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ScoreKeeper Tells You About Lalo Schifrin's Newly Released SUDDEN IMPACT Score!!
Greetings! ScoreKeeper here making your day with a .44 caliber statement concerning the new CD release of the entire original score for SUDDEN IMPACT (1983) composed by the legendary Lalo Schifrin.
Released on Aleph Records, the album just hit the market last week and is currently available on CD and on iTunes (and at $7.99, it’s a bargain!).
The penultimate film of the Dirty Harry quintilogy, SUDDEN IMPACT fuses the aural characteristics of 1970’s urban crime dramas while trailblazing sounds that will later help define the 80’s. When you traverse this superb disc (which represents many intact cues that were abbreviated in the film) you won’t hear two alike cues. The musical vocabulary will astonish you. Even when you see the film you don’t realize the varying degree of range expressed by the music. A veritable Swiss Army knife of composers, Schifrin delivers strains of darkened film noir, funkadelic grooves, aleatoric string passages, scratchin’ record riffs, electronic soundscapes, sweetly pastoral melodies, and a psychotic circus cue that screams with delight.
They just don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
Here is the track listing for this supremely cool album clocking in at just under an hour.
1). Main Title
2). Murder by the Sea
3). Too Much Sugar
4). Frisco Night
5). Target Practice
6). The Road to San Paolo
7). Remembering Terror
8). Cocktails of Fire
9). Robbery Suspect
10). Ginley’s Bar
11). Another Victim
12). You’ve Come a Long Way
13). Darkness
14). Crazy
15). Hot Shot Cop
16). Alby and Lester Boy
17). The Automag
18). Unicorn’s Head
19). A Ray of Light
20). Stairway to Hell
21). San Francisco After Dark (End Titles)
22). Main Title (Alternate)
When you look beyond the traits which date the material, you’ll discover SUDDEN IMPACT is more than nostalgic novelty. It’s a crafty score that’s as clever as they come. One functional aspect of the music that is worth noting is how it constantly toys with the seemingly ubiquitous danger surrounding Inspector Callahan. While assuaging the tension during key moments, the music helps express the fearless, larger-than-life character of “Dirty” Harry Callahan while paradoxically adding to the tension in the surrounding narrative. It’s an interesting trick that can only come from a skilled composer.
To date, Aleph Records has released four of the five Dirty Harry films: DIRTY HARRY (1971) and MAGNUM FORCE (1973) by Lalo Schifrin and THE ENFORCER (1976) by Jerry Fielding (read about that HERE). One can only conclude that with the release of SUDDEN IMPACT last week, a score release for the final Dirty Harry film, THE DEAD POOL (1988), is just around the corner. You can visit http://www.schifrin.com for more information.
I can’t wait until the quintilogy is complete.
Go ahead…Make my day!
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..."Enter the Dragon" is one of my favorites of his, as is Kelly's Heroes.
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mean "last"
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One of his best!
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penultimate means second to last. Why don't you look shit up before posting dipshit comments about grammar and spelling.
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then I wouldn't have the pleasure of speaking to such a stand up guy like yourself.
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No way. The first two are the best. In fact, "Sudden Impact" is probably my least favorite, because of Sondra Locke. She's ugly, her character was ugly, and the theme of this movie (raped woman seeking revenge by shooting her attackers in the balls, then killing them) was ugly
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I meant to say. I know there's five.
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Harry didn't say that line in this movie. He said that line in the first movie. In this movie, his big line was "Go ahead...make my day."
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then I agree. Dead Pool wasn't great, but this wasn't a whole lot better. The first three are all pretty strong.
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Nosferatu, You are correct. I have a memorial post ready to go but I sadly didn't hear about her passing until about six weeks after it happened. You've inspired me to go ahead and post it. Expect it soon. Better late than never, right?
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Yes it IS the "penultimate" one because "penultimate" doesn't have ANYTHING to do with quality. It means it's the next to last, which it IS. LDWhWJK:Adh-21e4u802918iewdqwdqa
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I normally don't chime in on these things but it means "next to last"
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Damn you to hell!
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... that it means "second to last." Pass it on! // Which was the one with Jim Carrey lip-synching "Welcome to the Jungle" (which Schifrin also composed, I'm told, after drinking a fifth of Jack Daniels).
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whether "Impact" is next to last ("penultimate") chronologically, or whether it comes in as the second word of the series(next to last place) quality-wise. We all know that it's the fourth movie (1983 or so) and Dead Pool was the last (1987 or so). Quality wise, I'd probably say those two are about equal.
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The Deadpool
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Where was Jim Carrey's acting the worst: The Dead Pool, Once Bitten, or pretty much everything else he's ever done with the exception of Eternal Sunshine? I vote: The Majestic.
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The Dead(giant fucking space) Pool
Worst acting? How about his 2 second cameo in the Eastwood dud Pink Cadillac. -
The opening credits with the gun barrel was classic. And apparently now there is going to be another Dirty Harry, so mebbie we will see Schiffrin again
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Ohhhh...now that I didn't know.
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I don't remember the Sudden Impact soundtrack, but I do know that Schifrin's soundtrack for Dirty Harry was awesome beyond awesome. Sudden Impact was cool. Not the best Dirty Harry movie but good enough. Can't wait to hear the Sudden Impact soundtrack.
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Yowza!
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...you plugging the John Adams score by Rob Lane and Joseph Vitarelli? It's seriously one of the best damn pieces I've ever heard and I'd love to see you give it a shout out, if only in a talkback.
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weird how these two resemble... anyone think this could work as a reboot? or pair him with Clint through flashbacks? hmmm... =0\
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My favorite soundtrack is from the first Dirty Harry film. I love that 70s twang.
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I've heard many great things about JOHN ADAMS both the series and the score. I don't have HBO so I haven't seen/heard any of it. I'm anxious to watch it and will be buying it the day it's released on DVD. I can't wait!
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I haven't seen the film yet and I won't dare listen to the score until I see it. I have a copy of the soundtrack but haven't even listened to it yet. I believe mightily in judging film music with their respective films and something this cool I totally want to wait and get my first impression of from the film. After I see it, I'm sure I'll weigh in with my thoughts of the score. It's not every day I get to review a new score by JW.
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Why couldnt this be the score to Sudden Impact starring JCVD?
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one can only hope ed kennedy dies.
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is a talentless, homely wannabe actress. What did Clint ever see in her???/
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Wasn't there supposed to be one released? Between that and the Heat game I'm wondering who's late and not late.
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I picked this up on my lunch break today. The cover is a little pixelated, though. Thanks for highlighting this, man. I was looking for something to spend my money on.
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Which is too bad.
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May 20, 2008 9:37:24 PM CDT
Lalo's work with Dizzy Gillespie was pretty sweet back in the 60
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