The thing about soundtracks is that I usually find them hard to take seriously outside the context of the film itself. It’s difficult to listen to this without thinking about the movie constantly, in part though this is due to the music being so iconic.
It’s good to hear all of Also Sprach Zarathustra, since not all of it was in the film. By far the greatest work is the vocal piece by György Ligeti, Lux Aeterna. It’s not a song by any stretch, it’s a communication tool. Kind of like twenty feet worth of black monolith.
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