• 2-LP Set Inside a Gatefold Jacket Festooned
with Production Stills
• Bone with Black Face Paint Splatter Vinyl
• First-Ever Release on Vinyl
Having released the Predator
soundtrack to great acclaim, we at
Real Gone Music now turn to another
key film in the career of Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Mark Lester’s 1985
film Commando. Coming on the
heels of the enormously successful
first Terminator film, Commando
showed that Schwarzenegger
wasn’t just a (excuse the pun)
robotic ex-bodybuilder on screen
but a real actor capable of
playing a multifaceted character,
with a real gift for comedy.
Commando also heralded Schwarzenegger’s arrival as the
biggest action star in Hollywood, a mantle he would cement two
years later with Predator. But the two films had more in common
than just their leading man. They both benefited from innovative,
propulsive soundtracks courtesy of, for Predator, Alan Silvestri, and,
for Commando, the great James Horner, composer of scores for
Avatar, Titanic, Braveheart, and too many blockbusters to name. For
Commando, Horner brilliantly used the South American setting of the
film as a jumping-off point, incorporating pan flute and, especially,
steel drums into pulsating, suspenseful motifs. For the first-ever
release of the Commando score on vinyl, we have taken the tracks
that appeared on La-La Land’s extended CD version—complete with
three bonus cuts
of music that did
not appear in the
movie and The
Power Station’s
“Someday,
Somehow,
Someone’s
Gotta Pay”—to
create a double-
LP set housed
inside a gatefold
jacket featuring
production stills.
Limited edition of
1500 in bone with
black face paint
splatter vinyl!
