roycommi

Hi ABC,

Just wanted to drop a public note and thank you for all the hard work you've done with the music!  ESB is my favorite of the six and i think John Williams was similarly at his greatest with this soundtrack.

I must confess i dont have the ear for some of the specific things i read about in this and the previous posts.  I can tell that the music has a nice crispness and clearness to it so for that thank you.

I burned v3 onto CDs yesterday and have them in my car now.  I hope to continue to enjoy the music and wanted to thank you once again.

Roycommi

Esper Edition

*CD 1

1. Prologue And main Titles
2. Leons Voight Kampff Test
3. Sushi Bar - Damask Rose
4. Spinner Ascent
5. Blush Response
6. Wait For Me
7. Deckard Meets Rachael
8. Rachael's Song
9. Tales Of The Future
10. Bicycle Riders
11. Chew's Eye Lab
12. Memories Of Green
13. Blade Runner Blues
14. Pris Meets J.F. Sebastian
15. One More Kiss, Dear

 *CD 2

1.  Deckard Dream
2.  Thinking Of Rachael (Love Theme Different Take)
3.  Esper Analysis
4.  Animoid Row
5.  Taffey Lewis Night Club
6.  Salome's Dance
7.  Zhora's Retirement
8.  I Am The Business
9.  Love Theme
10.  I Dreamt Music
11.  Morning At The Bradbury
12.  The Prodigal Son Bring Death
13.  Deckard Enters The Bradbury
14.  Dangerous Days
15.  Wounded Animals
16.  Tears In Rain
17.  Rachael Sleeps
18.  End Titles

Esper Edition is kind of the first real comprehensive bootleg i ever listened to. This version contains music thats on the original release, some new queues of music with sound fx, and new queues without sound fx. "Leaons VK Test" for example is new, but it has the sound fx fromt he scene running thru it. I beleive thats becasue its a rip from the laserdisk. "Tears in Rain" is the same music as the original releases but its clear without any dialog or added efects as in the official release and in the track "Fading Away".

"2019 Edition"

1. Main Titles
2. The Spinne
3. Decard Meets Rachel
4. Rachel's Test
5. Mr Chews Eye Lab
6.  Memories Of Green Decard's Blues
7. I'm Hungry JF
8. Piano Memories
9. Photo Analysis / Abdul Ben Hassan /Taffy / Miss Salome Dance
10. I Am The Business
11. Love Theme
12. Morning At Bradbury Building
13. The Prodigal Son Returns
14. Tyrel's Death
15. Bradbury Apartments
16. Through Rain And Snow
17. The Duel
18. Time To Die
19. Rachel Sleeping / Escape / End Titles

This soundtrack has several queues that i had not hear on any other soundtrack. # 7, #13,#16 all appear to be original to this CD. #8 i have heard before on Esper Edition, but this version appears to be more clear. Same with #15.

h/t to ffshrine forums for track names and 2019 edition

Blade Runner Soundtrack by Vangelis:

1.   Main Titles
2.   Blush Response
3.   Wait For me
4.   Rachel's Song
5.   Love Theme
6.   One More Kiss, Dear
7.   Blade Runner Blues
8.   Memories of Green
9.   Tales of the Future
10.  Damask Rose
11.  Blade Runner (End Titles)
12.  Tears in the Rain

The first official soundtrack by Vangelis himself.  It was a real treat to finally listen to Vangelis' music, as done by him.  The music was great and "Rachel's Song" was just awesome.  Some of the tracks, like "Rachel's Song", unless I’m mistaken, were original compositions and not actually in the movie.  One item I did not like in most cases was the overdubbing of dialog (however on track 12, I felt it actually fit).  Also a nitpick, on track 2, this is one of those original compositions not in the movie, but it features dialog dubbed on top from the movie.  If u listen very closely you can hear the original music from the scene in the background :-P

Blade Runner Trilogy 25th Anniversary 3CD Special Edition  by Vangelis:

 CD1

1. Main Titles (From Blade Runner)
2. Blush Response
3. Wait For Me
4. Rachel's Song
5. Love Theme From Bladerunner
6. One More Kiss, Dear
7. Blade Runner Blues
8. Memories Of Green
9. Tales Of The Future
10.  Damask Rose
11. Blade Runner (End Titles)
12.  Tears In Rain

 CD2

1. Longing    
2. Unveiled Twinkling Space
3. Dr. Tyrell's Owl
4. At Mr. Chew's
5. Leo's Room
6. One Alone
7.  Deckard And Roy's Duel 
8. Dr. Tyrell's Death
9. Desolation Path  
10.  Empty Streets
11. Mechanical Dolls
12. Fading Away

 CD3

1. Launch Approval
2. Up And Running
3. Mail From India
4. BR Downtown
5. Dimitri's Bar
6. Sweet Solitude
7. No Expectation Boulevard
8. Vadavarot
9. Perfume Exotico
10. Spotkanie Z MatkaPiano In An Empty Room
11. Keep Asking

The 2^nd and most recent of the official releases of the soundtrack.  The 1^st CD is a rerelease of the 1^st soundtrack, the 2^nd cd is some new material and the 3^rd is original compositions not in the movie.  The 2^nd CD has some really great new themes on it.  Not really an expert on the music so I don’t know where some of those themes come from, #1,#6, #9, #10.  CD3 is all original music inspired by the movie.  Only nit I have is that the music seems to have extra sounds added over top of the music.  For example, #12 “Fading Away” is just “tears in the Rain” sans dialog, but it has this effect noise at the beginning that seems to bridge one song to the next.  It’s not in the movie so I don’t get what its for.

(more to come)

All, I have been a fan of Vangelis’ Blade Runner (BR) soundtrack for a decade or more.  Having purchased the original soundtrack and the 25th anniversary, Ive  always been fascinated with the music in the bootlegs.  Back in the napster days i can recall trying to download the various expanded editions and different queues from the laser disk that were out there.  Many years ago I actual got my hands on one of the Gongo releases from a seller.

The problem i have with all the editions i have (Esper 2,3, Gongo, 2019, etc etc) is trying to come up with the “one” or the best sounding.  For example, the “love theme” is pretty uniform across all the distributions, but the track “I am the Business” sounds different from Esper 2, to 3, and different on 2019 edition and different on “The Sound of Blade Runner”.

I was curious if anyone would like to participate in a discussion (post) to try and collate the various bootlegs and soundtracks and come up with the best sounding, most complete score.

Also if people have some knowledge about the soundtrack and the queues in the bootlegs and know why one version of a tracks sounds one way here and another way there that would be interesting to read.

At any rate if anyone’s interested please feel free to say.  Ill reserve the next post to put up what I have.

Hi, i also love the music from this movie.  Ive spent years tracking down extended ques from this movie and many more and would love to finally get some good queues :-)

I have visited the blog you speak of and listned to the music there and i also found another blog that now seems to be down.  the blogs i found were:

theinfernomusiccrypt.blogspot.com, raresoundtracks.wordpress.com.  , and bsoraros.wordpress.com

I got the music and kinda made my own playlist based off those sources.  Id be happy to upload it so others can listen to it if someone can provide me with a place to put it.  None of my work of course, just what i have found.