Alien 3 (soundtrack)

The avant-garde Alien 3: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was written for the motion picture of the same name. Scored by Elliot Goldenthal, it was his first big mainstream score; he described it as an experiment and spent a whole year creating it.[1]

Alien 3: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by
Elliot Goldenthal
ReleasedJune 9, 1992
RecordedApril-May 1992
GenreClassical, avant-garde, modernist, musique concrète, electronic
Length47:58
LabelMCA
MCA MCAD-10629
ProducerMatthias Gohl
Elliot Goldenthal chronology
Pet Sematary
(1989)		 Alien 3: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(1992)		 Demolition Man
(1993)
Alien soundtrack chronology
Aliens
(1987)		 Alien 3
(1992)		 Alien: Resurrection
(1997)

The score

Goldenthal cites the score as one of his six stand-out soundtracks.[2] While creating the score in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles riots of 1992 were going on and he has noted that the wild and tempestuous atmosphere in the city was an influence on the score's dark and visceral sound.[3][4]

In 1995, the Industrial band Front Line Assembly sampled the cue "Agnus Dei" on the track "Infra Red Combat" from the album Hard Wired.

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Filmtracks[6]
Movie-wave.net[7]

Movie-wave.net said that most of the cues are quite "dissonant" and "bleak" for a casual movie score listener.[7] AllMusic described it as "...mandatory for all serious enthusiasts of film music."[1][8]

Track listing
  1. "Agnus Dei" – 4:29
  2. "Bait and Chase" – 4:42
  3. "The Beast Within" – 3:09
  4. "Lento" – 5:48
  5. "Candles in the Wind" – 3:20
  6. "Wreckage and Rape" – 2:43
  7. "The First Attack" – 4:19
  8. "Lullaby Elegy" – 3:41
  9. "Death Dance" – 2:18
  10. "Visit to the Wreckage" – 2:04
  11. "Explosion and Aftermath" – 2:21
  12. "The Dragon" – 3:08
  13. "The Entrapment" – 3:42
  14. "Adagio" – 4:14

2018 Special Edition Track Listing[9]

CD 1 The FILM SCORE

  1. "20th Century Fox Trademark (Alien Version) / Main Title" - 4:53
  2. "Status Reports" - 2:59
  3. "The Survivor Is a Woman" - 1:59
  4. "The Wreckage" - 2:08
  5. "Lullaby Elegy (Extended Version) " - 5:28
  6. "The Cremation" - 4:04
  7. "Chow Down With the Boys" - 2:28
  8. "How Do You Like Your New Haircut? " - 1:46
  9. "The First Attack (Film Version) " - 1:18
  10. "Appreciative of Your Affections" - 1:45
  11. "That’s His Boot" - 2:29
  12. "A Mark, A Burn" - 0:57
  13. "Wreckage and Rape" - 2:43
  14. "Candles in the Wind" - 3:24
  15. "Bishop Turned On" - 2:29
  16. "You’re Going to Die Too" - 2:01
  17. "It’s a Long Sad Story / Clemens Dies" - 4:21
  18. "Andrews’ Sting / What Are We Going to Do? " - 4:53
  19. "Explosion and Aftermath (Extended Version) " - 3:13
  20. "I Have to Get to the Ship" - 4:17
  21. "In the Basement" - 1:33
  22. "Alien’s Lair" - 3:33
  23. "The Beast Within" - 3:12
  24. "Visit to the Wreckage" - 2:05
  25. "Bait and Chase (Extended Version) " - 4:56

CD 2 THE FILM SCORE (Continued)

  1. "It’s Started" - 3:36
  2. "More Bait and Chase" - 2:21
  3. "Trap the Alien / Dillon’s Deliverance" - 2:04
  4. "Gotcha / Hello, I Must Be Going" - 2:29
  5. "Adagio" - 4:18

ALTERNATES

  1. "The Cremation (Alternate) " - 4:34
  2. "You Can Still Have a Life (Alternate) " - 4:04
  3. "20th Century Fox Trademarks / Alien Version" - 1:15

The Original 1992 MCA Album (remastered)

  1. "Agnus Dei" - 4:29
  2. "Bait and Chase" - 4:42
  3. "The Beast Within" - 3:10
  4. "Lento" - 5:49
  5. "Candles in the Wind" - 3:21
  6. "Wreckage and Rape" - 2:44
  7. "The First Attack" - 4:20
  8. "Lullaby Elegy" - 3:41
  9. "Death Dance" - 2:17
  10. "Visit to the Wreckage" - 2:04
  11. "Explosion and Aftermath" - 2:21
  12. "The Dragon" - 3:07
  13. "The Entrapment" - 3:42
  14. "Adagio" - 4:16

Audio

The menacing cue that comes with the opening sequence of the Sulaco being evacuated by the on-board computer because of the alien presence and fire. This sample is taken from the part where the escape pod is hurtling through the planet's atmosphere.

Cue of the failed attempt to capture the alien.

Cue from the scene where the sprinkler system is activated to destroy the alien.

The cue from the scene where Ripley commits suicide in the blast furnace.

Crew/Credit
  • Music composed and orchestrated by Elliot Goldenthal
  • Music produced by Matthias Gohl
  • Conducted by Jonathan Sheffer
  • Additional orchestrations by Robert Elhai
  • Synthesizer programming by Richard Martinez
  • Music mixed by Joel Iwataki at The Enterprise Studios
  • Electronic music recorded at The Enterprise Studios, The Village Recorders, Los Angeles, and Eastside Sound, New York
  • Orchestral music recorded by Tim Boyle at Twentieth Century Fox
  • Boy soprano soloist on "Agnus Dei": Nick Nackley
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References
  1. Goldenthal: Alien 3
  2. Filmtracks: Elliot Goldenthal
  3. Vincent Ward, David Giler, Ezra Swerdlow, Sigourney Weaver, Paul McGann, Alec Gillis (2010). Wreckage and Rage: Making Alien 3 (Blu-ray). 20th Century Fox.
  4. Entrevista a Elliot Goldenthal, compositor de Alien³ (Español/English)- Universo Alien on YouTube
  5. Alien 3 at AllMusic
  6. (13 August 2006). Alien³ soundtrack review, Filmtracks.
  7. Southall, James (2006). ALIEN 3: Wildly experimental music is a hard slog, but worth it, Movie-wave.net.
  8. "Alien 3 - Elliot Goldenthal". Archived from the original on 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
  9. https://lalalandrecords.com/alien-3-2-cd-set/
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