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My Rambo collection is finally complete! There are just some soundtracks that I find myself playing more than others and music from the Rambo movies is certainly one of those. Jerry Goldsmith created so many memorable themes in his career and the ones found in the Rambo soundtracks have always been some of my favorites. Unfortunately, the only copy I had of the Rambo movie soundtracks was "First Blood" produced by Varese Sarabande in 2000. It contains only a fraction of the complete score and although I played the heck out of it, I always felt like I was missing so much great music. I ended up finally getting "First Blood" and "Rambo III" produced by Intrada Records and "First Blood Pt. II" and "Rambo" (Brian Tyler) produced by Silva Screen Records. These seem to be the best made copies of these scores that are available now.
This particular score is probably my favorite of the four. It is during this time in Goldsmith's career that he is tinkering with electronic syth sounds in his scores and he does such a masterful job of blending this "new sound" with a large orchestra. His marriage of this new technology to the classic sound of the orchestra truly gave Rambo an iconic sound that fits the character and the age in which these films were created. Goldsmith's themes developed for these films were so great that I think that even playing them on a banjo would of been just fine however! This Silva Screen Records release is an expanded edition of the original soundtrack which contains previously unreleased tracks like "The Map" (track 2), "The Pirates" (track 6), "The Camp/Forced Entry" (track 8), "River Crash/The Gunboat" (track 10), "Bring Him Up/The Eyes" (track 12), and "Village Raid/Helicopter Flight" (track 18).
Silva Screen Records has also included an 8 page insert that basically takes each track and describes the scene in which it was created for. There are a few photos from the film and a brief description of their attempt to squeeze the best possible sound out of the original source tapes in which this was taken. They say that despite being recorded in 1985, some tape hiss and distortion occurs. They also go on to say that some of the tapes had to go through a "slow oven bake" process to restore the tape. That sounds really weird and I have no idea what that means but I am just thankful that they took the time to produce a really great sound and rescue these scores from total destruction. It would be awful to lose wonderful music like this!
This particular release was manufactured in 1999 and still seems to be pretty easy to find for now. There are 21 tracks on the disc with a little over an hour running time. The last track the vocal track "Peace in our Life" sung by Frank Stallone. If you are looking to build or add on to your Rambo soundtrack collection, then I highly recommend adding this one!
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Seb 77120Reviewed in France on May 26, 2018
la bande original du meilleur de la série
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Great CD quick delivery
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