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was a strongly energized score in the violence/action department, and for that they wanted a totally non-melodic score," explained May. "It was very jagged and shearing, and George particularly wanted me to antagonize the audience by making them feel uncomfortable. Sometimes we had jagged notes going
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Replaced May's score during the end credits of the original Japanese release. An EP was released in Japan featuring both the standard version of the song as well as an instrumental version.
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called it "one of the most impressive symphonic scores of Brian May", adding, "The darkness and brutality of his music for the film accentuates the constant unease throughout the film."
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time signatures, the result was a strident, metallic score, perfectly underscoring the film's barbarous, high-velocity car culture." Chris McEneany, writing for
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Performed in the nightclub by actress Robina Chaffey; the vocal track was sung by Creenagh St. Clair. Gazzana also plays a member of Toecutter's gang.
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films," In his own words; "because they had a big action movie and they needed a score to propel it along and give it a lot of bite and energy.
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wrote, "May's score lent incalculable scope to the film, making it larger and more furious. Coupled with furiously staccato writing and
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against dialog so that the audience would feel frustrated." Such effects were developed through the application of
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house for dinner one evening and played two of May's score for his then-upcoming film
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Combining classical orchestration with mechanical sounds, May's work on
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has received generally positive reviews. Quentin Billard of
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Off the Planet: Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema
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and specifically what Bernard Herrmann and Co. did in
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as her character plays the saxophone for her family.
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Archived from 886: 769: 638: 507: 1142:: John Libbey Publishing. p. 119. 964: 798: 755: 624: 1412: 1410: 792:"Outtakes Suite" (in 5 parts; indexed) 16:1980 soundtrack album by Brian May 1254:McEneany, Chris (17 September 2013). 1099:"Mad Max: Creating a sonic character" 799: 756: 625: 325: 7: 1066:Flanagan, Graeme (10 October 2013). 860:Richard Simpson – mastering engineer 1315:Andrew MacLean, Paul (6 May 1997). 694:"Jesse Alone, Uneasy and Exhausted" 346: 834:Chris Kuchler – executive producer 618:"Foreboding in the Vast Landscape" 585:"We'll Give 'Em Back Their Heroes" 380: 14: 574:"The Terrible Death of Jim Goose" 439: 1788: 1787: 1430:. 1 January 2013. 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Index


Soundtrack album
Brian May
Genre
Film music
Label
Varèse Sarabande
Producer
Brian May
Patrick
Snapshot
Mad Max
Mad Max 2
soundtrack album
Mad Max
Brian May
vinyl
Varèse Sarabande
Brian May
Mad Max
George Miller
Byron Kennedy
Richard Franklin
Patrick
Bernard Herrmann
Hitchcock
soundscape
diegetic sounds
stingers
Australian Film Award for Best Original Score

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