Star Trek First Contact: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD]

Star Trek First Contact: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD] Artist: Jerry Goldsmith
Label: Gnp Crescendo
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 052824805224
EAN: 0052824805224
ASIN: B000001P1Y


Release Date: 1996-12-17

Star Trek First Contact: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD]


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Tracks:

  1. Main Title/Locutus
  2. Red Alert
  3. Temporal Wake
  4. Welcome Aboard
  5. Fully Functional
  6. Retreat
  7. Evacuate
  8. 39.1 Degrees Celsius
  9. The Dish
  10. First Contact
  11. End Credits
  12. Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
  13. Ooby Dooby - Roy Orbison

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Most Excellent - Recommended.......2007-01-04

If you even have an inkling of affinity for Star Trek, I believe you'll like this soundtrack. I especially love the main title; it is very moving and powerful. I like that in movies, composers are able to develop musical themes far better than in a short TV episode. The Borg theme is absolutely perfect. The main title recurrs throughout the film. You notice it most when Picard shows Lily that she is in space, and then also when Cochrane greets the Vulcans. As others have mentioned, the Klingon theme is also brought back during battle, which I think is really great. All in all, I'd say this is a good buy.

5 out of 5 stars Goldsmith, The King Of Star Trek!.......2005-11-18

I have listened to several of the Star Trek Scores. My favorites are "First Contact" and "Insurrection." First Contact blends Insurrection style writing, with a little "Terminator." It is a classical, techno, cinema lovers dream score. The themes for the Vulcan first contact, Picard, and Lily are simply beautiful. While, the themes for the Borg queen and the drones are eerie, clangy, and downright perfect.

A really great CD. Joel did a good job too. Maybe now that Jerry's gone, he'll give us some more?

5 out of 5 stars Goldsmith's 2nd Greatest Trek Score.......2005-09-07

This score is right behind TMP (which wasn't a bad movie, really). One of the pluses is that the famous theme is only used twice on the album. In its place is a more traditional orchestral theme that has an epic quality to it, yet never feels pretentious.

I would have to say my favorite track is the first, Main Title/Locutus, not just because of the First Contact theme, but because we get to hear Joel Goldsmith's Locutus which is perfect for the opening pullback and subsequent handhelds. You can see the pullback in your head (If you've seen it before) when listening to it. (Yes, this may be overhyping.)

And you can't go wrong when Steepenwolf is there!

Overall, Jerry Goldsmith's 2nd best Trek Score (and thanks, in nosmall part to Joel.) Listen to it.

5 out of 5 stars Top Star Trek score, A Great Goldsmith Score.......2005-03-11

Of Jerry Goldsmith's 5 Star Trek scores, First Contact is perhaps my favorite. Despite the fact that it is not very long, Goldsmith manages to convey the danger, heroism and wonder of space travel. The old Klingon theme is resurrected as a fanfare for Warf, the theme for the Borg is scary and genuinly frightening. Yet, it's Goldsmith's theme that is used for the First Contact that is the best. It is soft theme, with a quiet majesty. The score portion of the album is culminated by great rendition of Goldsmith's classic Star Trek theme.

5 out of 5 stars Best Star Trek Score.......2004-03-27

It's no secret that Jerry Goldsmith was the best at scoring Star Trek. His opening music for Star Trek: The Motion Picture was so good Gene Roddenberry demanded it be used for the Next Generation title sequence. But what the Trek movies really lacked was a definitive theme outside of the famous bookending cue. Every entry seemed to come up with new music to fit new stories (and, most of the time, new composers to do it). First Contact has the best music of all. The opening music is so good you'll be getting goosebumps. Not only is it the best Trek score it's also one of Jerry Goldsmith's best.

Some of the tracks sound a bit too similar to Goldsmith's score for Executive Decision (which he also did that year) but when that wonderful First Contact theme kicks in, man does this CD soar!

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