Logan's Run [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [Soundtrack]

Jerry Goldsmith (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 4, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Film Score Monthly
• ASIN: B0006SSQ5W
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,164 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dome / The City / Nursery - Jerry Goldsmith

2. Flameout

3. Fatal Games

4. On the Circuit

5. The Assignment / Lost Years

6. She'll Do It / Let Me Help

7. Crazy Ideas

8. A Little Muscle

9. Terminated in Cathedral

10. Intensive Care

11. Love Shop

12. They're Watching / Doc Is Dead

13. The Key / Box

14. Ice Sculpture

15. The Sun

16. The Monument

17. The Truth

18. You're Renewed

19. The Journey Back / The Beach

20. Return to the City / Apprehensions

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another masterwork, January 6, 2005

By 

Neil Shurley "thatneilguy" (Greenville, SC USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Logan's Run [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

Jerry Goldsmith created soundscapes that sometimes surpassed the films they were written for in evoking emotions and revealing character. For Logan's Run, Goldsmith came up with one of his most brilliant creations. It opens with stark, electronic sounds, effectively mirroring the cold future society depicted in the film. Only when Logan breaks out of the domed city and into the natural world does Goldsmith allow the full orchestra to come in, warming up the music just as Logan's worldview expands. This release finally captures the full range and power of the score in pristine sound. And, heck, I even like the Love Theme tacked on at the end...

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of Goldsmith's greatest achievements, October 15, 2007

By 

Stuart Paine (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logan's Run [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

LOGAN'S RUN is a significant score, in my opinion one of Goldsmith's very best, and certainly among the most memorable sci-fi scores ever - a unique listening experience with lots of "futuristic" electronic sound, all of it beautifully constructed. Most of the music derives from or interpolates a simple thematic conjunction of two 3-note motives which form a very non-tonal "melody". For example: B - C - D flat / B - C - D. This "melody" is inverted, too, and it's just about everywhere throughout the score.

During the first half of the film, in reflecting life within the dome the writing is almost entirely for synthesizer or strings (maybe with percussive piano). Later, at the point where the two protagonists (Michael York and Jenny Agutter) escape to the outside and for the first time experience the natural world, Goldsmith's palette becomes the full orchestra. At that moment, a theme which had been introduced in the fourth cue, "On the Circuit", suddenly bursts into color in "The Sun". It is reprised in "The Monument" and again in "End of the City". This may be Goldsmith's most yearning and romantic melody; it's almost agonizingly beautiful.

This disc has about every note JG wrote for the film and the cues are sequenced properly, too - a fabulous release from the good folks at Film Score Monthly. Highly, HIGHLY recommended!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Answer to a Dream, March 14, 2011

By 

JDGtimp/perc - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Logan's Run [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

Many thanks to Screen Archives/Film Score Monthly for this superbly remastered CD reissue (with every last cue from the film in story sequence, no less) of my favorite flm score of all time. I have zealously protected my vinyl copy of this score since I purchased it in July 1976 in my hometown, Memphis, Tennessee. I am a profesional timpanist and percussionist in the greater Central New York area and I have been following film music since 1970. The first 75 or so seconds of the cue entitled "The Sun" literally comprises my favorite piece of film scoring to this day. "The Monument" and "End of the City" are also world-class Goldsmithian writing. I should also comment that the liner notes are uniformly superb and insightful. The section entitled "A Score Renewed" is particularly meaningful. I intend to order a second copy in the near future as a backup for my personal collection. I cannot recommend this product too highly to afficiandos of film music in general and Jerry Goldsmith followers in particular. Enjoy!