Miracle Mile: Original Soundtrack From The Hemdale Motion Picture [Soundtrack]

Track Listings

1. Teelering Seales

2. One for the Books

3. After the Call

4. On the Spur of the Moment

5. All of a Dither

6. Final Statement

7. In Julie's Eyes

8. Running Out of Time

9. If It's All Over

10. People in the News

11. Museum Walk

Miracle Mile: Original Soundtrack From The Hemdale Motion Picture,Tangerine Dream,Private Music,Electronic,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Prog-Rock/Art Rock,Soundtrack

Tracks:

Teelering Seales
One for the Books
After the Call
On the Spur of the Moment
All of a Dither
Final Statement
In Julie's Eyes
Running Out of Time
If It's All Over
People in the News
Museum Walk

Customer Reviews:

Great movie; flawed soundtrack.......2006-12-15

One wouldn't expect a low-budget apocalyptic movie to feature a sound track of this caliber. No worries. This is not just any apocalyptic movie, this is "Miracle Mile", an outstanding exemplar of the genre. Done on a shoe string and filmed within a mile (or two) of LA's Miracle Mile (Wilshire Blvd near the tarpits, the museums, etc.). Never in either director Steve De Jarnatt's or the viewer's eyes, are things that simple. (No spoilers here.) Suffice it to say that this is one flick which needs more exposure for De Jarnatt's and Tangerine Dream's creativity in using their respective minimalistic canvasses to flesh out such a rich story.

Tangerine Dream is one of the big reasons why this film succeeds as well as it does. The last hour of the film runs roughly in real time, with events reaching the inevitable hair-raising climax. Tangerine Dream's music sets the pedal point for both the metaphorical and the very real deadline clock portrayed in the plot. At points the movie is all Tangerine Dream, with the action taking place in the background. But the story inevitably carries through and in the devastating end, there is a melding of the two.

Two quibbles, although one has been addressed by previous reviewers. First, the cuts on the album all fade out at the end. This is an unfortunately side effect of squeezing a 90 minute movie into a somewhat shorter audio CD. Still, having seen the movie multiple times, one misses the bridge music.

The other is a more serious flaw, but is easily fixed. That's the disorder between the cuts. This is explained to make the album sound more musically reasonable when listened to. Unfortunately, the producers neglected to consider who might want to purchase this CD. I want the CD to start with "Museum Walk" like the movie, and to build in tension throughout the album to the end, again like the movie. "Miracle Mile" soundtrack producers have twisted the order all around. It literally ends with the beginning. Wrong. Well, you can always program your player to present the tracks in their proper order, so this is a minor quibble.

Oh, and by the way. This is damned good Tangerine Dream. All the better if you've seen the movie. If you haven't, what are you waiting for?

The Best Soundtrack by Tangerine Dream!.......2006-02-27

This low budget apocolyptic film Miracle Mile may not have aged well over the years but the music is as great as ever.The throbbing menace of it immediately captures your attention in the movie and even on it's own it's riveting.Even the slow tracks have an eerie quality to them.A haunting classic.If you're looking for Tangerine Dream film music start at the top with this 1989 score.

tangerine dreams best soundtrack!.......2003-09-24

this has some of the most haunting and beautiful music ever. my favorites are if its all over and on the spur of the moment. if you have not seen the movie see the movie. but the music is excellant!

Dynamic percussive flamenco.......2002-01-05

In 1988, Tangerine Dream substantially slowed down with album releases and soundtracks. That trend was to persist in later years as well - and for a few reasons. First of all, the band was now a duo instead of a trio, and the main force behind soundtrack work was missing from the band. Another reason might be that Edgar Froese finally realized that there is an upper limit of compositional burden anyone can take. Previous years showed clearly that even if Tangerine Dream was to become a machine for output creation, it might just as well break, and as any machine, it does have its friction coefficient, and other limitations of physical nature. Whether or not it was in the remaining members' power to continue, is debatable, and best left for the listener.

The year 1988 brought us only two releases from Tangerine Dream (which is little only if compared to their output in previous years) - a studio album "Optical Race", and a soundtrack, "Miracle Mile". Released for public consumption a year later, the album provides us with some very good music, almost worth comparison with previous efforts from the band. Almost, but not quite. On the one hand the album contains watered-down themes resembling previous work on "Canyon Dreams", "Near Dark" and "Heartbreakers". A derivative work, but worth listening. Perfect examples might be 'One for the Books', 'Running Out of Time' and 'After the Call'. On the other hand, we have some unique and original tracks, which are consistently in the moody percussive rhythmic mode. A pleasure to listen, undoubtedly, but nothing that would set us on our knees. Good representative tracks that set the mood on this album are 'Teetering Scales' and 'All of a Dither'. Musically, these tracks do not contribute to the musical heritage of the band, but nevertheless represent solid, good soundtrack work. Proceeding further, we once again come back to slightly derivative work in 'Final Statement', 'In Julie's Eyes', and 'People in the News'. Good old times, one might say. However, time and again we scratch our heads with a powerful deja vu. Have we heard it somewhere already? This album would earn solid five stars if not for these mixed emotions. The cheesy ending, 'Museum Walk' leaves us a little too hungry as well.

Despite all these mumblings and grumblings, this is a must-have for all those who like solid electronic soundtrack work.

One of Tangerine Dream's finest soundtracks.......2001-08-21

The 1988 movie "Miracle Mile" from independent film company Hemdale was a pretty dire production overall - apart from a stunning performance by a very young Anthony Edwards. The Tangerine Dream soundtrack for it, however, is an absolute masterpiece! Edgar Froese and Paul Haslinger certainly pulled out all the stops to produce what is arguably their greatest film score ever and this official TD release (on the Private Music label) delivers some 43 minutes of great music.

Arranged in a sequence that makes for better through-listening than would following the order used in the film, the music on this release covers a much wider sonic spectrum than can be found on most of the band's other releases of the time-or, indeed since! It has moments of great calm and beauty, as well as brooding suspense, frantic action and high drama. (Such a shame that the film never managed to deliver any of these!)

This album is very much the culmination of Tangerine Dream's own unique hallmark blend of minimalist sequencer pulse, multi-layered percussion runs and massed synthesiser choirs-at times almost more "classical" in its outlook than "pop". It also makes great use of some fabulous percussion sounds - I still get shivers down my spine every time I hear 'In Julie's Eyes'!

Since this album, Tangerine Dream's music has been going fairly steadily downhill, but this album manages to recapture some of the magic of their earlier film-score successes, such as "Sorcerer", "Thief", "Risky Business" and "Flashpoint". Ultimately, I think, it delivers rather more than any of the others. Highly recommended.

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