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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 16, 2005
I'll bet when you saw the comment "Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1" you hoped the DVD contained a bonus seperate audio soundtrack, which the producers could have probably fit on the disk - well, it does not - I would have rated this 5 stars. Unfortunately, there never was a soundtrack album produced for the Terrence Malick 1973 movie "Badlands", which lists at the top of its music credits "Musica Poetica - Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman"; so, the set below is as close as it gets. In addition to "Gassenhauer" (Street Song), the haunting main theme bookending the movie and throughout, at least 5 other "Badlands" pieces can, however, be found on this 1994 BMG release 09026 68031 2 (RCA Victor Red Seal) 6-CD box set version of the original Orff/Keetman recordings done between 1963 & 1975 on 10 LPs. The others I have found so far are: for Dad's dog lesson - "Musik zu einem Puppenspiel" (Music for a puppet play); for Kit's stockyard job - "Xylophonstucke" (Xylophone pieces); for the burning house - "Passion"; and, for the bounty hunters' just deserts - "Hexeneinmaleins" (Witches multiplication table).
vv - Update As of August 8, 2009 - vv
[CORRECTION] Not titled "Hexeneinmaleins" <the preceding song>, but "Die grauen Weiber" (The grey hags) {The latter's middle quiet passage accompanied only by the witches' whispers enhanced in the movie with some frenetic violin music to effectively heighten the action.}; and,
[ADDITION] for the helicopter take-off - "Mariae Geburt" (The Birth of the Virgin Mary).
^^ - Update As of August 8, 2009 - ^^
vv - temp Update As of August 15, 2009 - vv
[ADDITION] See my eB@y auctions ending soon under seller ID thedoorsguy for both the 6-CD set & the 10-LP set w/ Buy-It-Now Bonus mp3s of the 6 "Badlands" pieces!
^^ - temp Update As of August 15, 2009 - ^^
Please see my other reviews of the "True Romance" CD Soundtrack, "Musica Poetica", and "Orff Schulwerk". "True Romance" was written by Quentin Tarantino as his tribute to the Terrence Malick movie "Badlands", and Hans Zimmer's original compositions are a homage to the "Badlands" Musica Poetica gems. If you have not seen it, watch it not only for the great music, but also for the knockout cameo scenes with Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Tom Sizemore, Chris Penn, and James Gandolfini, not to mention the strong leading performances by Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Michael Rapaport, and Bronson Pinchot.
Here's the full soundtrack details for Badlands (1973):
"Musica Poetica"*
by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman
"Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire"
by Erik Satie
Theme "Migration"
by James Taylor
"A BLOSSOM FELL"
Written by H. Barnes, H. Cornelius, D. John
Performed by Nat "King" Cole
Courtesy of Capitol Records
"LOVE IS STRANGE"
Written by M. Baker, B. Smith, S. Robinson
Performed by Mickey and Sylvia
*Some tracks are on "The Best Of Carl Orff", BMG 75605 51357 2, 1999:
..Carmina Burana - highlights - about half the 1 hour long masterpiece.
..Schulwerk (School work) - excerpts (collaboration with Gunild Keetman)
.... Rundadinella
.... Guten Morgen, Spielmann (Gunild Keetman)
.... Der Wind, der weht
.... * Gassenhauer (Gunild Keetman)
.... Wer da bauet an der Strassen
.... Malaguena (Gunild Keetman)
.... C'est le mai
.... Carillon
.... Sommerkanon
.... Lügenmärchen
.... Stücke auf Ostinato (Gunild Keetman)
.... Schlaf, Kindleinm schlaf
.... * Passion
.... Tanzstück (Gunild Keetman)
vv - Update As of August 8, 2009 - vv
[CORRECTION] Not titled "Hexeneinmaleins" <the preceding song>, but "Die grauen Weiber" (The grey hags) {The latter's middle quiet passage accompanied only by the witches' whispers enhanced in the movie with some frenetic violin music to effectively heighten the action.}; and,
[ADDITION] for the helicopter take-off - "Mariae Geburt" (The Birth of the Virgin Mary).
^^ - Update As of August 8, 2009 - ^^
vv - temp Update As of August 15, 2009 - vv
[ADDITION] See my eB@y auctions ending soon under seller ID thedoorsguy for both the 6-CD set & the 10-LP set w/ Buy-It-Now Bonus mp3s of the 6 "Badlands" pieces!
^^ - temp Update As of August 15, 2009 - ^^
Please see my other reviews of the "True Romance" CD Soundtrack, "Musica Poetica", and "Orff Schulwerk". "True Romance" was written by Quentin Tarantino as his tribute to the Terrence Malick movie "Badlands", and Hans Zimmer's original compositions are a homage to the "Badlands" Musica Poetica gems. If you have not seen it, watch it not only for the great music, but also for the knockout cameo scenes with Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Tom Sizemore, Chris Penn, and James Gandolfini, not to mention the strong leading performances by Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Michael Rapaport, and Bronson Pinchot.
Here's the full soundtrack details for Badlands (1973):
"Musica Poetica"*
by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman
"Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire"
by Erik Satie
Theme "Migration"
by James Taylor
"A BLOSSOM FELL"
Written by H. Barnes, H. Cornelius, D. John
Performed by Nat "King" Cole
Courtesy of Capitol Records
"LOVE IS STRANGE"
Written by M. Baker, B. Smith, S. Robinson
Performed by Mickey and Sylvia
*Some tracks are on "The Best Of Carl Orff", BMG 75605 51357 2, 1999:
..Carmina Burana - highlights - about half the 1 hour long masterpiece.
..Schulwerk (School work) - excerpts (collaboration with Gunild Keetman)
.... Rundadinella
.... Guten Morgen, Spielmann (Gunild Keetman)
.... Der Wind, der weht
.... * Gassenhauer (Gunild Keetman)
.... Wer da bauet an der Strassen
.... Malaguena (Gunild Keetman)
.... C'est le mai
.... Carillon
.... Sommerkanon
.... Lügenmärchen
.... Stücke auf Ostinato (Gunild Keetman)
.... Schlaf, Kindleinm schlaf
.... * Passion
.... Tanzstück (Gunild Keetman)
