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Jerry Goldsmith's FIRST BLOOD (1982) - NEW! 2025 Intrada 2-CD edition


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FIRST BLOOD (2CD - REMASTERED)
Jerry Goldsmith
Label: Intrada INT 7185
Film Date: 1982
Album Date: 2025
Time: 91:56
Tracks: 40
Price: $22.99


All-new edition of one of Intrada founder Doug Fake's personal favorite soundtracks!

 

In honor of its 40th Anniversary, Intrada presents an all-new edition of one of founder Doug Fake's personal favorite soundtracks. The score is not only an important part of Jerry Goldsmith's large body of work, but also Intrada's formative years. First Blood initially appeared as the inaugural release of the Film Music Treasury series, an early version of the Special Collection. In assembling that release, Goldsmith and engineer Len Engel re-sequenced the original Regency album and located one extra track not previously released, using the ¼″ two-track mixes made in 1982 for the LP. However, the ¼″ masters were plagued with an interesting anomaly: though identified with the widely-used professional Dolby A encoding process, they did not possess unique tones identifying the Dolby encoding that allows for calibration of playback machines. In lieu of those critical tones, the original engineers addressed by reducing the inherent background hiss using equalization techniques, and attempts to rectify these anomalies were less than satisfactory.

 

In 2010, Intrada located the multi-track session masters—complete and intact—every channel, every reel, every take. For the first time, all those interesting little bars that Goldsmith deleted to create his initial record could be restored within the full-length cues just as they were originally written and recorded. A brand-new presentation was created, uncut and intact, with newly mixed and re-mastered sound. However, in spite of Intrada's best efforts at the time, there still resulted an interesting anomaly—the tape speed was off and the music played a bit faster than intended. Additionally, some assemblies still eliminated a few of those aforementioned bars. For this new edition, Neil S. Bulk used Fake's stereo mixes and rebuilt the score and original soundtrack album from the ground up, addressing the speed issues and including a few unassembled extras so one can now truly hear everything. Some track titles have been adjusted to reflect their official cue sheet names. GRAMMY-nominee Mike Matessino mastered the album featuring new cover art by Stéphane Coëdel.

 

With 2025 being Intrada's 40th year releasing soundtracks, the Intrada team felt a truly definitive First Blood would be an important way to mark not only the occasion but present another opportunity to celebrate Doug Fake.

 

Track List

 

CD 1 SCORE PRESENTATION
01. Theme From First Blood (Pop Orchestra Version) (4:12)
02. Homecoming (Film Version) (2:25)
03. Last Summer (1:02)
04. Back To Town (0:48)
05. The Razor (Film Version) (3:10)
06. No Warmth (1:07)
07. Hanging On (Film Version) (2:09)
08. Over The Cliff (Film Version) (1:29)
09. A Stitch In Time (1:01)
10. Mountain Hunt (Film Version) (5:01)
11. First Meal (0:43)
12. First Blood (Film Version) (5:14)
13. The Tunnel (Film Version) (3:31)
14. Escape Route (Film Version) (2:42)
15. Over The Top (1:02)
16. My Town (Film Version) (1:00)
17. No Power/Fireworks (2:54)
18. It’s A Long Road (3:28)
19. It’s A Long Road (Theme From First Blood – Vocal) (3:24)

 

DISCRETE VERSIONS
20. No Power (1:01)
21. Fireworks (1:56)
22. Mission’s Over (0:49)

TOTAL CD 1 TIME: 50:54   

 

CD 2 ORIGINAL 1982 SOUNDTRACK ALBUM
01. It’s A Long Road (Theme From First Blood – Vocal) (3:24)
02. Escape Route (2:42)
03. First Blood (4:39)
04. The Tunnel (4:04)
05. Hanging On (3:32)
06. Homecoming (2:25)
07. Mountain Hunt (6:11)
08. My Town (1:57)
09. The Razor (3:14)
10. Over The Cliff (2:08)
11. It’s A Long Road (Instrumental) (2:56)

TOTAL ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK ALBUM TIME: 37:33

 

THE EXTRA
12. It’s A Long Road (Recording Session Piano/Vocal Demo) (3:25)

TOTAL CD 2 TIME: 41:02

 

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Samples sound excellent, and the album artwork is really nice - very striking and I like the darker hues. I don't own any previous version of this score. I may pick this one up in the future.

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I wanted to buy this, but I see it's missing 2 tracks from the previous edition:

Carolco Logo (00:19)

Rambo (Special Summer 1984 Trailer) (01:15)

 

I wonder why.

I don't agree then with the description that it's "a truly definitive First Blood".

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5 minutes ago, Jay said:

Because those had nothing to do with First Blood, and have instead been where they belong, on Intrada's Rambo: First Blood Part II expansion, since 2016

 

https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.10541/.f

 

 

Oh, the summer trailer was for the second movie?

Do you know what track is it?

track 29 or 30 in the 2nd cd?

 

edit: Oh, I've listened to them. It's neither! Then that track is exclusive to the first Intrada edition of First Blood?

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First Blood came out in 1982.  This music Jerry wrote 2 years later doesn't belong on a release of music for First Blood.  It belongs on Rambo: First Blood Part II's expansion.

 

The Carolco Logo music is used on that film, and didn't exist yet when First Blood was made.

 

And yes, it's a trailer for the second film, not for the first film

 

 

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Just now, Jay said:

First Blood came out in 1982.  This music Jerry wrote 2 years later doesn't belong on a release of music for First Blood.  It belongs on Rambo: First Blood Part II's expansion.

 

The Carolco Logo music is used on that film, and didn't exist yet when First Blood was made.

OK, but did you read my edit? The summer trailer music is not in the second movie soundtrack either, if I'm not mistaken.

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1 minute ago, Jay said:

Sure it is

 

 

OK, maybe it matches the 1984 summer trailer music (I didn't follow it all), it just misses then a high strings intro that that track had.. haha.

Anyway, no big deal I guess.

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The finished trailer might have used a mixture of the Original and Revised, I haven't bothered to analyze

 

Regardless, none of this music belongs on a First Blood release, and has been available on Intrada's Rambo: First Blood Part II release since 2016.

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Curious about a couple things… what does discrete versions mean? Just separated from each other? And are First Meal and Missions Over unreleased?

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It means they are presented as complete cues in their own track with a clean opening and ending.

 

In the main program "No Power" and "Fireworks" are combined together to form the track "No Power / Fireworks".  In the bonus tracks, you can hear each cue from start to finish all by themselves.

 

"Mission's Over" is the first part of "It's a Long Road" in the main program.  In the bonus track you can hear the full recorded ending of "Mission's Over", while the clean opening of "It's A Long Road" is in the album program (as "It's A Long Road (Instrumental)").

 

All 3 of these discrete cues were released that way on the 2022 Quartet vinyl box set, so now that box set had nothing unique (content-wise) that is not included here.  Of course, the vinyl box set had Chris Malone mastering, while this has Mike Matessino mastering.

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I'm also upgrading. I think this score deserves the corrections and tweaks, and this sounds like a truly definitive version of the score.

 

The previous release will be passed on to others so they can discover the score for themselves.

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1 minute ago, Lady Dimitrescu said:

Maybe they can redo Rambo III next so it sounds more like the earlier releases. That 2018 release is hot on the VU meter.

Voovoo land.

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16 hours ago, crumbs said:

Samples are up!

 

So are cattle mutilations.

 

16 hours ago, crumbs said:

I'd liken this remaster to the difference between FSM's Wrath of Khan and LLL's newer version.

 

I was so surprised by this, I was about to complain that nobody told me the new version has better sound, because if I'd known that, I wouldn't have skipped it. Then I checked my collection and saw that I do have it. I didn't remember I owned three versions of the score…

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I'm hoping the brass sustain in Hanging On (when Rambo realises he is stuck between the cliff and the dogs) has been extended out to match the film. It's only a minor issue and a few more fleeting seconds but it flows way more naturally than the abrupt edit in all previous versions.

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17 minutes ago, Steve H said:

I'm hoping the brass sustain in Hanging On (when Rambo realises he is stuck between the cliff and the dogs) has been extended out to match the film. It's only a minor issue and a few more fleeting seconds but it flows way more naturally than the abrupt edit in all previous versions.

Comparing the track you mentioned in both titles and there’s a 7 second difference. Hopefully they fixed the issue you mentioned 

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13 hours ago, Steve H said:

I'm hoping the brass sustain in Hanging On (when Rambo realises he is stuck between the cliff and the dogs) has been extended out to match the film. It's only a minor issue and a few more fleeting seconds but it flows way more naturally than the abrupt edit in all previous versions.

 

I'm hoping they add the tracked ending from the Freud Main Title- wait, wrong Hanging On...

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On 29/4/2025 at 4:25 PM, Jurassic Shark said:

It's probably digitally denoised to death.

 

@Schilkeman is gonna love it! :P

I would never spend that much money on an expansion these days, but if you’re wondering if I’ve restarted my classical collection for a third time to focus primarily on Telarc releases, yes, yes I have.

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On 06/05/2025 at 6:47 AM, filmmusic said:

OK, maybe it matches the 1984 summer trailer music (I didn't follow it all), it just misses then a high strings intro that that track had.. haha.

Anyway, no big deal I guess.

I see what you're referring to. I looked at the fsm thread about this and the reason it wasn't added in Rambo 2 is cuz that was a sound effect not made by Jerry Goldsmith. Also looking at the trailer on youtube, it doesn't appear for all the trailer showings

 

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