James Horner - Streets Of Fire (Rejected Score)
Rejected and never officially released, it's the score James Horner created but was rejected for Walter Hill's Streets Of Fire.
It's only one track, with no separations, and a drums sound taken from
the first track that can be heard both on the CD and the actual movie, "Nowhere
Fast", as the only recognizable link with the movie.
"Another recent assignment was in composing a score to Walter Hills STREETS OF
FIRE. Horner's music, however, was subsequently rejected in favor of a rock
score by Ry Cooder and serves as an example of Horner's problems with free
reign.
"The score that I wrote for STREETS OF FIRE was a very percussive,
propulsive score. It used a lot of different, varied, exotic instrumentation.
They decided to take that feeling out. They wanted something a little more
traditional and they went with 50s rock and roll. Horner attributes the
difficulty with the score as the result of his willingness to experiment. I
tried something very risky in STREETS OF FIRE. I thought it worked terrifically
and so did everybody, actually. But after about a week of living with it,
thinking about it, the director started to feel I perhaps had gone too far. Now
theres a difference between perhaps going too far and reverting back to 50s
rock and roll."
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