Rating: - Yearning music complements the film perfectly
Heat is the best movie made in Hollywood ever, in my opinion. I like everything about it, including the music. The music complements the movie perfectly, and the way the music is layered into the scenes is done with absolute perfection.

The movie, in my interpretation, is a great deal about the symbiotic relationships people with non-similar qualities have. The thief and detective, the detective and his wife, the thief and his girlfriend. In all of these relationships explored, the soundtrack is central to our understanding of them.

Neil and Edie, on her deck overlooking Los Angeles at night, includes a beautiful soundtrack movement, in one of the most romantic movie scenes I have seen, with Last Night by Terje Rypdal & The Chasers coming into the scene at just the right moment.

In the restaurant, when Vincent returns from a crime scene to his waiting wife Justine, Mystery Man by Terje Rypdal slowly filters into her poetic diatribe about how her husband's drive and profession disrupts their relationship. If I had to pick one definitive scene, I think this one best explains what the film is about. Wow. This is an unbelievably good script.

Ultramarine, by Michael Brook, appears in a couple of different spots, illustrating the urban, nighttime, big city realism the film portrays so brilliantly.

Individually and in their totality, the music, like the film, is quite a lonely place. The music yearns and cries out, explores, lingers, and luckily we get to hear substantial parts of each piece to achieve a depth of understanding.

Aside from a couple of tracks, such as Armenia by Einsturzende Neubauten, which is unlistenable except for a small section that plays in the movie (where it is very appropriate), much of the rest are complete and cohere beautifully.

The tracks I listen to most frequently:
1 - Heat by Kronos Quartet
2 - Always Forever Now by Brian Eno/U2
5 - Last Nite by Terje Rypdal & The Chasers
6 - Ultramarine by Michael Brook
9 - Steel Cello Lament by Elliot Goldenthal
10 - Mystery Man by Terje Rypdal
18 - The first 60 seconds of Run Uphill by Elliot Goldenthal until it morphs into "movie music".
21 - God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters by Moby.

And there are other good ones.

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