David Castle, Chris Bennett - Midnight Express: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Horrible

Loved this movie, but the music was horrible. I had to laugh when I saw there was actually a buyable soundtrack. Like a lot of rotten soundtracks from 1970's movies (the Charles Bronson Death Wish series comes to mind), this was overly synthesized to the point of sound effects...camera pan-out...sound: OOOWWAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhh, pan in: WWEEEEeeeeeee. Silence would have been better. February 14, 2008

you call this a soundtrack??

I'm a big fan of the movie and loved the music in it; so I thought the soundtrack would be good too. Buyer beware: the music contained herein is NOT the same as in the movie. It's a lousy disco remix on most of them, and a lot of the tunes in the movie are conspicuously absent.
September 28, 2007

Gorgeous soundtrack

Though the movie is from the 20th Century, the soundtrack is modern synthesized with lush orchestration. Stands on its own in the 21st C. July 17, 2006

Giorgio the Great

I got this on LP then on cassette tape and finally on cd. I'll keep all of them. Giorgio has his own style of music scoring very passionate and powerful. When I saw the movie in the 70's not only the movie was so intense but the music as well. Of course the "chase" really stands out. This cd is a rare but gem one of the best soundtrack ever made. The movie and music match. April 13, 2006

'Chase' is worth the price of admission

And it's not even the version used in the film (actually only 2 or so minutes of the theme is used). But it's the best Turkish Prison Trance-Disco you'll ever hear!

Years later, Giorgio's heavy-synth treatments on "Love Theme" feel leaden, and I guess that's his ex-girlfriend singing on the final cut, which you can just program into oblivion. Giorgio, in my humble opinion, crafted the Donna Summer brand of electro-disco from having lived in germany alonsgide those techogeniuses Kraftwerk in the early 70s--and we got "Love to Love You Baby" and "Spring Affair" - which were great! A lot of filler on this commercialized disc from Casablanca, who were hawking disco at the time as if it were meth (oops, guess it was).

Chase is classic, though. Too bad not enough discotheques in the US played it. May have saved the genre from being turned into ubiquitous 'dance music.'

R.I.P. Brad Davis. November 2, 2005

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