's not making it out of that air duct alive. So, I feel that the music as heard in the film, conveys that feeling.

All that being said, I could listen to Goldsmith's score over and over. It's supremely terrifying. So who's to say?

[naedanger123]

@Etherdave Or maybe even Justin Beiber...

[RogueRotting360]

@bostonpiano This is the National Philharmonic.

[TemplarReturns]

@joker9494949494 Jerry Goldsmith is so adaptive, he's the personification of a musical chameleon. The Omen especially, I think some of that aesthetic echoes here.

[TemplarReturns]

@BlackieGirl I could definitely agree with you there. Dallas is a very poignant and respectful person, but however, when it comes to ensuring the safety of the Nostromo crew, I love he accepts the fact that he probably wont come back from there alive even though what's after him knows he's there. I never paid attention to the heartbeat sound before, funny how I never noticed it.

This track truly represents the dread and the fate that his crew cannot help him and that there's no turning back.

[joker9494949494]

7:20 on scares the shit out of me. why didnt they use it?!!? i LOVE iut. jerry goldsmith is a genius. omen, alien, hollowman, any movie he did its genius.

[Triakis2011]

I was sitting there screaming at the screen - "go back, go back" - there is no way that I would have entered that shaft in a million years. It ended in the only it could for Dallas.

[whitebladeofcoolness]

this is my favorite scene from the movie. i still remember when i first saw this film. usually, i try to pick out the guy thats going to survive it all, and i picked Dallas. man was i surprised!

[juresaiyan]

@BlackieGirl Yeah me to. I really liked Dallas. He had that sort of cool guy thing to him. Like a rock band member of the 60s-70s :D. And you just knew he wouldn't make it to the end of the movie. Right from the very beginning, when the Alien comes on-board. :(

[Etherdave]

You knew Dallas wasn't leaving that air duct alive anyways... no matter what music was playing in the background. It could have been Britney Spears in the background... in fact that might've been scarier...

[bostonpiano]

I haven't checked, but-- from the aural sound of the recording (and placement of instruments/mics)--is this the London Symphony performing/recording? Love the score