Aliens (soundtrack)
Aliens: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the 1986 James Cameron film "Aliens". The score was composed by James Horner. It was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London between 15-26 April 1986. The film was the first of Cameron and Horner's three collaborations, though they were already acquaintances from their time at Roger Corman's New World Studios in the early 80s, where both men had started their careers. The production of "Aliens" fell behind schedule in post-production, leaving Horner less than two weeks  to write the score to the finished film, rather than the six weeks he had initially been promised. Despite the lack of time, Cameron and producer Gale Ann Hurd requested frequent changes to the music and made last-minute changes to the film's edit, which forced Horner to re-write the music. The combination of a lack of time and constant changes resulted in a falling out between Horner and Cameron, who didn't work together again until "Titanic" more than a decade later. The score features some of Horner's most complex and modernistic writing, making widespread use  of dissonance, aleatoric and extended orchestral techniques and sound design. Horner also used tape delays to create "echoes" on some separately-recorded orchestral parts, a technique Jerry Goldsmith had used in the original "Alien" score. It also includes musical references to Gayane's Adagio from Aram Khachaturian's "Gayane" ballet suite, which had been used in Stanley Kubrick's "" (1968). Despite the difficulties during the score's production, it was nominated for an Academy Award in 1986. The soundtrack album was released the following year, in 1987. Uses in other films and trailers. The music for "Aliens" has been widely  used in other media - there were reportedly 24 different film trailers that used "Bishop's Countdown" alone. Some of those trailers include "Misery" (1990), "Alien 3" (1992), "Broken Arrow" (1996), "Dante's Peak" (1997), "Lake Placid" (1999) and "Minority Report" (2002). The first 90 seconds of "Resolution and Hyperspace" (which was replaced by a repeat of "Bishop's Countdown" in the finished film) was later tracked onto the ending of "Die Hard" (1988).