Soundtrack Information
Varese Sarabande (302 066 429 2)
Year Released: 1987 / 2004
Basil Konstantine Poledouris (/ ˈ p ɒ l ɪ d ʊər ɪ s /; August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores, best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verhoeven. Quigley Down Under (Motion Picture Soundtrack) Basil Poledouris Soundtrack 1990 Preview SONG TIME Main Title. Robocop (Original Soundtrack) 2015 Lonesome Dove (Original Soundtrack) 1998 The Hunt for Red October (Music from the Original Motion Picture).
Conducted by Howard Blake / Tony Britton
Performed by
The Sinfonia of London
The Sinfonia of London
Format: CD
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Track Listing
1. | Main Title | 0:39 |
2. | Van Chase | 4:51 |
3. | Murphy's Death | 2:36 |
4. | Rock Shop | 3:42 |
5. | Home | 4:15 |
6. | Robo vs. ED-209 | 2:07 |
7. | The Dream | 3:06 |
8. | Across the Board | 1:50 |
9. | Betrayal | 2:18 |
10. | Clarence Frags Bob | 1:43 |
11. | Care Package | 2:09 |
12. | Robo Drives to Jones | 1:46 |
13. | We Killed You | 1:44 |
14. | Directive IV | 1:03 |
15. | Showdown | 5:15 |
16. | Have A Heart | 0:31 |
17. | OCP Monitors | 1:15 |
18. | Nuke 'em | 0:26 |
19. | Big Is Better | 0:27 |
Total Album Time: | 41:43 |
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Review: Robocop
I remember reading somewhere in the past 10 years or so, how Basil Poledouris and Jerry Goldsmith, more than most other film composers, have a unique ability to provide genuine pathos and heart to the most testosterone-laced films. It is amazing how much warmth and melancholy Goldsmith wrung from the Rambo trilogy, a series a lesser composer would have treated one-dimensionally, scoring it in only a visceral fashion. Poledouris in turn colored the worlds of both Conan and Robocop with sonorous tonalities, intricate instrumental depths and subtext beyond what the normal audience expected from the experience. John Milius and Paul Verhoeven understood the importance of this type of scoring for their manly, blood soaked epics, where they wisely allowed Poledouris to supply context to the violence, musically hinting at deeper emotions which the strong-arm characters may not be able to convey visually on screen.
I am so pleased that Robocop is available in the stores again. I recall finding the first Varese album in summer 1990 and being overwhelmed with the orchestral and electronic dance happening within the score, representing the human and mechanical sides sparring within the body Peter Weller's unlucky cop character, Murphy. He is resurrected, after being brutally gunned down early in the film, as a cybernetic prototype, the first in a new line of defense officers in Detroit of the future. Most genre fans know the story of this modern science fiction classic inside and out, a sort of hybrid Frankenstein type parable plus a warning of fantastic new technologies swallowing our fragile human emotions. Poledouris's score is a violent, passionate work, seething angrily in ways the transformed Murphy can no longer aptly display.
There are numerous themes he weaves expertly, beginning with a furious, insistent action ostinato bellowed by low brass in 'Van Chase' and heard again, in a slower tempo, in 'Robo vs ED 209'. It is extraordinarily exciting but one can also sense its cruel menace, foreshadowing that the chase will end very badly and bitterly. The action cues in Robocop rarely reach for heroic resolutions where we know the side of right has achieved victory. Even when Poledouris launches forth his memorably sturdy Robocop fanfare and theme in 'Rock Shop', the theme never quite reaches a well-rounded conclusion; instead, the cue diminishes into uncertainty, mirroring Murphy's fear of letting his own bloodlust envelop him. Regardless, the theme displayed in 'Rock Shop' is invigorating, immediately a classic, and Poledouris fans have always wished he had expanded on it further in this and his subsequent Robocop 3 score.
On the other side of the spectrum is an oboe led theme highlighting 'Home', a scene where Murphy as Robocop visits the now empty home he once shared with his wife and child. A tentative beginning leads to electronic splashes (including the interesting choice of synth choir to perhaps represent the side of Murphy which was once truly human now being filtered through circuits and microchips), then into urgent strings as Murphy attempts to track down the source of his lost humanity. The cue has such an amazingly moving turn of phrase starting at the 2 minute mark and continuing forward, with gorgeously crafted melodies somehow seeming inspired by a fervent love scene rather than that of a robotic man stoically touring his abandoned home.
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These are but of few of the highlights of Poledouris's powerful score, a landmark for him in terms of an orchestral and electronic blend and a benchmark for film score fans in what Poledouris is capable of in his finest hours. The Varese special re-release includes all the tracks from the original album, remastered and in the same order, but with the added bonus of four extra cues. Robocop was punctuated by mock news briefs and sardonic commercials selling outrageous items which we might seem to need in the not too distant future and each featured original music by Poledouris (a trait he and Verhoeven also experimented with successfully in 1997's StarshipTroopers). His punchy, 'tele-type' sounding news intro begins the film and the disc, the other bonus cues range from the rapturous 'Have A Heart' to the bombastic 'Big Is Better', nicely fleshing out the musical universe of Robocop.
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By: | Basil Poledouris |
Release date: | 25.10.1990 |
Bitrate: | ~320 kbps |
Length: | 56:11 (23 tracks) |
Size: | 128.95 MB |
Year: | 1987 |
Country: | USA |
Genre: | |
IMDB: | 93870 |
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Tracklist. Online preview
Put online player to your blog, website or forum.# | Basil Poledouris — RoboCop | Length | preview | Bitrate | Size |
1. | Main Title Basil Poledouris | 0:47 | need Flash | 320 | 1.82 |
2. | Have a Heart Basil Poledouris | 0:34 | need Flash | 320 | 1.30 |
3. | O.C.P. Monitors Basil Poledouris | 1:43 | need Flash | 320 | 3.95 |
4. | Twirl Basil Poledouris | 0:27 | need Flash | 320 | 1.06 |
5. | Van Chase Basil Poledouris | 4:58 | need Flash | 320 | 11.39 |
6. | Murphy Dies in O.R. Basil Poledouris | 2:38 | need Flash | 320 | 6.04 |
7. | Robo Lives Basil Poledouris | 1:07 | need Flash | 320 | 2.57 |
8. | Drive Montage Basil Poledouris | 1:06 | need Flash | 320 | 2.55 |
9. | Helpless Woman Basil Poledouris | 1:19 | need Flash | 320 | 3.02 |
10. | Nukem Basil Poledouris | 0:29 | need Flash | 320 | 1.13 |
11. | Murphy's Dream Basil Poledouris | 3:08 | need Flash | 320 | 7.18 |
12. | Gas Station Blow-Up Basil Poledouris | 1:46 | need Flash | 320 | 4.04 |
13. | Murphy Goes Home Basil Poledouris | 4:17 | need Flash | 320 | 9.82 |
14. | Clarence Frags Bob Basil Poledouris | 1:47 | need Flash | 320 | 4.10 |
15. | Rock Shop Basil Poledouris | 3:45 | need Flash | 320 | 8.59 |
16. | Robo Drives to Jones Basil Poledouris | 1:49 | need Flash | 320 | 4.18 |
17. | Directive 4 Basil Poledouris | 1:06 | need Flash | 320 | 2.52 |
18. | Robo & Ed 209 Fight Basil Poledouris | 2:12 | need Flash | 320 | 5.06 |
19. | Force Shoots Robo Basil Poledouris | 2:46 | need Flash | 320 | 6.33 |
20. | Big Is Better Basil Poledouris & Steven Scott Smalley | 2:36 | need Flash | 320 | 5.96 |
21. | Care Package Basil Poledouris | 3:00 | need Flash | 320 | 6.87 |
22. | Looking for Me Basil Poledouris | 5:16 | need Flash | 320 | 12.06 |
23. | Across the Board (End Credits) Basil Poledouris | 7:35 | need Flash | 320 | 17.35 |
56:11 | 128.95 |
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Plot summary
Detroit - in the future - is crime ridden, and run by a massive company. The company have developed a huge crime fighting robot, which unfortunately develops a rather dangerous glitch. The company sees a way to get back in favour with the public when a cop called Alex Murphy is killed by a street gang. Murphys body is reconstructed within a steel shell and named Robocop. The Robocop is very successful against criminals, and becomes a target of supervillian Boddicker.Comments
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