Carrie

Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music

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Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 030206661828
EAN: 0030206661828
ASIN: B00062ID74

Release Date: 2005-05-10

Carrie

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Tracks:

Theme From Carrie
I Never Dreamed Someone Like You Could Love Someone Like Me
And God Made Eve
At The Prom
Contest Winners
Born To Have It All
Bucket Of Blood
School In Flames
Mother At The Top Of The Stairs
For The Last Time We'll Pray
Collapse Of Carrie's Home
Sue's Dream
Theme From Carrie

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Customer Reviews:

Sentimental, haunting score in the vein of Herrmann, and distinctly Donaggio.......2006-08-25

I've always loved Pino Donaggio's music since I heard the score for his maiden "Dont' Look Now" (1973), which remains my favorite tour of melancholic mind-states (and an incredible film about guilt, memory, projection and quauntuum physics... and strange blind psychics!).

Pino's score for "Carrie" followed in '76 and is as responsible for the success of that odd, wild film as any other element.

Donaggio captured with great lyricism the repressed feelings of romantic longing - and pure rage - that Carrie White kept hidden from her nutcase, born-again Mother, played so brilliantly by Piper Laurie. His Italianate-Venetian sensibility was wedded wonderfully to DePalma's operatic excesses, in full swing in the Seventies' craziest, well-scripted, well-acted USA horror film (before teenagers would come to ruin the genre in the 80s and 90s and on with sadistic snuff stuff like the Saw and the Chainsaw franchises).

To answer the quibbles below, Ryko and Varese include a repeat of Track One because, contrary to a prior reviewer, the exact same repetition recurs in the film. "Sue's Dream" is NOT the same as Track 1. Track 1 "Theme for Carrie" is repeated exactly in the End Credits when the screen goes black. So, there. The producers were just trying to replicate the experience of the movie and its original soundtrack. DePalma did exactly the same thing with Donaggio's Main Theme for DRESSED TO KILL in the film (another fine score of Herrmannic excesses).

This score has aged well, and it's nice to hear melody in a film score, as the current trend is ambience, and atonal slush and effects.

Katie Irving's "I Never Dreamed..." with music by Donaggio, is one of the loveliest Country ballads in memory. Perhaps a bit breathy, but sweet, and gorgeously orchestrated.

My only gripe: the new varese picture cover is awful. The Original United Artists LP cover was fine. This is lurid and cheapens the film and the score.

"It has nothin' to do with Satan's power, Momma! Somtimes if I concentrate hard enough I can MOVE things!!!" Go, girl!

Brilliant Soundtrack.......2006-05-22

I've looked off and on since the late 70s for the soundtrack to this movie. I never actually knew one existed -- I just could never believe that one DIDN'T! Although the movie "Carrie" is an excellent production, it NEVER would have had the impact without the BRILLIANT musical score of this soundtrack. It's ironic that after many years of looking for this this soundtrack on vinyl, I stumbled across it by accident on cd. If you're a fan of the movie "Carrie", you will LOVE this cd!

Invaluable Contribution to a Horror Classic.......2006-04-09

When Brian De Palma first saw Nic Roeg's psychological thriller DON'T LOOK NOW, the most important question he would ever ask was: who composed the score? That was one Pino Donaggio, and what Morricone was to Argento and Herrmann was to Hitchcock, Donaggio became to De Palma for CARRIE.

How important was the soundtrack? Imagine, if you will, JAWS without John Williams' terrifying, pounding theme. EXACTLY. Donaggio has been quoted as saying that he composed the CARRIE score as if he were writing for a grand opera, (in this case a "Grand Guignol opera.") The wistful, sad and eerie sense of melodrama with which this native Italian composer imbued the music is just one of the important components that made this high school horror drama so memorable (besides the unforgettable performances.)

Each track brings back a specific memory for anyone who remembers the film well (and I do). It was only fitting that Donaggio would work on all of De Palma's films afterwards (BLOW OUT, DRESSED TO KILL and BODY DOUBLE), and that he would work with directors as lauded as David Schmoeller (TOURIST TRAP) and Joe Dante (THE HOWLING).

One can only hope that this talented craftsman will still be plying his trade well into the millennium.

Carrie cd is released with a repeated track of track 1.......2005-07-22

I own the original lp import from Australia and just got the new cd from Varese Sarabande. I think this cd is a great cd and a enjoyment for the Pino Donaggio fans like me. I agree with other people's good reviews but I'm a little bit angered and confused by why Varese repeated track 1 twice? You see in the track Sue's Dream contains the end title right after the wild music cue where the hand comes out of the ground. A repeated track of track 1 for track 13 is not necessary and stupid. Rykodisc did this when they first released the cd and don't know why they repeated the first track?

Varese should have been more smarter releasing the cd the way it was supposed to be released and not looking on how Rykodisc released it. Carrie from Varese Sarabande is supposed to be a rerelease of the original 12 track lp. I for one will skip track 13 and erase it on the minidisc after I digially transfer it and will have to program the first 12 if I copy the cd in my dual well Philips Cd Recorder. I had a few people on Soundtrack Collector who think they know it all and think that track 13 is different and is played at the end but they are just lame cause I'm smarter than them.

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