Basil Poledouris RED DAWN Intrada Ltd Edition Film Soundtrack LP Patrick Swayze
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Description
Sealed copy of the rare US import, Intrada limited edition original soundtrack to the film Red Dawn (1985). Music composed and conducted by Basil Poledouris.
The film was directed by John Milius and starred Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson and Harry Dean Stanton.
Basil Poledouris - Red Dawn (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1985)
Condition: brand new and sealed.
Label: Intrada - RVF 6001
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Import
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Stage & Screen, Theme, Score, NeoClassical
Style: Soundtrack, Easy Listening, Instrumental
Track listing:
A1. Main Title
A2. The Invasion
A3. The Drive-In
A4. Let It Turn
B1. Wolverines
B2. Flowers
B3. The Eulogy
B4. Robert's End
B5. Death And Freedom; End Title
Album Remix Engineer - Hank Cicalo
Assistant Engineer - Stanley Carr
Music Supervisor - Harry V. Lojewski
Orchestrated By - Greig McRitchie, Jack Smalley, Steven Scott Smalley
Producer - Basil Poledouris, Douglass Fake
Recording Engineer - Aaron Rochin
Review:
In the 1980s, Hollywood fuelled young people's fantasies about taking huge weapons and blowing up nasty badguys on behalf of America, expressing freedom of will through the pumping of countless bullets into preferably Communist foes.
Director John Milius was one of the few who actually managed to take those fantasies and apply them to pop culture teenage life, using the already questionable premise of a Soviet invasion of the United States to force a group of usually fun-loving teenagers into taking up arms and fighting their way to glory. In retrospect, everything about Red Dawn is pure cheese, from the ridiculous obsession the country had with invasions of the homeland to sappy interactions between teenagers struggling to express themselves.
It's also amusing to recollect just how conservative Milius had been in real life, a National Rifle Association champion who obviously got tingling sensations in his loins when conceiving of a group of average American teenagers justified in their gross employment of military-grade weaponry. The film opened to decent success in 1984, though it has dissolved into mindless fallacies of logic since, drawing endless cable runs only due to its wealth of attractive young stars.
Milius' career was past its prime by then, though his college friend and reliable collaborator, composer Basil Poledouris, was still on the rise.
Poledouris became known in the 1980s for his patriotic music, using his skills at manipulating the sounds of Americana in both Red Dawn and Amerika before moving on to high profile Western and Olympics compositions. His music often addressed the nation's bravado in wide open spaces, from the seas and skies to the rugged landscape of Middle America.
It is this last area that produced the heart of his music for both Red Dawn and Amerika, two scores with as many similarities as the films that share so many holes in their screenplays. In a technical sense, Poledouris' music for this environment was adept at finding the right instrumental tone and often utilized strings of melodic ideas quite effectively.
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