[1980] Teo Macero - VIRUS Original Soundtrack Recording (Full Album)

Additional info can be found on Discogs under entry number 1106807. Tracklist: 1. Adieu, Mon Amour [0:00] 2. You Are Love (Toujours Gai Mon Cher) [4:59] 3. Love Sweet Love [9:20] 4. Bedroom [15:47] 5. Sweet Truth [19:46] 6. You Are Love (Toujours Gai Mon Cher) [24:32] 7. MM-88 [27:54] 8. Marit [36:03] 9. Struggle Is My Name [40:59] 10. All To You [46:04] Performed by: London Philharmonic Orchestra (01) New York Strings (06) Janis Ian (02, 10) Chick Corea (04) Music by Teo Macero CD purchased by me, ripped/scanned by squidlin Original soundtrack release for Kadokawa's 1980 film of the same name (also known as "Fukatsu no Hi" in JP)... well, supposedly. Don't be fooled! Despite what the album title states, this is not actually the OST for the movie at all. With the exception of track 2, none of these tracks actually appear in the movie at all. I'm not sure what this album is supposed to be, to be honest. An image/concept album, maybe? A certain online review for this album rated it pretty lowly for the kind of music that's on it and for the fact that it's not an OST at all. Here's my truthful opinion of this album: Is it a bad album? Nah, absolutely far from it. I think it's pretty good—"Love Sweet Love" is one of my favorites on here, its so damn catchy. Is it a true representation of VIRUS? LOL nope!! Not at all, I'll agree on that at least. As of me writing this out I'm actually in the process of trying to fix up the English subs for this movie that currently exist online. I haven't seen the movie in its entirety (I've only made it up to the first 30 minutes so far), but I've skimmed through most of it and I can more or less make out what this movie is like. Having said that—some of these tracks are really confusing to me. "MM-88" is supposed to be named after the virus of the same name in the movie, the very same virus that nearly wipes out almost all of humanity. And yet... the similarly-named track on that album doesn't sound ANYTHING like that at all? It should sound suspenseful, thrilling, horrifying!! Instead they just made it into a really long jazz track here that carries none of those vibes at all. It's a good album if you try to forget that it's connected to the movie, but I can understand someone's disappointment with wanting to listen to this album thinking it's the OST when it really isn't. Anyways... I couldn't find any full rips online for this album, so I went ahead and acquired it to put up on here since all that existed on YT were just uploads of random tracks in varying amounts of quality. There are two other VIRUS-related albums that don't have any rips either, those will go up sometime this week. Enjoy!