Music Composed & Produced by Nick Glennie-Smith, Hans Zimmer & Harry Gregson-Williams Music Conducted by Nick Glennie-Smith, Bruce Fowler & Don Harper Additional Music by Don Harper & Steven Stern Orchestrated by Bruce Fowler, Suzette Moriarty, Ladd McIntosh, Walt Fowler & Dennis Dreith "The Rock" Guitars by Bob Daspit "The Roll" Guitars by Michael Thomson & Michael Stevens
Score Recorded by Alan Meyerson & Bruce Botnick Score Mixed by Alan Meyerson Recording Assistants: Gregg W. Silk & Brian Richards Paramount Recordist: Paul Wertheimer Additional Engineering by Marc Streitenfeld Music Editors: Bob Badami & John Finklea Assistant Music Editors: Shannon Erbe & Sienna Pascarella Music Contractor: Sandy DeCrescent Music Preparation: Dominic Fidelibus Score Wrangler: Emma Burnham
Assistants to Hans Zimmer: Marc Streitenfeld & Justin Burnett Score Recorded at Media Ventures, Sony, Paramount Album Compiled by Marc Streitenfeld & Nick Glennie-Smith Equipment: Euphonix, Steinberg Cubase, Yamaha, Fairlight
Mastered at A&M Mastering Executive Soundtrack Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer Executives in Charge of Music for The Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group: Kathy Nelson & Bill Green Executive in Charge of Soundtrack for Hollywood Records: Mitchell Leib
Special thanks to Jan Glennie-Smith, Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, Jay Rifkin, Bob Badami, Tom Bocci, Sam Schwartz, Mike Gorfaine, James Newton Howard, Mark Levy, Suzanne Zimmer, Zoe Zimmer & the Media Ventures Gang, Angie Rubin, Squirt
Release date : 06/25/1996
Hummell Gets The Rockets (6:25) Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith
Rock House Jail (10:12) Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith, Don Harper, Steven M. Stern
Jade (2:01) Nick Glennie-Smith
In The Tunnels (8:40) Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith, Harry Gregson-Williams, Don Harper, Steven M. Stern
Mason's Walk - First Launch (9:34) Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith, Harry Gregson-Williams
Rocket Away (14:25) Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith
Fort Walton - Kansas (1:37) Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith
The Chase (7:35) Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith, Harry Gregson-Williams, Don Harper
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The first minute of "Rock House Jail" — is that Hans, NGS, or both? I know the track uses part of NGS' original theme, and Hybrid has made it sound like most of the track is a Hans cue. But that first minute is one I've always been curious about.
Hybrid Soldier
2018-09-01 09:55:53
First 2 minutes of "Rock House Jail" is the cue "Tour's Over Bob", credited to Nick, Don Harper & Steven Stern.
So, it's Nick, Hans had nothing to do with that one... :)
Bayhem
2018-09-01 11:08:55
Hans had nothing to do with that one ==================================
Very interesting. I've always thought that it was Hans. The piece is a pure Zimmer sound and style. Still, good to know who really did it. Props to Nick, Don and Steven.
Hello score fans, can someone help me, i am looking for this score but it is not available on itunes outside the USA, who do I contact to make it available for purchase, because this leaves a very big hole in my collection
max
Dimitris Krommidas
2015-11-29 01:04:29
Try Amazon.
max
2015-11-29 10:18:33
Hello Dimitris, I know it is available on CD format on multiple platforms both new en used (who in there right mind would resell this masterpiece), however I own all my music on iTunes, and this release is missing, I was hoping someone here knows who to contact about making it available outside the USA (it is in th USA itunes store, so it should be that digital is the problem)
max
2015-11-29 10:18:34
Hello Dimitris, I know it is available on CD format on multiple platforms both new en used (who in there right mind would resell this masterpiece), however I own all my music on iTunes, and this release is missing, I was hoping someone here knows who to contact about making it available outside the USA (it is in th USA itunes store, so it should be that digital is the problem)
My top favorite score ever ! I know every second by heart !
Dimitris Krommidas
2015-07-12 12:39:51
I agree mr.Hybrid Soldier. :)
Dimitris Krommidas
2015-07-12 12:41:51
I am very happy to own this album too!
Ds
2015-07-12 14:45:30
I didnt know which movie to see this afternoon... Now i know, thanks guys :-D
Mike
2015-07-12 17:57:27
Wow, Hybrid, I didn't know you had a top favorite!
Dimitris Krommidas
2015-07-12 18:31:48
Well, a lot of people around the world have this score deep inside their hearts because back then, in 1996, it was the way that they discovered Hans Zimmer. I am one of them. Thank you mr.Zimmer.
Edmund Meinerts
2015-07-13 18:22:30
You should thank Messrs. Glennie-Smith, Gregson-Williams et al s well, Dimitris... ;)
The "Theme Idea" on NGS' page, is that the theme the director didn't like and made Hans replace? Because no offense to Hans, but I like NGS' theme better.
Ds
2014-02-10 09:17:58
God, "The Rock" theme is one of my favorite HZ themes EVER. One of my favorite opening scenes, too. I wouldn't trade it for anything!
Mike
2014-02-10 16:27:04
Oh, don't take that the wrong way: I love the Zimmer theme, too. ;)
Hybrid are there any other scores like POTC1 where Zimmer came to a RCP guys rescue and did not get credited.
Edmund Meinerts
2013-10-10 19:01:38
Off the top of my head I can think of a couple: Armageddon (he helped on the Asteroid Chase cue), Iron Man (Driving with the Top Down is his, among other things...it seems he actually did quite a lot on that one) and Transformers 2 ("Decepticons Invade/Fallen on TV" cue from the complete score).
MacArthur
2013-10-10 20:03:43
Thanks Ed. I did know that he did transformers 2 (The Fallen's Arrival) and 1 question do you like the Iron man score?
Edmund Meinerts
2013-10-10 22:28:49
Not a huge fan. Pretty much the only thing I like about it is the general style, but that kind of orchestral rock stuff has been done SO much better by other composers (including Brian Tyler and John Debney, although ironically not particularly in their two scores for the franchise, but rather the Fast & Furious scores for Tyler and The Scorpion King for Debney). Djawadi's is really banal and simplistic and lacks energy to me. There's some decent themes in there ("Vacation's Over") but they're really underdeveloped. I haven't heard the complete score though, so I'm basing this on the album. Hell, I think Trevor Rabin would have made a better Iron Man score than Djawadi did. :p
MacArthur
2013-10-10 22:41:34
Oh Wow. I never thought Rabin was that good. although i do agree about Djawadi he's not great his Clash of the Titans score was good (at least I thought)
One quick note I was doing a download and my iPod wiped my music clean. I mean nothing left except for one song that I had just put on it. do you know what might have happened. Cause I'm Baffled.
i cant help but wonder if curse of the black pearl drew from this score :P
Mike
2013-05-15 21:03:01
lol, Curse of the Black Pearl drew from a LOT of previous Zimmer scores....The Rock, Crimson Tide, Gladiator, Drop Zone, and El Dorado to name a few. ;)
This score is still one of the best scores of all time with maybe the best action theme of all time.
The Rock and Hans Zimmer are the reasons for me to love film scores.
El Baradei
2013-01-14 09:55:19
By the way, did you know: the main theme for Ed Harris' character was composed by Hans Zimmer based on ideas by him and James Newton Howard.
10 years before Batman Begins the first collaboration between Zimmer and Howard.
Hybrid Soldier
2013-01-14 11:36:10
Oh there was one before that... Though not in composition.
El Baradei
2013-01-14 19:14:21
Okay, and what was it?
Hybrid Soldier
2013-01-14 20:50:42
Waterworld, where Hans gave JNH the MV samples library. :)
The Rock was a favor back, though from what I know I don't think JNH was involved in any way, it's more like Hans politely asked if he could copy James... haha
Good afternoon, I liked the movie a rock, and really want to learn songs on piano, but the ability is not music and cannot find them. Can you please help
I've been a big rock/heavy metal guy growing up, but more and more I see that this is true. . .but it is EXTREMELY slbtue. That's how I and many others have been deceived it seems innocent. But you research it and you realize that its roots are often evil and occult.Why did the Beatles's include Aleister Crowley on their Sgt. Peppers album?Why did Ozzy Osbourne dedicate a song to Crowley?Why did the Rolling Stones write Sympathy for the Devil ?Is ACDC's Highway to Hell really innocent?A while ago, I was happy to listen to it bobbing my head. One day I woke up. And these examples are classic examples, newer rock is often more bold in attacking truth and Jesus (band Slayer comes to mind). Can I choose to listen to that smut and have a testimony of Jesus?
Hey, Hybrid, do you think we're ever going to get a who-composed-what detailing for this score? Seems like this is one that needs it the most (and that's saying something considering how big some of Zimmer's committees are!).
As far as I can guess, Zimmer composed the main theme and the first half of "Hummel Gets the Rockets", Gregson-Williams contributed to some of the more frenetic action cues (his ultra-kinetic percussion sound from the Tony Scott is evident in "The Chase") and Glennie-Smith did the rest, the "Jade" and "Fort Walton - Kansas" cues in particular sound like his.
But you probably know better than I do, so I'd love to hear what you know about this complicated situation. Thanks.
Oh yeah - AWESOME score. Probably the best late 90s MV action score there is!
Dakota
2011-06-27 18:40:24
I second this! Or for the complete score as well
Gav
2011-06-27 23:51:07
I think Don Harper is solely credited, at least in the credits, for The Chase.
Good afternoon, I liked the movie a rock, and really want to learn songs on piano, but the ability is not music and cannot find them. Can you please help.
genius . when i used to watch those movies which u composed their music . i directly go to check who is that genius composed the music . and every time i find out that he is , , , hans zimmer . best regards from deep in the heart . thank u
This score is simply amazing- I've never seen/heard a sountrack that would fuse with the picture as well as The Rock does. Once you've seen the movie once or twice, you can actually only listen to the soundtrack and recall every single action scene accompanied by it's part of the score - you can almost follow every body move the actors make. Simply amazing!