Heavy Metal (Music From The Motion Picture) The Soundtrack & The Score

 

Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton (in his director debut) and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine, which was the basis for the film. It starred the voices of Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky.

The film is an anthology of various science-fiction and fantasy stories tied together by a single theme of an evil force that is "the sum of all evils". It was adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit. Like the magazine, the film features a great deal of graphic violence, sexuality, and nudity. Its production was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments.

1 Sammy Hagar– Heavy Metal 3:50

2 Riggs– Heartbeat 4:20

3 Devo– Working In The Coal Mine 2:48

4 Blue Öyster Cult– Veteran Of The Psychic Wars 4:48

5 Cheap Trick– Reach Out 3:35

6 Don Felder– Heavy Metal (Takin' A Ride) 5:00

7 Donald Fagen– True Companion 5:02

8 Nazareth – Crazy (A Suitable Case For A Treatment) 3:24

9 Riggs– Radar Rider 2:40

10 Journey– Open Arms 3:20

11 Grand Funk Railroad– Queen Bee 3:11

12 Cheap Trick– I Must Be Dreamin' 5:37

13 Black Sabbath– The Mob Rules 2:43

14 Don Felder– All Of You 4:18

15 Trust – Prefabricated 2:59

16 Stevie Nicks– Blue Lamp 3:48

The Soundtrack

The Score by Elmer Bernstein

Elmer Bernstein – The Magnificent Seven (Original Motion Picture Score)

 

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges. The screenplay by William Roberts is a remake – in an Old West–style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai (initially released in the United States as The Magnificent Seven). The ensemble cast includes Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, and Horst Buchholz as a group of seven gunfighters, and Eli Wallach as their main antagonist. The seven title characters are hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits, led by Wallach.

The film's score is by Elmer Bernstein. Along with the readily recognized main theme and effective support of the story line, the score also contains allusions to twentieth-century symphonic works, such as the reference to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, second movement, in the tense quiet scene just before the shoot out. The original soundtrack was not released at the time until re-used and re-recorded by Bernstein for the soundtrack of Return of the Seven. Electric guitar cover versions by Al Caiola in the U.S. and John Barry in the U.K. were successful on the popular charts. At the 33rd Academy Awards, the score was nominated for Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

Bernstein's score has frequently been quoted in the media and popular culture. Starting in 1963, the theme was used in commercials in the U.S. for Marlboro cigarettes for many years. A similar-sounding (but different) tune was used for Victoria Bitter beer in Australia. The theme was included in a scene of the James Bond film Moonraker.

1 Main Title And Calvera

2 Council

3 Quest

4 Strange Funeral / After The Brawl

5 Vin's Luck

6 And Then There Were Two

7 Fiesta

8 Stalking

9 Worst Shot

10 The Journey

11 Toro

12 Training

13 Calvera's Return

14 Calvera Routed

15 Ambush

16 Petra's Declaration

17 Bernardo

18 Surprise

19 Defeat

20 Crossroads

21 Harry's Mistake

22 Calvera Killed

23 Finale

The Magnificent Seven

Bird Man of Alcatraz....original soundtrack 1962...music composed and conducted by Elmer Bernstein

Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is about a man named Robert Stroud (Lancaster) who is sentenced to life-imprisonment for murder. While there he develops an interest in birds. In the process, he even develops a cure for bird diseases and publishes a book on the topic. All-in-all, this is a phenomenal movie, and probably Lancaster's best performance ever. The composer of choice for this assignment was Elmer Bernstein, who today is known for scoring films such as; The Man with the Golden Arm, The Magnificent Seven, Walk on the Wild Side, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Escape, Ghostbusters, and The Black Cauldron.

Bernstein brings a magical score that is subtle and delicate, carefree but still dramatic, a real masterpiece. Favorite cues include; Main Title, Flight, Bird Cart, Cage Preparations, No Cure, Runty Dead, Peggy, Stroud Drunk, Riot, Like A Bird, and End Credits. This is an overlooked masterpiece from early in Bernstein's career. It sits right alongside To Kill A Mockingbird (his finest score ever) as one of his greatest achievements in film scoring. Varese Sarabande released this score in a limited edition of 3,000 copies as part of their CD Club label in 2006.

Bird Man of Alcatraz

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