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L.A. Confidential - Original Score - The Deluxe Edition
Limited Edition of 2,000 Units
Release Date: November 18, 2022
Conducted by Jerry Goldsmith
Formats: CD, Digital
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Track Listing
1. | Bloody Christmas (Film Version) | 1:46 |
2. | Turn It In / The Deal | 2:10 |
3. | The Badge | 0:50 |
4. | The Café (Film Version) | 1:29 |
5. | The I.D. / Odds | 1:43 |
6. | Late Arrival / The Raid | 1:33 |
7. | Questions (Film Version) | 2:04 |
8. | Back-Up | 1:02 |
9. | Don't Move | 0:42 |
10. | Bud and Lynn | 1:15 |
11. | False Information | 2:36 |
12. | Susan Lefferts (Film Version) | 0:35 |
13. | Rats / A Gift | 2:17 |
14. | Rodents | 0:57 |
15. | Rollo Tomasi (Film Version) | 2:06 |
16. | Not So Dumb After All | 1:16 |
17. | The Facts | 0:52 |
18. | The Perp / Know Him? | 1:38 |
19. | Ex-Cop | 0:35 |
20. | Photos (Film Version) | 1:32 |
21. | Out of the Rain (Film Version) | 1:04 |
22. | Records | 1:57 |
23. | Out the Window | 1:11 |
24. | Patchett's Dead | 0:45 |
25. | The Keys (Film Version) | 1:57 |
26. | Shootout (Extended Version) | 4:35 |
27. | Good Lad (Film Version) | 2:29 |
28. | The Victor (Film Version) | 2:41 |
29. | Bloody Christmas - From "L.A. Confidential" | 2:53 |
30. | The Cafe | 2:23 |
31. | Questions | 2:23 |
32. | Susan Lefferts | 2:57 |
33. | Out of the Rain | 2:50 |
34. | Rollo Tomasi | 3:06 |
35. | The Photos | 2:30 |
36. | The Keys | 1:54 |
37. | Shootout | 4:13 |
38. | Good Lad | 2:21 |
39. | The Victor | 2:33 |
Total Album Time: | 75:40 |
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From the Manufacturer
No composer was better suited to score a picture than Jerry Goldsmith with L.A. Confidential (1997), director Curtis Hanson's masterpiece of the James Elroy novel about corruption in 1950s Los Angeles. Not only was a Goldsmith a master of the thriller and crime genres, but his own career started in the era depicted in the film, and he had scored the all-time great detective noir, Chinatown.
L.A. Confidential starred Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Kevin Spacey as police detectives, with Kim Basinger as a Veronica Lake-lookalike prostitute, in a labyrinthine but brilliantly constructed plot connecting city hall and the cops, organized crime, Hollywood tabloids and the gutter. The film received nine Oscar nominations - including for Goldsmith's score - and won two, for Basinger and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was heralded as an instant classic and, 25 years later, is every bit as captivating.
Goldsmith's score combines a modern pulse, pace and suspense with period idioms - notably a bluesy trumpet theme, performed by Malcolm McNab, which to Goldsmith represented masculinity. The score distills the 1950s atmosphere of smoke and seediness, as well as a certain bygone era of honor and justice, while making the film ingeniously slick and contemporary - and, as always for Goldsmith, emotional.
L.A. Confidential's score album was released by Varèse Sarabande after the film in 1997. This Deluxe Edition features two programs on one disc: 28 tracks, running 45 minutes, representing the cues heard in the film, followed by the original 11-track, 30-minute score album. New liner notes are by Tim Greiving.
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