The Second Disc

One of the most notable catalogue releases that planted the idea for The Second Disc happened back in 2007, when Intrada released a two-disc set of all the music recorded by Jerry Goldsmith for the 1979 sci-fi/horror masterpiece Alien. That set was an eye-opener in terms of what indie soundtrack labels could release, and the results have only gotten bigger as time moves on.

Three years later, La La Land Records has continued that tradition by releasing the complete score to the last entry in the Alien franchise to date: Alien Resurrection (1997). The film, which saw Sigourney Weaver returning with Winona Ryder to battle another batch of acid-bleeding, steel-jawed xenomorphs, was the least successful of the films, but the original score, composed by John Frizzell, was an intriguing selection of cues.

Both score and composer are unorthodox pieces of the Alien saga. Frizzell, best known for his scores to the comedies of Mike Judge (Office Space, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, King of the Hill), wasn’t a name in the same way Goldsmith, Aliens composer James Horner or even Alien3 composer Elliot Goldenthal each were. And his work for the film was far from jokey; seven months of writing and recording, utilizing unusual instruments not used in previous scores, the music of Alien Resurrection was as experimental as it was action-packed. (Traditionalists could at least take heart in a few brief expressions of Goldsmith’s original themes in places.)

Now, La La Land assembles a two-disc package, just in time for Halloween and the impending Blu-Ray release of all four Alien films, that contains the complete score as heard in the film, a handful of alternate cues and the original soundtrack as edited and mixed in 1997. It looks to be a boon for fans of the series and horror music enthusiasts to boot. Order the set, limited to 3,000 copies, right here and hit the jump for the usual stats.
John Frizzell, Alien Resurrection: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Limited Edition (La La Land Records LLLCD 1145, 2010 – original film released 1997)

Disc 1

1. Main Title
2. Entering the Ship *
3. Post-Op
4. Make Us Proud/Meat By-Product
5. Fiora 16/Inbred
6. Docking The Betty
7. Face Huggers
8. Basketball/Foot Massage/Fast Learner
9. Call Finds Ripley
10. Gun Fight
11. The Aliens Escape
12. Hose/Elgyn’s Death/Ripley Believe It
13. Twelve/Vriess Reappears/Telling Vriess
14. Ripley Meets Her Clones
15. After Tube Blow Up
16. What’s Inside Purvis?
17. They Swim…
18. Call’s Fake
19. The Chapel
20. Mean Streak
21. The Abduction
22. Birth of the Newborn

Disc 2

1. Call Meets the Newborn
2. Ripley and the Newborn
3. Finale
4. Alien March (End Credits)
5. Main Title (Alternate)
6. Elgyn’s Death (Alternate)
7. Finale (Alternate – Brass Version)
8. Finale (Alternate #2)
9. Main Title
10. Post-Op
11. Docking the Betty
12. Priva Son d’Ogni Conforto (from Handel’s Julius Caesar) – Maureen Forrester
13. Face Huggers
14. Call Finds Ripley
15. The Aliens Escape
16. Ripley Meets Her Clones
17. What’s Inside Purvis?
18. They Swim
19. The Chapel
20. The Abduction
21. The Battle With the Newborn
22. Ripley’s Theme

* contains original themes from Alien written by Jerry Goldsmith
Disc 1 and Disc 2, Tracks 1-8 previously unreleased
Disc 2, Tracks 9-22 released as RCA Victor 09026 68955-2, 1997