# Recycling film scores? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-film-scores/451394 "2008-06-01T22:50:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-film-scores/451394/21 "2008-06-04T16:47:16Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] Dammit, I was going to post that I thought that’s the kind of thing this thread would be about, but I couldn’t find a cite. [/QUOTE] Yeah, except I got the composer wrong. Jerry Goldsmith scored _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ and _Alien_; James Horner scored _The Wrath of Khan_ and _Aliens_. :smack: I don’t have a cite for the reuse, but if you watch the “ignition of the Genesis Device” scene in _STII_ and the “escaping from the reactor explosion” scene in _Aliens_, it is clear that they’ve used the exact same score for that scene. Some of the other music cues bear similarities, no doubt due to the short timeframe in which Horner had to score and conduct music for the film. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-film-scores/451394/22 "2008-06-04T16:56:43Z")
I know that IMDb used to have something about this. I don’t know why it’s not there anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-film-scores/451394/23 "2008-06-04T18:04:59Z")
Some of the music for the original _Alien_ movie was also used in _Patriot Games_. In the latter, if you listen when the satellite camera is showing the raid on the desert camp , you’ll recognize some of the “deep space” background music of the former. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-film-scores/451394/24 "2008-06-04T22:49:50Z")
Jerry Goldsmith did the score for _The 'Burbs_. The dramatic music for the car wreck was reused for the flying gremlin in _Gremlins 2: The New Batch_. Both films were directed by Joe Dante and scored by Goldsmith. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-film-scores/451394/25 "2008-06-05T00:49:35Z")
The superb score from _Conan the Barbarian_ was re-used in the dreadful _Conan the Destroyer_, does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-film-scores/451394/26 "2008-06-05T03:21:32Z")
I remember seeing a trailer for The Corpse Bride that used at least one song from The Nightmare Before Christmas, though I can’t remember which song it was. Not exactly to do with the original question: If you watch the Olympics on NBC, you will hear the Brisco County Jr theme song. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-film-scores/451394/27 "2008-06-07T14:51:48Z")
Oh Yeah by Yello has been used in lots of things as has the score from an incredible factual concept film called a word that I cant remember but is an Indian word for Chaos and I wish now that i hadn’t mentioned it because its driving me mad. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-film-scores/451394/28 "2008-06-07T14:58:13Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] Oh Yeah by Yello has been used in lots of things as has the score from an incredible factual concept film called a word that I cant remember but is an Indian word for Chaos and I wish now that i hadn’t mentioned it because its driving me mad. [/QUOTE] _Koyaanisqatsi_, _Powaqqatsi_, or _Naqoyqatsi_? ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-film-scores/451394/29 "2008-06-07T15:15:44Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] _Koyaanisqatsi_, _Powaqqatsi_, or _Naqoyqatsi_? [/QUOTE] Oh thanks mate I’ve just been searching through about two hundred DVDs,Koyaanisqats! Didn’t rate Powaqqatsi all that much,have yet to see the other one. Thanks again I owe you one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-film-scores/451394.md?page=1)