War Games: 35th Anniversary Expanded Edition

Quartet Records and MGM present the 35th-anniversary remastered, 2-CD expanded edition of the score by Arthur B. Rubinstein (Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Blue Thunder, Nick of Time) for the classic '80s thriller WarGames. Directed by John Badham in 1983 and starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Shedy, Dabney Colleman and John Wood, this mega-hit film is about a young man who finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with gameplaying, possibly starting World War III. Arthur B. Rubinstein, Badham's usual composer, provides a dynamic action score with incredible sweep and colorful excitement. With no single main theme, his score for WarGames is a veritable feast of themes and motifs, many of them cleverly interrelated. Unfairly, Arthur B. Rubinstein was not a popular composer in 1983, but the film's incredible success inspired Polydor to release an LP of WarGames that, typically for soundtracks of the era, featured a selection of score highlights and songs intercut with dialogue excerpts and sound effects from the filmfar from being the full score. In 2008, Intrada Records released a magnificent CD produced under the supervision of Maestro Rubinstein himself, newly remixed from the 2" 24-track session masters. This high-quality CD was quickly sold out and fetched high prices on the second-hand market, but the sound was a bit different from what was heard in the film, possibly due to the composer's personal choices when revisiting the score 25 years later. With the 35th anniversary of the film, we decided not to offer a straight reissue of the Intrada CD, but to return to the original mixes of the film, made at the legendary MGM Scoring Stage in Culver City. The first CD is sequenced in film order and sounds as it is heard in the film. On the second disc we have included, for the first time, the reissue of the original Polydor LP, whose mixes were also a bit different from what was prepared for the film. We have also included in the bonus section some alternates and cues not used in the film, offering the most complete edition that will be a delight for fans of this film and score. Produced, restored, remixed and mastered by Chris Malone in painstaking detail from ½? three-tracks, ½? stereo-tracks and album masters (we even pulled the stereo music stem for a 15-second cue missing from the session tapes), all vaulted in pristine condition at MGM. John Takis provides detailed liner notes in a 20-page full-color booklet. This album is dedicated to the memory of Arthur B. Rubinstein, who passed away in April 2018.

Disc 1
1: Wargames
2: Video Fever (Vocal)
3: Principal's Office
4: A New Grade, Part 1
5: A New Grade, Part 2
6: The Games Begin
7: It Could Be War, Part 1
8: History Lesson
9: Home Movie
10: A Game of Chess?
11: It Could Be War, Part 2
12: Nuclear Alert, Part 1
13: Nuclear Alert, Part 2
14: Walk Through NORAD
15: David Captured
16: David Searches
17: The Sneak
18: NORAD
19: It Could Be War, Part 3
20: Confidence Is High I
21: Off to See Falken
22: WOPR
23: Maneuvers
24: Falken's House
25: Time's Up
26: I Can't Swim
27: David's Concern
28: Helicopter Persuit
29: Off to NORAD
30: Launch Detected
31: Closing the Mountain
32: Who's First?
33: Joshua!
34: It Might Be Real
35: Tic-tac-toe
36: Winner None
37: End Credits
38: Edge of the World (Vocal)

Disc 2
1: Wargames
2: Dialogue
3: Video Fever
4: Dialogue
5: Dialogue
6: The Game Begins I
7: Dialogue
8: The Game Begins II
9: Dialogue
10: It Could Be War
11: Dialogue
12: David's Concern
13: Dialogue
14: NORAD I
15: Dialogue
16: NORAD II
17: Dialogue
18: Edge of the World
19: Dialogue
20: Confidence Is High I
21: Dialogue
22: Confidence Is High II
23: Dialogue
24: History Lesson
25: Dialogue
26: Launch Detected
27: Dialogue
28: Winner None
29: Dialogue
30: Dialogue
31: Edge of the World (End Title)
32: Edge of the World (Alternate Vocal)
33: Wargames (Alternate)
34: Video Fever (Vocal, Alternate)
35: Principal's Office (Alternate)
36: History Lesson (Vocal)
37: Nuclear Alert, Part 2 (Film Version)
38: Confidence Is High (With Chorus, Alternate 1)
39: Off to See Falken (Film Mix)
40: Maneuvers (Original Version)
41: Joshua! (With Chorus)
42: Confidence Is High (With Chorus, Alternate 2)
43: Winner None (Alternate)
44: End Credits (Alternate)
45: Edge of the World (Choral Version)

Composer: Arthur B. Rubinstein

Number of Discs: 2

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