Blade Runner

1	Main Titles Music From The Motion Picture "Blade Runner" 3:41
2	Blush Response 5:46
3	Wait for Me 5:27
4	Rachel's Song / Mary Hopkin 4:46
5	Love Theme from Blade Runner / Dick Morrisey Music from Blade Runner 4:57
6	One More Kiss, Dear Music from Blade Runner 3:57
7	Blade Runner Blues From the Motion Picture blade Runner 8:54
8	Memories of Green Music from Blade Runner 5:05
9	Tales of the Future 4:46
10	Damask Rose 2:32
11	Blade Runner (End Title) From the Motion Picture blade Runner 4:38
12	Tears in Rain Music from Blade Runner 3:01

Barnes & Noble

Ridley Scott's visually imaginative science fiction film has become a classic of '80s cinema since its original release and initial failure at the box office. The evocative, spellbinding score by Vangelis -- who had just come off his Oscar-winning triumph on CHARIOTS OF FIRE the preceding year -- wasn't officially released until 1994. Vangelis's score is a marvel of electronic sounds and textures, incorporating ethnic Japanese instrumentation ("Tales of the Future"), pulsating themes ("Blade Runner [End Titles]"), and surprisingly lyrical tracks best described as "futuristic jazz" ("Memories of Green," "Love Theme"). To make the soundtrack more cohesive, Vangelis added new music ("Rachel's Song") specifically for the album. Some film dialogue also finds its way onto this recording, which fortunately doesn't detract from the power of the striking score. Andy Dursin

All Music Guide

Arriving 12 years after the release of the film, Vangelis' soundtrack to the 1982 futuristic noir detective thriller Blade Runner is as bleak and electronically chilling as the film itself. By subtly interspersing clips of dialogue and sounds from the film, Vangelis creates haunting soundscapes with whispered subtexts and sweeping revelations, drawing inspiration from Middle Eastern textures and evoking neo-classical structures. Often cold and forlorn, the listener can almost hear the indifferent winds blowing through the neon and metal cityscapes of Los Angeles in 2019. The sultry, saxophone-driven "Love Theme" has since gone on as one of the composer's most recognized pieces and stands alone as one of the few warm refuges on an otherwise darkly cold (but beautiful) score. An unfortunate inclusion of the 1930s-inspired ballad "One More Kiss, Dear" interrupts the futuristic synthesized flow of the album with a muted trumpet and Rudy Vallée-style croon. However well done (and appropriate in the movie), a forlorn love song that sounds as if it is playing on a distant Philco radio in The Waltons' living room jarringly breaks the mood of the album momentarily (although with CD technology, this distraction is easily bypassed). Fans of Ridley Scott's groundbreaking film (as well as those interested in the evolution of electronic music) will warmly take this recording into their plastic-carbide-alloy hearts. Zac Johnson