- Main Title
- Max The Hunter
- Max Decides On Vengeance
- The Final Chase
- The Terrible Death of Jim Goose
- We'll Give 'Em Back Their Heroes
- Pain and Triumph
- Dazed Goose
- Forebodding In The Vast Landscape
- Declaration of War
- Flight From The Evil Toecutter
- Pursuit and Tragedy
- Jesse Alone, Uneasy and Exhausted
- The Beach House
- The Nightriders Rave
- Jesse Searches For Her Child
- Rampage of the Toecutter
- The Crazing Of Johnny The Boy
- Outtakes Suite [in 5 parts; indexed]
発売日:1993年10月26日(火)
レーベル:Varese Sarabande
レビュー (Amazon)A taut, tense science fiction thriller, the low budget Australian
Mad Max (1979) made Mel Gibson an international star. A savage drama of a highway cop pushed into bloody vengeance in a crumbling near future Australia, the film was followed by two spectacular sequels.
Mad Max II was also scored by Brian May, while Maurice Jarre, familiar with the burning desert after
Lawrence of Arabia and
The Message, took over for
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Brian May (the Australian composer, not to be confused with the ex-Queen guitarist who contributed songs to
Flash Gordon and
Highlander) crafted a brilliant action score with a memorably driven main theme, rousing brass fanfares and bold percussive writing. The album sounds crisp and powerful, if just occasionally lacking a little clarity, but compensates with a previously unreleased suite of outtakes. This is hugely energetic music, May's grandly orchestral writing continuing the classic tradition of Bernard Herrmann's fantasy scores for such films as
Mysterious Island, while pointing the way to James Newton Howard's
Waterworld (essentially
Mad Max goes to sea) and Basil Poledouris's
Starship Troopers. This album belongs in the collection of anyone who loves the sound of full-blown orchestral action cinema.
--Gary S. Dalkin