James Horner – Battle Beyond the Stars (1980, 2011 BSX) FLAC

TRACKLIST:

1. Main Title (1:59)
2. Malmori Rear Guard (3:46)
3. Love Theme (3:48)
4. Cowboy and the Jackers (3:30)
5. Nanelia’s Capture (1:24)
6. The Hunter (1:35)
7. Nanelia (1:28)
8. The Battle Begins (4:28)
9. The Maze Battle (3:06)
10. Gelt’s Death (1:25)
11. Nanelia and Shad (1:23)
12. Heading For Sador (0:55)
13. Cowboy’s Attack (1:42)
14. Shad’s Pursuit (3:18)
15. Destruction of Hammerhead (3:35)
16. Epilogue and End Title (4:58)
Music Composed byJames Horner

BONUS TRACKS
17. Gelt’s Chamber
Music Composed by Alan Howarth

BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS
SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY
Created and Produced by Alan Howarth
18. Command Ship Radio Chatter
19. Drone Chatter #1
20. Drone Chatter #2
21. Drone Chatter #3
22. Drone Chatter #4
23. Drone Chatter #6
24. Drone Chatter #7
25. Drone Chatter #8
26. Drone Chatter #9
27. Drone Chatter #10
28. Drone Chatter #11
29. Drone Chatter #12
30. Drone Chatter #13
31. Drone Chatter #14
32. Laser Artillery #1
33. Laser Artillery #2
34. Laser Artillery #3
35. Laser Artillery #4
36. Stereo Fly-Bys
37. Pass-Bys with Vocoder
38. Hammerhead Low Rumble
39. Nell Cave Launch – 1st Stage
40. Nell Cave Launch – 2nd Stage
41. Nell Cave Launch – 3rd Stage
42. Nell Fly Away
43. Nell Engine Build-Up
44. Nell Exterior Fly-By
45. Nell Maneuvering Thrusters
46. Bad Guy Lasers
47. Telemetry #1
48. Laser Blast
49. Sonic Tank Short Blast
50. Sonic Tank Long Blast
51. Drone Chatter #5 (Long Live Lord Sador)

52. Theme from BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS

DOWNLOAD LINK:
https://mega.nz/#!H4BlhBQD!YPWLB0Ik6JffMiEjbEIN-A_JV3GTzHEnSI__DlOPwCI
(reuploaded 2018)

This is a BSX 2011 Limited Edition (only 1000 units were produced) and it’s out of print, which is a travesty, so I’m sharing this lossless FLAC with you guys. It was ripped from my personal collection at maximum quality. The covers were found on the google image search. The only shame is that the recording was done quite badly at the time, and it suffers from the problem of archival sound (which is unacceptable for the 1980 recording). This one is quite ripe for the Tadlow / Nic Raine re-recording *wink wink*. Enjoy!

Thanks very much!

Thanks alot, now I can upgrade my 320 version! 😉

Thank you thank you thank you!! Been looking for this version for a while now!

thanks buddy

Thank you! 🙂

The only shame is that the recording was done quite badly at the time, and it suffers from the problem of archival sound (which is unacceptable for the 1980 recording). This one is quite ripe for the Tadlow / Nic Raine re-recording *wink wink*. Enjoy!

To add to this, apparently there is just one person who has the only master recording of the score: James Horner.

According to a few record execs (at some of the soundtrack labels we all know) Horner’s representatives requested that the first 2001 GNP release be canceled, since Horner refused to turn over his quality master recordings out of embarrassment. He never wanted the score to get out because of its bad performance (which is really just limited to the brass section. The strings are very well performed here) so GNP, like BSX that followed, had to rely on older vinyl recordings!

Thank you.

Thanks very much! 🙂

This is a great share for purely historical reasons. Horner’s first "big screen" score, and the one that got him the attention that led to Star Trek II—which remains one of his greatest works.

Thanks for putting this up!

Aaaan….be aware there is no music on this not on the previous release….

Thank you very much.

great score. not as good as his later sci-fi but you can hear his skills growing and maturing on this one.

Much Thanks!!

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for the share, never heard that one i’m curious ! For all the Horner’s fan, what are all his masterpieces and the ones that are very "horrible" ?

Thanks.

It’s also important to know that the sound quality of this release is inferior to that of the earlier release. BSX used the earlier GNP master, and applied dynamics compression and EQ. You are better off with the GNP.

Additionally, I don’t know why anybody would say this score deserves a re-recording, because a) it doesn’t, and b) it already received one. It’s available on CD – entitled "Star Trek II – The Wrath Of Khan". 😉

Horner’s notorious and shameless thievery aside, Trek II was his opportunity to significantly revise and improve BBTS, and record it with a larger and better orchestra. BBTS is the curiosity; the first draft, the juvenile’s first attempt – Horner’s rough and ready sci-fi score. It’s a product of Horner’s formative years – and the atrocious performance and sub-standard sound quality serve as reminders of that fact. It is what it is; a thrown together, shoestring-budget sci-fi score by a massively skilled but still highly immature young composer.

Do you mean by that that all the themes of this score are in fact on the Star Trek 2 score ?

Do you mean by that that all the themes of this score are in fact on the Star Trek 2 score ?

No. It’s yet another "all Horner’s scores are the same" rant that itself is as oft-repeated as Horner’s music supposedly is. I leave it to the FSM crowd. They’re just as ‘unoriginal’ with their criticism that literally goes nowhere else but circles.

Similar in style and overall tone? Yes. Just like many scores by many composers. Same melodic content? Not at all.

The same criticism tangotreats has I apply directly to John Williams, which is why I never listen to (and have never enjoyed) Superman, Star Wars and Indiana Jones, to name a few. To me, THAT is all the same music even if the melodic content is a little different. The only reason I bring it up is because one can apply that kind of criticism to anyone, but it’s supposedly a lot of "fun" to do it to Horner.

First of all, I’d thank you to not put words in my mouth and respond (incorrectly) to questions that were clearly addressed to me. Your response was a not-so-veiled attack on me and a complete misinterpretation of my actual standpoint.

Now, to the meat: It wasn’t a rant; although your response – quick to judge, dismissive, confrontational, and rude – clearly was. Additionally, at no point did I say that BBTS themes were in Khan – I said that Khan was Horner’s unprecedented chance to write a score in a style substantially similar to BBTS, benefit from the groundwork he laid down in the earlier score, and improve on his previous work with the benefit of the additional two years of experience he had amassed in the mean time (and that since he succeeded so spectacularly in that intention, BBTS was rendered largely redundant from a musical perspective).

It was actually a compliment to Horner – but then my experience is that Horner fans are particularly over-sensitive about such topics.

Horner’s attitude to BBTS is obvious by virtue of his refusal to make the master tapes available. I doubt he would disagree with anybody who said that Khan was the better score, and that Khan was musically, melodically, orchestrally related to the earlier score. If I’d scored BBTS and then a couple of years later an opportunity came up to score a big budget Sci-fi movie, damn right I’d take the opportunity to build on my earlier work and I’d really push to do my best.

In short, Khan is more mature, better written, and better performed than its earlier relation. It is also the case that, being the earlier score but stylistically very similar to Khan, BBTS doesn’t contain anything that isn’t done better in Khan; again, not surprising given the age of the composer and the notorious Roger Corman production it was written for. Therefore, the lack of a LSO-grade recording of BBTS isn’t so much of a bad thing given that its superior counterpart, Khan, is readily available and in a very good performance and recording.

How these comments – both in praise of Horner’s musicianship and of his unprecedented maturation between BBTS and Khan, translate to an attack on Horner I will never know.

(I even anticipated this with "Horner’s thievery aside" – ie, I stated that I was not talking about that in order to hopefully stave off this predictable nonsense… And yet, despite my efforts,that’s exactly what I received regardless.)

Finally, the only thing that is more repetitive than the "Horner is a thief" argument, is the venemous anti-criticism stance of his staunchest fans.

I love James Horner – and yet I completely and fully acknowledge that it is a fact that Horner is a thief. That fact is not negated by his fans tendency to disbelieve it, justify it, or stifle anybody from talking abut it.

It also doesn’t negate another important fact – that he’s a superlative composer, an expert tunesmith, and a fine arranger.

I wasn’t going to talk about it at all, but since you misinterpreted my (quite clear in its intention) post and its conscious effort to not bring up plagiarism and instead concentrate on a mature observation about the two scores and how they fit into Horner’s oeuvre, you left me with little choice.

So, so tired of this forum sometimes. It reminds me more of FSM ("You’re not saying what I think, so shut up!" / "I don’t understand what you said, so shut up!") every day.

Edits in response to added John Williams comments:

I like the fact that you feel that you can attack for me for saying something I didn’t actually say and then you can say those exact same things about somebody else and that’s A-OK.

For the record, John Williams’ style was and is very recognisable, but that doesn’t equate to him writing "the same music" to the extent that… ahem… other composers do when they copy and paste whole bars, even whole pages, and complete melodies from one score to the next. Somebody who argues that Williams is as bad as Horner with the statement "Superman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones are the same music" I think is somewhat missing the point and perhaps doesn’t possess the necessary musical facility to make an informed judgement.

I am a fan of Horner, and I am a fan of Williams – but to me, genuine fandom means a willingness to acknowledge the failures of your favourite composers at the same time as celebrating their successes.

Thank you

Thank you for this, Lhurgoyf.

Here, the artwork. Like in the above images, the back cover shows wrongly the last track as #53 but the correct number is 52, which is the number of files in the archive, of tracks in the list above and of the last track printed on the booklet.

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Scans reuploaded by soundtrekker in msg #46

Additionally, I don’t know why anybody would say this score deserves a re-recording, because a) it doesn’t, and b) it already received one. It’s available on CD – entitled "Star Trek II – The Wrath Of Khan". 😉

"If you want The Black Hole on CD, just listen to Moonraker – it’s the same score!"

Just wondering, what’s your opinion then about Hans Zimmer and his Media Ventures-clones when it comes to "repetitious"?

No. It’s yet another "all Horner’s scores are the same" rant that itself is as oft-repeated as Horner’s music supposedly is. I leave it to the FSM crowd. They’re just as ‘unoriginal’ with their criticism that literally goes nowhere else but circles.

Similar in style and overall tone? Yes. Just like many scores by many composers. Same melodic content? Not at all.

The same criticism tangotreats has I apply directly to John Williams, which is why I never listen to (and have never enjoyed) Superman, Star Wars and Indiana Jones, to name a few. To me, THAT is all the same music even if the melodic content is a little different. The only reason I bring it up is because one can apply that kind of criticism to anyone, but it’s supposedly a lot of "fun" to do it to Horner.

No. Only James Horner fans, in their desperation, keep claiming that what Horner does is "the same" as what other (mostly, film) composers do.

It isn’t. NO OTHER FILM COMPOSER, with the possible exception of Bill Conti, is as shameless in his rip-offs of other, usually greater music. I don’t mind his endless self-quotations as much: At least he’s stealing from himself there. So he’s run out of fresh ideas. But his ransacking of Prokofiev (Alexander Newsky, Battle on the Ice e.g. in Battle Beyond the Stars – and there are NUMEROUS outright thefts of Prokofiev all over the place in his music!), Khachaturian, Copland, Britten, etc.etc., often wholesale, is deplorable. On top of that, Horner is unpardonably smug about it, in complete self-denial half the time. Everybody who has a "wire" to what’s happening in Hollywood of course knows that James Horner is an unbelievably arrogant arse on a personal level (offending colleagues, co-workers and assistants over and over and over), too, but that’s his own business. But his frequent and disgusting ripoffs are in a league of their own!

And no, Hans Zimmer doesn’t do the same either. One thing to be said in favor of James Horner is that he truly knows his classical music inside out. He has a solid and profound academic knowledge of music – Hans Zimmer wouldn’t know what to do with a Prokofiev score (never mind Penderecki, Lutoslawski, etc), because he lacks the craftsmanship. So he only steals from something like Gustav Holst’s The Planets, because every child knows that music! Hansi-baby wouldn’t even be able to read Holst’s scores either, but he can listen to records and tell his assistants to go rip him off (in Gladiator, i.e.). 😉

No. Only James Horner fans, in their desperation, keep claiming that what Horner does is "the same" as what other (mostly, film) composers do.

It isn’t. NO OTHER FILM COMPOSER, with the possible exception of Bill Conti, is as shameless in his rip-offs of other, usually greater music. I don’t mind his endless self-quotations as much: At least he’s stealing from himself there. So he’s run out of fresh ideas. But his ransacking of Prokofiev (Alexander Newsky, Battle on the Ice e.g. in Battle Beyond the Stars – and there are NUMEROUS outright thefts of Prokofiev all over the place in his music!), Khachaturian, Copland, Britten, etc.etc., often wholesale, is deplorable. On top of that, Horner is unpardonably smug about it, in complete self-denial half the time. Everybody who has a "wire" to what’s happening in Hollywood of course knows that James Horner is an unbelievably arrogant arse on a personal level (offending colleagues, co-workers and assistants over and over and over), too, but that’s his own business. But his frequent and disgusting ripoffs are in a league of their own!

And no, Hans Zimmer doesn’t do the same either. One thing to be said in favor of James Horner is that he truly knows his classical music inside out. He has a solid and profound academic knowledge of music – Hans Zimmer wouldn’t know what to do with a Prokofiev score (never mind Penderecki, Lutoslawski, etc), because he lacks the craftsmanship. So he only steals from something like Gustav Holst’s The Planets, because every child knows that music! Hansi-baby wouldn’t even be able to read Holst’s scores either, but he can listen to records and tell his assistants to go rip him off (in Gladiator, i.e.). 😉

I’m curious, would you have some exemples of specific tracks of prokofiev etc that Zimmer stole ? i don’t ask to criticise, just to take a listen to this…

No. Only James Horner fans, in their desperation, keep claiming that what Horner does is "the same" as what other (mostly, film) composers do.

Fortunately, I’m too old to be a rabid Horner-fanboy and deny that. 😉

Let’s say it’s the guilty pleasure of about ten good scores that Horner did that make you come back to his works over and over again.

So he’s run out of fresh ideas.

Maybe it’s the fact that he started off as a "prodigy" – he was not even 30 and had already two very praised scores (ST II + III) under his belt. Most other composers really have to work hard to get there. That surely can make a person arrogant.

James Horner is an unbelievably arrogant arse on a personal level

Oh, deary me, most of the more famous artists and actors are SERIOUS assholes, so what!

Goldsmith for example tried to hamper the filming of The War of the Roses. Don’t believe me? Just listen to Danny DeVito’s audio commentary on the DVD! Oh, he’s not actually naming WHO the famous Hollywood composer was, but just look it up WHERE they were filming. Next door to JG’s house!

Hans Zimmer wouldn’t know what to do with a Prokofiev score

Zimmer wouldn’t even know who Prokofiev IS – well, maybe if it was a vodka. 😉

Hans is clearly a business man and not an artist. He knows how to handle a synthesizer and how to run a business and that’s what he’s good at. Why do creative work yourself if you can hire people and make money?

Unfortunately, most of Hollywood’s suits don’t know shit from art but what’s cheap and efficient and that’s the reason why Zimmer’s scores became so successful. Unfortunately, this has influenced newer and more talented composers as well – e.g. Newton Howard, who can do proper scores, but these days rather goes the easy route (Batman) if the director doesn’t say otherwise – IN TIME (Water for Elephants).

So, no matter how arrogant and repetitious Horner may be, just don’t expect a score like Krull to ever come from Zimmer’s ilk, as nobody will live that long.

^ ^ ^ SANE Horner fan, there.

Thanks for the upload Lhurgoyf

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Thanks a lot

Thank you very much Lhurgoyf for to share this great score.

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thanks a lot! 🙂

thanks!!!

I’m a Horner fan, and I love this score, but I am NOT irrational or dilusional.

well.

I AM but not because i like Horner….

thanks

Many thanks.

Thank you so much for this!

GREAT Share!!!!

Anyone have a working link to the SCANS ??

Thank you!

Link seems to be dead. Re-up please? 🙂

Yes! Re-upload please!

GREAT Share!!!!

Anyone have a working link to the SCANS ??

James Horner – Battle Beyond the Stars (1980, 2011 BSX) FLAC

Artwork:
https://mega.co.nz/#!bdAmQYQC!xz0TITr9S-jnlhUnRAsQXqsX3QZk0A3Ya1TlQl9abeA

re-up of the album (credit goes to the original uploader, Lhurgoyf!):
https://mega.co.nz/#!OIRTVCrb!qtn-XG7RV6l38c4INXSzgACNxnDnFLvoZwyAN88DJlg
[note: this link contains the music PLUS the artwork!]

Thanks!!

I’m a Horner fan, and I love this score, but I am NOT irrational or dilusional.

well.

I AM but not because i like Horner….

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thanks

Thanks!

Hi Soundtrekker,

Thanks for the re-up!!

Thanks so much for the re-up. I thought I missed it. :DDD

Thanks

Thanks!

Thousand thanks for the thread, Lhurgoyf!!!…
&
soundtrekker for the re-up, too!!!…

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Thanks for the share!!

Thank you!

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For info, this BSX edition would be a vinyl rip. Many thanks for the share !!

thanks…!!!!!

Thanks for sharing.

I’m posting this in here because I didn’t see a thread for what I’m looking for.

I was watching the new MST3K the other day and the movie was the awful "Wizards of the Lost Kingdom". It listed James Horner in the opening credits for the music, and sure enough, I immediately recognized the music as coming form "Battle Beyond the Stars"! I don’t mean "sounds like it" – I mean, it’s the Battle Beyond the Stars soundtrack. Literally the same music. It sounds like it might have been re-orchestrated/re-composed, but it’s undeniably the same basic soundtrack, just repurposed.

I searched for that soundtrack in here and couldn’t find a listing. Does it even exist? Soundtrackcollector lists "Non-original music from "Battle Beyond The Stars (1980)" but doesn’t even have an entry for any releases. I was hoping to hear it because it sounds like a cool alternate recording of Battle Beyond the Stars.

On another note, if anybody could re-post the 2011 BSX release of the Battle Beyond the Stars soundtrack in flac I’d appreciate it.

Please reupload.

Can someone reupload the score?

Can somebody re-up this?

Guys, I just reuploaded the score for the all latecomers. Get it in the first post. Enjoy!

Love it! Thanks!

Thanks.

Thanks!

Thank you kindly.

Thank you for the share

Thanks for the reup Lhurgoyf! Nice rare share.

Thanks for the re-up!

And no, Hans Zimmer doesn’t do the same either. One thing to be said in favor of James Horner is that he truly knows his classical music inside out. He has a solid and profound academic knowledge of music – Hans Zimmer wouldn’t know what to do with a Prokofiev score (never mind Penderecki, Lutoslawski, etc), because he lacks the craftsmanship. So he only steals from something like Gustav Holst’s The Planets, because every child knows that music! Hansi-baby wouldn’t even be able to read Holst’s scores either, but he can listen to records and tell his assistants to go rip him off (in Gladiator, i.e.). 😉

I couldn’t agree more on that, I think this guy Zimmer and his clones are destroying Film Music as we know it, sad but true. Hansi-baby :laugh:

Oh, and thanks for the share!

Many thanks! I always wanted the flac of this soundtrack!

Thank you.

I had this on vinyl back in the early 80s and was very impressed with the sound quality. In fact I used it to demo speakers. Not sure about the releases since. I’ve also not noticed any poor orchestral playing. Label me musically cretinous if you wish.