Forbidden Planet Original Soundtrack on LP
A classic of science fiction cinema, with it's plot based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, and it's extraordinary visual style created by Mentor Huebner, Forbidden Planet starred the late lamented Leslie Neilson in his then serious mode, and a bona fide old-school movie star in Walter Pidgeon, which took the movie out of the kiddie sci-fi category into serious filmaking.
Forbidden Planet's innovative electronic music score (credited as "electronic tonalities" ) was composed by Louis and Bebe Barron. The Barrons' score is widely credited with being the first completely electronic score. Using ideas and procedures from the book, Cybernetics: Or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948) by Norbert Wiener, Louis Barron constructed his own electronic circuits that he used to generate the bleeps, blurps, whirs, whines, throbs, hums and screeches. After recording the basic sounds, the Barrons further manipulated them, adding effects, such as reverberation and delay, and reversed or changed the speeds of certain sounds.
Forbidden Planet Original Soundtrack Listing:
1. Main Titles (Overture)
2. Deceleration
3. Once Around Altair
4. The Landing
5. Flurry of Dust - A Robot Approaches
6. A Shangri-La In The Desert Garden with Cuddly Tiger
7. Graveyard-A Night With Two Moons
8. Robby, Make Me A Gown
9. An Invisible Monster Approaches
10. Robby Arranges Flowers, Zaps Monkey
11. Love At The Swimming Hole
12. Morbius' Study
13. Ancient Krell Music
14. The Mind Booster-Creation Of Matter
15. Krell Shuttle Ride And Power Station
16. Giant Footprints In The Sand
17. Nothing Like This Claw Found In Nature
18. Robby, The Cook, And 60 Gallons Of Booze
19. Battle With Invisible Monster
20. Come Back To Earth With Me
21. The Monster Pursues-Morbius Is Overcome
22. The Homecoming
23. Overture Reprise
