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Robocop: Prime Directives - Music from the MiniSeries

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The music on the CD was pretty sweet. The problem I had was that most of the music were repeated. Most of the music uses the same tunes. It's as if the composer took some of the previous tracks on the CD and composed another couple tracks with them. The music does have that dark type feeling just like the RoboCop: PD movies. There are some awesome scores on this CD like [07] Pursuit. This music is fast paced and has that really nice beat to it.

Overall, I'd recommend you listen to it. It's not that bad of a soundtrack. Pretty nice cover too.

Excellent work by composer Norman Orenstien. This soundtrack is very effective in the RoboCop: Prime Directives movies, and perhaps is just as effective on its own. The highlights of the soundtrack are "Prime Directives Overture," "Death of a Hero," "Young Murphy," and "Pursuit."

How totally inappropriate is this music? Nothing like Poledouris' score or even Rosenman's RoboCop 2 score. In fact it's probably the most unthematic music I've ever heard. I cannot possibly think what kind of movie or mini-series this CD might fit. It's all over the place. And not even in an exciting way.

Spanish trumpets, the kind you hear at bullfights, are used too often and of course such an instrument being used to announce the arrival of RoboCop is baffling. The rest of the score sounds like rejected music from the British 1980's TV series 'World in Action'. I'm not kidding, it's appalling. Stay away. Well away. Nothing at all like Poledouris' score at all or even the TV series score which used his theme to at least mediocre effect.