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Deep Blue Sea

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I heard this CD after i saw the movie, my fater was testing me, by putting on the Cd and played it, saying "guess what this is from". I finally figured it out, but what i heard what just glorious soundtrack music. This is the kind of powerful, awesome force of music that soundtracks collectors seek. The main theme is gorgeous, and it was played with previews of many other movies, such as war moveis and action ones in theaters.
Ive a really big collection from various moveis, and this one of my top favorites. Great job from Rabin.

This CD is really good! Trevor Rabin does a fantastic job in composing music for this present day "Jaws" film. I especially like the fact that he didn't rip-off John Williams' "Jaws" theme any throughout the CD. Track 1 is the best track on the CD. It starts off nice and slow, with the theme, and then states the theme beautifully in orchestral form. It sounds a lot like "Armageddon", but it is still really good. I love the guitar solo towards the end which states the theme. I especially love the choir in the background. That really adds to the theme and makes it beautiful. Track 2 is a soft version of the theme with the choir backing it up. It then gives you a picture in your head of the underwater scene, how beautiful it is. Track 3 states the theme briefly with a orchestral and choral montage which gives you a picture of traveling throughout the ocean underwater looking at the scenery. It then speeds up a little, providing action as the sharks appear. It can get a little loud and harsh at times but the choir keeps it from getting out of control. Nice track though! Track 4 is the main title. Why it isn't track 1 is beyond me. It is the scariest track on the CD. When listening to it, you picture a Great White shark creeping up on you and chasing you. It is very dark and mellow sounding which is the best sound for a shark. It later becomes louder and faster in tempo. Track 5 goes back to the underwater scene in your head kind of sound. Track 6 is dark and haunting. The haunting leads to a loud point in the music, i'm guessing where the shark appears or something. It then goes back to the dark and haunting sound. The piano does a good job providing the sound here. The music later becomes louder and lushous in sound at the very end. Track 7 is fast, dark, and choral sounding. The choir once again does a great job backing up the loud music here. Track 8 is all about the shark. Dark, mysterious, and scary sounding throughout the track. Track 9 starts off very loud and quick paced. It makes your heart pump faster because it surprises you! The theme returns here for the first time since the beginning of the CD. Only this time, the theme is faster and louder than before. The choir returns later in the track for a brief period. This track can get loud and harsh at times, but it is still good. Track 10 uses the guitar to state the theme, and then the piano. Overall, this CD is a must have. I wish that Rabin used the theme more often throughout the CD and I wish the CD was longer than 30 minutes. That doesn't keep it from being a poor one at all. Even if you didn't like the "Armageddon" score, that shouldn't stop you from buying this CD. Buy it, you won't be disappointed!

I'll be honest. I DON'T like Trevor Rabin. I just havn't found much interesting in his music. But this time, he surprised me. track 1 is actually the finale, but it fits as the first track on the CD. Starts with a sort of synth piano that sounds just like a lab on the open sea. The track builds till it states the main theme. It then runs it again with a very likable choral backing. Though it sounds like every disaster movie in the book, it's a great track. track 2 is even better, starting out with a short quiet segment and then building up to an enormous statement of what I believe is the main theme with a giant thrilling choral blast. track 3 continues with more quiet (but enjoyable) stuff including a men's choir in low notes, then building again into action with brass and strings that go totally banannas along with a falling female/male choir that sounds like countless souls falling into hell. That is nearly the case. The track very well gives the feeling of the sheer terror of the shark attacks. track, the main title (for no reason in the middle of the disc) is largly uninteresting to me. tracks 5, 6, and 7 could all be one, because they are so much alike. There is not much really memorable about hem, but they are enjoyable. Track 8 is complete mess of low key versions of the Sharks Theme. Track 9 is the best of all. Beginning with an enmormouse blast of full orchestra that flattens you in your seat and makes you jump out of it at the same time. Continuing to a sort of march that is really thrilling and then giving a a sudden burst of fast moving strings that must have been incredibly hard to play. Theres also a choral outburst, and then a rather bouncy, heroic version of the main theme with a wonderful percussion backing.( A lot of people ask about this part: this where the cook picks himself up over the concrete and gets the speargun.)There is lots of great choir in the rest of the track as well.Track 10 is just a bit of guitar mostly. All and all, an excellent listen, though I prefer to mostly listen to just a few select tracks and the disc is rather short.

"Deep Blue Sea" was a really good movie, made even better my a truly excellent score by Trevor Rabin, probably known most for his scoring of "Armageddon" and "The Rock" and other Bruckheimer/Bay films. The songs on this all-too short (thank Varese Sarabande for that- can they ever produce more than a few CD's that are more than a half-hour in length! Geez!) are not in order as they appear in the movie. In fact, if memory serves me, the first track "Aftermath" is the last sone to play in the movie. Consequently, it is perhaps one of the best orchestrated choral works ever composed . . . I know, I wasn't thing too much of it either, but this CD completely shocked me! The LA Master Chorale, who does the Choral work on this CD is absolutely flawless and they give such a singular element to the music that it really makes you jump up and realize how important chorus's can be, peroid. The rest of the tracks on the CD are excellent as well. The mood of the Sharks is expressed perfectly in the music: rabid, murderous, and pulse-pounding to the maximum. "Anarchy" is just that: an anarchy of instruments going crazy on each other as the viscious sharks attack. Whereas "Jaws" was more subtle in it's shark themes of attack and death and destruction, which fitted the intent of the little-seen shark, "Deep Blue Sea"'s sharks which were right out there in your face, ripping you to pieces, not because of survival or for food, but because they wanted to- is expressed perfectly in this CD. There's not much melody or theme to go with the wild savage mood of the movie, so beware if you're only into straight-fare score music like John Barry or James Horner compositions. "Deep Blue Sea" is one of the greatest soundtracks ever, even if it's only 30 minutes or so long. A definite buy.

I got the CD of Deep Blue Sea and was shocked when the CD finished within 30 minutes. The Trevor Rabin were very rythmic that's nice about it. The problem was nice cues were removed from the soundtrack such as the scene in the film where the red clipper plane lands at the habitat, and the best cue in the film the ending, where that shark wrangler was riding the shark it wasn't in the CD as well. I felt something was missing after listening to this, it wasn't as good as Armageddon, though some cues were removed from that the whole album didn't feel like it was too short. I just hope in the future work of rabin he won't disappoint me again by leaving out 30 second cues that could have made the difference.

I feel that Trevor Rabin's best score is Deep Blue Sea. It was good for him to explore something besides brainless Bruckheimer action movies and do this film. The score is action-packed, thrilling, creepy, moody, and extravagent. But you wouldn't know that if you just purchased this disc and didn't watch the film. God should punish those at Varase Sarabande who took this awesome score and cut it into two pieces and put one half on the disc, while the other floats in space somewhere. Let's not forget that THE BEAST score, also by Varase, clocked in at 72 minutes. SEVENTY-TWO!!!!!! In my opinion, if it possible to put an hour and twelve minutes onto a CD, every disc should be that long, ESPECIALLY these masterworks by Rabin. This disc is missing music from these scenes. Carter and the tiger shark sequence------ When the huge shark swims beneath Sam Jackson and Jaqueline McKinzie-------the Gen 2 busts through the steel door and the shark lurks into the hole in the flank of the habitat outside------- when Preacher is first persued by the shark-------Preacher swimming to the stove, and the rest of the music from the stove scene-----The entire elevator shaft sequence------- Scoggins and Carter in the wet lab----- Susan's encounter in her flooded room----- the big shark senses Susan in the water----- All music from after Preacher takes a shot at the shark till the end. But that is just the cons. What IS on the disc is actually quite good. Aftermath is a great heroic theme. But the best part of the entire score just does happen to be on the disc. A whole 5 minutes of rousing action, chaos, and disaster music can be experienced in track 9, "Anarchy." It truly redeems the disc as a whole and makes it worth the buy. Hey, it's better to have some that none!

I think that the movie was really good and one of the reasons it was so perfect was the music. A scary movie is nothing without the music. This soundtrack has all the right stuff. All those tunes that last 5 seconds but you want them to last forever are included. Anarchy and Main are the best. But what about the part in the movie where Thomas Jane is trapped in wet lab and you see the shark rushing down the staircase toward him. The music for that part is nowhere. Also, the part where the two percussion hits play in the movie where LL is in the kitchen and sees the oven is loud and sharp and intense. In the sountrack, the two hits are weaker, and probably aren't percussion at all. Other than that, this is the best music score I've ever heard, better than speed.

Trevor Rabin's score was what made Deep Blue Sea. The standout tracks are definately 'track 3' Journey, and 'track 9' Anarchy which are the main action cues. Also 'track 4' and 'track 7' are great as they build up a suspensful atmosphere to a striking finale. The soundtrack is a worthy buy even if it runs for little over 30 minutes and doesn't include some of the best score pieces in the movie: the elevator sequence and the finale.

Deep Blue Sea was one of my most entertaining movies. Trevor Rabin's movie score was an even bigger hit on the head for me. If you didn't already know, Trevor Rabin was a part of the 80's group, Yes! Since branching out on his own, he has kept himself busy with movie score projects like Armageddon, Deep Blue Sea and Bad Boys II to name a few. When the movie and its accompanying soundtrack was released in 1999, I wasn't even aware that Varese Sarabande had released the movie's score album too.
Back to the review at hand, kudos goes to Rabin for this score album. If you have seen the movie, you'll know what I'm talking about. The only problem that I found with this was that the song pieces were too short, and that it was missing the "Deep Blue Sea Montage" from the soundtrack.
Overall, and in conclusion, two thumbs up for Trevor Rabin and for his musical contribution to Deep Blue Sea. If you don't have this, what are you waiting for? Go get this CD!

Well, Rabin's Armageddon was stunning, but this blows even that out of the water! It gives the feeling that something is out there, coming right for you, and the only way to stop it is to kill it. But when it arrives, look out. It's going to get right in your face and rip you to pieces just because it can!! The movie kicks major butt, but without Rabin's contribution in the area of audio appeal, it would've been in hot water for sure. Don't miss this one for anything