The Mission: Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture [Soundtrack]

the mission: original soundtrack from the motion picture [soundtrack]

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Ennio Morricone's Academy Award-nominated score captures the conflict between 18th-century Jesuit missionaries trying to convert the native Indians, and the slavers who want to destroy them. In keeping with the serious subject matter and epic scope of Roland Joffé's film, the score is by turns grave, lyrical, and tense. Ever inventive, Morricone mixes liturgical chorales, native drumming, and Spanish-influenced guitars, often in the very same track, to capture the drama of the culture clash. His trademark lyricism also comes through, notably in the beautiful themes for "Gabriel's Oboe" and "The Mission." Not as over-the-top as his well-known spaghetti Western scores, The Mission shows Morricone at his dramatic best. --Heidi MacDonald

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The Mission: Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture [Soundtrack]
The Mission: Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • If you saw the movie or do not need music material for a performance, forget it.
  • wonderful music
  • Excellent Sound Track
  • The Mission
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 The Mission: Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture
Ennio Morricone
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000WFZ
Release Date: 1992-06-29

Tracks:

  1. On Earth As It Is In Heaven
  2. Falls
  3. Gabriel's Oboe
  4. Ave Maria Guarani
  5. Brothers
  6. Carlotta
  7. Vita Nostra
  8. Climb
  9. Remorse
  10. Penance
  11. The Mission
  12. River
  13. Gabriel's Oboe
  14. Te Deum Guarani
  15. Refusal
  16. Asuncion
  17. Alone
  18. Guarani
  19. The Sword
  20. Miserere

Amazon.com essential recording

Ennio Morricone's Academy Award-nominated score captures the conflict between 18th-century Jesuit missionaries trying to convert the native Indians, and the slavers who want to destroy them. In keeping with the serious subject matter and epic scope of Roland Joffé's film, the score is by turns grave, lyrical, and tense. Ever inventive, Morricone mixes liturgical chorales, native drumming, and Spanish-influenced guitars, often in the very same track, to capture the drama of the culture clash. His trademark lyricism also comes through, notably in the beautiful themes for "Gabriel's Oboe" and "The Mission." Not as over-the-top as his well-known spaghetti Western scores, The Mission shows Morricone at his dramatic best. --Heidi MacDonald

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars If you saw the movie or do not need music material for a performance, forget it........2007-06-13

Don't get me wrong, I love Ennio's work. The problem is that ALL OF THE SONGS SOUND THE SAME. They are a variation of 2 different melodies.

4 out of 5 stars wonderful music.......2007-06-09

the cd soundtrack is so awsome, the music is so wonderful to listen to, i hope to get the movie its a very cool soundtracka nd it shiped quick :D great choice of music :D

4 out of 5 stars Excellent Sound Track.......2007-05-13

If you liked the movie "The Mission," you'll love the sound track. Even those who did not see the movie will like this music for the soul.

5 out of 5 stars The Mission.......2007-05-12

An excellent sound track from a powerful movie. Ennio Morricone is a very gifted composer and really captured the haunting beauty of the film. Well worth listening to.

4 out of 5 stars Great music.......2007-03-31

Ennio Morricone's soundtrack of The Mission is fabulous. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is because there wasn't more of that fantastic sound in the CD! Truly enchanting.
Mission: Impossible - Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Where to find more music by the "No Government" singer
  • Good Elfman Tracks
  • Mission Accomplished!
  • STOP! This is NOT what you are looking for.
  • A great surprise
 Mission: Impossible - Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture
Various Artists , Adam Clayton , Massive Attack , Pulp , Danny Elfman , Bjork , Longpins , Nicolette , The Cranberries , and Gavin Friday
Manufacturer: Island
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001EJD
Release Date: 1996-05-14

Tracks:

  1. Theme From Mission: Impossible - Larry Mullen And Adam Clayton
  2. Spying Glass - Massive Attack
  3. I Spy - Pulp
  4. Impossible Mission - Danny Elfman
  5. Headphones - Bjork
  6. Weak - Skunk Anansie
  7. On And On - Longpins
  8. Claire - Danny Elfman
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  12. Trouble - Danny Elfman
  13. No Government - Nicolette
  14. Alright - Cast
  15. Mission: Impossible Theme (Mission Accomplished) - Adam Clayton And Larry Mullen

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Where to find more music by the "No Government" singer.......2005-09-23

To the reviewer who said you'll look in vain for other music by her: not so (if you work at it). She did an album before this and (by 2005) two albums after. And appeared on other albums.

You can get the original, rawer, drum n' bass version of the song "No Government" from the ablum "Now is Early" and several compilations several places, but this album's version is the best one unless you like drum n' bass, and the vocal here is smoother and more "produced".

Lots of Nicolette's music other places has very nice vocals, but the jarring high and varying tempo music with complicated beats behind her voice are distracting unless you ike that sort of thing.

For people who like "No Government" and who don't like fast drum and bass beats with their smooth singing, you've pretty much limited to the songs she sang on Massive Attack's albums. Start with "Three" on the album "Protection".

4 out of 5 stars Good Elfman Tracks.......2005-07-27

I have to warn everbody, you would be much better off buying the original Elfman score, and not buying this version.

However, this CD is the one I got stuck with, and there are a few 5 star songs on the 3 star CD.

First of all, Main Theme, this is a great Techno/Remix version of the Mission Impossible Theme, definately a keeper.

Second, Impossible Mission, is a great, funky militaristic track. It features some cool synth, sweet percussion, and a very cool, atmospheric sounds.

Third, Claire. This is without a doubt one of the top five saddest most beautiful songs ever put on plastic. It rates as the best song on the album, an Elfman classic in the tradition of his Burton scores.

Fourth, Trouble, this is an awesome action song that reminds one of Men In Black. The strange whistling, percussion, brass, and trembling strings really pull you in to the action.

Fifth/Mission Accomplished, this is yet another main theme remix, very listenable, but not as good as the rest.

As for the rest of the album, don't even bother with it.

4 out of 5 stars Mission Accomplished!.......2004-07-01

I liked the movie and the Mission: Impossible theme song so much that when I found this recording in the library while ostensibly doing research for a project, I grabbed it right away and popped it into my CD player. Here is my song-by-song breakdown:
Mission: Impossible Theme: CLASSIC. WONDERFFUL. Just as good as (if not even better than) the beloved "James Bond Theme."
Spying Glass: A weird and wonderful song from Massive Attack. It's wonderful if you're just chilling out, especially after a long, hard day. (Unless you're one of those people who need to burn energy to blow off steam; it is kind of hard to dance to and completely out of place with sports.)
I Spy: This song and its theme of cold-blooded revenge sent shivers down my spine. I liked that. If you don't like your music unsettling, skip this track.
Impossible Mission: Score track. Good, but not a standout.
Headphones: I liked it, as it was soft, ethereal, and, well, I happen to like Bjork.
Weak: Alanis Morissette-style rocky relationship rock with decent vocals. (In case you hadn't noticed, unless she sings softly, Ms. Morissette sings like a dying cat. No offense to her fans, of course.)
On And On: I can't be a fair judge of this one. I can't sit through the uber-mellow intro and I hate having to fast forward.
Claire: A hauntingly pretty score piece.
Dreams: A very nice song if you have, unlike me, heard it less than fifty trillion times.
You, Me, and World War III: A very interesting song. I am not sure what it is about, but it fascinates me enough to listen to it again and again.
So: Maybe I'm a sap, but I like hearing about "some kind of tenderness in your laughter."
Trouble: Wonderfully dramatic score piece. Sort of a mash-up between ordinary spy music and Darth Vader's theme song.
No Government: A spacy, trancy song with tantalizing vocals and even more tantalizing ideals.
Alright: Pretty decent rock song, if awfully generic.
Mission Accomplished: Sort of like a really good remix of the original theme song.
Since there are so many different points of view around, I can't say "this CD is a gift from the heavens" or "this CD sucks like a vacuum cleaner" conclusively. All I will say is what I think: if the soundtrack was meant to be a good, solid collection of great songs, they accomplished their mission!

1 out of 5 stars STOP! This is NOT what you are looking for........2004-06-25

This CD has a handful of the most horrid attrocities ever attemped to be called "music" that I have ever had the unfortunate priveledge of listening to. The first time I saw this movie, I was very young and enjoyed the soundtrack. I recieved the cd as a gift. THIS IS NOT THE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE SOUNDTRACK. It is Music from (COUGH like 3 songs COUGH) and music "inspired by" the film. Now incase you are wondering what kind of music this movie would be likely to "inspire" stop yourself right there and let me tell you the answer. GARBAGE. There is music on this cd that's so mind curdlingly horrid that it makes you want to take two pencils, stick them up your nose, and slam your head down on the desk.(!!!!) It's that bad. Get the REAL soundtrack. I hope you enjoyed my warning, now I have to pull these pencils out of my brain cavity.

5 out of 5 stars A great surprise.......2004-02-25

I think this CD was the first I ever owned. When I first got it, I listened to the theme music and skipped most of the rest. Years later, when I pulled it out and listened to the whole thing, I realized what I had been missing, and went out to find more music by these artists.

The two versions of the M:I theme are great--one is right from the movie and the other is an electronic version. Both are way, way better than the new theme from M:I-2. Then there's a neat, stylish song from Massive Attack. Pulp's "I Spy" is a passionate anthem about revenge--turn up the volume and shout along. Danny Elfman does three other instrumental tracks on the album: "Impossible Mission" is suspenseful but subdued, with lots of interesting percussion; "Claire" is slow and haunting; and "Trouble" is as exciting as all-get-out. Bjork's "Headphones" is still one of my favorites, and the strangest song on the album, really quiet and dreamy. "Weak" is a decent rock song, and "On and On" is sad and mellow rock. If you haven't heard "Dreams" before--well, of course you've heard it before, but it's still one of the best songs ever. Two more great songs are "No Government", with its mysterious vocals and catchy groove, and "Alright", which will raise anyone's spirits.

I don't know what business a lot of this music had appearing in a Mission: Impossible soundtrack, but it works. Go out and buy it today!
Mission: Impossible - Music From The Original Motion Picture Score
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • brilliant, genious, amazing, etc
  • Absolutely one of Elfman's Best
  • Elfman: Possible
  • Fantastic
  • Good Elfman Score
 Mission: Impossible - Music From The Original Motion Picture Score
Danny Elfman
Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000040V4
Release Date: 1996-06-18

Tracks:

  1. Sleeping Beauty
  2. Mission: Impossible Theme
  3. Red Handed
  4. Big Trouble
  5. Love Theme?
  6. Mole Hunt
  7. The Disc
  8. Max Found
  9. Looking For 'Job'
  10. Betrayal
  11. The Heist
  12. Uh-Oh!
  13. Biblical Revelation
  14. Phone Home
  15. Train Time
  16. Menage A Trois
  17. Zoom A
  18. Zoom B

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars brilliant, genious, amazing, etc .......2006-07-12

i am an avid movie score fan and danny elfman's mission impossible score is one of the best scores i have ever heard, if not the best. it is so incredibly rich and full of layers. danny elfman is a genious, and this score shows that. he is different than any other composer out there, living or dead. don't believe it? go listen to all of his scores and then come back and see if you don't agree. he use to be in a pretty succesful experimental/rock band called Oingo Boingo, and even to this day, he has never been trained in an instrument. he is 100% self-taught. just that fact alone shows his true genious in composing a score this rich and beautiful, let alone all of his others. i HIGHLY reccomend this.

5 out of 5 stars Absolutely one of Elfman's Best.......2003-04-06

The 1996 film "Mission: Impossible" is, with the exception of a convoluted plot, far-and-away superior in every respect to it's 2000 sequel. This is due in no small part to Danny Elfman's contribution (compared to the drivel that Hans Zimmer wrote for M:I 2 - and I LIKE Zimmer!). This is one of the first scores in which one begins to hear Danny Elfman in his truly mature style. The entire score is built on a small amount of musical motives or cells from which Elfman develops a seemingly endless amount of musical material that makes this score interesting from both an "I-work-well-for-the-film-I-was-written" film perspective and a composition perspective (I'm a composer, of course I pay attention to these things, too!).

The CD is a first-rate listen and is full of wonderful orchestral/electronic colors (a hallmark of the Elfman technique). Every track is wonderful and the CD never gets old. It is dense and complex and isn't overly melodic. That's not necessarily Elfman's style, though. He'll take a cell of 4 or 5 notes and string them together in different ways to work out his material. Also, what I found so wonderful about both the score in the film and the album is Elfman's decision (probably not entirely his) to limit the usage of Lalo Schifrin's original theme. I think that this lent the film a sense of "we're not trying to rely too heavily on our predecessor" atmosphere and it paid off wonderfully. For much of the score Elfman chooses to rely on his own ideas and several cues where certain bits of music from "The Plot" from the original TV series show up (although not much). That being said there are several standouts on the album. "Sleeping Beauty" starts off with a nice nod to Schifrin's music for the TV series with clipped militaristic percussion. "Red Handed" is simultaneously moody and urgent with a wonderful version of Schifrin's theme interpolated nicely rather than just going for the jugular and quoting it directly (this score is more subtle than that). "Mole Hunt" is a tension-wrought suspense cue in which Hunt and Kittridge begin their game of cat-and-mouse. "Betrayal" is without a doubt the most haunting and beautiful cue on the album with orchestra, women's chorus, and an electric bass providing an insistent, repetitive pattern - a truly beautiful sound. "Train Time", "Menage a Trois", "Zoom A", and "Zoom B" constitute the energetic climax of the film with some great, if bombastic, action writing. "Zoom B" is where Elfman finally let's it all hang out with his version of the "Mission: Impossible Theme". Overall it captures perfectly the sense of the original series and the genre of the '60s spy-thriller in general.

I've had this CD in my collection ever since it came out shortly after the film and I still make time to listen to it on a regular basis. Every time I listen to it I just sit there and, when it's finished playing, wonder where the last 53 minutes went. It always leaves me wanting to hear more. It may take some time to develop a sense of just how complex and dense and wonderfully creative this score is. However, the time spent appreciating it will be time well spent. This score is truly a masterpiece of Elfman's oeuvre.

4 out of 5 stars Elfman: Possible.......2003-02-14

The ever dependable Danny Elfman took over scoring roles after Alan Silvestri's score was rejected by director Brian De Palma. Here, Elfman provides all the tools necessary for a great action/suspense score. Lalo Schifrin's famous Mission Impossible theme is present only 3 times in this score. It is presented in full in "Mission: Impossible Theme", subtly quoted in "Red Handed", and heard in full at the end of "Zoom B". Replacing the famous Mission Impossible theme is Elfman's own suspense/thriller theme that is used in several, if not almost every track. While not as good as Schifrin's theme, Elfman's theme is still good in that it captures the twists and turns of the film's plot. An interesting and unique thing about this score is that all of Elfman's creative orchestrations can be heard. The music is mainly percussive in nature with strings and brass. "Sleeping Beauty" opens the score with a thrilling percussion solo, which leads to Elfman's main theme. "Red Handed" contains flutes that sound like a cuckoo clock (listen to see what i'm talking about before you decide that i'm crazy). "Big Trouble" is a great action cue with chasing strings and plenty of percussion. Elfman saves the real action music till the end. "Train Time" is an explosive brass filled action cue with a 4 note motif played really loud. "Zoom B" is the best action cue by far with plenty of knockout action music that leads into an explosion of Elfman's main theme on brass, which then leads to Schifrin's legendary theme that closes off the album. All in all, a terrific score, which although largely underuses the legendary Mission Impossible theme, still stands as a solid original work. A solid recommendation.

5 out of 5 stars Fantastic.......2003-01-20

This is a superb soundtrack. Lots of complex layers, and very melodic. One of my favorites.

4 out of 5 stars Good Elfman Score.......2001-12-23

Come on, you know the M:I theme. If you don't, you have to be a cave dweller or have been stuck in a closet. The famous theme is performed here, with plenty of jazz. It's a good action score, but for any other type of film it's just a bunch of noise.

If you want a fantastic action score, try "Crimson Tide" or such -- but this one's great, too.
The Mission: Orignal Soundtrack from the Motion Picture
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Heavenly.... and yet grounded
  • Track List
 The Mission: Orignal Soundtrack from the Motion Picture
Ennio Morricone
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008EPZ2
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

  1. On Earth as It Is in Heaven
  2. Falls
  3. Gabriel's Oboe
  4. Ave Maria Guarani
  5. Brothers
  6. Carlotta
  7. Vita Nostra
  8. Climb
  9. Remorse
  10. Penance
  11. Mission
  12. River
  13. Gabriel's Oboe
  14. Te Deum Guarani
  15. Refusal
  16. Asuncion
  17. Alone
  18. Guarani
  19. Sword
  20. Miserere

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Heavenly.... and yet grounded .......2007-03-06

I was completely dismayed that there was no review for this product!
This is perhaps one of the best soundtracks ever written. This CD is very well done, with all the music from the movie in it and well recorded. The sound quality is fantastic.
This Feb 2007 Maestro Ennio Morricone was honored by the Academy of Motion Pictures for his lifetime contribution- and while many may only know his "spaghetti western" scores like "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," his contribution with scores like The Mission, Casualties of War, The Untouchables and many more have set him apart as one of my favorite film composers. This is one of his *very* best scores and not to be missed. I highly recommend this soundtrack.

5 out of 5 stars Track List.......2005-11-08

1. 1:55 On Earth As It Is In Heaven
2. 3:51 Falls
3. 2:14 Gabriel's Oboe
4. 2:51 Ave Maria Guarani
5. 1:33 Brothers
6. 1:22 Carlotta
7. 1:55 Vita Nostra
8. 1:38 Climb
9. 2:47 Remorse
10. 4:03 Penance
11. 2:49 The Mission
12. 1:59 River
13. 2:40 Gabriels Oboe
14. 0:48 Te Deum Guarani
15. 3:30 Refusal
16. 1:27 Ascuncion
17. 4:26 Alone
18. 3:57 Guarani
19. 2:00 The Sword
20. 1:01 Miserere


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