Jaws: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

John Williams (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 21, 1992)
• Original Release Date: June 20, 1975
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000002NZU
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,459 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title (Theme From 'Jaws')

2. Chrissie's Death

3. Promenade (Tourists On The Menu)

4. Out To Sea

5. The Indianapolis Story

6. Sea Attack Number One

7. One Barrel Chase

8. Preparing The Cage

9. Night Search

10. The Underwater Siege

11. Hand To Hand Combat

12. End Title (Theme From 'Jaws')

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Watch It! Here Comes The Shark!, May 26, 2000

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Luis M. Ramos "Soundtrack and Film Freak" (Caracas, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jaws: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

The leitmotive for "Jaws" keeps you scared. Every time you hear it, you know that the shark is coming. John Williams' music keeps the listener in constant suspense. The main title is chilling. The chase cues ("Sea Attack Number One" and "One Barrel Chase") are propulsive and exciting. You can feel the real fright as you hear "Night Search" and "The Indianapolis Story". All in all, this is one of Williams' most exciting scores. Dare go into the water, anyone?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jaws...A great soundtrack the fits the movie perfectly!, May 20, 2000

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Joseph Payne - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jaws: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Jaws...A fantastic score! As with many soundtracks, this score isn't the best when it comes to just plain listening to a soundtrack, but as Steven Spielburg has said, their probably hasn't been a movie as good as Jaws that the music goes along so well with! Jaws was orginally written in 1975, and is deffinately one of the main soundtracks that made John Williams popular. It is often rare to find music on Jaws that is not tense...This soundtrack is all about tense music! The music gives you a clear picture of just what is going on during the movie, and you can always picture "the shark" coming towards you with the deep strings in the background going up and down the scales. The main title from Jaws starts with that same deep sound of strings in the background, and adventually, brass join in to give you a picture of "that same old shark." Even though Jaws is a tense score, tracks such as "Out to sea" or very inspirational, and believe it or not, it even reminds me of the soundtrack to E.T. in many ways. Another track that isn't quite so tense is 7, "One Barrel Chase", which has much the same style as "Out to Sea." (Although it does start with Jaws' theme) The music of this soundtrack brings out the movie so incredibly well that listening to Jaws is basically watching the movie in a different way. If you like tense, sea-sounding music, this soundtrack is for you.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get Them BOTH!!!, April 29, 2006

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C.T. Chase "cchase8860" (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Jaws: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

I've been reading a lot of people's displeasure at this version of the seminal soundtrack, and I just wanted to leap to its defense. Those who don't recognize this as the "real" soundtrack have a point; especially if you have heard the new 25th Anniversary version, which does contain the music actually used in the movie.

But those people probably weren't around for the original release of the movie, and this version of the soundtrack in conjunction with it. I was, and I can tell you as someone who (like everyone else at the time) ran out and bought this...I don't feel like this re-recording blunted or distorted the effect of the music one bit. The memories of the film that it helped me recall each time I listened to it were just as bone-chilling and terrifying when they were supposed to be.

In fact, because the earlier version was more an evocation of the film's essence, rather than the music that actually enhanced the visuals, a lot more nuances and a lot of the primal essence was brought out here than with the "true" soundtrack.

I'm not one to fall victim to the obvious calculation of marketing tactics, but in this case I would strongly recommend that the die-hard movie soundtrack lover purchase BOTH versions. Think of this one as the "concert" version, and the new one as the "true" soundtrack. Either way, hey, how can you go wrong? It's JAWS, and it's John Williams, for cripes' sake! Either way, just enjoy...and appreciate the fact that you can listen to this music while having a snack...instead of BEING one...