ST: TMP score -- what tracks do you listen to?

[tharpdevenport]

I had a theory that outside a few cues, like "Ilia's Theme", many fans don't really ever listen to the rest of the score and in fact base the whole liking on it on those few cues.

So here is all the cues on hte expanded Columbia Records Cd from a few years ago. Check all the cues that you regularly listen to when ever you listen to the CD.

The second poll is for cues you almost never, if ever at all, listen to.

(Shouldn't it be "V'ger"?)

Please vote.
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[Deleted 2]

"Games", "Spock Walk" and "Inner Workings" are my favourites, whereas "Floating Office", "The Enterprise" and "The Cloud" leave me coldest.

 

[Stardate]

There is so many favorite as i thing almost all score in TMP is great. I favorite are The Enterprise, The Meld, The Illia Theme, End Title, i like Vger theme too very alien sounding.
My least favorite is "Floating Office and Good Start

 

[destructive]

though not on your list, 'hidden information' has always been my personal favorite

 

[Deleted 2]

^ What part is that?

 

[tharpdevenport]

It's not on hte list because I said the tracks would be fro mthe expanded CD from Columbia. You're thinking of the bootlegs.

 

[destructive]

the scene where kirk orders the crew to clear the bridge, he tricks illia into taking the enterprise to v'ger's core, it features heavy use of the spock theme,(IMO, a vastly underrated theme from the movie), and some nice 'traveling' music as the enterprise is pulled deeper into the machine by tractor beam

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I listen to them all, though I love "The Meld."

 

[KeepOnTrekking]

Besides the obvious like "Main Title," "Klingon Battle," and "Ilia's Theme," I've always liked "The Cloud." It's slow, isn't intrusive and I listen to it when I have some serious thinking to do.

 

[Basill]

I'm one of those freaks that loves EVERY cue on this soundtrack, and only wished there were more from the movie on it. Especially with Inner Workings cutting off right before its orgasmic climax. Still irks me every time.

I voted for all of them, as I tend to listen to this one at least twice a month from beginning to end. But in the lower poll, I did put down Vejur Speaks as one that I might skip if I was in a hurry to listen to something else. But I really like it too. Its a neat little moody piece that sets up The Meld perfectly.

Now if only they had included that nice little ode to Alexander Courage bit (used twice in the film actually), the warp test and success music, as well as the part where they are actually approaching the cloud for the first time. A truly perfect compilation would have all that and some of Goldsmith's earlier cues that were not used in the film, like his first version of The Enterprise porno scene, and slightly different first try at Leaving Drydock. (really excellent) I understand most of those (used) cues were left off simply because Goldsmith didn't compose it or arrange it himself, or something. That and/or CD time constraints.

Youtube has a video where someone placed the unused Leaving Drydock over the final film footage. Doesn't perfectly match up, but it is darn close, and just like seeing the same scene with James Horner's thematics, I can say I've seen 3 very different versions of the Enterprise leaving drydock.

 

[Basill]

For the record: Found it.
Leaving Drydock Alternate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9e917etNY

 

[Pro Populo]

^ Wow. That doesn't work at all. I'm glad they re-scored that.

 

[Basill]

^ I rather like it, though I too am glad they re-scored it. It really is out of sync. It works for me in that it could fit a less dramatic departure for the Enterprise, had we been able to see such a thing in some never produced film, especially since there was a hint of the slightly non-matured theme that would eventually dominate.

TMP had them leaving dry dock unexpectedly early after a long refit. The ship was unproven and the situation was dire. The final version fits that perfectly. The same effects shots were used in TWOK, and although the departure was more routine, the Enterprise being a training vessel at this point, it was still crewed mostly by trainees, and one of them was in the command seat! So swashbuckling dramatic departure ensues, though the lead in had sparkly happy music.

I actually played my DVD on mute with this Youtube playing in the background, and it could be tweaked to play better in sync with the action in the film. Helps a lot. I really do like the music though, and its signature Goldsmith!

Now what little I have heard of the original Enterprise Porn music, I was not particularly impressed with, but I still find it curiously interesting.

 

[CoveTom]

I tend to fall back on "Main Titles," "Klingon Battle," "The Enterprise," and "Leaving Drydock," but I think the entire score is brilliant.

I particularly like the way Goldsmith introduces our hero theme -- a rousing, brassy theme -- and relies on it heavily up until the point the Enterprise encounters V'Ger. Then that theme is almost totally absent until the final transformation of V'Ger when the Enterprise emerges. All of the music in between is very alien and mysterious. A nice contrast.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Sometimes when I'm driving and I'm in a hurry, I listen to the departure track.