The avante garde Alien³ was written for the motion picture of the same name, scored by Elliot Goldenthal, it was his first big mainstream score; he described it as an experiment and spent a whole year creating it. Goldenthal's work for Alien³ is widely considered one of his most intensely inventive, visceral, influential works and indeed, by many listeners, to be his best; Goldenthal himself cites the score as one of his stand-out soundtracks. Whilst creating the score in Los Angeles the LA Riots of 1992 were going on and he has noted that the wild and tempestuous atmosphere in Read more on Last.fm.
