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Predator - Silvestri

This is one of those scores from my childhood that got me totally interested in this genre of music, the balls to the walls nature is not something I hear enough of these days. Even more than Back to the Future, it was for a long time one of my holiest grails. I remember the days when I first got onto the internet and after having nothing whatsoever except for music recorded from the VHS the bootleg was available digitally by getting it in seperate files from a newsgroup (who remembers those?). After the initial shock of having finally found the music, I launched my dial-up connection and the downloading was a long and painstaking process... but boy that was one of the best days a film music nerd can have when one finally had every cue in 128 kbps MP3s saved on a teeny tiny hard drive. Compare that with now and everything being available everywhere at superfast speeds. Nah, it doesn't quite feel as exciting anymore as those days when finding something like Predator's entire score felt truly rewarding and exciting.

Thank god for the superb VS release many years later. The sound is much better than on that bootleg.