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jude111 
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Posted: March 20 2013 at 20:11 |
These are the tracks from the 2-disc version. The "other" button is for any key track that's your favorite that's yet to be included on any official release, the most significant of which includes the Prologue (also called Eye on the City), Spinner Ascent, Deckard Meets Rachael, Morning at the Bradbury, Bicycle Riders....
If you only have the 1 disc version, ignore the other tracks - the best are on the first disc for the most part.
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Posted: March 20 2013 at 20:46 |
Whoa, ... two-disc version? I don't have that.
Now if you limited it to just the one-disc version, it would be easily (though originally it wasn't that easy) "Blade Runner Blues", the heaven a human mind doesn't deserve.
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Posted: March 20 2013 at 20:52 |
 Dayvenkirq wrote:
Whoa, ... two-disc version? I don't have that.
Now if you limited it to just the one-disc version, it would be easily (though originally it wasn't that easy) "Blade Runner Blues", the heaven a human mind doesn't deserve. |
There's actually a 3-disc version  , but the 3rd disc is largely new music by Vangelis, and it's not really close to the Blade Runner sound. The 2nd disc is largely very mellow, most of it incidental music. What's missing (besides some great tracks) are some of the cool sound effects from the film, like that blimp with the Japanese woman, and that advert that goes something like, "A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, the chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure..."
Edited by jude111 - March 20 2013 at 20:56
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Posted: March 20 2013 at 21:53 |
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"Memories of Green" and "Blade Runner (End Titles)" are the tunes I identify with most from the movies.
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Posted: March 20 2013 at 22:19 |
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Don't have the two disc version. Need the two disc version, or rather the three disc version. Yeah. Blade Runner Blues just beats out Main Titles for me.
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Posted: March 20 2013 at 23:36 |
30TH Anniversary Celebration. New version 2012,
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Posted: March 20 2013 at 23:57 |
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^ Man, ... I already have one disc! ... Eh ... . Whatever. ... Guess I'll just have to purchase the three-disc one ... some time in the future.
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Posted: March 21 2013 at 07:57 |
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I have still never heard this soundtrack nor seen the movie. I should get on it soon.
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Posted: March 21 2013 at 08:10 |
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I could have gone with any number of these songs - Memories of Green, Blush Response, Wait for Me, Love Theme, and Blade Runner Blues (which I went with). The opening on the ROIO Esper Edition is just perfection itself (which is pretty much the opening of the film itself - I don't care for the official version's opening), and the ending on the official version is just as perfect, with the End Titles and Tears in Rain.
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Posted: March 21 2013 at 08:22 |
HolyMoly wrote:
I have still never heard this soundtrack nor seen the movie. I should get on it soon.
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Having been raised by a father who has been involved with film making ever since he was a wee lad, I may have been contaminated from the get-go, so reading a post like yours feels strangely perplexing... It's the same sort of thing I experienced talking to a newish friend of mine, who had never seen Indiana Jones  (Again with the Harrison Ford...)
Anyways - I think you should see the flick before checking out the soundtrack on its own.
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Posted: March 21 2013 at 11:29 |
hellogoodbye wrote:
30TH Anniversary Celebration. New version 2012, |
^^^Beware, that's actually performed by Edgar Rothermich, who studied Vangelis' score and recorded what he and the label felt was a close replica of the score. I have the 3CD version because I love this score and I concur, the 3rd disc of "new" music was disappointing. Not appalling, it's just not worth returning to after an initial listen. The other 2 CDs are worth the price of admission, however.
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Posted: March 21 2013 at 11:45 |
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Anyways - I think you should see the flick before checking out the soundtrack on its own. |
I agree; I can't even imagine the one without the other. That perfect marriage between film and music (as was 2001: A Space Odyssey). Strange that I find the 80s to be a dreadful decade for film, yet one of my all-time favorites comes from this time. (Otherwise, give me the late 60s and 70s: Bunuel, Rivette, Chabrol...) (Or the 90s to the present, for genre films like horror and sci-fi.) Oh, another all-time 80s favorite: Diva. Great music in that one too! 
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Posted: March 21 2013 at 12:42 |
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Posted: March 21 2013 at 14:18 |
Dayvenkirq wrote:
Strongly seconded.
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You mean thirded
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Posted: March 21 2013 at 14:33 |
What's the significance of the picture of the guy from The Office? Or is it just his expression of "did I really just hear that?"
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Posted: March 21 2013 at 16:54 |
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I like "Blush Response", "Wait For Me" and "Memories of Green" the most. "Love Theme" is also great. And "End Titles". Haven't heard the second disc.
Great movie, much because of the evocative music.
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Posted: March 22 2013 at 20:51 |
Hi,
Roy's last lines ... is exactly how I feel about a lot of music that is not remembered and understood, or worse, ever heard!
It is my number one movie of all time, and the fact that it has Vangelis, and so beautifully integrated into the film is what it is all about for me. One of the best films ever made!
There is one other theme, that is personal to me, but only I can make sense of that for you folks. That film is an anti 1984 and an anti-establishment thing ... that is very important to me ... and not how they consider "their product" (the owl and the girl) the perfect result of their work ... whereas Roy and the rest ... were considered failures and not worthy ... and had to fight for their lives. That would suggest the society failed ... but they will never admit it! And neither would a populist board and place! And Roy's last lines, are what we should fear the most about "progressive" and "prog" ... and then we can ask ourselves ... how much do we care? ... I will tell you a lot, and you know it in my responses! I already feel like crying, as I did with the ending of the film "Woodstock", because I knew one man was trying to elevate the music, and no one cared ... all you saw was ... trash! To me, that hurts even more ... that we dismiss out own spirit so easily ... and recklessly! For ideals that do not exist, on top of it, instead of reality!
Edited by moshkito - April 20 2013 at 16:24
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Posted: March 22 2013 at 20:52 |
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^ Verbatim.
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Posted: March 22 2013 at 20:53 |
HolyMoly wrote:
What's the significance of the picture of the guy from The Office? Or is it just his expression of "did I really just hear that?"
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... Yes, the latter.
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Posted: March 24 2013 at 04:43 |
Damask Rose features some nice 'warbling' from Demis Rousos reminding me of Aphrodites Child so I vote for that. End Titles is also great. Although not relevant my favourite Vangelis soundtrack music is on The Bounty some of which can be found stretched across both Themes compilations.
btw I share Moshkito's view on the film. My favourite as well!
EDIt - got my tracks mixed up , meant to vote for Tales Of The Future as that's the one with Rousos not Damask Rose 
Edited by richardh - March 24 2013 at 04:54
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