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MemberOvomorphMay-13-2012 5:29 PMSorry if someone already did this but...
Intrigued about the actual significance of the "Prometheus" soundtrack titles to the movie plot, I gave a look to the "Alien" soundtrack.
Actually there are two "Alien" soundtracks: the first ("original track listing") is the soundtrack launched with the movie, the second ("Complete edition track listing") was lauchend years later. The titles of the original track are not much revealing of the whole story, but those of the complete track, specially the first CD, are.
My conclusion is that if the recently released score titles from Prometheus have the same relationship to the plot than the CD 1 of the complete soundtrack to Alien plot, we are in the dark, because the titles only make sense if you already know the plot, but are pretty enigmatic if you´re a non-initiated. What do you think?
[b]Original track listing[/b]
"Main Title" (3:30)
"The Face Hugger" (2:32)
"Breakway" (3:00)
"Acid Test" (4:35)
"The Landing" (4:29)
"The Droid" (4:40)
"The Recovery" (2:44)
"The Alien Planet" (2:28)
"The Shaft" (3:57)
"End Title" (3:02)
[b]Complete edition track listing[/b]
Disk 1
"Main Title" (4:12)
"Hyper Sleep" (2:46)
"The Landing" (4:31)
"The Terrain" (2:21)
"The Craft" (1:00)
"The Passage" (1:49)
"The Skeleton" (2:30)
"A New Face" (2:35)
"Hanging On" (3:39)
"The Lab" (1:05)
"Drop Out" (0:57)
"Nothing To Say" (1:52)
"Cat Nip" (1:01)
"Here Kitty" (2:08)
"The Shaft" (4:31)
"It's A Droid" (3:28)
"Parker's Death" (1:51)
"The Eggs" (2:24)
"Sleepy Alien" (1:04)
"To Sleep" (1:56)
"The Cupboard" (3:05)
"Out The Door" (3:13)
"End Title" (3:09)
"Main Title" (Rescored Alternate) (4:11)
"Hyper Sleep" (Rescored Alternate) (2:45)
"The Terrain" (Rescored Alternate) (0:58)
"The Skeleton" (Rescored Alternate) (2:31)
"Hanging On" (Rescored Alternate) (3:08)
"The Cupboard" (Rescored Alternate) (3:12)
"Out The Door" (Rescored Alternate) (3:02)
Disk 2
"Main Title" (3:37)
"The Face Hugger" (2:36)
"Breakaway" (3:03)
"Acid Test" (4:40)
"The Landing" (4:31)
"The Droid" (4:44)
"The Recovery" (2:50)
"The Alien Planet" (2:30)
"The Shaft" (4:01)
"End Title" (3:09)
"Main Title" (film version) (bonus) (3:44)
"The Skeleton" (alternate take) (bonus) (2:34)
"The Passage" (demonstration excerpt) (bonus) (1:54)
"Hanging On" (demonstration excerpt) (bonus) (1:08)
"Parker's Death" (demonstration excerpt) (bonus) (1:07)
"It's A Droid" (unused inserts) (bonus) (1:27)
"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" (source) (bonus) (1:49)
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Reimer
MemberOvomorphMay-14-2012 10:39 AMYes, you're right and the titles of the cues on the forthcoming Streitenfeld score likely summarise the plot's modules in a cryptic, mixed-up manner.
I don't have great hopes for the score, the composer's name meaning little to me other than as a Scott underling, and more generally there being so little memorable film music from Hollywood in such a long time (ditto the films themselves). I thought Goldsmith's score was great though he didn't hold it in much regard himself according to the small sidebar that is all this major element of 'Alien' gets in the supposedly-last-word-on-subject 'Vault' book. Ditto the sound-design (though at least Scott gives this its due in his DVD commentary).
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