Death Becomes Her: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Alan Silvestri | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 28, 1992)
• Original Release Date: July 28, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B0000014SV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #379,338 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title - Alan Silvestri

2. Me

3. Woman on the Verge

4. Lisle

5. Touch of Magic

6. Now, a Warning

7. Sempre Viva

8. Another Drunk Driver

9. Hurry Up, You Wimp

10. It's Alive

11. Helen Spies

12. Another Micracle

13. I'll Be Upstairs

14. Loving You

15. I'd Rather Die

16. End Credits

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's classic style will "live forever.", November 10, 1999

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Daniel Magallon (Spokane, Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Becomes Her: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Always a bit sinister and dark the compositions by Alan Silvestri keep the air of first certainly mystery and later impending doom in the air. Lush with instrumentation and simple in orchestration the music ushers you into the sometimes silly and twisted minds of our two far from deceased female leads Madeline and Helen ( "Mad" and "Hell" ). The opening number alone is pure camp, in it's best form, especially when it breaks into period disco. Ms. Streep is a joy to listen to with her unique and brilliant phrasing and the words are so silly...you can't help but want to learn it to sing to your friends.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous, macabre FUN, March 20, 2003

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Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death Becomes Her: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Silvestri has crafted a playful score that perfectly has its tongue planted firmly in its afraid-of-getting-older tongue. Albeit not very long in comparison to other contemporary offerings, it does remind the listener of Silvestri as one of the most versatile of present-day film composers.

He shifts easily throughout the various film genres and "Death" shows that he does indeed have a "comic flair".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Score for a Comedic Gem, July 16, 2000

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Luis Hernandez (New York, New York, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death Becomes Her: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

A moody, yet beautiful score by Alan Silvestri highlights this film by Robert Zemeckis perfectly. The entire score is both haunting and eerie in many ways, and even the first track, "Me" (sung by Meryl Streep) is a great comic performances by one of the industry's greatest actresses. That track, which is part of Madeline's performance in the musical version of "Sweet Bird of Youth," has a combination of popular and disco music in order to illustrate the main character's sad descent into low budget productions as she ages.

Along with Jerry Goldsmith, Alan Silvestri is one of the best film score composers alive. His style can't be reproduced and without this beuatiful score, I feel that the movie will lose a very vital factor in telling the story the way Zemeckis intended it to be.

Simply one of the best film scores in recent years. I also recommend the scores to "Total Recall," "Basic Instinct," and the "Matrix" if you liked this album.