Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
The story behind the score of Alien is a rather interesting one. I will let Ed Chang (from Cue by Cue) explain it in his own words:
"Jerry Goldsmith's innovative score for Ridley Scott's "Alien" is easily one of his greatest works, despite the fact that it is probably his most "butchered" score (as heard in a film it was written to accompany). Goldsmith was interested in creating an atmosphere of "mysterious space romance", and then transforming the atmosphere into one of suspense and action, with a few sequences of textural sound design on the way. However, Scott and his editor ended up falling in love with the avant-garde sound design, and didn't care for the more melodic space opera flavors. In fact, "Alien" is shot almost like a documentary for most of its scenes, and thus many dramatic cues were muted, or switched out for more ambient cues. The other notorious problem with this production was that "atonal" music from a previous Goldsmith score, "Freud" was reused instead of the newly-written music (these Freud cues were used as temp tracks during editing). Even worse, the Goldsmith's cues for the final climax and end credits were replaced by excerpts from a classical symphony, Howard Hanson's Symphony 2 (dubbed the "Romantic", ironically enough!)."
For this suite I decided to use Goldsmith original compositions, before it was "butchered" by Scott.
TRACKLIST:
0:00 Main Title
2:57 The Skeleton
5:13 Nothing to Say
6:49 The Eggs
7:15 Out the Door
COMPOSED BY:
Jerry Goldsmith
MUSIC FROM:
Alien (Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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ARRANGEMENT:
Jorah the Andal
ANIMATION:
Ramiro Mendez
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#TheSoundOfCinema is back! New video every Monday: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPS4QFWPOSZ6ITGQedcpw1xMoICfgm-V0
Star Wars Medleys: youtube.com/watch?v=4KvZJ7XaHQ0&list=PLPS4QFWPOSZ7Xbb4VCIH_FX62zkxdjHJh
Composer Tributes: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPS4QFWPOSZ4wdDP2x6lTmrI03Ue6zPYJ
Arrowverse Medleys...: youtube.com/channel/UCedMZfhIlfCyI4O8BprShYw/playlists?shelf_id=16&view=50&sort=dd
...and Arrowverse Suites: youtube.com/channel/UCedMZfhIlfCyI4O8BprShYw/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=20&sort=dd
DCEU Medleys: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPS4QFWPOSZ6887NlvagmumG7AF_CZ8cn
Marvel Cinematic Universe Suites: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPS4QFWPOSZ4nCTfgCmbWxMNNngP5mtbX
The story behind the score of Alien is a rather interesting one. I will let Ed Chang (from Cue by Cue) explain it in his own words:
"Jerry Goldsmith's innovative score for Ridley Scott's "Alien" is easily one of his greatest works, despite the fact that it is probably his most "butchered" score (as heard in a film it was written to accompany). Goldsmith was interested in creating an atmosphere of "mysterious space romance", and then transforming the atmosphere into one of suspense and action, with a few sequences of textural sound design on the way. However, Scott and his editor ended up falling in love with the avant-garde sound design, and didn't care for the more melodic space opera flavors. In fact, "Alien" is shot almost like a documentary for most of its scenes, and thus many dramatic cues were muted, or switched out for more ambient cues. The other notorious problem with this production was that "atonal" music from a previous Goldsmith score, "Freud" was reused instead of the newly-written music (these Freud cues were used as temp tracks during editing). Even worse, the Goldsmith's cues for the final climax and end credits were replaced by excerpts from a classical symphony, Howard Hanson's Symphony 2 (dubbed the "Romantic", ironically enough!)."
For this suite I decided to use Goldsmith original compositions, before it was "butchered" by Scott.
TRACKLIST:
0:00 Main Title
2:57 The Skeleton
5:13 Nothing to Say
6:49 The Eggs
7:15 Out the Door
COMPOSED BY:
Jerry Goldsmith
MUSIC FROM:
Alien (Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
:::Purchase on Intrada's Website: goo.gl/cYzKbB:::
ARRANGEMENT:
Jorah the Andal
ANIMATION:
Ramiro Mendez
Subscribe to my channel: youtube.com/JorahTheAndal?sub_confirmation=1
Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/Jorah_Andal
Follow me on Tumblr: jorahandal.tumblr.com
Support me on Patreon: patreon.com/Jorah_Andal
Business enquiries: jorahtheandal2@gmail.com
#TheSoundOfCinema is back! New video every Monday: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPS4QFWPOSZ6ITGQedcpw1xMoICfgm-V0
Star Wars Medleys: youtube.com/watch?v=4KvZJ7XaHQ0&list=PLPS4QFWPOSZ7Xbb4VCIH_FX62zkxdjHJh
Composer Tributes: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPS4QFWPOSZ4wdDP2x6lTmrI03Ue6zPYJ
Arrowverse Medleys...: youtube.com/channel/UCedMZfhIlfCyI4O8BprShYw/playlists?shelf_id=16&view=50&sort=dd
...and Arrowverse Suites: youtube.com/channel/UCedMZfhIlfCyI4O8BprShYw/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=20&sort=dd
DCEU Medleys: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPS4QFWPOSZ6887NlvagmumG7AF_CZ8cn
Marvel Cinematic Universe Suites: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPS4QFWPOSZ4nCTfgCmbWxMNNngP5mtbX
