One track on this album has the absurd title "Unveiled Twinkling Space." It fits the album well because the album is all twinkling. It's all wind chimes and cheesy wind effects and almost no music from the movie "Blade Runner."I'm not a Vangelis fan. I think he's pretentious, for one thing. For another, I think he's got very little creative talent. He tends to take about eight notes and repeat them endlessly, without even varying the tempo or the key. He can't think of codas--all his pieces fade out or fade into one another. There are exceptions to all these observations, of course, and they tend to be the strongest cues on this album.What I am is a "Blade Runner" fan, and a film music fan, and I'd really like to be able to listen to music from the movie without dialogue, sound effects, and dumb wind noises interfering with my enjoyment.What's the point of the dialogue that we hear over "Main Titles?" If I wanted to listen to dialogue, I'd watch the movie again. It's not even the best lines from the movie--just Harrison Ford listing a bunch of numbers (from the Esper sequence). I love Rutger Hauer's closing soliloquy, but when I listen to music, I'd like it to be music, not a soliloquy. Vangelis must have understood something of this, so he reprises "Tears In Rain" on the second CD, without the dialogue. But unable to let the music stand by itself, he inserts a wind effect over the whole track. Where's the wind in "Blade Runner?" Rain I see, but wind? If only there were rain and no wind, or wind and rain, but why wind and no rain?I also don't see much point in CD 3. Music inspired by the film. It doesn't really evoke the film, though--most of them some like John Barryesque lounge music cues from 1960s Bond movies. The last track seems to be entirely composed of wind and a child asking a series of questions.?Six cues on CD 2 contain music actually used in the film. Eight cues on CD 1 contain music actually used in the film. In all, that's less than an hour of music.I can't really complain. I knew what I was getting, and bought it anyway. I don't feel like I was conned out of my money. I bought with my eyes open. I just wanted to hear the music from "Blade Runner." Like Deckard entering teh Bradbury building, or Baty dying without distracting dialogue or sound effects. It's a humble wish, I think, and I don't think I'll ever get it.But I see, if no one else does, that the Emperor Vangelis isn't wearing any clothes.
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