Jerry Goldsmith – Rambo: First Blood Part II (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (E/E) – LP, US 1985

Rambo: First Blood Part II (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is an LP by Jerry Goldsmith from 1985 released on the Varèse Sarabande label.

About this album

Jerry Goldsmith’s Rambo: First Blood Part II score is a muscular, suspenseful action soundtrack that turns the film’s combat and survival drama into sharp, propulsive orchestral writing. Released in 1985, the music underlines Goldsmith’s gift for suspense, military tension and memorable thematic shape, balancing grim intensity with a heroic main idea that became one of the franchise’s best-known musical signatures. Working in the tradition of his finest screen music, Goldsmith uses colour, rhythm and orchestral force to heighten the film’s emotional stakes while giving the action a distinctive identity. It remains one of the standout scores from 1980s Hollywood adventure cinema.

Genre: Soundtracks

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