Total Recall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

total recall: original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

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The movie, despite its title, is utterly forgettable, but Jerry Goldsmith's rousing score stands on its own, ranking among the composer's finest works. Goldsmith effectively blends electronics and orchestration to get compelling sounds, and the driving rhythmic elements lend a sense of urgency and menace to even the score's quieter moments. The momentum doesn't let up until the final track, wherein Goldsmith proves that he can, in fact, write music that conveys calm instead of tension. --Genevieve Williams

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Total Recall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]
Total Recall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Total Recall is Faboloso!!!
  • Oh Yeah!
  • "Conan the Barbarian" on Mars
  • Goes At Lightspeed, But Needs More Tenderness
  • Spectacular!!!!
 Total Recall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Jerry Goldsmith
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000014RK
Release Date: 1990-05-25

Tracks:

  1. The Dream
  2. The Hologram
  3. The Big Jump
  4. The Mutant
  5. Clever Girl
  6. First Meeting
  7. The Treatment
  8. Where Am I?
  9. End Of A Dream
  10. A New Life

Amazon.com essential recording

The movie, despite its title, is utterly forgettable, but Jerry Goldsmith's rousing score stands on its own, ranking among the composer's finest works. Goldsmith effectively blends electronics and orchestration to get compelling sounds, and the driving rhythmic elements lend a sense of urgency and menace to even the score's quieter moments. The momentum doesn't let up until the final track, wherein Goldsmith proves that he can, in fact, write music that conveys calm instead of tension. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Total Recall is Faboloso!!!.......2000-10-08

1990 was a very good year and one of the reasons is because Jerry Goldsmith made a outstanding score for a great Arnold movie named Total Recall.The action was superb but it really would not of been as good if it was not for Goldsmith`s music in the film.Every single track here is awesome.The track numbers maybe low but there is enough music which the soundtrack is over fifty-minutes long.This score is one of the best I ever heard and it is one of Jerry Goldsmith`s best!

4 out of 5 stars Oh Yeah!.......2000-04-14

This is the perfect score for a Sci-Fi action movie, Goldsmith and his band did a super soundtrack with a very entertaining beat and some electronic music added by Jerry. Don't be a fool, if you have to buy a soundtrack, this is the one!

3 out of 5 stars "Conan the Barbarian" on Mars.......2000-03-21

Essentially a better budgeted "Conan the Barbarian" set in Martian territory. Goldsmith manages to turn in action cue after action cue, occasionally pausing long enough to be surprisingly mushy (or spaced-out). It is often entertaining, the action cues are uniformly top-notch, several bits of musical humor prevent irredeemable overkill, but the music is just as frequently over-synthesized and overly derivative.

4 out of 5 stars Goes At Lightspeed, But Needs More Tenderness.......1999-05-16

Jerry Goldsmith's Total Recall soundtrack is a study in mixed blessings. On the one hand, the actual music is stirring. From the opening theme to the final fade, Goldsmith blasts away. His use of synthesized instruments and paces that are difficult to keep up with - on End Of A Dream he uses a 4/3 pace that's a devil to follow - is innovative and clever.

But within the power lies the soundtrack's problem - most of the cues are action cues. Only The Mutant, First Meeting, and Where Am I downshift from nonstop action to slow tenderness. It is surprising considering the excellent balance Goldsmith showed on First Blood.

Also, the soundtrack mysteriously excludes cues worthy of release - such as from the fight between Quaid and Lori, the telephone scene where Quaid learns he's been bugged, Quaid's capture by Lori and freeing by Melina, and the slaughter of Kuato's guerillas by Cohaagen's army.

Nevertheless, the soundtrack is an aural rush of adrenaline.

5 out of 5 stars Spectacular!!!!.......1999-03-08

Just like the movie.This is a spectacular soundtrack.One of Jerry Goldsmith's best."The Dream" is a classic and all the rest is pure excitement.

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