Alien Resurrection: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

John Frizzell, Alien (Related Recordings) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 11, 1997)
• Original Release Date: November 11, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003GBH
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,558 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title

2. Post-Op

3. Docking The Betty

4. Priva Son D'Ogni Conforto - Maureen Forrester

5. Face Huggers

6. Call Finds Ripley

7. The Aliens Escape

8. Ripley Meets Her Clones

9. What's Inside Purvis?

10. They Swim...

11. The Chapel

12. The Abduction

13. The Battle With The Newborn

14. Ripley's Theme

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best the Alien series has to offer., March 18, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Alien Resurrection: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

This score is more MUSIC than it is scary sounds to enhance the mood of the film (as the score for all the other films in the series goes), don't get me wrong this has plenty of the scary sounds and stuff that is as much a bench mark as the aliens or Ripley to the film franchise. But this score is much more melodic and thematic than it's predecessors. The opening track starts off and sets a recurring theme throughout the score. It makes a very depressing feeling that conveys Ripleys never ending plight. The music is as depressing as it is terrifying at times. No, I don't scare easily but listening to this score in the dark, at night, gave me goosebumps and scared me quite a bit actually. This film has neat flurrys of breakbeats and electronica brilliantly reflecting the time it was made (around '97) it wasn't TOO advanced to be a good score and it wasn't TOO old fashioned either. Snippets from the main action peice "They Swim" are still used in trailors for other films. Collatoral Damage being the latest to use it. This is a well enduring album. And even people who have never seen the alien films would like this.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JOHN FRIZZEL IS A GENIUS!, July 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Alien Resurrection: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

I have listened to this wonderful soundtrack and I think it is superb!! I now know that the ALIEN movies rock! The tone of the music fits the movie. I especially like " Ripleys Them" Because it reflects on what has happened with Ripley through-out the movie. The cloning, learing, remebering and also meeting her clones. I would also like to say that the movie was excellent aswell. The cast did a great job, acting their hearts out. Jean-Pierre Jeunet should be proud of the music and his film.So if you aren't an Alien fan, you sure as heck will be after you listen to the soundtracks! ~ Jenna ~

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genius, October 25, 2001

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J. Bielawa (Monroe, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alien Resurrection: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

John Frizzel's score teeters between Horner's "Aliens" and Goldenthal's "Alien 3". It has disturbing brass power and melodic string usage to a military and sometimes atonal rhythm.
The CD's magnum opus is "They Swim...", a six-minute crescendo of chase music that goes through several wild combinations of
orchestral blasts before finishing.

Despite this CD's overall goodness, I strongly suggest trying to find the score's 2CD release. "They Swim..." borders on 10 minutes in that cut.