StreamingSoundtracks.com - Mad Max 2, Road Warrior

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Montage Main Title Brian May	4:53	110
02	Confrontation Brian May	2:32	22
03	Marauder's Massacre Brian May	3:14	22
04	Max Enters Compound Brian May	4:08	24
05	Gyro Saves Max Brian May	3:55	28
06	Break Out Brian May	3:26	34
07	Finale And Largo Brian May	5:07	58
08	End Title Brian May	3:18	43

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Roaring engines, blaring brasses: A soundtrack with brute force

By:	Il_bastardo
Date:	7 Mar 2010
Rating:

Loud, wild, brute and exciting: Australian composer Brian May delivered a remarkable musical score to George Miller's classic post-apocalyptic action flick, easily surpassing his (still very good) first contribution to the "Mad Max" saga. One of the soundtrack's major characteristics is its use sharp contrasts: Slow strings and percussions (opening montage) in rather quiet scenes accumulate suspense, before bursting into blaring brasses and relentlessly hammering timbals during the car chase scenes. George Miller undoubtedly did a formidable directing job on "Road Warrior", but without Brian May's soundtrack, it wouldn't have been the thrill ride the movie is known for. It might be no symphonic masterpiece - so what? It pumps adrenaline, and that's exactly what a good action score should do.

The album, even though the audio quality is quite good for a recording of its age, suffers from presenting the tracks in questionable order: Hearing a piece from the final chase in the first track feels rather out of place, and several short pieces were mixed into a ninth track called "SFX-suite" (understandably not requestable here), along with snippets directly from the movie - a bad habit especially prevalent in older soundtrack albums. Nevertheless a must-have for fans, even though i'd love to see a "pure" soundtrack album released, with its tracks mirroring the correct order from the movie.

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