Near Dark

sparrow · Post by **sparrow** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:51 pm

Good post Jacob..I agree it's TD's best movie. I originally hired the video just because of the TD score. I was pleasantly surprised how well mad the film was. I now own the score & the DVD. I'm actually finding myself liking TD's movie scores more & More whereas before I could take or leave them.

boruncy · Post by **boruncy** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:05 pm

Love this one too. It's also a great contemporary Vampire movie and my fave of all movies using a TD score. Am I alone in thinking Calebs Blues is OK.

Could not agree more sparrow. It is certainly one of my fav TD scored movies as well, and as vampire movies go, this is as good as it gets.
As usual Lance Henrikson proved he is a superb actor!

wayfarer · Post by **wayfarer** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:14 pm

I have great memories, from 1988, renting the movie and buying the soundtrack on the same day. It was a sunny day with a petrol blue sky and I watched Near Dark twice, staying up most of the night. I almost felt like a vampire myself.

Great movie, even if the sound's bad on the vocal soundtrack. Subtitles help.

rattymouse · Post by **rattymouse** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:36 pm

sparrow wrote:Love this one too. It's also a great contemporary Vampire movie amd my fave of all movies using a TD score. Am I alone in thinking Calebs Blues is OK.

Caleb's Blues is a pile of absolute DRIBBLE. That song is such a total embarassment to everything I like about TD. I'd rather listen to the 23 CD box set of linda spa's greatest hit.

rattymouse · Post by **rattymouse** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:37 pm

Pertou wrote:This is this the soundtrack to the film, where the sympathetic young man, Caleb, falls in love with the mysterious Mae. However, Mae turns out to be a vampire...
Off course, he is bitten, and despite many attempted escapes, he is held by Mae's gang of aggressive vampires, and he has to go through an awfully lot. Mae is insecure with the situation, because she's in love with Caleb.
In my opinion, Near Dark is the best film, Tangerine Dream has made the music to. The film, as well as the music is very 80's.
The music is tremendously heavy, but with a gothic touch. If you have to compare production wise, the Alice Cooper records called Constrictor and Raise Your Fist And Yell, comes close, but I can't recommend those!
Tangerine Dream's contribution to the film has helped a lot to raise the level, because Near Dark is a dynamic album, with lots of variation.
The higlights can be heard in Pick Up At High Noon and Fight At Dawn, which has sequences based on the very dangerous one, that ended the Poland album with a bang!
Especially the last mentioned is very heavy, and you can blame it on the lively and aggressive drumming.
Why only 8/10? Well, the opening track, Caleb's Blues is quite doubtful. In short, a failed attempt to incorporate blues melodies in an electronic context. Luckily, this is the only minus on this record.
Near Dark has become quite a rarity, but I bought it at Groove Unlimited and they might have some copies left.

8/10

Near Dark is an awesome soundtrack. Second only to Firestarter. But the first track, Caleb Blues is just awful in EVERY way shape and form.

multivit72 · Post by **multivit72** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:15 pm

Just bought this onamazon marketplace and quite like it! No snippets here like other soundtracks, so there is time to develop some nice ideas.

And, yes, I like "Caleb's Blues" - fun, to have something different...

ant · Post by **ant** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:16 am

I too like Caleb's Blues but I think it was not actually used in the film.

rigel · Post by **rigel** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:53 pm

ant wrote: I too like Caleb's Blues but I think it was not actually used in the film.

I remember way back telling a friend (who liked the soundrack but hadn't yet watched the film) that "Caleb's Blues" wasn't used in the movie. He really liked that piece so was disappointed. I think it's fun and different, hardly a great TD track, but then soundtracks often throw up anomalies and out-of-character music. No great harm in that. Although I like a lot of the Legend soundtrack, I find much of that music not typical of TD at all.

Chris Monk · Post by **Chris Monk** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 11:44 pm

rigel wrote:I think it's fun and different, hardly a great TD track, but then soundtracks often throw up anomalies and out-of-character music. No great harm in that.

Totally agree. It's not your typical TD, in fact at one point I convinced myself it wasn't tme at all, but it's not that bad either.

Erik · Post by **Erik** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:25 am

rattymouse wrote:
sparrow wrote:Love this one too. It's also a great contemporary Vampire movie amd my fave of all movies using a TD score. Am I alone in thinking Calebs Blues is OK.
Caleb's Blues is a pile of absolute DRIBBLE. That song is such a total embarassment to everything I like about TD. I'd rather listen to the 23 CD box set of linda spa's greatest hit.

you should hear the second and third tracks from "Jahreszeiten der Liebe". outstandingly bad stuff. not in TD standards, but just in music standards in general.

T4N63R1N3 DR34M · Post by **T4N63R1N3 DR34M** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:47 pm

I'd rather listen to the 23 CD box set of linda spa's greatest hit.

where can this be purchased..

Erik · Post by **Erik** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:55 pm

Caleb's Blues isn't too bad. pretty cheap sounding, but a good vibe