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First Blood: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1982 Film)

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This is a new Varese Sarabande printing of the old Intrada release. It's basically the same stuff only with a new packaging. The soundtrack itself(although too short) is too cool for words. I was so much in love with this when I first bought it that I never thot about buying the score to the sequel because I was too busy listening to this over and over.

The main theme is empathic and patriotic and makes us feel what Rambo is feeling, which is sadness and despair. The action tracks are red hot. "The Razor" is amazing and builds up to a powerful and pressurized explosion of fury as Rambo lays waste to the cops. Other notable tracks are "Over the Cliff" and "Hanging On". This is a CD filled (but not full enough) of action and adventure that will surely excite you. This is very much deserving of 5 stars.

Arguabley one of Jerry Goldsmith's best, if not, most recognizable scores.

The score to "First Blood" is an inspiration that has classic status written all over it, & every time hear the haunting opening theme to "First Blood", I can't help but think of all the veterans that have fallen in combat.

The best tracks are the opening credits (Rambo finds out about his fallen comrade), the escape (the sequence in the film where Rambo busts out of jail. David Morrell, the author of the book, states in the audio commentary of the DVD release to "First Blood" that the music cue where Rambo comes busting out of the door to the Sheriff's Dept. is one of his personal favorites in the film. I agree).

My only small gripe with the score is, it isn't consistent with the film, in the respects that, the score doesn't go through from beginning to end, but is sporadic with pieces of music put together to make one overall track (i.e. some small pieces of music that is at the beginning of the film is interspersed or blends into another piece of the score that is at the end of the film & vice versa).

The score is rounded out with the great Dan Hill track "It's A Long Road". I still can't figure out why this wasn't released as a single, it has so much potential (maybe somebody can do a remake of it?).
If your curious about great film composer's Jerry Goldsmith is not to be overlooked. This is a must score to have.

First Blood is icredible!Agueibly Goldsmith`s greatest work!Every song you can listen to over and over again.Jerry Goldsmith really put the music together in this one and the the Long Road song by Dan Hill is a true classic!This soundtrack rules!!!

There are a lot of incredible moments in Jerry Goldsmith's score for "First Blood". The action cues are truly spectacular, specially 'Escape Route', 'First Blood', and 'Hanging On'. And I'm truly amazed how Goldsmith combines them with tender moments ('Home Coming' and 'My Town') for a character who is trying to look for one of his war buddies, but ends up being chased by the police of one little town for no reason whatsoever. Certainly there are great suspense moments, most notably 'Mountain Hunt', where John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) tries to escape from his pursuers; however those moments make the pace of the album a bit slow.
In the end, this is a good album. At first, I was puzzled at looking the names of Jerry Goldsmith and Sylvester Stallone together in the same poster, but this combination has resulted in some of the maestro's finest action scores ever.

This is must have film music for any serious collector of scores. What Goldsmith did with this score is amazing. Capturing the essence of John Rambo's lonely walk in "Home Coming" immediately let's the audience know that this is no fairytale happy-ending story. There are a number of great themes throughout the album including "Escape Route" and "Over The Cliff". Rounding things out is "It's A Long Road" sung by Dan Hill in what has to be one of the finest "end credit" songs that I've ever heard. The lyrics fit the film perfectly and Dan Hill does a great job with the vocals.

In fact, the only complaint that I have about this album is the horrible arrangement of the tracks. The cues are mixed and matched in a random fashion that has little to do with the chronological order of the film. Other than that, this is still some of the best film music that you can get your hands on.

The film score as a viable piece of music has suffered greatly over the past twenty years. Where, in the 1960s, Quincy Jones, Lalo Shiffrin, and, composer of this score, Jerry Goldsmith, made album long scores that worked as jazz and classical albums, great ones, we are now dulled on microwave rock soundtracks or almost inaudible electronic seaweed. The last great score I heard was Sideways by Rolfe Kent and the sad note is that this is the exception.


Jerry Goldsmith worked in film scoring since the 1950s, and you probably know his work even if you don't know you know. Patch Of Blue, Planet Of The Apes-the 1968 one-you could build a great if microscopic music collection on just Goldsmith's scores. (While we're at it, turning yourself onto sores by seeing films and seeing the films of scores you collect is the best catch 22 I can think of.)

First Blood is from 1982, but you would never know it. One test to use when evaluating film scores is: can you see the part of the movie the music is from when listening. Better yet, can you FEEL the emotion you did when you saw the scene.

Yes Yes Yes is the answer with First Blood, a film where a Vietnam Green Beret is chased by a small town police chief and a band of rednecks, including a sadistic deputy.

Good movie from when America was trying to begin coming to grips with its defeat in Southeast Asia. We had not yet learned to separate the unpopularity of a war from the way we treat our troops, something we are hopefully doing better as our service people return from Iraq and Afganistan

The movie is a chase, quite a horrifying one, and so is Goldsmith's score. This is booming orchestral music with fear inducing crescendos, and dark soft dynamics, black as a rural night. The barbed piano cluster: Rambo climbing a hill? The steps in his mind to kill them all?

Goldsmith really never had a style other than to fit the best score to a given film, and when you listen to First Blood, you will be hard pressed to find when he did his job better.

I love to buy movie soundtracks, I love listening to them while I am working around the house and I can hear the music and see the movie in my mind's eye. With this soundtrack it has it's elegant momoent and then it's hard driving, gut wrenching moments and you feel like you are transformed right back into the movie, nott just watching it,but right back into this powerful movie with it's powerful message. I love the Rambo movies, and wish that life could be like this and maybe in some secret agency somewhere there is a man, who it like him doing brave and courageous deeds that we will never know about, because he is not doing them to become known about, but because it is the right thing to do.This CE is definitely worth owning and I am glad I do.

Hi all,

I received First Blood Soundtrack CD one week ago. Jerry Goldsmith greatest music ever start from here, so if you didn't listen to the whole First Blood Soundtrack CD..... I can say that you didn't listen to real music before!!.

Regards,

Ibrahim

Ser? breve. It's a Long Road, en sus versiones instrumentales y en la versi?n cantada de Dan Hill, hacen que merezca la pena comprar este disco.Una Joyita.

This soundtrack took action music to a new level. Goldsmith has created some of the best suspense music ever. From the soundtracks that I have heard, First Blood is Goldsmith's crowning achievement.