Superb score for a great movie., 21 Mar 2004

On track 6, there is a slight sound wobble around 0:23. I'm guessing this is due to an un-rectifiable original master tape problem. But it's only a brief glitch. Still a shame though as it's quite an unusually restrained cue and the glitch would of been noticed less on a louder cues. But it's not the end of the world. Overall,Budd has a style which is a hybrid of 1970's Jerry Goldsmith and that early 1970's style of John Williams. Yet,Budd's sound is still unique in it's own way. Track 10 - "Parade Ground" harks back to the Dirty Dozen "thing". A military marching song (well, training song in this case). Very British indeed. Track 16- "Left,Right" is a semi instrumental,semi dialogue track of the Regimental Seargeant Major "Sandy" rousing his troops along with snare drums and then into the soliders chorus march. Usually i find dialogue in movie scores on disc extremely annoying. But this is enjoyable stuff as Sandy was such a great character in the film. One song on the disc - "Flight of the Wild Geese" (at the end of the movie as it began playing,i remember thinking "What on earth is this doing here?") actually grows on you. It's still very bizzare and dated now. But i guarantee you'll end up playing it more than a few times. I think it's just so bizzare that you cant help but play it. The other 70's song is "Dance with Death", and to be honest it just does NOT belong on this soundtrack at all (or at least, not in the very middle of the disc). I'm sorry but it's absolutely awful and straight out of "Saturday Night Fever" and Disco Boogie. Very unwelcome in the middle of the disc as far as i'm concerned). It should of been placed right at the end of the disc so that we have a choice. But this is a great disc nonetheless. I highly reccomend it.

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