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Black Rain | 
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| Creator: Hans Zimmer
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music
Buy New: $18.49
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 49710
Format: Import, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 077778613022
EAN: 0077778613022
ASIN: B000006SYR
Release Date: September 21, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Livin' on the Edge of the Night - Rifkin, Jay | | • | The Way You Do the Things You Do - Robinson, Smokey | | • | Back to Life - Hooper, Paul | | • | Laserman - Sakamoto, Ryuichi | | • | Singing in the Shower - Mael, Ron | | • | I'll Be Holding On | | • | Black Rain Suite: Sato | | • | Black Rain Suite: Charlie Loses His Head | | • | Black Rain Suite: Sugal | | • | Black Rain Suite: Nick and Masa |
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Album Details
One of the Most Eclectic Soundtrack Albums of the 80's that Assembled a Most Interesting Diversity of Artists. Two of These Tracks Hit the Top of the USA Charts; Ub40's "The Way You Do the Things You Do" and Soul Ii Soul's "Back to Life", While Sparks and Les Rita Mitsouko's "Singing in the Shower" Crested the Heights in France. And Then, Starting it all off is Another Classic from the Godfather of Punk Iggy Pop, "Livin' on the Edge of the Night".
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Soundtrack February 4, 2007
I like it very much. The oriental feel to it, mainly on the instrumental tracks, it's great !!
Very moody, full of feeling, and you don't know what will happen next/
 Black Rain January 9, 2007
Great action flick set in modern Japan. NY's Finest vs. Japanese gangstas (yakuzas). Greg Alman sings original title song on soundtrack.
Remains a Very Moving Action Score from Hans Zimmer November 18, 2006
"I'll Be Holding On" performed by Gregg Allman is the best vocal on this album. It just blew me away once I played Hans Zimmer's tracks and you can hear the melody imbedded in the score. This is a very good action score by Zimmer but it is the quieter and reflective parts of the score that I truly love.
A Very Moving Action Score from Hans Zimmer November 18, 2006
"I'll Be Holding On" performed by Gregg Allman is the best vocal on this album. It just blew me away once I played Hans Zimmer's tracks and you can hear the melody imbedded in the score. This is a very good action score by Zimmer but it is the quieter and reflective parts of the score that I truly love.
 5 stars for the Zimmer music, 2 for the pop songs September 11, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
When they build the pantheon honoring great soundtracks from mediocre movies, Hans Zimmer's "Black Rain" will be high up there on the list. This was Zimmer's breakthrough and his first inroad into the style of his now common-place (and oft-imitated) epic sounding soundtracks done mostly now for big budgeted epic-styled motion pictures. He's done a flood of them since (not sure how the guy gets any rest), including "Batman Begins," "King Arthur," "The Last Samauri," "Blackhawk Down" and a few others in just the last couple years.
Included on this CD-soundtrack are the seemingly obligatory stale pop tunes that were a staple of almost all 80's soundtracks, as well as actual passages from the soundtrack music written by Hans (lumped together in the "Black Rain Suite"). If you like late 80 formulaic pop/rock tunage, then you'll probably like some of the stuff on this. I don't too much, so I'll focus on the actual compositions from Zimmer.
And what fine compositions they are. Very dynamic melding of symphonic power (powerful brass, percussion touches) and electronic (though still organic sounding) sounds, padding an interesting blending of asian-sounding (almost stereotypically so in places) and moving melodies. Where some soundtracks are lackluster without the visuals, or other ones almost seem incidental to the movie, Hans' "Black Rain" music marries nicely to the movie, substantially enhancing it, and yet still standing nicely by itself as a musical piece. And THAT is a commendable task for a composer to satisfy both the music aficionado AND the movie fan.
Bottom line: if you like Hans Zimmer's style and have enjoyed his output in the last decade or so ("Mission Impossible II," "Gladiator," "The Rock," and "Broken Arrow" just to name a few more) you'll likely enjoy these compositions here as well.
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