The Omega Man (1971) - Ron Grainer Score (Selected Tracks)
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2012
- Here are three selected tracks from the Ron Grainer score to the 1971 film THE OMEGA MAN. Included are tracks 1 and 2 (the main theme). I have also included track number 16 as it is one of my favorites. In fact this track is just over 7 minutes long itself and features a variety of different cues from the film so it really gives you a sense of the score as a whole.
Please Enjoy!
This was created using the OpenShot video editor in Linux Mint 12
The video was uploaded at 720p (1280x720) with 320kbps AAC audio.
The audio was ripped from the CD release (the cover is in the video). 
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The beauty of this theme is that it perfectly emotes the loneliness of the main character. Alone in a crowd of the undead. Very reminiscent of the cellphone culture we have today.
"THERE IS NO PHONE! There is no phone........"
We were lucky the delta plague didn't kill millons more
One of the most hauntingly beautiful soundtracks ever conceived for a movie.
I thought the music, while amazing, never fit the premise of the movie. It sounds relatively at peace and unconcerned with the disaster of the earth, he's running around with submachine guns and grenading people dressed as witches and the grim reaper and it's playing this strange "exploratory scene change" music.
It's a great soundtrack don't get me wrong though. I immediately added it to my list of OSTs when I watched the movie with my dad a few days ago
Blake Roskelley It's still ahead of it's time. Especially the "metallic" refrains that are heard in some of the variations...I've never heard anything like it before or since.
That opening track! I finally found it!! ;p He played it in 8 trac for the opening scene driving his red Ford RED convertible.
Very underrated movie. One of the best soundtracks ever.
Listen to this all the time. In the process of writing a series and this movie inspired it..
Are you guys really from the Internal Revenue Service?!
I love this movie!
Dated but watchable. Atmospheric for certain. Scary in its day. Brilliant music.
@@hittitecharioteer Dated but I feel like it's held together with time. In fact, with all the chaos going on in America today and the pandemic, this movie is almost more believable now on many levels than it was decades ago.
I have seen this movie over 50 times ...this music is so well done it has a feeling to it
Me too lol
Brilliant yet underrated soundtrack. From brilliant yet underrated film.
I waited about 30 years for this soundtrack to finally be released! After it arrived in the mail, I think I played it non-stop for about a week!
This life you have soon be the reality of this movie, except no Grim Reaper people at night walking, the loons at night are BLM people
Лэнгтон Матраверс. We'll see in the next couple weeks how bad it gets. By summer we'll know 💀 or 🌞
@@m42037 Check LA today--they're about 1 step from shootin' em out of the windows.
Ron Granier's score captures perfectly the melancholy, the desperation, and the heroism of this movie. In just the first few bars of the opening title music, you know what the movie is about. Back in the early 70's, movie soundtracks were a rare item. Only issued for the most epic productions. The soundtrack for Omega Man was never released. So great that someone went through all the effort to finally release it.
I remember watching this as a kid. It gave me an eerie feeling then. Today we are coming close to this becoming reality.
Me and my best friend William watched the Omega Man many times when we were young and then when my friend passed away I watched it again in his honour. Great movie and great actors and brilliant soundtrack that gives the movie feeling. Time flies, God Bless everyone!
Takes me back to when I was 10. Very nostalgic for me, at least.
Brilliant movie combined with Ron Grainor's awesome soundtrack and Heston made for an unforgettable movie that I love to this day!
Let's just hope the plague don't continue to grow and kill
I miss music and movies like this! When they tried to tell a story! They didn't rely on flash or gore, but the actual talents of the people in them!
Strangely, viewed this film when I was a kid in a Downtown LA movie theater during summer 1971. Leaving the movie theater was surreal of being where filming had actually taken place.
Now it might be more empty like in the movie, yes?
Very few movies or soundtracks give me the feeling of this one! So haunting and yet hopeful at times. This movie is a true classic to me and I shall always treasure it!
What an amazing, haunting soundtrack.
For me especially at 11:00 very haunting.
I was 14 years old and in technical school when l first saw this Charlton Heston sci-fi movie. The movies soundtrack captivated me. The very specific weapon scenes were full of quality and length. I would say something for its time.
I agree a wholly underated movie. It was a hallmark of quality which l would watch and watch.
One of the best film scores ever. Truly magnificent
I was 62 when this movie came out. 🍿
One pf the boldest , thoughtful and most beautifully scored movies of all time
Almost the entire film is scored. The genius (Grainer) did an excellent job for an excellent film. I have piano sheet music for several of the themes.
As a young lad on a R.A.F. camp on a Summer's evening my pal Bob and i paid 6d to see it at the camps cinema and it has stuck with me ever since Brilliant soundtrack excellent movie.
FABULOUS SOUND TRACK AND A GREAT MOVIE.
I absolutely love the layering done in a lot of this music. Beautiful.
Amazing movie ! Amazing score ! God Bless America!!! I Miss the Good Old America Back in those days 70s!
2 years have passed in the movie timeline - still the street stop lights work !!
listen to the timing of the instruments. beautiful music. listen to every note. god bless
This movie freaked me out in the 70's now I have it In DVD. Love Charlston Heston. Only if this could happen now I'd love it!!!!
My all time favourite film!! I know the dialogue off by heart.
Peace From London. 🙏🙏
David Hess You may get your wish, without the goons in the Halloween costume's!! This plague is not normal! Could be bio warfare. Yes man made for killing. We will see, at this point it doesn't matter now, only time will tell our destiny. Ed: Now is the 2nd wave and is growing everyday, and the Capitol was raided by maniacs. Looking not good..
I feel like the movie has held together with time. In fact, with all the chaos going on in America today, and the pandemic, this movie is almost more believable now on many levels than it was decades ago. Who agrees with me?
i agree with you
Sad and True
The Omega Man's storyline took place during a time of real political events, the year 1971. Increasing political friction between the Soviet Union and its former client state and erstwhile ally, Red China, almost led to war several times. But in the movie's timeline of early 1971, things spiral out of control, leading to a full-out Sino-Soviet war that grows into a world war. The USA struggles to remain outside the conflict, risking becoming an enemy to both sides. It doesn't help as one side or the other introduces bacteriological warfare which infects the U.S., killing off more than 90% of the population.
Yup.
We were lucky the Delta strain didn't kill millons more, it hit country's like India real bad, was a full out plague
This movie scared me as a kid and still kinda gives me the chills. But I love Ron Grainer's score. Does anyone know where I can get the actual soundtrack?
Check out a website called "Screen Archives Entertainment"
I will check my blue ray to see if it has a digatly installed copy
Me too, scared the bejesus out of me. I bunked into the local Rialto with my mates c.1973 when I was 10.
PS I think one of the most memorable scenes from any film, or, at least one that has stayed with me ever since is the terrifying moment when our heroine changed - she dropped her shopping, peeled off her headdress and removed her sunglasses. Aaaarrgghh!
Goosebumps time! Music is stirring, tragic backing this scene. Interracial love in 1971! Heston never gets credit for this. He marched with MLK, yet Spike Lee hates the man. Did anyone see I Am Legend by Will Smith?
this guy could admit feelings through music
Love the music that kicks in at 11:00. It accompanies his 'final confrontation' superbly. The music emphasises the fact that everything is going downhill for Neville at this point.
Heston Rules'''''
One of my favorite films great post thank you for sharing.
13 downvotes were from Matthias, and the Family!
And BLM. Those are the goons in Halloween costumes. The plague is in it's 2nd wave we maybe doomed
Great work. Thanks for posting. Love this movie and soundtrack.
Absolute classic score, thanks for sharing
This movie scared the heck out of me as a child, I seen the movie when I was 6 in 1974
Thank you for posting this. I have to agree with everything Zooeyhall posted except I was 17 and a college freshman when the movie came out. I must have watched this movie 200 X since 1971.
The composition has such a greatness. Goldsmith style- WoW😮
Definitely a film that stands out on its own. Great musical orchestrations and truly making L.A. feel like a desolate wasteland; no CGI, all real. Apparently filmed around Christmas Time to make L.A. look vacant
And now we have the perfect soundtrack for the current pandemic sweeping the world...
I think I posted that a year ago on FB at the scene where Anthony Zerbe is still reporting in front of the cameras but slowly mutating and reporting in his growing cynical tone. Just ominous!
@@berylrosenberg704 Indeed, ominous and so prescient!
Love it ''' Thank you so much for uploading'' My favorite movie in the 70s when I was a kid '' brings back great memories'''
I love the way this begins, both here and in the movie. It makes me think "Good morning! You're about to be gunned down by the light FM!"
The Canadian label Disques Cinémusique recently released large excerpts from two soundtracks composed and conducted by Ron Grainer in the early sixties : Nothing But the Best and The Moon-Spinners. Available as download and stream on most digital stores online.
Thanks for this sound track
Top notch...I have the disc which was sent to me from the producers after expressing disappointment on missing a limited run no charge...pure class ....I am forever grateful to them...............
I was a baby when this came out but I remember it later on as a kid good film score.
Super soundtrack , it's so different without all the original background movie noises....just music ....wow ...thanks for posting it....
I love that background piano! Always hated in when the movie interrupted it!
THe most beautiful from all sad movies I've ever seen. The savior and martyr of the new mankind... Unfortunately, the main problem of dispute and fight between him and Matthias remains unsolved.
A fine selection of my fave tracks! Thanks!
I want to be the Omega Man. Last man on Earth. No legend, just a guy, totally alone on the planet. With enough firepower to destroy any mutant family encountered.
I used to feel that way when I first saw the movie, many years ago. Interestingly, when I watch it now and he pulls back the covers in the hotel scene to reveal the husband and wife that died in bed together years before....I would rather my spouse and I be them, rather than have to put up with trying to survive a nightmare and have only myself to talk to. At least we would die together. What Neville did is not living. For what? For 20 or so years of roaming an empty city, surrounded by the corpses of a past life that is gone forever and constant reminders of when the world went to shit? And always having to search for food while watching your back? No thanks.
Ive always wanted to pull off a cover of some of these tracks, always loved this movie since i was a kid. Whole film is stacked with great tracks, many of which also have a really big bang western feel to them as well. I often wonder if most of this score was intended for another project that fell through and WB where lucky to get this score instead. They really where lucky to get this, really tops off the film.
Bizarre Covers did you ever cover them?
@@thejonathan130 sadly no, but i would still like to (sorry for the delay, google broke my notifications a long time ago) leaving me looking awfully ignorant 🙁
@@BizarreCovers no need to apologize, I hope you get to do that song at some point
Music is Fantasticic !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember it was the time for the Videotechnician my neighbours working us electrician he had a big Samples of Videos Betamax Video 2000 and VHS the Machines was big and heavy .On the weekend WE are looking Zombie Films and the Omega man .Nice Times
straight in with "mellow yellow", diggin' that sexy sax, imagining a smoky lounge atmosphere.
love the post this movie is a great movie my 5thd favorite film and I am 12 my o friends have only seen i am legend 2007 this is my favorite out of the 3 all thigh I have never seen Vincent price's the last man in eath but Charlton Heston is great in the first two planet of the apes movies and soylent green
yeah Vincent Price in the last man on earth was terrifying when I was a kid...!!! Wow i'm so glad someone else remembers that movie, i thought it was all in my head :) lol I love Charlton Heston in Omega Man and Soylent Green!! He made a believer out of me that things r gonna end UGLY! I recycle now :) lol
the last man on earth with Vincent Price can be seen for free on RUclips
Shane is another great movie. (Tells a story, based on a book).
Wonderful score. One of my all-time favourites. As others have said, there's something very poignant and wistful about it which totally fits with the "Last Man on Earth" vibe of the film. Once you notice it, there are some definite similarities with the soundtrack to "The Prisoner" (the Patrick McGoohan TV series) which Grainer also composed, a few years before this. And he's also the chap who composed the iconic "Doctor Who" theme, although he composed it for conventional instruments and it was "electronically realised" by Delia Derbyshire, so the startling (for 1963) end result was a joint effort really.
well synthesized piece of art
the carnival music is when Neville has been speared and is bleeding out and Lisa standing there talking to him for a while.
I tend to see it as a heart that slowly getting weaker and weaker until it's passed away
ummmmmm you went to the time and bigoted trouble of making a profile name against gay people? SMH are you really that interested and distracted over judging other people's lives? how very sad.
I hate the end! They should of made a pt 2, it was so sad to see that ugly clown kill Charlton! I think they shouldn't of had him die! This could of been 1/2 longer where life is restored with the serum. Sad.
I love that movie and congratulate you for being the one to step forward with the SCORE !BRAVO! BRAVO !
There is a CD version of The Omega Man called the 2.0 Unlimited Release and this is the 2nd CD release as the first quickly sold out (they have different track listings). Anyway this bit comes at the end of Track 16 on the 2.0 Unlimited Release version. Try the Screen Archives Entertainment website. They might still have it for sale.
Quite underrated movie....been panned by all the typical "Critics" of the day, most of whom would not know a good movie or great acting if it fell on them. This iteration of Richard Matheson's book "I am Legend" I found to be the best, simply because the acting was the finest among the headliners of the cast. Forget the late 1960s-early 1970s hokum that is usually considered in rating this film, you can't fault a movie for the times in which it was made...or the Zeitgeist of those times. Heston was great, as always. I was fortunate enough to actually meet met the man in 2000 in Cleveland GA during the Bush/Gore Presidential Election, as he was winding down his presidency of the NRA at that time. Amazingly personable and approachable man. he was genuine, and in this movie, his real character is there, imprinted on the stage character of Dr. Robert Neville. Before massive CGI epics where acting now takes a back seat to the work of digital whiz kids, this movie is carried by high class performances of Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash, and NOT to be forgotten, the superior, and iconic performance for this cult classic, of none other than Anthony Zerbe as Johnathan Mathias, the chief antagonist of Dr. Neville. Supporting it all was Ron Grainer's haunting soundtrack, certainly one of the most memorable in this film genre, a score rife with powerful selections eliciting deep emotive responses throughout the entire screenplay, the music itself a work of high art. Powerful and moving, that's the substance of a GOOD movie, and in my estimation, this bit of Cinema is among the best ever made of the possible apocalyptic world that awaits us all if the hair trigger of state sponsored insanity ever gains ultimate primacy in the affairs of man.
..and Paul Koslo as Dutch wearing the middld finger jacket!
Yes, that part of the music is the best and isn't dated at all; it is when the theme turns into a lullaby. I just saw this movie again on cable tonight. It is a cult classic.
I love The Omega Man
Reminds me of my Dad
RIP Dad 💐
Rest in peace.
muy buena musica 🎧 esta pelicula es de las mejores
#2 is so wonderful. Ron Grainer also wrote the opening music for Dr. Who for the BBC.
the best movie soundtrack ever
FulciLives: thanks so much for posting this! I was 16 back in 1971 and the impression this movie made on me then is still with me: being the last person on earth enjoying everything left behind, while fighting-off crazed zombies at night!
Can you post the track where Neville and Lisa are together, and the generator shuts off. While Neville works desperately to get it started again, one of the Family climbs up to the penthouse? There are some great cues I still remember from that music.
70's GOLD!!!!
this is my own personal soundtrack to the end of the world. Thanks dad. This movie is one of my favorite memories, albeit my earliest horror movie.
They were going to use 'Everybody's our of Town' by B J Thomas, instead of 'Summer Place' at the beginning of the movie....I kid you not.
Charlton Heston was famous for his dying sceens in movies. but when he died in
this movie a piece of me died with him. PS the family also scared the shit out of me.
this is one of the best movies i have ever seen and the soundtrack. i love it.
Reading Falklands Commando 1982. Soldiers all on a0 ship heading south to war, watching an 8mm movie described as strange . Never heard my favourite movie described as strange.
science fiction desperation is classic and entertaining
As a kid this was my favorite movie until Star Wars came out and changed my life.
Really superb, terrific score by the great Ron Grainer. I feel The Omega Man was a vastly underrated movie which should have garnered far more plaudits; Charlton Heston and Rosalind Cash paired nicely, with Anthony Zerbe's splendidly sinister performance as Matthias. Very nice.
love it after so long still the best
vincent's version is quite well done, even for the time. it's almost like watching an hour and a half long Twilight Zone episode. i highly suggest you watch it.
I have seen this movie so many times...
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MY BROTHER, MY SELF, MY UNIKE FREND. NOW AND FOR EVER.
The score has been released twice on CD. The first release is now out-of-print but the second release is still available and frankly was the better release anyway (although I believe the first one has one track that is mixed differently and not on the second release). Anyway the 2nd one is called: THE OMEGA MAN 2.0 UNLIMITED
Great movie. Great soundtrack
I saw this after Last Man on Earth and I Am Legend, this is my favorite of the bunch. Worst adaptation=best movie, weird
Ron Garnier makes this soundtrack so dreamy and making things euphoric and gleaming. as I saw the films composer i thought it was don kershner, who help all the Archies cartoons and their albums.
Haunting.....
I remember seeing this film when I was 5 or 6 and the "the family" scared the shit out of me, but the soundtrack was so good👍👍👍
beautiful
m76 smith n wesson machine gun. nice. but not as nice as the music and rosalind cash. wonderful film. no, they sure dont make em like that any more'
'Coffee table' Sci-Fi
Yeah I like that bit as well :)
The year 1971 and place Los Angeles far side of the galaxy 80,000 light years from the core . A haunting score first rate acting a sad story of the last man on Earth . Peace.df.
No core,just firmement,and luminaries,and "waters above" thwn Throne of God
@@jquest43
Dude , I love you , I'm a Christian albeit a very bad one ! What I can't go along with is another example of dull bland ultra generic non logical thinking , when someone starts with that so is the waters above , below , beneath , beyond out there generic B.S. ! If you got nothing more than something that's been said 200 million times already ,than admit it you don't Know !! No more of this above the waters , so below the waters so around uncle Ralph's , for the love of Pete , will you guys , " THINK " Instead of useing dull trite inane statements that add nothing to the Question !! Peace.df.
@@mandelaeffect-quantumstuff1615 you live in your head a lot dont you?
@@jquest43
I reside in mind , perhaps a prisoner of thought ! I don't deny the heart's place but thinking thing's through is best . What ? Is above and below where do things place themselves ?! Peace.df.
@@mandelaeffect-quantumstuff1615 constructing fantasy isnt " thinking things through".
Theeeeme... from A Summer Place...
From A Summer Place, the theme, from A Suuummer Place...
It's the theeeeeeme-
NEXT!
HAB ICH DAS ERSTE MAL IM ALTER VON 6 JAHREN GESEHEN...!!! BIN BIS HEUTE EIN FAN DER MUSIK UND DES FILMES...!!!
You are correct. Shortly after Fulci died the (now diseased himself) Chas Balun wrote a small tribute book in which he coined the phrase FULCI LIVES ... meaning of course that while he is gone, he will still live on through his films. In fact the book came with a bumper sticker with that catch phrase (and the ZOMBIE head from the ZOMBIE movie poster)
at 11:00 has always been my favorite so epic
do you know what it's called the song I can not find it
Now that we have the complete original soundtrack in true stereo, why has Warner refused to remaster the film with it? They've redone al their otger classics -- Exorcist, Clockwork Orange, even Blazing Saddles in glorious 5.1 surround. But Omega Man remains in plain old, flat mono.
melancolic
Movies and Music Masterpierce Magnifique Superbe
They don't make great music anymore sad. 50s-90s
I've just finished reading the book, and Chuck's movie resembles the novel far more than the Will Smith version. I've still to watch the Vincent Price movie though
Now i enter and leave from the garage like the colonel does in the movie, always have
It is identified on the soundtrack as being Max Steiner's A SUMMER PLACE although I assume Ron Grainer did this "lounge music" take on it (as you call it). I included it because it's the first piece of music heard in the film and so it is very iconic to anyone who has seen the film. However this collection of tracks is over 12 minutes and A SUMMER PLACE is under 2 minutes as presented here.