The Phantom: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack

Artist: David Newman
Label: Milan Records
Category: Music

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

UPC: 731383575624
EAN: 0731383575624
ASIN: B0000015LF

Release Date: 1996-06-04

The Phantom: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Tracks:

For Those Who Came In Late
The Tomb
The Phantom
Anything's Possible
The Rescue
The Escape
Must Be The Humidity
Diana Must Leave/New York
Ray Gets The Point
The Museum
Flying To The Island
Quill Is Destroyed
Escaping The Island

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Customer Reviews:

My Favorite David Newman Action Score!.......2006-01-07

I love swashbucklers. I love being surprised. I haven't seen The Phantom so I made this purchase based on blind-faith. I don't regret a single penny spent on this album! This score is exciting!

"For Those Who Came in Late" is ambient noise with a distant male voice and some racy percussion building up to "The Tomb". Towards the end of "The Tomb" we hear violent, low blares from the trombones (?) with heavy percussion.

The next song: "The Phantom" is my favorite. This is where the heroic main theme appears and its awesome! Some of the tension is provided with male choir leading up to the Phantom's appearance.

The next good song is "The Escape". Much like "The Phantom", this piece accelerates toward a grand finish.

"Escaping the Island" is the longest and one of the best songs of the album.

This score is Newman's unsung hero score. Oh, did you notice there are very few copies of this out-of-print album left? I suggest you purchase it now before they're gone. I got mine and love it! Don't miss this one.

Maybe I should watch the film now . . .

Fine score for an awful movie.......2005-05-28

The Phantom is not a very good movie. THe storyline is weak, there is too much overacting, the movie is predictable and the dialogue is pretty awful. In fact, the only thing that makes this movie even watchable is David Newman's fantastic score. THe has a terrific main theme that captures the essence of this jungle adventure and really goes much deeper. It is quite enjoyable to simply listen to this album. While I wish that some of the tracks had been broken up instead of being ten minutes long, overall this cd score is terrific and among David Newman's best scores. Of all the super hero scores out there, very few capture the perfect spririt of adventure the way The Phantom does. While the 1990's saw many comic book movies fail, like the Rocketeer, The Shadow and THe Phantom, the scores for these movies were among the best of the decade.

INCREDIBLE film; Disappointing score.......2005-03-16

When THE PHANTOM came out, my best friend (who always said the character was his FAVORITE costumed hero) said, at the end of the movie, "At LAST, somebody made one of these RIGHT!!!" Great praise, indeed. I have no idea how the movie (or THE ROCKETEER, around the same time) apparently "failed" at the box office, but that happens all the time with films I love. Suffice to say, apart from a few minor details, they captured the look and feel of the newspaper comic-strip PERFECTLY, and made a film that everyone involved should be rightly proud of.

With one exception. It kept bugging me in the theatre (and I saw it twice on the big screen). There's no "theme song". Nothing memorable to hum along when you think back on the epic adventure. How could this be?

I recently read a comment that most films these days have their soundtracks "assembled", by "collecting an assortment of big-name acts to create a buzz and move product". As opposed to music created to "blend with the imagery", as most older, and I daresay "classic" films had it. David Newman DEFINITELY follows the "old school" way here. The sounds, the moods, the overwhelming EPIC feeling of it all is positively MAGNIFICENT. But... and I really hate to say this... WHERE'S THE MELODIES? I've listened to the CD several times, and there's just NOTHING MEMORABLE here!!! I'm reminded of the music from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. 180 episodes on TV, and NOT ONE single piece of "memorable" music that stood out, GRABBED you, and STUCK with you even if you hadn't seen the episodes for years on end.

All told, I'm glad THE PHANTOM had "mood music" instead of a collection of noisy "artists". But-- just maybe-- the film would have been more successful if the music had more than just "mood" about it.

Epic Score For An Underrated Adventure Classic.......2004-08-20

Of the various blockbusters which rescued the costumed adventure
film from the big budget camp idiocies of the Irwin Allen/Adam
West formula, 1996's THE PHANTOM is surely among the finest
-and most underrated- of presentations. Superb casting,
top-of-the-line directing, and a magnificent script shooting
straight to the point, THE PHANTOM is a grand scale potboiler
which delivers the goods every time.

Likewise for David Newman's magnificent score. His family's
decades-old tradition of symphonic music for motion picture
is well-represented in this swashbuckling ride. Each moment
of Newman's work will leave you on the edge of your seat as
surely as any moment of the film's cliffhanging action! Vivid,
dashing, yet with somber moments to chill the marrow, Lee
Falk's pioneering adventure strip gets the full dramatic
treatment through Newman's rich, substantial score.

With his music for the outrageous SF satire GALAXYQUEST
(Someone make this available on CD, please?!!), this
CD represents Mr. Newman at his finest. Too bad that
THE PHANTOM is, at best, hard to find.

Time for this to change.

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