Labyrinth - OST

RARE/2HAND VINYL LP ON EMI  AMERICA1986

EMI 1A 064-24 0578 1 made in Germany with lyric inner sleeve.

Vinyl NM. Cover VG+.

Trevor Jones' music for this elaborate and ambitious Jim Henson/George Lucas production was filled with synthesizers blended cautiously into orchestral ensembles to provide a suitably ethereal tone -- one echoed very well by David Bowie's Goblin King singing the haunting "Within You" while stalking the film's heroine. This variant on the Persephone story, however, was treated as a half-hearted musical, with the Goblin King and his minions breaking out into raucous pop every so often, a tactic that undermined the tone of the entire film and upended the score. While "Underground" is a more than adequate Bowie entry, "Magic Dance" and others have a tendency to fall flat. A curious hodgepodge indeed.

Tracklist

1. Opening Titles
2. Including Underground
3. Into The Labyrinth
4. Magic Dance
5. Sarah
6. Chilly Down
7. Hallucination
8. As The World Falls Down
9. The Goblin Battle
10. Within You
11. Thirteen O'Clock
12. Home At Last
13. Underground