Death Becomes Her (Vinyl)

*This is NOT a comic! But you can listen to it while you read comics!

By Alan Silvestri. Published by Varèse Sarabande. 

Vinyl LP Record, 1992 (2022 pressing)

From the storied collaboration of Robert Zemeckis and Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Contact, The Polar Express) comes the devilishly fun 1992 horror–comedy score, Death Becomes Her.

Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star as a feuding movie star and novelist, (with Bruce Willis caught in the middle as a plastic surgeon), as a miracle potion offering eternal youth goes off the rails: it continues to work even after death, allowing for ghoulish and groundbreaking visual effects as the characters try to maintain appearances despite their bodies being hopelessly mutilated.

Alan Silvestri’s score captures, as always, a perfect sense of the film’s tone: grand yet wry, large-scale and symphonic for the supernatural drama, but with a lighthearted touch of the macabre. Particularly noteworthy is a Devilish fiddle for the Faustian bargain the characters make with immortality.

“I always loved this idea,” says Silvestri in a new interview with Al Kaplan for this release, “while the world is unraveling, the Devil is just quietly sitting on a wine barrel or some such thing and just kinda fiddling along while everybody just shows up. There was something about the greed, all of these human qualities, the vanity…and the idea that, ‘Ah, the Devil’s just sitting there. He’s got nothing but time.’” 

SideA
1. Main Title
2. Me (Extended Version) - Meryl Streep
3. Woman On the Verge
4. Lisle
5. The Altar/Sexual
6. A Touch of Magic
7. Now, a Warning
8. Sempre Viva
9. Another Drunk Driver
10. Self Defence/New Mad Arrives Home
11. Fantaisie Sur L'op‚ra 'La Fille Du R‚giment', Op. 68
12. It's Alive (Extended Version)
SideB
13. Violation of Natural Law
14. To the Morgue
15. Helen Spies
16. She Was a Bad Actress
17. Another Miracle (Extended Version)
18. I'll Be Upstairs
19. Loving You
20. Seal the Room 
21. I'd Rather Die (Extended Version) 
22. Switzerland 
23. End Credits