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The Silence Of The Lambs: The Original Motion Picture Score

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This album is fine...well produced.

i just wanted to point out that the song which Buffalo Bill Jame Gumb is playing while applying the skin suit, and Catherine gets the poodle with teh bucket...the name of this song is "Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazzarus. and its spelled just like that. Another reviewer mistakenly titled it as "Alone" by Colin Newman....i found that song and it definitely isn't the correct song for that scene. don't even remember that being in the movie....oh well. Anyway, i hope i've helped some other's out.

"Goodbye Horses,
I'm flying over you.
Goodbye horses,
I'm flying over you
Goodbye Horses,
I'm flying over you.
Goodbye horses,
I'm flying over you
Goodbye horses,
I'm flying, flying, flying over youooooooo-ooo-oooooooooo"

You can't mess with the music of Howard "Lord of the Rings" Shore. My friend's college roommate used to play this soundtrack over and over to creep people out. It loses a star for the exclusion of Q. Lazzarus's "Goodbye Horses," the song accomanying Buffalo Bill during his famous "tuck" dance. Please don't be mislead by numerous commentators on this page that claim this song is originally by Psyche. They did a poor cover version of it. The original is by Q. Lazzarus, and I believe it will be on the "Clerks II" soundtrack in a few weeks.

Besides the Q Lazarus song, Goodbye Horses, the song that is playing while Gumb is sewing the skin suit is called "Alone" by Colin Newman. Colin was/is the main singer for the seminal British group, WIRE (who've been together on and off now since 1977). "Alone" is from his first solo album, A to Z (released in 1982, a brilliant slab of post-punk dementia). A to Z, was Colin's best most fully realised solo effort, and one of my favorite albums ever. I don't know if it was ever released on CD, but it is worth seeking out.

If you like movie scores buy the soundtrack. If you want "Goodbye Horses" by Q. Lazzarus go to Limewire and it is available for download. It's a great song. Also- American Girl(by Tom Petty), Alone(Colin Newman) These were also in the movie. Hope this helps. You can also get those songs on Limewire. I've found that practally anything that was not on a soundtrack could be found on that site!

The tuck song "Goodbye Horses" by Q. Lazzarus also appears on the Married to the Mob soundtrack.

An ambient and well constructed movie that helped make "The Silence of the lambs" one of the best films of the 1990's. The chilling music is in a league of its own, the use of sound effects is well put together. The music gave the movie a chilling darkness that few other pictures have matched. Shows how important a good soundtrack is to a successful and acclaimed movie.

I think the music you're after is Bach's Goldberg Variations: Aria. Enjoy! Now, where's that karma....

Psyche is the name of the band that we hear in the movie singing the cool song as Jamie Gum is dancing. It is called "Goodybe Horses" and it is on the CD "Endangered Species". Good Luck finding it.

The song that Buffalo Bill dances to as he dresses up is none other than "Goodbye Horses" by Psyche. It can be found on their anthology "Legacy" which is available on iTunes. It can also be found on the forthcoming "Clerks II" soundtrack.

"The Silence of the Lambs" Howard Shore's score was almost overlooked back in 1991 because of the huge furore surrounding the other achievements of this exceptional thriller, most notably the performances. Although that's understandable, after repeat viewings it becomes apparent just how important Shore's score is. He steers away from too much incidental music, instead using his cues to embellish the scenes which are scored, something most film composers fail to do. Incidental music is usually subordinate to imagery and therefore fails to create any sense of atmosphere beyond what is visual. Most of us forget that when we go to 'see' a movie, we are also listening to it (well, a lot of us are). And so Shore's score is as perfect for this film as Herrmann's was for Psycho. There are no catchy themes to speak of with the exception of one motif, yet this music is hard to switch off because it is tonally perfect for the structure of the story. The best piece is probably the closing theme, at once brooding and exhiliarating, final and wonderous. A great work.