General Article name: Terminator [Original Soundtrack]
Genre: Stage & Screen Product type: CD Label: Milan Number of tracks: 17 Duration: 68:19 Tracklist CD - 1 1. Brad Fiedel - Main Title 2:40 2. Brad Fiedel - Terminator Arrival/Reese Chased/Sarah on Motorbike 7:09 3. Brad Fiedel - Terminator Gets Guns/Search for Sarah 1:13 4. Brad Fiedel - Reese Dreams of Future War 1:51 5. Brad Fiedel - Sarah Watches News/Enters Tech Noir 1:23 6. Brad Fiedel - Matt & Ginger Killed/Sarah Calls Detectives 7:55 7. Brad Fiedel - Reese & Sarah in Garage 4:34 8. Brad Fiedel - Arm & Eye Surgery 3:45 9. Brad Fiedel - "I'll Be Back"/Police Station & Escape 3:46 10. Brad Fiedel - Future Flashback 3:47 11. Brad Fiedel - "Fuck You Asshole" 1:09 12. Brad Fiedel - Love Scene 2:29 13. Brad Fiedel - Tunnel Chase 5:13 14. Brad Fiedel - Death by Fire/Terminator Gets Up 2:36 15. Brad Fiedel - Factory Chase 3:57 16. Brad Fiedel - End Credits: Final Suite 10:32 17. Brad Fiedel - Terminator (Theme) [Extendedversion] 4:20   Description Description

One underrated highlight of the classic 1984 science-fiction film The Terminator was the marvelous synthesizer score by Brad Fiedel. Side one of The Terminator is comprised of six compositions by Fiedel, who once served as a keyboardist for Hall & Oates briefly in the mid-1970s. "The Terminator Theme" is a spectacular piece of haunting synthesizer music; each layer is perfectly effective, especially the deceptively simple melody line. "Tunnel Chase" is bombastically chilling while "Love Scene" is a soft, mournful piano-based version of the main theme; its bittersweet feel corresponds nicely to the pivotal scene that it supports. Fiedel's synthesizer work on "Factory Chase" is full of glassy squeals and scary bursts, and Ross Levinson adds touches of electric violin. Side two consists of generic, mid-1980s synthesizer-based, dance-oriented pop/rock, but that makes sense since most of these songs were used in club scenes in the film. Tahnee Cain and Tryanglz contribute three songs (Cain, aka Tane Cain, was married to keyboardist Jonathan Cain of the Babys and Journey); all three have typical hard-rock rhythm guitar and flashy solos, but the best one is "Burnin' in the Third Degree." The Jay Ferguson and 16mm cut "Pictures of You" is really only notable because the emphasis on quirky synthesizers is so different from Ferguson's solo rock hits "Thunder Island" and "Shakedown Cruise." The hyperactive Linn Van Hek song "Intimacy" is a mixture of latter-day new wave and primitive, early techno. [The Terminator was reissued on CD in 2016 with six bonus tracks.] ~ Bret Adams

Bret Adams

Contributors Mixing: Brad Fiedel Engineer: Mark Casselman Mastering: Rob Kleiner Mixing: Mark Casselman Music Consultant: Budd Carr Post Production: Robert Randles Producer: Brad Fiedel Record Label: Milan Violin (Electric): Ross Levinson Art Direction: Nicolas Winding Refn Assistant Producer: Alixandra Macmillan-Fiedel Editing: Emilie Robertson