music suite of the soundtrack from the science fiction movie Explorers composed by Jerry Goldsmith in 1985 directetd by Joe Dante (Piranha, Howling, Gremlins,..)
13:35 is one of the most epic adventure themes ever. I can't get it out of my head. Every time I had a tough day, I listen to this part, and my day is made. Goldsmith was a brilliant genius.
Phil Anderson To me, growing up in the ‘70s & 80s, I felt he was the best. Not just a figure of speech. I collected his film scores, listened to them until I had them memorized-even for movies I didn’t care to see. His scores were perfectly melded to the visuals. Everyone was going ga-ga over John Williams, who was great, but Goldsmith was a musical genius. Think of Alien, Planet of the Apes, The Omen, Outland, Gremlins...so much perfect music. I could go on & on, but I’ll stop.
Why, yes, I absolutely will reply to an 8 year old post! :D lol so, future-version-of-Stigmatainmypaints, would you agree that 80's soundtracks in general evoked a mystery and magic that is lacking in most of todays soundtracks? So, if you're jonesing for that 80's/90's sound, check out season 3 of Picard. The soundtrack for that is a total nostalgia trip. It's so hard to find music in this style these days. When did I get old? Oh yea. About 8 years ago. LOL
Truly, this movie is not about science fiction alien space travel, at least not for me. It is about a child's sense of wonder, and a child's ability to believe and persevere. It is about the tragedy of losing those things. We can see this when we closely examine Charlie Drakes Character... how he had the same experiences, but never managed to figure it out... how regretful he is... he isn't regretting that he failed, he is regretting that he gave up... in the scene where Ben is confronted by Charlie Drake in the woods, we can see that a part of Drake is truly desperate to somehow be a part of this, he NEEDS TO KNOW, and when Ben Escapes, and Takes off in the thunder road, Charlie says - Nice Going Kid. not simply because he "did it." but because Charlie now knows that the magic is everything. That it is real, that there was something there all along, and though he may have missed his chance to have Bens Adventure, he knows that adventure is out there... still... I'm sorry, I know a lot of people are disappointed by the ending, but I think it's also perfect. It shows so much about how wrong we likely are about our assumptions of everything. It seems childish, but it was actually genius. In a very real way, there was literally nothing they could have done that would not disappoint, the build-up, the mystery was too deep, and Speilberg already made Close encounters. So short of having Carl Sagan appear out of thin air and do an episode of Cosmos for the kids, I think what we got was great, and it's also a great time machine, taking us back to see what moved us as a culture back then. What we thought "strange" aliens would be like, space travel etc. But it also ties into the theme of growing up, and learning that magic isn't really real, not quite. That The kid with the least realistic worldview, was the one who was disappointed. While the skeptics were the ones who walked away with the greatest renewed sense of magic. To paraphrase Terence McKenna talking about Thomas in the Bible, it is the doubter, the skeptic that is the one that has the truly mystical experience. At least once a year, I get pretty drunk, and watch this movie, savoring every moment, because if I am really focused, for just a moment I can totally recapture that childs sense of wonder, and hope. I can really feel what it felt like to watch that movie for the first time and feel like anything, and I mean anything is possible. I won't lie, I saw this movie when I Was 8 or 9. Young enough to believe anything, old enough to start acting on it. I was convinced that whoever made the movie, was like whoever made the arcade in the Last Starfighter, and that if I could figure out how to make the circuit board from the movie, I could make a spaceship. And I spent the next 2 years, I had no idea how to make a circuit board, so I just went out looking for stuff and finding boards that had parts that looked similar, and wired them together, splicing things, and breaking them to get the parts I wanted. I even got kids in the neighborhood to try and help me make it happen. We'd collect junk and broken electronics and anything we thought we could use. We got so far as to find an old boat in the woods in the vacant lot in the neighborhood next to a ruined old abandoned "haunted" house. Complete with a sleeper cabin and everything, sitting on cinderblocks, it was rotted and ruined, abandoned for maybe 10 years. but to us, it was a sign. We spent that one late summer, into late fall fixing it up with old plywood, and trying to wire together all kinds of electronics, and power them up. We were proud of our contraption and convinced it would someday fly. One of the older kids (like 11?) stole a car battery out of their granddad's garage, and we nearly started a fire when we hooked it all up. One kid got a burn on his finger from the spark on the battery. Luckily nothing really went up in flames... Needless to say, we all grew up and realized how insane it was... But you know what? I think back then we were the sanest people on the planet, it is the people we are today who are insane. We have no magic, no hope in miracles. There is nothing out there calling to us... The great tragedy of this movie, is that ultimately, the skeptical Darren Woods is right... And Ben is wrong... But if you refer back to what happens to Charlie Drake, sometimes, every once in a great while, you have an experience, something that reawakens that hope, that sense of magic. Maybe someday that will happen to me... I'll be sitting out looking at the stars playing a flute with a bottle of rum after having watched this movie for the 60th+ time, and I'll see an old boat fly silently across the night sky, and peering out from the porthole will be a young pudgy kid like I was, soaring off to find the aliens who showed him how to make the circuit board... I'll snap a pic with my cell phone, but in my drunkenness, I'll probably just take a selfie instead.
That is probably the raddest, most exciting comment about anything that I have ever read on RU-vid.. So glad you wrote it, and that I took time to read it.. Gave me goosebumps. I did the same thing with my friends, in an effort to duplicate what was done in the movie.. Sadly none of us ever successfully went to space in a curbside pickup spaceship, but the hope was there, and all that fun as well.. Awesome fucking times my friend!
I believe Ben Was right. There is life out there. They're not calling to us though. They're just standing in the background watching and assisting us. Just because we can't see them, it doesn't mean they're not there. We've never really been alone. That's my belief anyway.
There was just something so special about movies in the 80s . the explorers , inner space ,total recall, Rambo first blood and many more .fantastic memories and not a care in the world
+43nostromo He was a God. Everybody now, even Junkie XL, copies things without being truly epic, though I loved his Mad Max: Fury Road. Maybe some hope :)
It’s not in 4K but you can purchase it in HD 1080 on Apple TV, I use to like a physical copy too, mostly for the artwork but I guess streaming and downloads are the times we live in.
Et Explorers, Gremlins, Indiana Jones. Back to the Future you can literally hear the joy in the music of that time. A time with pencil, paper and possibility. All those synth lines JG wrote. Insane.
Makes you realize what crap movie soundtracks are now days. The stuff we grew up with was pure gold. Amazing what you don't fully appreciate until it's gone.
Yeah they are all gone now except JW. The art of film scoring in my opinion is pretty much dead. Even John Powell and Harry Gregson Williams becoming more and more bland. His Bourne scores were great but since then it's all pretty tame compared JG. He had so much range not to mention all the synth blending is astounding. I like the Martian score but it's nothing compared to Alien.
Mr. Extreme I like to listen to this along with the soundtrack of Mac & Me, The Goonies, The Last Starfighter & E.T., because it takes me back to my childhood.
Alan Silvestri and John Williams are still around. Thought Nicholas Hooper did a good job on Order of the Phoenix soundtrack. I do agree that originality in soundtracks has definitely waned, since popular music has encroached more and more into films.
Every accolade there is has been paid to Jerry Goldsmith....deservedly so! He was considered a soundtrack machine by his peers. He averaged 3 to 5 films a year! He never relied on other music to guide his creativity....or his OWN past scores. He definitely had a style of writing, but he never repeated ideas...only scoring technique. He was, pound for pound, the best. Just ask John Williams or James Horner who credit Goldsmith for some of their inspiration.
He did sometimes copy things from past scores. He took some things from Rambo for this score and later used them again in Star Trek V. But each score overall is still strong on its own. I think he's the greatest film composer of the second half of the 20th century.
Nel 1985 ero quasi trentenne, eppure il film e queste musiche mi hanno fatto sognare come un ragazzo che si affaccia alla vita! E ancora mi suscitano quelle emozioni. Musica senza tempo❤
3:06 gave me chills again, just like it used to when I was a kid, I absolutely loved this soundtrack. Favorite movie as a kid. I was spoiled to have Jerry doing movies while I grew up. E.T., Explorers, man the list goes on....
The whole symphonic track is amazing, from start to finish, propelled the emotions of the charecters and the situations, my kids love this movie and im so happy they do
I loved this movie. It's a shame it didn't turn out like Joe Dante wanted towards the end and had SO much fucking potential. The feel of the first half was just amazing. It's sad that it goes downhill towards the end, though I personally still love this movie and would recommend this and D.A.R.Y.L. to anyone who wants a feel of the typical 80's kids movie that is so much better than most of the trash they shit out of Hollywood today.
I agree. I had spoken to Eric Luke, the screenwriter, and he had mentioned that Paramount was trying to do a remake as of three or so years ago, but nothing has come up. Not sure how they'd do it today, but it's kind of frightening to think of what they would change.
IIt seems that many of us miss 80`s and early 90`s: A time before social networks with users longing for thousands of imaginary friends and posting absurd photos of themselves in order we see "how happy they are". A time before "smart phones" and their "unconscious" owners taking "selfies" every single minute, and being sucked with fake news 24 hours a day. The 80`s... .sounds like a kind of paradise...
shes the epitome of the Hollywood victim of its abuse. Hollywood used her and threw her away like a piece of trash. she and many others are why i would never want to work in that cesspool.
Great music tricks the brain into believing that the video hallucination has the same authenticity as the music . Most , not all , so called Classic movies that are subject to repeat viewings are really being listened to again and again e.g. Clint Eastwoods spaghetti westerns etc.
Goldsmith was, indeed, a genius. I love so many of his scores. Another great one to look up on youtube is the score for the Disneyland ride Soarin' Over California. I think it might have been his last score, if not one of his last. So beautiful
I watched this again the other day and I couldn't get over how deranged the finale on the spaceship was. You couldn't get away with that now, completely bizarre but great.
El Maestro Goldsmith se lució con ésta maravilla, preciosa partitura, una de mis preferidad de todos los : aventura , maravilla, emoción, la niñez, etc etc, están aqui, en esta belleza musical !!
Makes me wanna play this as a VG, also InnerSpace, Gremlins, etc. Joe Dante's style reminds me of Spielberg's great 80s stuff, but a little sillier and more slapstick.
I have very mixed feelings about the second half, basically when they actually started to explore outer space. Before that I just love the spirit of the film
Only the late, great Jerry Goldsmith could have composed a score as great as this. When he was on, nobody was better with the possible exceptions of John Williams and Patrick Doyle. I think the 80s were his best decade when he reached his fullest potential as a composer.
Explorers was one of my favorite movies growing up. It had this lovely, fun, low-budget feel, kind of like the people who made the movie were the kids in the film, just crazy people making something awesome for themselves. But the soundtrack elevated it to another level. The soundtrack made this film a first-class Feature Film™. It's still a stunner 35 years later, and I'll probably still be listening to it until the Thunder Road takes me home.
Goldsmith also composed the (well, the first) score for Soarin'. I think it's been replaced now that they did the revamp of the ride, with someone who emulated his style.
Oh my, the Soarin' queue is loaded with wonderful soundtrack music. My personal favorite is Alan Silvestri's Contact soundtrack. There are multiple excerpts in the Soarin' queue...just beautiful.
I first saw that movie in 1986 in Gatlinburg, TN on Holiday Inn's "Satellite Cinema" system in the hotel room. Loved It! It was this small beige box on the TV stand no bigger than a computer keyboard. And it had about 5 or 6 buttons on it. Not much to choose from. I know they have upgraded it very much these days. lol This was way before the satellite technology we have today.
when film makers and tv show makers create 80s set adventures with kids....they have movies like this in the back of their minds and ingrained in their imaginations
This was my favorite movie as a kid. It made me want to be an astronaut SO much! I have no doubt it was responsible for steering many towards the sciences. :)
In some places this is reminiscent of the soundtrack to "Lord of the Flies" (1990). But overall just great music for a great movie. Thanks for uploading.
