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Toto - Dune: Original Motion Picture Score Audio CD

A fair review of the Toto "Dune: Original Motion Picture Score" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Toto reviews here, or go back to the Toto tabs.

Toto Band: Toto
Title: Dune: Original Motion Picture Score
Rating:
Release Date: 1997-11-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Prologue/Main Title 2: Guild Report [#] 3: House Atreides [#] 4: Payul Atreides [#] 5: Robot Fight 6: Leto's Theme 7: Box 8: Floating Fat Man (The Baron) 9: Departure [#] 10: Trip to Aarakis 11: Sandworm Attack [#] 12: Betrayal/Shields Down [#] 13: First Attack 14: Duke's Death [#] 15: Sandworm Chase [#] 16: Fremen [#] 17: Secrets of the Fremen [#] 18: Paul Meets Chani 19: Destiny [#] 20: Riding the Sandworm [#] 21: Reunion With Gurney [#] 22: Prelude (Take My Hand) 23: Paul Takes the Water of Life 24: Sleeper Has Awakened! [#] 25: Big Battle 26: Paul Kills Feyd 27: Final Dream 28: Dune (Desert Theme) 29: Dune Main Title [Demo Version] 30: Take My Hand

A Reasonable Facsimilie Score
There are several scenes in the movie that has music you simply will not find on this album. "Dune: Original Motion Picture Score" is a good title for this album IF you are not looking for an EXACT movie score. However, I rate this album very high on the soundtrack review. Most soundtracks are not always exactly like their movie's music anyway. One example: The scene where Paul asks Stilgar "Do we have wormsign?" Stilgar replies: "Usal, we have wormsign the likes of which even god has never seen. " After this the scene cuts to the desert where the worms are gathering for the attack. The exact music that is played as the worms appear IS NOT found on this soundtrack. .


Different Tracks?
I didn't give 5 stars, because I'm not sure about some things. . there are different tracks on the 1993 soundtrack, this cd has 3 extra total tracks, but many different named tracks, so I don't really know if I should buy this or both. . . (I lost the other one). Why can't people be consistent, or at least keep ALL the tracks!.


Fantastic Album.

This is the full 1984 'Dune' album. The fact that this album is now out of print, makes it all the more precious. From the initial intro music, all the way through the ending credits. This is quite possibly the best album I have purchased here at Amazon in a long time.
I was a huge fan of the original David Lynch version of this music, and the soundtrack was nothing short of magnificient.
This is a definate buy for anyone who enjoyed the original movie. You will only be able to find it here from used sellers, so I wish you the best of luck.
This one stays in my permanent collection.


Haunting, amazing... TOTO's unforgettable "Dune"


A worthy addition to any collection. Regardless of your personal feelings towards David Lynch's cinematic adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction (I personally enjoyed it very much, even moreso after reading the books), this is an amazing soundtrack, and this is the best version of it available on CD. Beautiful! .


A Very Classic Toto

Gosh, how I loved being mistaken about Toto's "Dune". After announcing Toto was going to compose the music for David Lynch's "Dune", I was not that happy because in a previous Dino-De-Laurentiis-sci-fi epic named "Flash Gordon", the music by Queen was not something that I really cherished; in fact, I think Queen's music was one of the flaws of that movie. When I first saw the movie, and heard the music in the interim, I discovered a marvelous composition in the vein of old Hollywood film scoring tradition. I wasn't expecting to hear Toto in a classic mood, together with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. What an incredible surprise!!!
The "Prologue/Main Title" is very mysterious and it covers the mysticism of Frank Herbert's wondrous world of "Dune". And to continue such mysteries you should as well listen to tracks like 'Guild Report', 'House Atreides', 'Departure', and 'The Trip To Arrakis'. There are nice moments like 'Leto's Theme' and the love theme as heard in 'Take My Hand'. And I don't want to forget the action music because 'Sandworm Attack', 'First Attack', 'Big Battle', and 'Paul Kills Feyd' are truly spectacular tracks. And this Toto score wouldn't be Toto at all if we don't have the pop-flavored tracks 'Dune (Desert Theme)' and 'Take My Hand'. Outstanding.
It's too bad that Brian Eno's 'Prophecy' does not appear in this "complete" score (it did appear in the original Polydor release). However, I'm pleased that Toto did such a superb job in creating the fantastic musical voice of the Atreides, the Harkonnen, the Fremen, all those fantastic characters created by Frank Herbert. Great CD!!!.


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