Andy

I’m even excited to have the MCA album in proper order for nostalgia. Wonder if people will be surprised or even torqued when This Boy Needs to Rock cuts into the end of First Flight, which the Varese CD separated with an early fade.

Glad you posted this full version. At about 0:22, the POV perspective and those swirling harp figures reminded me of the opening of JAWS. Intentional homage?

She’s looking like a redneck with dem missin’ teef. Old girl. My buddy.

Also today: I love that this movie is getting some love all of a sudden. I know what I’ll be watching on Father’s Day.

Intrada Announces EXPLORERS Music Composed and Conducted by JERRY GOLDSMITH Intrada presents a 2-CD expanded edition of Jerry Goldsmith's Explorers (1985). The score is often a contradictory work: youthfully buoyant, melancholic, celebratory, slyly witty, bursting with energy and optimism and adventure, but also tinged with regret. As director Joe Dante recalled, “I put a very mournful temp score on the movie. I used Bernard Herrmann’s ‘Walking Distance’ music from The Twilight Zone ... and I remember Jerry saying, ‘Do you really want it to be this sad?’ I said I didn’t want it depressing but it’s a movie about dreams that don’t come true ... so there was a sense of loss about the movie that I wanted to get into it, but Jerry also managed to do a lot of bouncy stuff that made it a lot more fun.” The original LP release from MCA records featured highlights of the score, but only focused on two of the score's many facets, primarily the adventure and later the quirky outer space setting of the final act. It's a bit deceptive, for it was the serious element of the score that was sorely missed the most on the vinyl release. Melancholy aspect notwithstanding, the album is a lot of fun: the music is packed with robust orchestral energy in the action, inventive electronic effects for the characters' dreams and soaring melodic sweep for the flight sequences. For the alien spaceship sequences, Goldsmith even adds colorful hip flavor to his musical mix. The score offers just about everything. In 2011, Intrada released an expanded edition to encompass all aspects of the score. Now 15 years later with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures and Universal Music Enterprises, Intrada has crafted a 2-CD set with the film score proper on CD 1. Bonus tracks have been moved to a second disc and then expanded to include a wealth of early alternate version of many cues. This is followed by the original MCA album program, including the vocals and all the original assemblies. Watch the soundtrack trailer featuring an alternate version of The Construction: Explorers was director Dante’s follow-up to the 1984 smash hit Gremlins. The story involves three boys (played by Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix and Jason Presson) who construct their own spaceship under the influence of thought transmissions from an alien race. The boys convert an old Tilt-A-Whirl car into the “Thunder Road,” and testdrive the vehicle over their town, eventually flying it into outer space for an encounter with the aliens summoning them. But the extraterrestrials behind the alien technology turn out to be quite different than the boys expect. Check out the track list and sound samples here: https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.13427/.f?sc=13&category=-113 1 The Score 01. Main Title (Film Version) (0:49) 02. The First Dream (1:00) 03. Sticks And Stones (2:27) 04. Lori/Intervention (0:51) 05. Home (2:13) 06. The Bubble (1:49) 07. “Sci-Fi” Flick/The Roof-top (2:07) 08. Crazed Bubble/Fuse Box (2:45) 09. Free Ride (3:45) 10. Peek-A-Boo (1:55) 11. The Prospect (1:43) 12. The Construction (2:38) 13. The Thunder Road (1:28) 14. First Flight (3:06) 15. No Air (2:36) 16. I Want To Live (1:44) 17. Time For Bed (1:39) 18. More Dreams/Dreams (1:47) 19. Let’s Go (1:50) 20. Fast Getaway (5:00) 21. Wait Up (1:01) 22. The Spider (0:59) 23. Alien Love Call (0:59) 24. We Come In Peace (2:07) 25. She Likes Me (2:41) 26. Looks Real (2:04) 27. Space Pirates (0:35) 28. Gifts / Home Flight (7:12) 29. Have A Nice Trip (8:14) Total Album Time: 69:00 CD 2 The Extras 01. Main Title (Unused Version With “Wak’s Boogie”) (0:53) 02. Main Title (alt) (0:48) 03. Crazed Bubble (alt) (2:23) 04. The Construction (alt) (2:37) 05. No Air (alt) (2:36) 06. I Want To Live (alt) (1:40) 07. Time For Bed (alt) (1:21) 08. More Dreams (alt) (1:01) 09. Fast Getaway (alt) (4:58) 10. Alien Love Call (alt) (0:47) 11. She Likes Me (alt) (2:42) 12. Tannhauser Overture [Excerpt] (Richard Wagner) (4:07) 13. Space Movie (Alexander Courage) (3:06) 14. Neek Chords (0:21) Total Extras Time: 29:17 The MCA Album 15. The Construction (2:38) 16. Sticks And Stones (2:26) 17. No Air (2:36) 18. Less Than Perfect (4:08) 19. The Bubble (1:50) 20. First Flight (2:58) 21. This Boy Needs To Rock (3:57) 22. All Around The World (2:19) 23. Free Ride (3:45) 24. Fast Getaway (5:00) 25. She Likes Me (2:41) 26. Have A Nice Trip (8:05) Total Album Time: 42:22 Total CD Time: 72:00

Hit you like a wrecking ball, eh?

He was a great father and had no family dysfunction! It was the aliens driving the kids crazy:

Ah yeah that’s “He’s fulfilling a wish I had since I was ten” not “I met him when I was your age and now he’s back”

Huh? I thought the line was something like he’s wished for finding an Extraterrestrial since he was a boy, not implying that he had actual contact. That he was a dreamer and a skywatcher himself humanized him, making him not scary but sympathetic. Unless I misheard or misunderstood it through my own tears all these years?

Then.. then you think it’s safe to go back in the water!?!?

Damn you! There goes any chance of my Howard the Duck role play fantasy!

Same as Sean. Leah Thompson isn’t exactly what you’d call voluptuous.

As long as you’re okay with other features that could be described as “sparrow-like”

I’d much rather grow up a Brody than a Neary. I mean sure you have to endure The Trouble, but you get to stroke dolphin with Bess Armstrong and eventually retire to the Bahamas where you make love to an angry welder who flings her panties at you.

Wait, which time? The first time or the fourth one?