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The Terminator

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If you like 80s synthesizer music, you'll love the Terminator soundtrack. The pop stuff by Tryanglz and others is good, and the instrumental stuff is great...if that's your kind of music (it sure is mine). I guess now this stuff seems like kind of an amusing relic, but then it was seriously high-tech. I loved the music from this soundtrack then, and I still love it.

The vocal stuff on this soundtrack is typical L.A. 1980s music, a la Missing Persons or Berlin (I can't really describe it better). The instrumental stuff is very "Planet of the Apes '68" with more synthesizer: kind of creepy and scary, and, for the time, pretty avant garde.

If that sounds like your thing, you'll love this. If it's not, you should pass on it.

A very good CD. Remember all that suspense in the movie ? Now you can get it in your own home... Liste to the DC and you'll get amazed !

Being more of fan of "Terminator 2", I was never really interested in this soundtrack.... But when I received a gift certificate I bought used the left over money from the certificate to order this CD along with another one...that was definitely a bargain, as I have not yet regretted buying this CD.

The music has quite familiar tunes from the 1980's, and classic Terminator music theme that was also present in the blockbuster sequel of the movie.

This movie and the soundtrack paved the road for the sequel and other sci-fi movies. Its not the best of soundtracks but a soundtrack connoisseur can always include this title in their collection for the Sci-fi movies made in the 80's or in anyone who enjoyed that era of music.

Brad Fidel had an arsenal of cool analog gear at his disposal when he setup to make the music for the first Terminator. The result was 45 minutes of unadulterated analog bliss. You'll hear Oberheim OB-Xa, SCI Prophet-10, Linndrum, DMX and Emulator noises all over this thing, and it was recorded back in the day when artists simply plugged in their gear and hit record. Just listen to the Police Station scene. That's nothin but OB-Xa pumpin out those sweet low end notes as the voices retrigger in different pan positions. The Terminator Arrival also features the OBXa holding down that haunting low D with a Prophet-10 providing the percussive pulse.

Of course, you gotta love the music he wrote. Future Remembered is simply genius. The main title rocks. People say the music sounds like dated 1980s cheese Let's hear it for the boy music. Well I say no way. No one ever complains that a grand piano sounds dated and that thing was made hundreds of years ago. So a phat monster analog gunship like the Prohet-10 sounds as fresh as a spring day in May in my book. Great CD!