Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (soundtrack)

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Soundtrack album by
ReleasedAugust 1985
Recorded1985
Genre Film score
Length44:27
Label Capitol
Producer
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(1984)
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" Terry Britten, Graham Lyle 6:05
2."One of the Living" Holly Knight 5:59
3."We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" (Instrumental)Britten, Lyle6:30
4."Bartertown†" Maurice Jarre 8:28
5."The Children†"Jarre2:11
6."Coming Home†"Jarre15:10
Total length:44:27

† Performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Personnel

Deluxe edition

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: The Complete Motion Picture Score
Film score by
Released25 May 2010
Recorded1985
Genre Film score
Length122:02
Label Tadlow Music
Producer

In 2010, a deluxe edition of the soundtrack was released and includes Maurice Jarre's complete, intended score with music cues that were ultimately replaced in the final film by Tina Turner's songs. [7] Although Jarre's alternate cues from the original album were included as bonus tracks, Turner's songs were not included, due to licensing issues (Warner Music currently owns copyrights to Turner's songs, at the time it was EMI).

Disc 1
No.TitleLength
1."Original Main Title Music"2:00
2."Max's Theme" / "The Desert"2:41
3."Bartertown Theme"1:55
4."Accents 2 Suspense"3:48
5."Tragic Saxophone"0:40
6."Heartbeat" / "Pigrock"3:48
7."Master Blaster" / "The Manipulator" / "Embargo" / "Entity Humiliated"2:29
8."The Discovery"2:01
9."Conspiracy"0:35
10."Thunderdome"4:52
11."Darkness" / "Gulag"3:48
12."Master in Underworld" / "Desert Hallucinating"5:21
13."Magical"3:02
14."Children's Theme"2:13
15."Ceremony"1:12
16."Confusion"1:14
17."The Telling" / "I Ain't Captain Walker"4:01
18."Compassion"3:18
19."Tyrant"2:45
20."The Leaving"5:05
21."Underworld Takeover"2:19
22."Arrival"2:59
Total length:62:06
Disc 2
No.TitleLength
1."Max and Savannah Escape"3:05
2."Boarding the Train"2:22
3."Bartertown Destruction"4:03
4."The Big Chase!"11:44
5."Epilogue"3:18
6."Bartertown"8:27
7."The Children"2:12
8."Coming Home"15:15
9."Piano Overdubs for "The Big Chase!""2:37
10."Organ Effects"0:39
11."Plastic Tube Effects"0:47
12."Wild Chords"0:25
13."I Ain't Captain Walker" (performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)5:02
Total length:59:56

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