Surgicaldamage: Perfectly said. I see it the same way. And now we see: its not only the director, who is responsible for a masterpiece. Its the team... the atmosphere, the ideas of all creative minds.. the designer,... the writers... the actors (also how they feel those ideas.. how they interprete it) - and all of those influence eachother... i am sure, Giger influenced Scott in his own ways... even the once who build the sets for the movies, i am sure, came up with ideas, and/or spoke with Giger (sometimes because of a compromise between costs and the creative idea)... And all those were influenced by the time they lived on... it was pre-CGI ... it was in the mind of the movies, made before Alien.. Star Wars... Planet of the Apes.. etc ...''how Scifi could evolve''...there was no ''Transformers'' , X-Men, or ''Independence Day'' as ''competition'' ... And so... Alien grow... and grow... and bursted out as a total new revolutionary form of Scifi... A connection between art , horror, science fiction, and something we cant specify... just feel : there is something about this movie ... Its the perfect organism, i would say... I cant lie about the chances that a movie could made so good again... but the directors nowadays have my sympathy :)
@@PygmalionFaciebat Ha! yes, It had so much to it that no matter how much they spend on CGI, they need to stop trying to top the source material and just be true to it. eg The space jockey was never mean't to leave its seat, it was grown into that chair like the pilot from far scape. The alien home land was the tapestry in HG Giger's work (even though I find it over sexualized and distasteful, as HRG has passed away, his work art is the only view of the aliens and jockey home world, and unless an artist can put it on the screen with impact and horror adventure, its best left alone.
Fuck Ridley Scott. He has nothing but contempt for his audiences especially those of Alien. He is so bitter about the fact he has never made a better film since and knows even he can't even take credit for it alone. Dan O' Bannon, H R Giger and J Goldsmith were the real heros of this film. And Weaver of course!
I was eleven years old when I watched the original alien on VHS. Scared the CRAP out of me. To this day, it is still my all time favorite scary movie.
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I was 9 when I first watched it... and I must say "watched" in a figurative way, because I remember spending half of the movie with my hands over my eyes/ears!!
Álvaro G. Plata Not sure if you are a gamer, but I am looking forward to playing Alien Isolation, which comes out next month. :-)
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Diomedes01 Weeks ago I watched some promo trailers of Alien Isolation, seems more focused on terror rather than action... really interesting approach. Right now I'm somewhat busy, but years ago I used to play video games, Rebellion AvP, and later Sierra-Monolith AvP2... I loved it! There's some self-made video footage in my channel: ua-cam.com/play/PLfrXYzprLsbMpcKJhYsePyAw07RaRHO_B.html
Álvaro G. Plata Just started playing it on my Xbox One. The game is AWESOME! Super realistic and VERY scary! Really captures the mood and ambiance of the 1979 movie very well!
***** Agreed! That was so well done. Dallas all alone in the vents and the motion tracker showing the alien moving towards him with Lambert screaming for him to get out of there. Scary as HELL!
When I saw the movie, it was really intense and scared me. However, this soundtrack simply relaxes me. I often forget it's part of a horror sci-fi story. I think that's a testament to how well this was composed.
I was 16 when I watched this in a Philadelphia movie theatre on a hot summer day in 1979. Walked out, and hoped to hell we never ran into anything like the Alien!
sillyone52062 I am very envious.... I was 7 then and didn't get to see the film until it was aired on the tv during 82. I would have love to have experienced this film for the first time in the cinema on its release in 1979 .....
I love the echo (or reverb is it called?) in the beginning. Really provides an agoraphobic vibe to the whole setting in space and making the audience FEEL right there with the crew members.
This whole soundtrack is isolating. You'd never know there was a human race almost. Just emptiness, for better or worse in the vastness of space. The 70s - 90s space shots always filled me with a sense of "What's out there? It's just us, here on this ship, for as far out as we can imagine, huh?"
I'll never forget that Friday when this was released..May 25, 1979..the worst US aircrash had just occurred in Chicago and I went to the midnight premiere of Alien..the feeling of dread that entire memorial weekend i will never forget
Great sci-fi music...really captures the bridge between earlier 1970s sci-fi and the sort of grittier stuff that was to come over the next decade...great videos, as well
Honestly, nothing that came after this film comes close to the wondrous horror that this universe inspires. The Lovecraftian and Freudian influences coupled with the genuine hyperrealism of the acting, script and set design, tied up in themes of power and evolution was a genius we have not seen since and likely will never again. Prometheus for me did nothing but retcon the origin of the clearly 'alien' Space Jockey and smear the nuance of the original film. Aliens as an extension of the franchise was also an amazing action flick but its atmosphere outside of the opening sequence does not speak to the great writing of Alien.
Such superb harmonisations! I bought the soundtrack LP around 1983, only to discover when I played it that this, one of the nicest parts of the whole score, had been excluded from the record! And it's not like it was an unimportant part of the film, either as part of the set up, or musically.
This is absolutely brilliant. Everybody knows it's a horror film - and we get really anxious music before this. But then these guys wake up to a beautiful piece of hopeful classical music at 0:56. Unaware of the terror that awaits them (hinted at in the double bass 30 seconds later).
This movie series was an other and incredible mode to view a fanta-movie. Games inspired, and movies inspired.Is a revolutionary idea for chananging of old routine of fantascientific ambiences! thank you for your pubblications.
I think Goldsmith must have scored the longer film edit. The original edit was 3 hours long. I don't know if this was cut down, before finally being again edited down to the cinema release version. But a number of Goldsmith's cues were clearly written for the longer versions of scenes. There is deleted footage of Kane walking into the recreation/meal room, after exiting the hibernation room. Also, when Parker and Lambert are confronted by the alien, the alien originally was crawling across the floor upside down (as it approached Lambert), which fit with Goldsmith's 'Parker's Death' for running time.
Well done! Sitting in a swimming pool in bali and listen to this... bet my flight tmr to singapore gonna pick up a distress signal and i will be in a world of shit ...
I just recently picked up a CD of the Alien soundtrack that was made back in the 90s only to discover some of the best pieces of music were not included in the album I was about to order another Alien album of Ebay that included the closest to the complete soundtrack that had ever been realised in physical form. Luckily I found this first before I invested some of my money into something I can just listen to here!
Search ebay for the complete ALIEN soundtrack that was released by intrada back around 2007. It even includes the regular album and extra music on the second disc.
There still is. Why do you think this one stuck out like a sore thumb back then? Because it was an innovative masterpiece in a world where innovation was rare. Innovation has always been rare. It can be risky, even self-destructive, thus playing safe appears more attractive to many. But when innovation works out, it works out extremely well. Innovation will always be a relatively rare sight in any era, but when it comes by, it's extremely fresh.
@Degree7 Yes, for instance. I was thinking that back in 1985/1986 during the summer, you could go to the cinema and you had to choose between Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Amadeus, Romancing the Stone, Fright Night, Aliens and Nightmare on Elm Street, and many MANY more. I'm not exactly sure if these exact movies were simultanously in the theatres, but close enough. They were all masterpieces, they were innovative, and strangely, they all came out around in the span of 2-3 years. It's amazing. Now what do you have to chose from? Cartoons for children, "Marvel" reused superheros and Staw Wars wannabies. What innovative movie came out in the last 5 years? Thor? Captain Marvel? The 99th episode of Feministar Wars?
+Mathias Thomsen Schmidt What synth sound? Everything you hear is real instruments, with some reverb effect added to the flute to give it that echo effect. It's a masterpiece of suspenseful cinematic music.
+Mathias Thomsen Schmidt this is a bit of a late reply, but I believe those are real flutes, they just have delay and reverb on them. I remember reading an article where they talked about manipulating the instruments to make the piece sound more alien. ;P
UNA DE LAS MEJORES PELICULAS DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS....RIDLEY SCOTT ES UN GENIO... OJALA HUBIERA MAS DIRECTORES COMO EL QUE SUS PROYECTOS NACEN DEL INGENIO PURO Y DEL CORAZON...NO DE UN EGO DESMEDIDO COMO ACTUALMENTE PASA...Y EL SOUNDTRACK ...UNICO E IRREPETIBLE.
I saw this film late last year with my father, Me and my dad were watching all the films together before we saw Alien: Covenant which came out the day before my birthday, I remember constantly telling my dad my to stop talking to me when we were watching the film xD. I think i should have saw this film alone first before watching it with my dad, maybe it would have had me scared a bit more. P.S. i'm now 14
Although only his second film, Ridley Scott was never again, this good. Jerry Goldsmith, the composer, thought this soundtrack (originally used in the movie, Freud: The Secret Passion) was wrong for Alien. Scott thought it was perfect - and he was dead right. Scott could have departed film-making after Alien, and he would have still left his mark.
Well he didn't ... he went on to make the superb Blade Runner, a genre-defining classic ... and revived the Roman epic with the brilliant Gladiator. I will not entertain the idea that Alien was the only good thing he ever did.
R.I.P. John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto
and Jerry Goldsmith
“I can’t lie about your chances…but…you have my sympathies.” Sir Ian Holm
Even the main director can't recreate the perfection of this movie. Its a revolution.
Can you imagine?
To become a cinematic legend - and the rest of your life is spent suffering abuse for not living up to what you created?
Surgicaldamage: Perfectly said. I see it the same way. And now we see: its not only the director, who is responsible for a masterpiece. Its the team... the atmosphere, the ideas of all creative minds.. the designer,... the writers... the actors (also how they feel those ideas.. how they interprete it) - and all of those influence eachother... i am sure, Giger influenced Scott in his own ways... even the once who build the sets for the movies, i am sure, came up with ideas, and/or spoke with Giger (sometimes because of a compromise between costs and the creative idea)... And all those were influenced by the time they lived on... it was pre-CGI ... it was in the mind of the movies, made before Alien.. Star Wars... Planet of the Apes.. etc ...''how Scifi could evolve''...there was no ''Transformers'' , X-Men, or ''Independence Day'' as ''competition'' ...
And so... Alien grow... and grow... and bursted out as a total new revolutionary form of Scifi... A connection between art , horror, science fiction, and something we cant specify... just feel : there is something about this movie ...
Its the perfect organism, i would say...
I cant lie about the chances that a movie could made so good again... but the directors nowadays have my sympathy :)
@@PygmalionFaciebat Ha! yes, It had so much to it that no matter how much they spend on CGI, they need to stop trying to top the source material and just be true to it. eg The space jockey was never mean't to leave its seat, it was grown into that chair like the pilot from far scape. The alien home land was the tapestry in HG Giger's work (even though I find it over sexualized and distasteful, as HRG has passed away, his work art is the only view of the aliens and jockey home world, and unless an artist can put it on the screen with impact and horror adventure, its best left alone.
Alien and Blade Runner.
Fuck Ridley Scott. He has nothing but contempt for his audiences especially those of Alien. He is so bitter about the fact he has never made a better film since and knows even he can't even take credit for it alone. Dan O' Bannon, H R Giger and J Goldsmith were the real heros of this film. And Weaver of course!
I was eleven years old when I watched the original alien on VHS. Scared the CRAP out of me. To this day, it is still my all time favorite scary movie.
I was 9 when I first watched it... and I must say "watched" in a figurative way, because I remember spending half of the movie with my hands over my eyes/ears!!
Álvaro G. Plata Not sure if you are a gamer, but I am looking forward to playing Alien Isolation, which comes out next month. :-)
Diomedes01
Weeks ago I watched some promo trailers of Alien Isolation, seems more focused on terror rather than action... really interesting approach.
Right now I'm somewhat busy, but years ago I used to play video games, Rebellion AvP, and later Sierra-Monolith AvP2... I loved it! There's some self-made video footage in my channel: ua-cam.com/play/PLfrXYzprLsbMpcKJhYsePyAw07RaRHO_B.html
Álvaro G. Plata Just started playing it on my Xbox One. The game is AWESOME! Super realistic and VERY scary! Really captures the mood and ambiance of the 1979 movie very well!
***** Agreed! That was so well done. Dallas all alone in the vents and the motion tracker showing the alien moving towards him with Lambert screaming for him to get out of there. Scary as HELL!
This soundtrack REALLY fit the atmosphere perfectly for Alien.
Whenever I would draw some of my alien creatures, I'd pop this on and listen to it!
Anybody else finds this music beautifully anxious?
Luis Meloni Ummmm absolutely!!
Me
It's the music of a very thin eggshell
Yes! A great way to describe it.
When I saw the movie, it was really intense and scared me. However, this soundtrack simply relaxes me. I often forget it's part of a horror sci-fi story. I think that's a testament to how well this was composed.
to me the other way around. I got scared even if nothing was happening because of the music
God, this is outstanding.
I love this "lullabye" as Jerry Goldsmith called it.
What is that exactly ?
One of my absolute favorite pieces of any soundtrack, just perfection.
My favorite track. Love the horns and strings.
Soooo brilliant - thank you Jerry Goldsmith:-)
This is probably the best cue of the sountrack and one of the best in movie history. A stunning harmonic progression and hauntingly expressive.
Imagine hearing that sound late at night, whilst you're walking around alone in a city. You'd shit your pants.
Best sci fi horror movie on all time.
I was 16 when I watched this in a Philadelphia movie theatre on a hot summer day in 1979. Walked out, and hoped to hell we never ran into anything like the Alien!
sillyone52062 I am very envious.... I was 7 then and didn't get to see the film until it was aired on the tv during 82. I would have love to have experienced this film for the first time in the cinema on its release in 1979 .....
Love that
sillyone52062 instead you saw rocky running up those stairs chaised by kids
I love the echo (or reverb is it called?) in the beginning. Really provides an agoraphobic vibe to the whole setting in space and making the audience FEEL right there with the crew members.
They put it through a gizmo called an echoplex to get the reverb effect. I saw an interview with Jerry goldsmith where he talked about it.
This whole soundtrack is isolating. You'd never know there was a human race almost. Just emptiness, for better or worse in the vastness of space. The 70s - 90s space shots always filled me with a sense of "What's out there? It's just us, here on this ship, for as far out as we can imagine, huh?"
Great work Alvaro. I am very grateful for your time on this!!
That very first second with the effects and the minor chords transported me to another dimension.
"Will you just listen to the Man!"
Soo perfect intro! Pure beauty! This movie si perfect! But the intro is divine!
Stunning playlist! The care that went into this is evident and the visuals really finish it off.
So glad i found this channel again
I admire its purity.
Superbly remastered to the highest degree , got to be one of the finest scores and surely the best sci Fi horror ever .
This isn't just a soundtrack it's a work of art. Thanks for sharing
Can we discuss the bonus situation?
Mr. Parker and I think that the bonus situation was never on equitable level.
Comrade Snake Well you get what you contracted, same as everyone else.
@@nicoletremblay3217 Right
I WANNA GO HOME AND PARTY!
Nicholas Tremblay Yes but “everyone else” gets more than us!
Muy buena la idea del proyecto, saludos
Goldsmith. That’s all that needs to be said.
This is absolutely sick. Outstanding work.
Excellent work, thank you!
I'll never forget that Friday when this was released..May 25, 1979..the worst US aircrash had just occurred in Chicago and I went to the midnight premiere of Alien..the feeling of dread that entire memorial weekend i will never forget
fantástico trabajo!!! que maravilla!!! que recuerdos!!! Gracias
You can tell it's a great movie when this kind of music comes on - simply to show some astronauts waking up.
The Alien movies have beautiful music and your renditions are equally as beautiful.
@Álvaro - You did a really good job with this
fantastic work man.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! GREAT JOB! Perfect sound and video background for my Nemesis game night with friends!!! THANKS!!!
I listen to this Piece 3 times a week Thanks hugely for uploading this
The best from whole soundtrack.
"Well, some of you may have figured out
we're not home yet. We're only halfway there".
Awesome work and beautiful videos
I will forever love the lab coat hanging next to the door in this scene, blowing aside when it opens.
Best piece of sci-fi horror.
I f.. love this movie, the greatest movie with the best soundtrack !!!!
Fantastic job!
Great sci-fi music...really captures the bridge between earlier 1970s sci-fi and the sort of grittier stuff that was to come over the next decade...great videos, as well
Honestly, nothing that came after this film comes close to the wondrous horror that this universe inspires. The Lovecraftian and Freudian influences coupled with the genuine hyperrealism of the acting, script and set design, tied up in themes of power and evolution was a genius we have not seen since and likely will never again. Prometheus for me did nothing but retcon the origin of the clearly 'alien' Space Jockey and smear the nuance of the original film. Aliens as an extension of the franchise was also an amazing action flick but its atmosphere outside of the opening sequence does not speak to the great writing of Alien.
"Wake up Ripley , Mother loves you so much"
Absolutely brilliant,,thank you so much,,we have the same taste but you have the talent
Always found this sounds optimistic
Such superb harmonisations! I bought the soundtrack LP around 1983, only to discover when I played it that this, one of the nicest parts of the whole score, had been excluded from the record! And it's not like it was an unimportant part of the film, either as part of the set up, or musically.
great film, great score. good job here
Beautiful sounds...
Saw this in the theater in '79. When Dallas asked what kind of transmission, some smart ass pipes up with "a Muncie Rockcrusher 4 speed."
This is absolutely brilliant.
Everybody knows it's a horror film - and we get really anxious music before this.
But then these guys wake up to a beautiful piece of hopeful classical music at 0:56. Unaware of the terror that awaits them (hinted at in the double bass 30 seconds later).
Si señor, un gran trabajo. Se escucha todo que da gusto !
Goldsmith, miss him.
Hypersleep is awesome!
Even the corridors of the ship and the mechanical sounds already give off an inhuman vibe.
Very nice job ! I have the original 1982 silva sreen CD and it needed to be "modernized" !
This movie series was an other and incredible mode to view a fanta-movie. Games inspired, and movies inspired.Is a revolutionary idea for chananging of old routine of fantascientific ambiences! thank you for your pubblications.
Super Film mit einer super Musik
Thanks for uploading
Really scary soundtrack
The music is very modern, but not scary.
Miluju to, kalim v praci🔥🔥😫
Great job!
My morning alarm clock
Nice work!
Lost me shit when this was played in Alien: Isolation
simply the best movie ever
still with us Brett
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh love that sound.
Reminds me of Alien Isolation, game is fucking terrifying
I don't know how Ripley even wanted to go into hypersleep again after the first movie.
. . . Gracias!!!
For bringing the naked fear to UA-cam!
I think Goldsmith must have scored the longer film edit. The original edit was 3 hours long. I don't know if this was cut down, before finally being again edited down to the cinema release version. But a number of Goldsmith's cues were clearly written for the longer versions of scenes. There is deleted footage of Kane walking into the recreation/meal room, after exiting the hibernation room. Also, when Parker and Lambert are confronted by the alien, the alien originally was crawling across the floor upside down (as it approached Lambert), which fit with Goldsmith's 'Parker's Death' for running time.
2 people said "it's not good, and I doubt it's morning either."
I'm sorry! I feel like death. I don't know how you people put up with hypersleep regularly.
You get used to it.
you look like shit
Well done! Sitting in a swimming pool in bali and listen to this... bet my flight tmr to singapore gonna pick up a distress signal and i will be in a world of shit ...
Perfect.
I dont know what to describe when i listen to this track. i just dont know how to do it.a mixture of lots of feelings.
Music speaks.
After listening this I'm going to watch the movie!
It's the best sci-fi/horror movie of all time. Enjoy!
I just recently picked up a CD of the Alien soundtrack that was made back in the 90s only to discover some of the best pieces of music were not included in the album I was about to order another Alien album of Ebay that included the closest to the complete soundtrack that had ever been realised in physical form. Luckily I found this first before I invested some of my money into something I can just listen to here!
Search ebay for the complete ALIEN soundtrack that was released by intrada back around 2007. It even includes the regular album and extra music on the second disc.
Awakening into a nightmare...
Jerry Goldsmith rules...❤
Play this music piece at my funeral
Listen to this sensational cosmic music... it is incomparable. Incredible achievment by music scorer.
When i was your age, there was a thing in the movies, called innovation.
There still is. Why do you think this one stuck out like a sore thumb back then? Because it was an innovative masterpiece in a world where innovation was rare. Innovation has always been rare. It can be risky, even self-destructive, thus playing safe appears more attractive to many. But when innovation works out, it works out extremely well. Innovation will always be a relatively rare sight in any era, but when it comes by, it's extremely fresh.
@Degree7 Yes, for instance. I was thinking that back in 1985/1986 during the summer, you could go to the cinema and you had to choose between Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Amadeus, Romancing the Stone, Fright Night, Aliens and Nightmare on Elm Street, and many MANY more. I'm not exactly sure if these exact movies were simultanously in the theatres, but close enough. They were all masterpieces, they were innovative, and strangely, they all came out around in the span of 2-3 years. It's amazing. Now what do you have to chose from? Cartoons for children, "Marvel" reused superheros and Staw Wars wannabies. What innovative movie came out in the last 5 years? Thor? Captain Marvel? The 99th episode of Feministar Wars?
Not only in films there were a lot of innovation 30/40years ago. There is still but it's less revelent
First to rise....first to die....
You all should watch "Jorodowskys Dune" - to see the seed that led to this revolutionary film.
1:06 - Sounds very similar to the music used in Alien Covenant.
I liked Covenant, because parts of it reminded me of this first great movie.
I love the flute like synth sound
+Mathias Thomsen Schmidt
What synth sound?
Everything you hear is real instruments, with some reverb effect added to the flute to give it that echo effect.
It's a masterpiece of suspenseful cinematic music.
Just at the very beginning. It's so mystical
+Mathias Thomsen Schmidt this is a bit of a late reply, but I believe those are real flutes, they just have delay and reverb on them. I remember reading an article where they talked about manipulating the instruments to make the piece sound more alien. ;P
MY FAV
Musiche epiche... Da sole mi facevano drizzare i peli del corpo da quanto erano terrificanti. Di notte faccio ancora gli incubi!
UNA DE LAS MEJORES PELICULAS DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS....RIDLEY SCOTT ES UN GENIO... OJALA HUBIERA MAS DIRECTORES COMO EL QUE SUS PROYECTOS NACEN DEL INGENIO PURO Y DEL CORAZON...NO DE UN EGO DESMEDIDO COMO ACTUALMENTE PASA...Y EL SOUNDTRACK ...UNICO E IRREPETIBLE.
Listen to this as I fall asleep and when wake up
que bueno seria otra pelicula mas de este tipo...estoy ansioso por prometheus 2
Jerry Goldsmith!!
I saw this film late last year with my father, Me and my dad were watching all the films together before we saw Alien: Covenant which came out the day before my birthday, I remember constantly telling my dad my to stop talking to me when we were watching the film xD. I think i should have saw this film alone first before watching it with my dad, maybe it would have had me scared a bit more. P.S. i'm now 14
Although only his second film, Ridley Scott was never again, this good.
Jerry Goldsmith, the composer, thought this soundtrack (originally used in the movie, Freud: The Secret Passion) was wrong for Alien. Scott thought it was perfect - and he was dead right.
Scott could have departed film-making after Alien, and he would have still left his mark.
Well he didn't ... he went on to make the superb Blade Runner, a genre-defining classic ... and revived the Roman epic with the brilliant Gladiator.
I will not entertain the idea that Alien was the only good thing he ever did.
Part of this score is heard in Alien: Covenant.