The DVD & Blu Ray Isolated Score Thread

Martinez's The Limey was great - pretty sparse but with the way the film is cut the music, with its psychologically complex quality, literally holds the film together at times.

Forgot to mention before, Carter Burwell's isolated score with commentary for The Corruptor is a great listen for both components.


If to stand pat means to resist evil then, yes, neighbour, we wish to stand pat.

Yes, i dig those!

Jerry Goldsmith's Alien has TWO isolated score tracks, considering all the permutations the score went through due to director Ridley Scott and editor Terry Rawlings' incessant tinkering, and that's not even including tracks from Goldsmith's earlier Freud that editor Terry Rawlings substituted for the scenes when the acid is eating through the ship's decks and when Dallas goes into the vent!

Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein on blu-ray has an isolated score track and the sound quality is way better than the music sounds in the film mix.

The original Omen on blu-ray includes Jerry Goldsmith's chilling score on an isolated score track. Particularly interesting here is how two pieces of orchestral music in the isolated score track, for when the first Nanny Holly gets possessed by the demonic Rottweiler dog and then hangs herself at Damien's 5th birthday party, were substituted for a second, weird "synth" version heard in the film. My favorite track is Kathy's Death by being pushed out of the hospital window at the hands of the evil Mrs. Baylock--terrifying!

Goldsmith's score to L.A. Confidential is really cool. I enjoy hearing how the music fits the action like a glove and how the swanky horn underscores the steamy, sultry relationship between Bud White and Lynn Bracken, independent of any dialogue or sound-effects. There's a bit of synth in the final shootout at night in the Victory Motel that is really bitchin'.

Goldsmith's score to the original Planet of the Apes is also really cool. It provides a lot of atmosphere to the barren planet, and the action pieces, like when the native humans steal our astronaut protagonists' clothes, the hunt when we see the apes for the first time, and when Charlton Heston is attempting to escape the ape compound only to be ensnared in a net, whereupon he delivers his famous line, "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!", reveal just how much of an emotional contribution to the unsettling violence Goldsmith's music is.

Miklos Rosza's Ben Hur is a great isolated score.

The R4 DVD of The Last Of The Mohicans has an isolated score by Randy Edelman and Trevor Jones. The great thing is the DVD is of the original theatrical cut so it has none of the later changes made by Michael Mann.