The Shadow

Review by Thomas Glorieux:

It seems that The Shadow is the only score with a larger attention then normal for Goldsmith standards for the year 1994. Because Angie wasn't spicy enough (though it is rather pretty and easy listening) and the other scores Bad Girls, I.Q. and The River Wild stand today as hard to get items. This entertaining comic book adventure gets the usual package of sound, an attractive and fairly entertaining main theme for the hero and the continuing re appearance of that theme through the various action and adventure moments. No Goldsmith score should be without its fun and The Shadow delivers this rather good for its 30 minutes of running time, add some dialogue pieces that start and end the score and a very entertaining song and you receive the package that sprinkles and shines with any Goldsmith fan. The main theme first discovered after several seconds in 'The Poppy Fields' is attractive and will entertain the usual mass of fans. It appears quite often and this is seen as good and bad. For those of you that want more variety will find that it becomes quite the unattractive listen after a while. But mainstream Goldsmith fans will enjoy it time after time, and they will pick up the adventurous pace and the pure way of scoring.

Goldsmith does deliver his main theme and his villain theme in quite the same manner and style. He makes small variations and can put them seamlessly together. Both show up in their respected amount of places. The Shadow has a lot of adventure music and the score actually doesn't stand still to offer the main romance theme for the two main characters, only in the first and the last track does it get the time and place. The main song is actually very good and has a sort of Tina Turner strength surrounded, it is very entertaining towards my standards. Goldsmith fans receive the minimum again on material, but they nonetheless get the maximum fun out of it on disc. The Shadow is the constant battle of adventure music and the surrounding but extremely effective sound effects and in the end you get what you want, an attractive sound on the whole. But I feel that it all fits too close together and in a way you have heard it all before after the second or third track. This is no criticism because the music stays entertaining and enjoyable. It offers what people want. It simply hasn't got the amount to persuade it higher or the variety to entertain me simply a bit more. Recommended for its bright spots and the usual Goldsmith fun, and for its perfect musical used material.

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Tracks

Single Disc

1. The Poppy Fields (Main Title) (3.16) Excellent Track

2. The Sanctum (3.32)

3. Who Are You? (4.01)

4. Chest Pains (3.24)

5. The Knife (3.03)

6. The Hotel (5.52) Excellent Track

7. The Tank (4.04)

8. Frontal Lobotomy (2.27) Excellent Track

9. Original Sin: Taylor Dayne (6.21) Excellent Track

Total Length: 36.23

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=== Link to Composer Site: Jerry Goldsmith ===