After his score for Romancing the Stone (1984) garnered positive attention, and just before his score for Back to the Future (1985) would make him a sought after A-list talent, Alan Silvestri was hired to score Cat's Eye (1985). "[Silvestri] was getting his start at the time that we did this," director Lewis Teague points out on a DVD commentary track. "Which is the only reason we could afford him!"
While there was a soundtrack album released by Varèse Sarabande in 1985, it did not make into my collection. Not until 2015, that is. When Intrada released this expanded presentation of Silvestri's original two-track stereo session recordings.
Massive changes were made to Silvestri's score during post-production, of course. Album producer Douglass Fake, in his liner notes, shares how several cues were disassembled, chopped into disparate pieces, and then reassembled, spliced together with unrelated cues.
Rather than attempt to recreate the film's score presentation in exacting detail, Fake and company sequence these original recordings "in the overall picture sequence." Which works for me, since I have not watched Cat's Eye in decades.
For the temperamental purists out there, like me, who might notice the absence of four chords connecting Track #1, Cat's Eye - Intro, to Track #2, Cat Chase, the film edit version is included as a bonus track.
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