OK, we all know this score has been made by the "always(well, almost)-excellent" John Williams, but, from my point of view, the opening sequence track reminded me a similar music by Tangerine Dream from their album "Stratosfear" - circa 1976, same year of this movie...
The strangest thing is that particular music doesn't "sound" from the usual vein of the compositor. Silly me, maybe, but sounded weird to my ears.
Just to share from thoughts.
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John Williams' score sounds like Tangerine Dream?
Dude, no idea what you're puffing, but you better reign in on the amount you're inhaling...
If his score for this film resembles anyone else at all, it's Ennio Morricone. The predominant instruments in the score are acoustic guitar and harmonica--if it just had an accompanying non-lyrical vocals from a chorus it would duplicate Morricone thoroughly.
I haven't heard anything by tangerine dream. But the opening score was different compared to the music used in the rest of the film.
shareIt's reminiscent of his previous score, about 1972, for the John Wayne movie "The Cowboys." That featured Toots Thielemans' harmonica, too.
The "evil" theme in that movie whenever Bruce Dern's character is about to show gives me chills to this day.
I do love the opening theme to this movie, too. So much so that I made an mp3 of it from the movie soundtrack. I had bought the LP of it, but that music was performed by some other orchestra, with a synth instead of a Harmonica. The volume was really low on it too. Very disappointing.
That theme really drew me into the movie; still does!