Well, I don't know about EVER, but it's one of my favorites too. In fact, just before the movie's release, people were already talking about the music score - and I mean people in my high school were telling me that they heard the soundtrack was memorable. For the word to have gotten to high school students should tell you something......
shareI like the soundtrack except for the rock band towards the end of the film. I would LOVE to find the soundtrack to this film on CD, LP, or cassette if it exists...or at least find out the names of the songs played in the beginning and during the scenes at King's Dominion.
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It's available on CD from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Rollercoaster-Original-Soundtrack/dp/B000056QEV.
Lalo Schifrin's Magic Carousel is the theme that you cannot get out of your head. Especially made for this movie with the calliope sound. That's the most memorable part from the movie thirty years ago that I can remember.
I agree! Most of the tracks on the disc give me chills especially 'Magic Carousel'
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down right now though, got my CD of the soundtrack from here....
I TOTALLY AGREE!
I believe the soundtrack makes this movie more awesome than it is already.
Sometimes, it recalls me the "Jaws" one.
Music composer Lalo Schifrin is a genius as italian Ennio Morricone :)
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I love the score, too! I would like to see an even more expanded release than the Aleph records' version.
The unreleased cab ride cue is awesome, so is the cue where Bottoms is in the car and builds a new bomb. The music in the scene, where the Young Man sees the bomb squad dismantling the bomb is incomplete on the disc and "That's Him / Chase" is longer in the movie, too.
What's extremely cool is that at the beginning you think you are hearing an orchestra on the villain's radio (well, you are actually), and SEAMLESSLY this short phrase from his radio BECOMES his theme in the orchestra score. It's this fragment that stalls in the music, and becomes his theme. It's then repeated in different ways throughout the rest of the entire movie. Very well done.
Also, the final chase at Magic Mountain is very impressive.
(BTW the visual editing at Paramount's Kings Dominion at the establishing scenes is fantastic, they make that rollercoaster and theme park look ten times bigger than what it really is due to some very very clever use of overlapping scenes, and very good helicopter photography for the purpose).
It's certainly one of the finest soundtracks ever composed for a suspense film...making it sort of ironic that, despite it's excellence, they sooo over-use both that caliope tune played over the closing credits and, of course, that song the group Sparks keeps singing during the live concert. Terribly repetitive, but overall still a great soundtrack.
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