Various Artists - Soundtrack / Apocalypse Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist Various Artists - Soundtrack
Album Title: Apocalypse Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Primary Genre Soundtrack: Film Soundtrack
Format CD (2)
Released 00/00/1979
Reissue Date 00/00/1988
Label Elektra/Asylum Records
Catalog No 90001-2
Bar Code No 0 7559-60689-2 5
Reissue Yes
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
Apocalypse Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Disc 1]
1. The End / The Doors (4:14)
2. Saigon [Narration And Dialogue] / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (1:37)
3. The End, Pt. 2 / The Doors (1:38)
4. Terminate [Narration And Dialogue] / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (5:44)
5. The Delta / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (2:35)
6. P.B.R. [Narration And Dialogue] / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (2:05)
7. Dossier #I / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (1:48)
8. Colonel Kilgore [Narration And Dialogue] / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (5:38)
9. Orange Light / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (2:16)
10. The Ride Of The Valkyries / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1:58)
(Richard Wagner)
11. Napalm In The Morning [Dialogue] / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (0:55)
12. Pre-Tiger / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (4:47)
13. Dossier #II / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (3:29)
14. Susie-Q / Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids (4:35)
(Dale Hawkins, Stanley Lewis, and Eleanor Broadwater)
15. Dossier #III / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (3:07)
16. 75 Klicks [Dialogue] / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (1:09)
17. The Nung River / Carmine & Francis Ford Coppola (3:08)
Apocalypse Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Disc 2]
1. Do Lung Bridge / (9:37)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
2. Letters From Home / (2:29)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
3. Clean's Death / (3:11)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
4. Chief's Death/ Strange Voyage / (6:48)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
5. Strange Voyage / (4:15)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
6. Kurtz' Compound / (2:18)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
7. Willard's Capture / (1:17)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
8. Errand Boy / (2:06)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
9. Chef's Head / (2:01)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
10. The Hollow Men / (1:09)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
11. Horror / (5:40)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
12. Even The Jungle Wanted Him Dead / (1:01)
(Carmine Coppola and Walter Murch)
13. The End / (3:13)
(Doors)
Date Acquired 03/14/2011
Personal Rating
Acquired from FYE Burnsville
Purchase Price 8.99

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Original soundtrack released in 1979.

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Review by M.F. DiBella
To view Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece Apocalypse Now is to investigate the dark side of human nature, to probe Heart of Darkness. Listening to the soundtrack is to experience the film again in another, no less mind-bending light. Arranged by Coppola and hisfather Carmine, the music, dialogue and narration match the film's chilling descent into madness. The score, heavy on electronics and synthetic noise, dangles the listener in front of an abyss akin to the frightful mood evoked by the film's terrifying visceral psychedelics. Keeping with the sequence of the film's action, the soundtrack traces Captain Willard's trip up the river to meet Colonel Kurtz. From the opening helicopters' muffled whirls to the echoes of the unforgiving Vietnamese jungle, the sounds of Apocalypse Now amount to poundings and shrieks of synthesized paranoia, accurately capturing the confusion and discord depicted in the film. Excerpts from the film, named after script indicators such as "Saigon," "The Nung River," "Do Lung Bridge," "Horror," and "Even the Jungle Wanted Him Dead," provide precise snapshots. Some cuts are pure dialogue, while others are dialogue interspersed with the sound of the film. Only three actual songs, each memorable in their own light, appear on the soundtrack: "The End" by The Doors, which captures the film's doors of perception theme, "Susie Q" and Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." For Apocalypse Now's devotees, this album brings the film to life without the aid of the visuals. But, since the dialogue cuts run long, the album may prove to be a huge snore for just about any other listener. On a whole it's an unconventional soundtrack; rather, it's a facsimile of many of the film's crucial scenes and an auditory synopsis of a phenomenal cinematic experience.
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