Forbidden Planet: Original MGM Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Louis Barron, Bebe Barron | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 1, 1956)
• Original Release Date: March 15, 1956
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: GNP Crescendo Records
• ASIN: B0000059UG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,581 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Titles-Overture

2. Deceleration

3. Once Around Altair

4. The Landing

5. Flurry Of Dust-A Robot Approaches

6. A Shangri-La In The Desert Garden With Cuddly Tiger

7. Graveyard-A Night With Two Moons

8. 'Robby, Make Me A Gown'

9. An Invisible Monster Approaches

10. Robby Arranges Flowers, Zaps Monkey

11. Love At The Swimming Hole

12. Morbius' Study

13. Ancient Krell Music

14. The Mind Booster-Creation Of Matter

15. Krell Shuttle Ride And Power Station

16. Giant Footprints In The Sand

17. 'Nothing Like This Claw Found In Nature'

18. Robby, The Cook, And 60 Gallons Of Booze

19. Battle With Invisible Monster

20. 'Come Back To Earth With Me'

See all 23 tracks on this disc

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Forbidden Planet by Louis And Bebe Barron

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars powerful electronic score, March 23, 2000

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H. F. Gibbard "Noir Guy" (Dark City, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forbidden Planet: Original MGM Soundtrack (Audio CD)

I know of only two films that are "haunted" by their film music: Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, and this one, Forbidden Planet. By "haunted," I mean that the film music forms an independent subtext about off-screen events, communicated directly to the viewer, which expresses something more profound than the emotions and experiences of the on-screen characters. In this film, the music is used to evoke a dead race, the Krell, that live on in their machines. We never see the Krell, but the ethereal music stands in for them. Listened to separate from the film, this score for Forbidden Planet has a visceral effect on the listener. Some of the tracks are loud and jarring; others lend themselves to quiet meditation. It's not film music in the traditional sense, but it's fun to listen to while the conscious mind is occupied elsewhere, say in reading or working.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A prototype, December 24, 2002

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Timothy P. Scanlon (Hyattsville, MDUSA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forbidden Planet: Original MGM Soundtrack (Audio CD)

This was a clever film, a sci fi rendition of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." A trekkie whom I dated in my single days referred to the film as a prototype of Star Trek.

So the film, shot when I was just a boy, was a prototype, in many ways ahead of its time. So, thusly, is the music.

While electronics have become a way of life in the "developed" world now--How long has it been since you've heard a phone "ring?"--in the mid 1950s, they were still fantasy. The film works simulataneously at three levels, the interstellar voyage of the characters, the far more advanced technology/prehistory of the Krell, and the subliminal, and very animal, instinctive id. The composers did a clever job of mixing electronic sound effects with a "musical" tone, some later mimicked by a number of minimalist composers, to develop the ambiance of these levels.

If you haven't seen the film, maybe that description will entice you to see it. And the soundtrack will remind you of they mystery and intrigue of the story.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No theremin used here folks., July 30, 2005

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J. C. Ray "Filmbuff" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forbidden Planet: Original MGM Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Louis & Bebe Baron, pioneers in electronic film music.
It is clearly stated in the album's liner notes that no theremin was used in the creation of this landmark score and with good reason, the artists actually created by hand specialty circuits (in keeping with the basis of cybernetics) to create either individual sounds or sometimes even a huge long circuit board for a complete musical piece, it took them almost a year to do the entire score.

Worth owning just for the historical significance but IMO it definitely has a musical flow to it that has artistic merit.