Which Alien score was the best?

[FiorinaFury161]

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Followed by an extremely close 2nd:

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[Vrastal]

Alien and Aliens were both fantastic. extremely hard choice

[Gilfryd]

The score to Alien is what I imagine space to sound like.

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯]

The Alien alternate cues are really brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZCNeNPTvDo#

[Local Trouble]

The score to Alien is what I imagine space to sound like.

Outland is good companion score to that one.

[LastSurvivor92]

The score to Alien is what I imagine space to sound like.

Outland is good companion score to that one.

I also thought Gravity did well with the sound and the soundtrack. Some marvelous stuff in that film.

[whiterabbit]

I voted for aliens just because it was the most bad ass of the series. Alien had a wonderful score too. I don't remember much from A³ or A|R. Prometheus was a total let down as the movie progressed.

[Corporal Hicks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtUUxu0QiyM#

I was always very fond of this track from A3. And the opening track.

And let's not forget this gem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPzRI555Uwo#

God, I loved the soundtrack for this game.

[Vepariga]

Alien 3.

Then Alien.

[SpreadEagleBeagle]

ALIEN³ closely followed by ALIEN.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Toss up between the first and third. They are both brilliant pieces of work. Aliens has too many bits of temp track copying and "homage" (read: polite way of saying Horner ripped off other works, including his own). Still a terrifically exciting and colorful score, though. Resurrection is very good and works great on disc in its complete form, but its not quite in the league of the first three. And Prometheus has some good bits but is mostly dull modern score writing, flatly mixed and recorded. I like Streitenfeld's original main theme a good deal (shows up in "A Planet", "Space Jockey", etc), before it was shafted for the new Star Trek-y "Life" theme.

I'd be a bit easier on Prometheus, myself, but otherwise completely agreed.

[RobThom]

The Alien score seems to be the best.

Although a lot of the cues ended up being reused place holders.
But I cant watch Freud by Jorgen Huston without getting the creeps after completely and effectively rebranding that cue.

Just to surmise, this was another by product of a much youger Ridley making his bones and trying harder.
At least trying harder to emulate Kubrick who was a master of music in film unmatched until PTA.

Ridley would kill it even further with BR which is a stand alone musical monument to this day.
Just as respected as an album outside of the equally respected movie.

I'd have to say that alienS is the second best.
The cues are probably what I'm most fond of about that movie.

They're actually pretty good and do more for me then the script or direction.

[Nightmare Asylum]

If possible that is?.

[Gash]

Ridley would kill it even further with BR which is a stand alone musical monument to this day.
Just as respected as an album outside of the equally respected movie.

At yet at the time of release I can recall one of the many criticisms leveled at Blade Runner was that it's music was too prevalent and that it was rehashing Chariots of Fire. Nonsense of course in retrospect, but can be attributed to Iain Johnston on Film 82. Maybe he revised his opinion in later years.

[RobThom]

At yet at the time of release I can recall one of the many criticisms leveled at Blade Runner was that it's music was too prevalent and that it was rehashing Chariots of Fire. Nonsense of course in retrospect, but can be attributed to Iain Johnston on Film 82. Maybe he revised his opinion in later years.

To this day I've never seen Chariots of Fire.
I read the premise in wikipedia,
which sounded interesting,
but apparently even as a child I tend to not be swayed by popular culture.

What I find even more interesting is that the NY/HW "critics" who hated BR,
LIKED the P word?!

It got almost universal love on RT.

There is an inversed logic to respect about that.