Score
Unusual for the time, an LP recording of Elmer Bernstein's score was released alongside the soundtrack in 1981, and it featured the composer's first use of the ondes martenot, an instrument which became a trademark of Bernstein's later career. On March 13, 2008, Film Score Monthly released an official, expanded CD release of Bernstein's score, which he conducted. The score was performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the London Voices and Jeanne Loriod on the ondes Martenot.
The original LP's track listing is as follows:
- "Den and the Green Ball" (03:17)
- "Den Makes It" (02:49)
- "Den and the Queen" (02:56)
- "Den's Heroics" (02:52)
- "Bomber and the Green Ball" (04:41)
- "Space Love" (01:32)
- "Harry and the Girl" (03:45)
- "Tarna Summoned" (sic) (02:50)
- "Flight" (02:20)
- "Tarna Prepares" (sic) (03:35)
- "Barbarians" (03:37)
- "Tarna Forever" (sic) (03:37)
Re-release track listing:
- "Beginning" 1:16
- "Intro to Green Ball" 1:18
- "Discovery/Transformation (Den and the Green Ball)" 3:15
- "Den Makes Out (Den Makes It)" 2:42
- "Castrate Him/Searching for the Loc-Nar" 2:04
- "Queen for a Day (Den and the Queen)" 2:54
- "Pursuit (Den’s Heroics)" 2:51
- "Fiste" 1:27
- "Getting Bombed" 3:06
- "Green Ball" 2:15
- "Dem Bones" 2:44
- "No Alarm" 0:58
- "Robot Love (Space Love)" 1:32
- "Harry" 1:35
- "The Next Morning" 1:56
- "End of Baby" 2:43
- "Council (Taarna Summoned)" 2:49
- "The Flight to Temple (Flight)" 2:16
- "The Sword (Taarna Prepares)" 3:32
- "Flight to Holiday Town" 2:20
- "Fighting" 2:43
- "My Whips!/Taarna Escapes Pit" 4:57
- "Finish (Taarna Forever)" 3:34
- Bonus tracks
- "Den Makes Out" (film version) 2:49
- "Bomber and the Green Ball" (album edit) 4:35
- "Harry and the Girl" (album edit) 3:41
- "Barbarians" (album edit) 3:34
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