Science Fiction Movie Themes (Film Score Anthology) [Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 11, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Delta
• ASIN: B000001VLQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,306 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Theme

2. Theme

3. Theme

4. Theme

5. Theme

6. Theme

7. Theme

8. Theme

9. Theme

10. Theme

11. Theme

12. Theme

13. Theme

14. Theme

15. Theme

Editorial Reviews

This CD is featuring various artists

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too synthetic!, April 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Science Fiction Movie Themes (Film Score Anthology) (Audio CD)

This is actually a re-release of a CD that originally offered several more tracks, including "The Twilight Zone" and a jazzy variation on "2001."

This version offers no substitutes for the missing tracks, and the new arrangements of the surviving tunes are lifeless interpretations pumped out of a sytnthesized orchestra.

The kiddies might like the upbeat tempos, though.

Caveat emptor!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Various Artists - DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT!, September 6, 2008

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L.D.Bronstein - See all my reviews

This review is from: Science Fiction Movie Themes (Film Score Anthology) (Audio CD)

The (Rather tacky) disk case and this page say "Various Artists," but DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT! In fact everything on here is by Neil Norman and his Cosmic Orchestra, an instrumental rock group that's been playing cover versions of SF themes for going on 30 years now.

I realize saying "Instrumental rock covers" makes it sound kind of interesting, but again, DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT! The band were, are, and evermore shall be a terrible, terrible band, playing horrible versions of these themes.

Worse yet, Norman et al frequently recycle their work as this kind of album without anything on the case to indicate who they are, so if you buy these kinds of anthologies, you can easily get burned and end up buying the same Cosmic Orchestra junk two and three times over, in different forms. (I, myself, have bought 4 NN&HCO albums since 1981, and it's always annoying.)

Yeah, yeah, I know: my railing against this album, this band, and the evils therein make it sound pretty interesting. "How bad could it be?" you're thinking. "I mean, there's copies going on here for 25 cents, if it's THAT bad, I'm kind of tempted to check it out, just for perversity's sake..." well, again, DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT!

It's not nearly good, but ultimately a failure, it's not intriguingly bad, it's not bad music that makes a good cautionary example, it's not bad in a way that makes it oddly charming, as with albums by The Sharks, it's not 'so bad it's good', it's just bad, really bad, the platonic ideal of bad in its most perfect form. I realize some of you are tempted by this to check it out just to see what I'm railing against, but one last time, DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT!

Yeah, used copies are going for only a quarter, but even that is overcharging you by a buck. They should PAY YOU to listen to this drek.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars IT STINKS, October 12, 2004

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Classic Trek Fan "JWB" (Hagerstown, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Science Fiction Movie Themes (Film Score Anthology) (Audio CD)

Disco sci-fi?? They got to be kidding. Stay away from this mess. The 1 star rating is false. It's the only way I could get this thru. It's really a big ZERO.