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Blade Runner Trilogy 25th Anniversary | 
 enlarge | Artist: Vangelis
Label: Universal
Category: Music
List Price: £14.99
Buy New: £11.29
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 1885
Format: Box Set, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 150
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.8
MPN: 001055802
UPC: 600753051474
EAN: 0600753051474
ASIN: B000Z0OX9O
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| » | Main Titles (From Blade Runner) | | » | Blush Response | | » | Wait For Me | | » | Rachel's Song | | » | Love Theme From Bladerunner | | » | One More Kiss, Dear | | » | Blade Runner Blues | | » | Memories Of Green | | » | Tales Of The Future | | » | Damask Rose | | » | Blade Runner (End Titles) | | » | Tears In Rain |
Disc 2
| » | Longing | | » | Unveiled Twinkling Space | | » | Dr. Tyrell's Owl | | » | At Mr. Chew's | | » | Leo's Room | | » | One Alone | | » | Deckard And Roy's Duel | | » | Dr. Tyrell's Death | | » | Desolation Path | | » | Empty Streets | | » | Mechanical Dolls | | » | Fading Away |
Disc 3
| » | Launch Approval | | » | Up And Running | | » | Mail From India | | » | BR Downtown | | » | Dimitri's Bar | | » | Sweet Solitude | | » | No Expectation Boulevard | | » | Vadavarot | | » | Perfume Exotico | | » | Spotkanie Z Matka | | » | Piano In An Empty Room | | » | Keep Asking |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 Wonderful! May 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The film is a stunning visual masterpiece. The Vangelis soundtrack is simply wonderful to listen to. It really does take you there. After watching the film again (Final cut edition). I found myself going back to parts of the film with the music that moved me. The mixture of piano and synths add power and sweetness to this film noir.
High lights for me was the opening theme as the spinner made it's a way across the city. The Love Theme is simply a beautiful piece of music which builds up nicely. Tear's in the rain, One Alone, and Fading away.
Best Vangelis release in recent times. March 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I too am fed up with Blade Runner geeks harping on about the perfect bladerunner album.
What we have here is the best product vangelis has released in recent times. You get to hear some marvels in their entirety. Such as
'At Mr Chews', 'Deckard and Roys Duel' and 'Mechanical Toys'. The crown jewels of cd 2 is the sublime 'Desolation Path', which is perhaps evidence that some of Vangelis' best work still remains unreleased and is likely to remain so. As far as the Blade Runner score is concerned, everything worth putting in is here. The bits left out are effective as an underscore and probably wouldnt be worthwhile album material.
CD3 is at it should be different enough from the film and a new work. It is in the ilk of the albums 'The City' and 'Direct', which are the most underated works Vangelis has released. The track 'Spotkanie Z Matka' is subtly haunting and I still find myself humming the melody. The CD is just that, subtle and beautifuly put together without any over the top bombast.
I would say seasoned Vangelis fans would enjoy this product and is great value for money. Those that are more from the Blade Runner camp should also be thankfull and stop taking apart what is a great film and score. Film music is written to support and add to the film and picture and not every single not is suitable for an album. The product is just right and doesnt go into self gratification mode.
Next stop the unreleased music from 1492!
 Forget the soundtrack, listen to the MUSIC March 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In many of the reviews I read here, I see that people seem more concerned with owning absolutely every note of music that existed in the movie (however irrelevant it may have been) than the music itself. Disk three, which is all new material, didn't even seem to interest some of the reviewers, who complain because disk 2 is not an exact repetition of what is present in the film. My review discusses the music, and the man who stands behind it, not the movie.
Those who are familiar with Vangelis know that most of his movie soundtracks have little in common with the music actually used in the movie. That is, Vangelis seems to concentrate more on releasing an album which can actually be listened to as music, and not as mere film cues. This part I always liked. If you want to get a faithful soundtrack of the movie, why waste money on your precious bootlegs? Just watch the movie!! Enjoy the music during the movie, 'cause it's hardly worth listening to without it.
Disk 1 is the same as the Blade Runner Soundtrack, released in 1994, no surprises there. Disk 2 is a collection of previously unreleased material written for the movie. This CD will not blow you away as far as memorable melodies, except for track 6, which is absolutely gorgeous. There are other tracks with nice melodies too; however, the main attraction of this CD should be the mood and atmosphere generated by the tracks. They remind one of the unique style Vangelis once had during the early eighties. I think this CD is the highlight of the set.
Disk three is perhaps the reason why I gave this CD set only three stars. I actually like it for the most part. But I don't find it memorable. Sadly, as much as I am a big fan of Vangelis, I think that those days, marked by his remarkable creativity and uniqueness, are behind for good. Let's face it, perhaps one of the reasons why Vangelis no longer releases studio albums is because he has nothing new, fresh or unique to release. You still occasionally bump into some of his recent work, which has that spark that only Vangelis can deliver. Such sparce examples can be found in themes like "Young Alexander" in the Alexander soundtrack. However, one thing you will find absent in this album, and it has been absent in most of his recent work, is that touch that made his music stand out from the norm, those wonderful surprises that always kept you wondering where his music was going next. Gone seems to be his desire to experiment with sound. And perhaps it's hard to blame him for this, especially since keyboards nowadays come with thousands of pre-programmed sounds, covering such a wide spectrum, that it's hard (if not impossible) to create something that actually sounds different. Also, gone seems to be his uncanny ability to orchestrate music so delightfully and with such sweet, and memorable melodies. Instead, most of his music contains sounds which you've heard around a lot, or simple, overly repetitive, and non-fullfilling melodies. Piano in an Empty Room is an exception to the above, and is probably the gem from this CD.
Don't get me wrong. I still think this CD set is a worthwhile buy. Just don't expect anything too groundbreaking.
 Another missed opportunity February 11, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's great to have some new sections of the soundtrack on CD for the first time, but I see this release as yet another missed opportunity in the continuing saga of the Blade Runner soundtrack. Disc 1 is exactly the same as the 1994 version, so it still has the intrusive dialogue sequences spoiling the music. The "Tears in Rain" track on disc 2 (under the name "Fading Away") has an appalling electronic wind noise rising and falling thoughout the piece which completely ruins it. Maybe Vangelis is looking towards the 30 year anniversary and is holding back the definitive, clean version of the ACTUAL soundtrack, which most fans want, so that he can cash in again in 2012?
Why release what you've already got? January 1, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Okay first of all, yes, advertising this release as being the complete soundtrack is bad form.
This is speculation, but I think the release of this 3 disc album broke down something like this:
Vangelis's people would have made him aware of the various bootlegs that have sprung up over the past 15 years. (I think it's safe to say that there have probably been more bootleg variation of the Blade Runner soundtrack than any other movie, some 3 dozen of them in fact: go check out such sites as vangelis-rarities for a list of some of the examples.) So what I think happened was this: Vangelis took a look at all this stuff and thought, "Well, if die-hard fans already have all this stuff, or even some of it, then what's the point of me giving them it all over again?!"
(The point, of course, is that it would have been 'official' and would have been in digitially remastered sound, but of no moment...)
So instead of repackaging all the cues from the bootlegs into an 'official' release Vangelis decided to give the fans almost entirely new music.
It's interesting to note that almost all the fans over on the International Vangelis Forum are delighted with this release. Why? Precisely because it's 'all new music'! The ones who are whining are the film's fans who simply want the actual soundtrack as it appears in the movie. (In which case virtually all of these fans already have it, in the form of the widely available bootlegs, such as the Esper Edition and the Deck Definitive release.)
Now, mind you, I'm a huge fan of the movie (like most people here I have the 5 disc boxset) and I can understand people's wish to simply have the soundtrack's cues sans sound effects and dialogue, and to that end I would have preferred if Vangelis had removed the dialogue from the first disc of this 3CD release, as opposed to simply including the '94 edition unaltered.
It helps, however, to remember this: Vangelis has NEVER revisited the soundtrack to any of the movies he's worked on. Blade Runner is the exception. It's interesting to note that nowhere - unlike ALL of his other official soundtrack releases, including the recent Alexander and El Greco - does the legend 'Original Motion Picture Soundtrack' appear on the '94 release, or for that matter this '07 release, other than that red sticker. This is a 3CD 'album' in celebration of the movie, NOT a soundtrack.
Vangelis has NEVER been interested in taking the exact edits of his cues from a movie and packaging them onto a CD. THIS is what Blade Runner's film fans want. Vangelis will never do this (and precisely BECAUSE there are so many bootlegs that do exactly that he no doubt feels, "What's the point, you have all this material already?") Instead Vangelis prefers to have his soundtrack releases stand on their own as legitimate albums, and not merely a collection of cues, to the point where he will often rearrange certain tracks for their official album release. This is clearly evident on 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Alexander, where the tracks are not only shorter - or in some cases even longer - than how they appear in the movie, but in addition they have been subtly rearranged. Both of these movies boast 2CD Complete Score bootlegs. Both of these bootleg releases are inferior to the far shorter official single disc releases. Why? Because they're bland, flat - THEY'RE TOO LONG! They don't stand on their own as albums. Most film cues are only a minute or two long, especially in the case of Blade Runner, and whereas these work terrifically within the context of the actual movie, they rarely stand on their own, or even if they do they simply don't flow properly if ran together with the film's other cues when placed onto an album.
Vangelis has always been more concerned with his soundtrack releases maintaining their own sense of cohesion than simply taking the easy route of lazily throwing a whole bunch of cues onto a disc. Sure, this would have delighted the film's fans, but the film and the separate release of the music on CD are two different things, two different mediums.
The majority of Vangelis fans are happy with this 3CD release because it gives us two CDs of brand new music which COMPLIMENT the bootlegs which almost all of us already have.
And, for those few who don't owned the bootlegs, please don't buy them from eBay. Members of such sites as the yahoo group bladerunner_soundtrack will happily provide them free of charge.
Blade Runner's film fans are simply going to have to learn to listen to this release as they would an ordinary album; it's clear that this release was meant for Vangelis fans and not Blade Runner's film fans per se.
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