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Xojo drink6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Video of Jerry Goldsmith - Explorers - Soundtrack Music Suite 1985 for fans of EXPLORERS. #EXPLORERS 1985 MUSIC FULL#Īlso fun are the aliens - no attempt at all is made to make them look "real " instead the rubber suit is milked to full effect. The film stars Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix, both in their film debuts, and Jason Presson as teenage boys who build a spacecraft to explore outer space. The special effects were produced by Industrial Light & Magic, with make-up effects by Rob Bottin. Soundtrack from the science fiction movie Explorers. Picardo also plays double duty in the film, playing "Starkiller" on the film-within-a-film that plays at the drive-in theater which, naturally, gets destroyed along the way. Now on DVD, the disc adds two short additional scenes to the feature.On their own as the Explorers, post-Roxy Musicians Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay - joined by singer James Wraith and a collection of familiar session cohorts - make polite, sophisticated pop/dance music with no edge. Although superficially not that different from the music Roxy was making towards the end, The Explorers is undistinguished, lacking memorable songs and Ferry’s unique touch. A terrific little kid flick, I loved Explorers as a youth, even though I had no idea at the time that it would bring us Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix in. (Wraith’s obvious attempt at imitation on “Venus De Milo” isn’t exactly flattery.) Not bad, just not what you’d hope for from artists of this caliber.ĭispensing with the group name, the American Crack the Whip retrieves three cuts from The Explorers, adding five leftovers from the same ’84 sessions and another five dance-conscious tracks of more recent vintage. ![]() Manzanera and Mackay do nice work on the mediocre material, but the dominant character here is Wraith. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led an expedition that brought them to the Antarctic and thereby his discovery of the South Pole in 1911 and years later leading another team to the North Pole. Where he was mildly annoying on the first album, his mannered singing has turned obnoxious - a pompously melodramatic mixture of vocal styles borrowed from Ferry, Erasure and Spandau Ballet. In addition, Roald is known to have been the first to go through the Northwest Passage, a route that begins in the Arctic Ocean and ends in the Pacific. The following year, the remaining six songs from The Explorers were coupled with the same number of new recordings and issued as Up in Smoke. With Wraith again being a pompous nuisance. ![]() Manzanera and Mackay occasionally chip in with nifty instrumental bits, but the songs and production are so lacking in personality that it’s hardly worth the wait. ![]()
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