What a talent this man was. Such lush and rousing scores. I'm currently listening to his music for The Road Warrior.
What do you think this is, a signature? It's a way of life!
Brian May - Road Games - Main Titles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9_FkoQIK5E
I always enjoyed his work on one of the great "hidden" ozzie gems from the 80s, Road Games (1981).
Indeed! I too love The Road Warrior. In addition to its sad "requiem for humanity", unlike the overall sad wash that is the music for Mad Max-Fury Road, Road Warrior has a HOPEFUL theme, for the gyro pilot and the notion that humans working together can achieve a positive goal! It also has some of the most hard-driving, pulse-pounding action music I've ever heard!
My only gripe is the PRESENTATION of the music in its SOUNDTRACK in the Varese Sarabande release. This seems to be the only release of The Road Warrior soundtrack in existence, and it omits A LOT of cues, most notably the beautiful "landscape", the first use of this "hopeful" theme, for when Max and Gyro are overseeing the oil refinery compound after dusk, Gyro finishing the can of Dinky Di dog food. This "hopeful" theme is later reprised when Max manages to sneak by the Lord Humungus' Dogs of War unscathed and rises up above the oil refinery compound at dawn carrying gas cans. The Varese Sarabande release treats us to a "music/sound-FX mix", which is fascinating from the standpoint of sound mixing and engineering, to hear the way music and sound-FX intermingle in telling a story, but that disc space on the CD could be allocated to the missing cues, laid down in proper film sequence.
The only way to hear the complete presentation of this glorious score is of course to watch the movie.
What's the deal with this? Brian May sadly passed away a long time ago. Do the original session tapes of The Road Warrior exist? Is director George Miller hoarding them in his garage, attic or basement?
A little digging on Google revealed, according to the Intrada Records forum, that the only source tapes of The Road Warrior music that exist are the 3-channel film stems. Great! Those'll sound great! So, Intrada Records, get the rights, mix down those 3-channel film stems to 2-channel, then remaster those 2 channels for a deluxe CD release!
ROAD GAMES score is awesome.
sharei also like the score for THIRST and DR.GIGGLES.
THIRST has this melodic piano beginning and then it segues into a bernard hermanesque score and it even has a prog rock bit.