Name: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Brand: Various

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

88697637972

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2011-04-11

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Sony

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Various

Genre GB

Soundtracks

Label GB

this commemorative reissue of music from 2001: a space odyssey combines the also sprach zarathustra theme, various johann and richard strauss segments, and a ballet suite by aram khachaturian—all of which prove how much stanley kubrick's film attempts to avoid the soundtrack clichs of most science-fiction movies. instead of the expected sci-fi effects, there is a more ironic application of music that would be otherwise incongruous to the celestial settings. here, "the blue danube" complements scenes involving weightlessness and descending spacecraft, while gyorgy ligeti's creepy "monolith" music connotes armageddon more than interplanetary exploration. the tracks play as they had appeared on the original soundtrack release back in the '60s, but there is also previously unreleased supplemental material and a dialogue montage entitled "hal 9000."

2001: A Space Odyssey

Music GB