Soundtrack Executive Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer Produced by Trevor Rabin, Paul Linford & Steve Kempster Music Supervisors: Kathy Nelson & Bob Badami Executives in Charge of Music for the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group: Kathy Nelson & Bill Green Soundtrack Coordinators: Christine Edwards, Leslie Langlo & Denis Luiso
Engineered by Trevor Rabin, Paul Linford & Gregg Silk Orchestra Recorded by Steve Kempster at Sony Scoring Studios (Culver City, CA)
Mixed at Media Ventures & by Steve Kempster, Alan Meyerson & Trevor Rabin Concert Master: Endre Granat & Ralph Morrisson Contractor: Sandy DeCrescent Conductor: Gordon Goodwin Orchestrators: Gordon Goodwin, Bruce Fowler & Trevor Rabin Drums: Lou Molino Solo Violin: Hugh Marsh Music Preparation: Booker White, Walt Disney Music Library
Music Editors: Will Kaplan & Shannon Erbe Trevor Uses: Emu, Korg, M&K Speakers, Digital Performer & D'Addario Strings Album Mastered by Joe Gastwirt at Ocean View Masterin, Los Angeles, CA
Trevor Rabin would like to thank: Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, Kathy Nelson, Bill Green, Monica Zierhut, Bob Badami, Reggie Wilson, Shelley & Ryan Rabin, John Kalodner, Tony Dimitriades, Tiffany Goble, Richard Kraft, Laura Engel, Lyn Benjamin, Sony Scoring Studios crew, the staff at Media Ventures & The Jacaranda Room, Harry Gregson-Williams, Don Harper, John Van Tongeren, Scott Holtzman, Doug Mark, Helen Triesch, Peter Fletcher & Glen Brunman
Release date : 11/10/1998
The CD contains music by Trevor Rabin only
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Just out of curiosity... what instrument is playing when Liv and Ben are running towards each other at the end? (Long Distance Goodbye/Landing? I love that instrument!
Credits on this album are Don Harper and Paul Linford exclusively, as all cues are Rabin ones, heres what I had before the cuesheet here got updated:
Don Harper: A.J.'s Return Leaving Evacuation Harry Arrives at NASA Launch Underwater Simulation Short Straw
Paul Linford: Armageddon Suite Harry & Grace Make Peace Oil Rig Words
Mike
2019-01-30 05:36:56
Hybrid, I think you've got a rival....
TrevsFan
2019-01-30 09:17:44
lol :)
Hybrid Soldier
2019-01-30 12:34:29
Poor journalism, if you ask me...
Did you cross check any of this ? ;)
Knight
2019-01-30 13:34:28
Yep, cross-checked all of them with the complete score
Knight
2019-01-30 13:43:38
Thankfully Rabin almost never significantly changes his cue names, so all of these except for Words are identical to the cues on the complete
Bayhem
2019-01-30 17:11:14
Thanks for all the updates, Knight. Appreciate your work.
Keep it up!
Hybrid Soldier
2019-01-30 22:48:27
You cross checked nothing, you took a look at what I wrote... lol
Knight
2019-01-30 23:09:26
I assumed that's what you meant by cross-checked as Linford doesn't have a website, Harper doesn't list his additionals, and there's nothing on either ASCAP or BMI about it.
THIS, ladies and gents, is the greatest MediaVentures-RemoteControl score. No way you can convince me otherwise. lol! No seriously, even The Rock and Crimson Tide are inferior. The Armageddon score has it all, breathtaking and epic action cues, powerful dramatic cues, adventurous pieces, comedic cues. It literally covers the entire emotional spectrum. What other score can do that? Think about it and you'll see that I'm right.
Cheers,
B.
JR
2017-09-20 14:12:15
mmmh not for me, even The Peacemaker or Deep Blue Sea (both ****) are superior than this one! (I’ll give it a *** 1/2).
Edmund Meinerts
2017-09-20 16:25:42
Armageddon is great fun, but I can think of plenty other scores that cover that spectrum of emotions. At World's End certainly does, and then some.
rockhound
2017-09-20 17:47:58
i think Armageddon is better in covering of all emotions than Pirates III, because there is one more thing the music has to do in Armageddon....covering bad acting. without the music, all emotional scenes with bruce willis would have been a joke. he acts really bad in these scenes, but the music works wonders.
Armageddon
2017-09-21 09:05:39
To rockhound,
With all due respect, sir, that's a stupid statement. Very stupid. Guess you're mad that Rockhound wasn't the main character. How is Willis acting in those scenes bad? He's not overacting, he's not crying-screaming like a little girl. His character is actually very grounded. In the scene with Liv Tyler at the end, he is actually watching a picture of his real daughter. It makes it all the more real. He's very quiet and the performance is realistic. Nothing over-the-top. And people absolutely love that scene. Go to YouTube and read all the comments under the video. So, having said all of that, what exactly is your problem with it? You want him to go all crazy emotional like Nic Cage in Face/Off? Is that it?
Armageddon
2017-09-21 09:28:44
To Edmund Meinerts,
I admit I never really got the chance to listen to the entire At World's End score. But now you sir got me interested and I will check it out.
Cheers.
Edmund Meinerts
2017-09-21 11:31:24
So rockhound...your argument is that the score is better because the movie is worse? That's a new one, gotta admit... :D
to Armageddon, do it! The complete score, if you can. It's incredible!
Meta
2017-09-21 14:15:16
Total video game score, circa 98. This is one of those scores - my first - that you just didn't get enough of no matter HOW many cds they released of it. Hell, it wasn't until 2000 when I finally got the complete score on 2 cds. Sadly, by that time I burned out on it...
rockhound
2017-09-21 18:49:34
@Armageddon
1. i love the movie. 2. rockhound is the most annoying character in the whole movie, but at least he has a cool name. ;) 3. bruce willis is smiling in almost all his emotional scenes and not just in this movie. but you know, in germany the movies are dubbed, so his "german" voice and the music helped alot to make these scenes nontheless convincing. to be honest, the goodbye scene was even more sad than the dying scene of leonardo dicaprio in Titanic. so you see, what impact the music had.
@Edmund
i didnt say the movie is bad, just bruce willis in a couple of scenes. so....the music had alot more to do than in Pirates III. the impact of the music in Armageddon must be way stronger to make these scenes work than in Pirates III. in Pirates III these scenes would have been also convincing without the music, because the acting was strong enough. but nontheless the music in Pirates III adds alot to the scenes and makes them stronger. just my opinion.
Edmund Meinerts
2017-09-22 12:39:50
Yeah, but the quality of the acting beneath the score doesn't affect the quality of the music.
rockhound
2017-09-22 17:31:37
maybe quality is also not the correct word. its the function of the music. i just think the music of Armageddon is much stronger in its function as a filmscore than Pirates III. i also think the themes are stronger and rabins main theme is used in a wide range. but this also a matter of taste ofc.
Armageddon
2017-09-25 09:47:50
To rockhound,
Well sir, apparently you just don't like Bruce Willis. That "smiling" you speak of is part of his charm as an actor. That's just how his face is. I don't have a problem with it, and honestly I've never heard people complaining about it. Until now. But fair enough, you have the right of an opinion. I'm just sharing mine.
Cheers.
rockhound
2017-09-25 16:59:47
@Armageddon i have nothing against bruce willis. he got an Golden Raspberry Award for that role, so im not the only one who think, he did not his best job in that movie. but hey, in the german version it worked for me and the movie is a great ride nontheless. :)
Armageddon
2017-09-26 13:45:10
To rockhound,
I knew you would bring up the Razzies. I'm sure you know these awards are meant as a joke. Even the guy who created them said so. I mean Jesus, even Stanley Kubrick was "nominated" for a Razzie. And for his masterpiece The Shining!! So the last thing any person can do is to take these awards seriously. But even if we do take them seriosuly, Willis in Armageddon was nominated for Best Actor for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award. So the awards cancel each other out. And we're again left with our own opinions. Whether he did his best job in Armageddon, you are going to get different answers depending on who you ask. Still, fact of the matter is that this is one of his biggest, most popular movies. Everyone knows Armageddon. And not only the movie. The score and the soundtrack are absolute blockbusters as well. Hugely successful and popular. And that's what matters at the end of the day.
Cheers.
Meta
2017-09-26 15:38:34
LOL @ Razzies Back in 98 you had a choice between TWO comet apocalypse movies: Armageddon or Deep Impact. Armageddon was the popular vote, after the popularity of the Rock...Let's just say I never watched Deep Impact - and their "selling" point to try to one up Armageddon, from what I recall, was Morgan Freeman as the first black President ever seen in a movie....Yawn.
Whatever.
Anyway, great score. The movie wound up boosting Bruce Willis' career even more, and it helped pave the way not only for Trevor Rabin and Harry Gregson Williams careers, but also Zimmer and Bruckheimer...And of course, Ben Affleck, and other cast members, who would go on to shine in other movies.
This film and its score is SO powerful (for me anyway), all I'm gonna say is I'll never watch it again, because I simply CANT...That goes double for the score, which is rousingly awesome.
Then again, this movie serving as both the alpha and omega of a relationship I had at the time probably has something to do with it. This is what happens when you take film scores and use them as your own personal emotional, historical "diary"; you tend to appreciate them as the years go by, but never return to them because of all the energy you put into them.
I knew you would bring up the Razzies. I'm sure you know these awards are meant as a joke. Even the guy who created them said so. I mean Jesus, even Stanley Kubrick was "nominated" for a Razzie. And for his masterpiece The Shining!! So the last thing any person can do is to take these awards seriously. But even if we do take them seriosuly, Willis in Armageddon was nominated for Best Actor for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award. So the awards cancel each other out. And we're again left with our own opinions. Whether he did his best job in Armageddon, you are going to get different answers depending on who you ask. Still, fact of the matter is that this is one of his biggest, most popular movies. Everyone knows Armageddon. And not only the movie. The score and the soundtrack are absolute blockbusters as well. Hugely successful and popular. And that's what matters at the end of the day.
does anyone know on which tracks did Hans work on?
Prott
2012-08-30 20:46:59
I believe it's "Asteroid Chase - Shuttle Crash" (but none of his music is present in this score).
sone
2012-08-31 00:32:51
unfortunately not. But now I took this Asteroid Chase track and compared it to the tracks on this list and my conclusion is that none of them contains music from it (except the main theme muisc which wasn't composed by Hans anyway). SO nothing here :)
Rabin is just great! This score is very good. The tracks 9 and 18 are great. Very powerfull and romatic. Trevor Rabin is one of the best composers ever!
Hello!I like your music and want have your music more and more...I very like film Armageddon...So I want ask you where i can download your Armageddon soundtracks?For free please :) (My e-mail ########) Thanks :)
es la mejor obra maestra que he escuchado nunca.emotiva ,con un poco de accion,melodias que siempre tarareo y que llevo en mi mente.simplemente fantastica
The best score of the year and the best score of Trevor Rabin. Fantastic!!! Emotive!!! Spectacular!!! Enjoy this version or the complete bootleg version. After you listening this music experience you will be absolutely fan of TREVON RABIN. Go on Rabin!!! A fan from Spain.
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