3 Soundtracks From 1990 You Simply Must Own
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Hi everyone, I have been rustling the old archives and re-listened to some of the great scores of 1990 and compiled a list of 3 soundtracks I think everyone should have in their collection. These are some of my favorites from that year. I would love to hear your opinions. What are your great scores from 1990?
Here are my 3:
Dances With Wolves (John Barry)
This sweeping epic drama score by John Barry is one of the great scores of all time in my opinion. It has the most grandest of themes in ‘The John Dunbar Theme’ which is probably on a million “relaxing mood” cd’s. It is a very easy to just pick this up and start listening and just relax to the wonderful music presented here. If big horns, wonderful themes and epic sounding music is your thing, then you need to own this.
Highlights: The Buffalo Hunt, John Dunbar Theme, Journey to the Buffalo Killing
Music From Twin Peaks (Angelo Badalamenti)
This is the third soundtrack I bought and I did it for one reason. The super-catchy main theme of the television show Twin Peaks which was on Norwegian TV at the time. There was a lot of hype around this series and it was so fascinating. It was my first introduction to David Lynch and I immediately fell in love with the jazzy and funky music. So many great memories on this one like the little red dream man dancing. A lot of firsts, but this was also the first score by Angelo Badalamenti that I listened to.
Highlights: Twin Peaks Theme, Dance of the Dream Man, Laura Palmer’s Theme
Total Recall (Jerry Goldsmith)
One of my favorite Jerry Goldsmith scores. It has great action cues like ‘The Big Jump’ and ‘End of a Dream‘ while also having a few fleeting cues like ‘First Meeting’. It has a lot of nostalgia, but I love the main theme ‘The Dream’, which is a reminder of the electronic 80s.
Highlights: The Dream, The Mutant, The Big Jump
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Total recall is great, but too attached to the on-screen action for me, I only love The Dream and The Mutant tracks. There’re quite few disks from the 90’s on my shelf: Wojciech Kilar works for B.S. Dracula, The portrait of a lady, Death and the maiden, and Dogma by H.Shore.
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Leaving out Edward Scissorhands is somewhat of a tragedy in my book
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Jorn Tillnes Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 2:03 am
Even more tragedy to leave out the classic Home Alone, but luckily I didn’t leave out anyone as these are 3 scores everyone should own and not a top 3 of 1990.
Those two are saved for “3 More Soundtracks From 1990 You Simply Must Own”.
And how can you leave out The Hunt For The Red October? Shame on you Jon
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