Alien

The iconic, avante garde, score to the film Alien was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, it is considered one of his best, most visceral scores. It is very atonal and rather than focusing on themes Goldsmith creates a bleak and dissonant soundscape that fits the films very dark and intense atmosphere perfectly with only a few more "romantic" cues which also shine on the album and in the film. The score was substantially altered for the released versions of the film. The music was performed by The National Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Lionel Newman. The complete intended score has been <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jerry+Goldsmith/Alien">Read more on Last.fm</a>.