The Bodyguard Score Review

The Album artwork

  Today is my birthday and I turned 23 today. For my birthday I decided to write a review of The Bodyguard score by Alan Silvestri. Recently La-La Land Records had finally released the score to the 1992 hit movie The Bodyguard starring the late Whitney Houston. No score was ever released on CD before now. Sadly enough the only piece of score that was put on the original soundtrack was The Theme from The Bodyguard. Poor Alan Silvestri, he worked so hard on the score to get one track on the soundtrack that was dominated by Whitney Houston. Until now, it has finally gotten a proper release. This is a limited edition of 3500 copies.
  I am a fan of Alan Silvestri's work. He did an excellent job in scoring films such as The A-Team, Back to the Future series, Captain America, The Avengers, and Forrest Gump to name a few. This is one of those scores that is overshadowed by a big name singer, Whitney Houston.
Here is the tracklisting.

1. Theme from The Bodyguard (2:44)
   
2. Watch and See/Meet Rachel*/Fletcher**/Can I Help You? (3:40)
   
3. Weirdo/Someone Was In Here (1:17)
   
4. Frank Unpacks* (1:24)
   
5. Followed/On the Job (3:08)
   
6. Just Dinner (1:02)
   
7. Walkman/Another One (3:20)
   
8. Not There (1:27)
   
9. Only If You Want To/I Know Why/Got You/The Glove/The Locker (3:06)
   
10. Be Careful**/I Don't Approve*/The Sword (4:14)
    
11. Silly Job (0:54)
    
12. Well, Well, Well/Overlay (1:44)
    
13. What Are You Doing?/Where Is She?/I'm Through (3:24)
    
14. Snow/I Understand Now/Just One** (5:23)
    
15. How About That (3:14)
    
16. It Doesn't Matter/Where's Fletcher? (3:09)
    
17. Tell Me About It (4:20)
    
18. The Stairs/It's Not Your Fault/Do You Mind? (3:01)
    
19. Relax a Little (1:32)
    
20. This is the Night/Coming Thrill/Portman/Please Welcome (3:00)
    
21. The Winner Is/Where's Portman? (1:58)
    
22. Lunatic (3:15)
    
23. My Bodyguard/How's It Going? (2:26)
    Total Score Time: 62:50
    
    BONUS TRACKS
24. Theme from The Bodyguard (film mix) (2:44)
    
25. Meet Rachel (alternate) (0:49)
    
26. The Winner Is (alternate) (1:41)
    
27. It Doesn't Matter (alternate) (1:32)
    
28. How's It Going? (alternate) (1:21)
    
29. Party Piano (source) (2:28)
    
30. Theme from The Bodyguard (album alternate) (3:52)
    Total Bonus Time: 14:35
    
    * Not Used in Film
    ** Contains Material Not Used in Film
    Total Album Time: 77:25

   Overall I enjoyed this score very much. I never really saw the movie to be honest except for a few pieces of it on TV. The score is very peaceful and dramatic during points in the tracks. I find some of it very relaxing and calming to listen to, even with the dramatic points and the thrilling points as well. The score can be very suspenseful at times too. It's one of those scores that never gets any recognition due to Whitney Houston being in the spotlight. I also find it nice that they dedicated the score in the memory of Whitney Houston. You kinda saw that coming though. It was a good thing they did that. Also If you're a fan of Alan Silvestri or Whitney Houston you should buy this. Overall I give it a 10 out of 10. Alan Silvestri really outdone himself with this score. It should have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
  The CD is available for purchase here. If you're looking for an mp3 for iTunes alas there is none.

Video Game Soundtacks Rant

  Do you know what really grinds my gears? It's the fact that 99.9% of the classic Sega Genesis soundtrack CD's were only sold in Japan only and only available in the USA via expensive import. I don't want to pay $50 and up for freaking CD. No way In Heck am I ever going to pay that. What really grinds my gears is that us Americans who love 16 bit era music from Sega Genesis games get left out by the Japanese by not releasing this good music in the United States. Well I think 16 bit era music was the best and beats today's music for video games by a longshot. I love the game Columns for the Sega Genesis, it had really relaxing music that isn't too distracting and keeps you focused on the puzzle game. The composer was Tokuhiko Uwabo a genius as I may add. He composed perfect music for Columns, especially the most well known piece, Clotho. The soundtrack for columns was released on CD in Japan alongside the music for Columns II The Voyage Through Time which was an Japan Exclusive arcade cabinet game featuring music by another composer.  While Columns II had shared the majority of the soundtrack, Columns on the other hand had music that was too short, especially Atropos and Lathesis which should have been extended. Now you can get this soundtrack by piracy which I don't condone whatsover, or you can download them from a video game music site which they are in .vgz files which cannot be played in Windows Media Player. Or You can spend the $50+ for the CD.
  There should be a record label that is willing to put these classic video game scores out on CD in the United States. There is a huge market for them in the USA. I'm not the only one who wants them on CD. This will stop piracy and everybody wins. Hey They can also make them available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon.com for those who prefer to download them. But I prefer a CD that way I will always have it in case something happens to my Laptop since my I need new speakers for my CD Player.

5 Things I Collect

  I collect many different things. In fact there are too many things that I collect. Really there is. To tell you how bad this is, since Black Friday, I have acquired 4 new hats for my collection, and a diecast NASCAR. So yeah I do have an extreme collection of many things.

My Favorite Car Key

1. Car Keys. How did I get into collecting car keys? Well to my best knowledge, I started collecting car keys when my sister gave my dad her old 1991 Subaru Loyale wagon. In the car there were a bunch of junk keys that she was about to throw out, and she gave them to me instead, one of those keys was an old worn out Mitsubishi key for one of her old cars. I believe it was the one that caught on fire. I'm not really sure but I am certain it is. Anyway after that day I became obsessed with car keys. When my grandfather was still living and no longer driving anymore, I noticed he had old gold Cadillac keys, and I asked him for them and he said yes. They were for his Cadillac that was stolen, I also have keys for my mom's 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, and other cars my family has owned.
2. Trucker hats. Here is another thing I collect. Again I don't know how I got started collecting them. I believe it was after watching the movie Days of Thunder, seeing all of the old NASCAR trucker hats that the driver's used to wear. So I have many friends who are truckers who I meet and they give me hats because they know I collect them, Especially the ones who drive for my employer who I will not mention. to give you the jest of how many hats I own, I have a Rubbermaid bin full of hats, Two shelves in my closet full of hats stacked on top of one another, an old Circuit City handbasket full of hats and an old coke crate with some hats. As a friend of mine says, You only have one head and you can only wear one at a time.
3. Hot Wheels cars. Well I have been collecting them since I was a little kid. So since I was born 22 years ago you can guess around there. I have tons of cars loose and mint. The majority are loose. The ones that are mint are my Trea$ure Hunt cars and TV and movie cars and some rare cars in between. I also have a respectable NASCAR diecast collection with cars both loose and mint. I have many 48 car carriers and they take up 3 bottom shelves and counting. This is one that will never be finished.
4. WWE Action figures. I used to have a few Jakks ones when I was around 8-9 years old. I foolishly gave them away. Now in the Mattel days, I have a bigger collection than my Jakks ones. I started collecting again in January of 2011, after a friend told me about the SVR games and how the Create a Wrestler feature is pretty good. I bought SVR 2010 to make a Lady Gaga CAW and was hooked on WWE games and was hooked on them. How this connects to WWE Action figures, is one day I was in Kmart on my lunch when I saw a basic series 8 Maryse figure and I bought it, thinking I would make a custom Lady Gaga action figure with it, my friend said don't do that and I didn't. So that's how I got into WWE action figures.
5. Score Soundtracks. Well If I hadn't got into Nine Inch Nails because of my friend, I wouldn't have bought the Oscar winning soundtrack, The Social Network by the man behind Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor and his associate Atticus Ross. After buying the Social Network soundtrack, I bought other score soundtracks such as ones from the Batman movies, and The Brave Little Toaster and The Stupids just to name a few. They are way better than Various Artists soundtracks although I own the Oh Brother Where Art Though soundtrack.